Exhibits

	Antonia Contro.  A - ZYM: Rhizopoda

Antonia Contro: Closed and Open
May 17–July 15, 2006

“Not unlike the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century devotees of natural history,” writes artist Antonia Contro, “I create visual systems that explain the world as I see and imagine it.” Viewing the work of the Newberry Library as a logical and poetic complement to her art, Contro mounted a site-specific exhibition, Closed and Open, that highlighted the Library’s mission, meaning, architecture, and extraordinary collections. Working collaboratively with Newberry librarians and curators, she integrated pieces from the Newberry’s collections into the installation to create, as Contro herself describes it, “dynamic relationships between past and present, text and image, academe and art, meaning and imagination.”

Related Public Programs

• Artist’s Opening Reception
  May 18, 2006 at 6:00 pm
  
  
• From the Great Chain of Being to Encyclopaedia Britannica 11 to the Internet: Designing the Architecture of Knowledge
  June 1, 2006 at 6:00 pm
  PANEL: Erin McKean (Oxford American Dictionary), Theodore Pappas (Encyclopaedia Britannica), and Edward Valauskas (Chicago Botanic Garden and Dominican University)
  CHAIR: Sara Austin (Newberry Library)
  
  
• Art in Context: Everything you always wanted to know about Chicago's contemporary art scene
  June 15, 2006 at 6:00 pm
  SPEAKER: James Yood
  
  
• How Do We Learn From Art Exhibits?
  June 29, 2006 at 6:00 pm
  PANEL: Lisa Roberts (educational consultant), Daniel Wheeler (Wheeler, Kearns Architects), Jill Gage (Newberry Library), and Antonia Contro
  CHAIR: Gerald W. Adelmann (The Openlands Project)
  
  
• Closed/Open: Antonia Contro
  September 19, 2007 at 6:00 PM
  SPEAKER_^: Antonia Contro

Resources

• Companion Book — Closed/Open.  With contributions from Rafael Chacon, Allen Orr, Ted Pappas, Jill Gage, Sara Austin, Will Hansen, and Doug Knox.  ISBN 0-911028-80-3.
  This limited edition book may be purchased from the A.C. McClurg Bookstore at the Newberry.