Jul 13th 2024

Jessie Mott in Conversation with Lauren Leving

@ Goldfinch

319 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60612

Opening Saturday, July 13th, from 1PM - 3PM

On view through Saturday, July 27th

Please join us this Saturday, July 13th at 1pm for a conversation between current solo artist Jessie Mott (“Pluto”) and Lauren Leving, independent curator and the Co-Curator of the U.S. Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. Jessie’s solo show “Pluto” is on view through July 27th; come take part in this conversation to learn more about Jessie’s work and process and ask questions of your own!⁠

Lauren Leving Bio: Lauren Leving (she/her) is a curator and writer based in Chicago, IL. She is Curator-at-Large at the Museum of Contemporary Art (moCa) Cleveland and Exhibitions Director at ACRE Projects in Chicago. In 2023, she co-curated Everlasting Plastics, which was originally presented in the U.S. Pavilion during the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale and traveled to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA. While at moCa Cleveland, Leving has organized multiple curatorial projects including Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya’s first solo museum exhibition, Skinchangers: Begotten of my Flesh; a largescale textile commission by Aram Han Sifuentes entitled Messages to Authorities (Go Away!); Nina Chanel Abney: Big Butch Synergy; and Don’t mind if I do, a group exhibition stewarded by Finnegan Shannon.

Previously, she was a Curatorial Fellow at Hyde Park Art Center and Exhibitions Manager for Wrightwood 659. Leving holds an MA in Museum & Exhibition Studies from the University of Illinois–Chicago and a BA from Tulane University.

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