VIRGINIA JARAMILLO’S WORK IN THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presented Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence, the first major retrospective and largest monographic exhibition to date of the work of Virginia Jaramillo.
Tracing the artist’s practice from the mid-1960s through the present, Principle of Equivalence features more than 40 abstract paintings and handmade paper works that reveal her longstanding preoccupation with the relationships between the earthly and metaphysical realms.
Taking shape in New York and Los Angeles during the 1960s and 1970s—amid mass political movements and debates around representation and the relevance of painting—Jaramillo’s work has long engaged with abstraction’s formal and social potentials. Alongside her iconic Curvilinear series, the exhibition features work made during her decades-long collaboration with the Dieu Donné Papermill in New York, as well as recent paintings in which Jaramillo redoubles her interests in quantum physics, geography, and the passage of time. Together, these works reach for the fundamentals of comprehension: how our experience of the physical forms the basis of ideas, and how abstraction can offer alternate ways of understanding our world.
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Virginia Jaramillo. Quanta, 2021. Acrylic con canvas, 72 x 144 inches. Courtesy of the artista and Hales, London and New York. Photo: JSP Art Photography.
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Virginia Jaramillo. Genesis, 1969. Acrylic con canvas; 72x72 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Hales, London and New York. Photo: Paul Hester.
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Virginia Jaramillo, Zero Point, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 60x60 inches. Courtesy of the artist, Pace Gallery, and Hales Gallery. Photo: Richard Gary. Courtesy Pace Gallery.
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Virginia Jaramillo, West of the Moon / Deep Field, 2024. Acrylic on canvas; 72 ¼ x 72 ¼ x 2 inches. Courtesy of the artist, Pace Gallery and Hales Gallery. Photo: Jonathan Nesteruk. Courtesy of Pace Gallery.
Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Through Jan 05, 2025.
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