David Hartt: Stray Light (installation view)
Photo: Adam Reich
David Hartt: Stray Light (installation view)
Photo: Adam Reich
David Hartt: Stray Light (installation view)
Photo: Adam Reich
David Hartt: Stray Light (installation view)
Photo: Adam Reich
David Hartt
Archive, 2011
Courtesy the artist and Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
David Hartt
Trophy Room, 2011
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of the artist, 2012.9
Image courtesy the artist and Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
David Hartt
Kiosk, 2011
Courtesy the artist and Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
David Hartt
Lounge, 2011
Courtesy the artist and Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
Mar 28—Jun 30, 2013
David Hartt: Stray Light presents color photographs, sculptures and a video installation by Chicago-based conceptual photographer David Hartt (b. 1967) reflecting on the iconic headquarters of the Johnson Publishing Company in downtown Chicago.
The eleven-story Modernist building on South Michigan Avenue was home to Jet and Ebony magazines since its design in 1971. The building was heralded as the first major downtown Chicago building designed by an African-American architect since the eighteenth century. In the case of the Johnson family and its legacy, Hartt looks to the intersection of the publisher’s ideals and values, the style and aesthetics embodied by the site and the lasting cultural impact of the magazines.