A Space Problem:

Organized by David Salkin

Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL

June 30th – November 15th, 2020

“One half of the historic McCormick House features mid-century furnishings along with works by local artists and architects. Designer David Salkin organized the exhibit as a home with a range of paintings, patterned rugs, ceramics, photo collages, and design objects. Featured artists include: Marshall Brown, Jennefer Hoffmann, Sterling Lawrence, David Salkin, and Geoffrey Todd Smith. This combination of new and vintage works is organized in conjunction with a full wing dedicated to models, historical photographs, and stories about the McCormick House’s uniqueness as a prefab prototype by the famed modernist Mies van der Rohe.” More on the exhibition here.

Ania is an architect and educator. She currently is a visiting assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Architecture. She holds a master’s degree in architecture from the Cracow University of Technology in Poland as well as the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Her practice focuses on exploring the connection between art and architecture, and her work explores bold simple forms, humor, and commentary as well as conceptual, historical, and cultural references. Jaworska’s work was exhibited in numerous exhibitions, notably, at the 13th Venice Biennale, Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Architecture Foundation, and Storefront for Art and Architecture. She has had a solo exhibition titled BMO Harris Bank Chicago Works: Ania Jaworska at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and SET at Volume Gallery in Chicago. She designed a bookstore for the Graham Foundation and was a 2017 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program Finalist.

The Garden at Newfields will turn tropical this summer with Century Garden, an installation of five colorful vignettes by ceramic artist Anders Herwald Ruhwald. 2020 marks the 100-year anniversary of the gardens surrounding Lilly House, which were designed by Percival Gallagher of the famed Olmsted Brothers firm. Ruhwald’s installation will investigate this history by interrupting the European-style design of the historic landscape with ceramic sculptures and striking tropical and native plant arrangments. For more on Ruhwald’s installation, click here.