KC Crow Maddux: THROAT
@ Tala
1644 W Chicago, #1, Chicago IL 60622
Opening Saturday, December 13th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, January 31st
Tala is thrilled to announce π§ππ₯π’ππ§, a solo exhibition by KC Crow Maddux, opening on Saturday December 13, 6β9PM
This exhibition marks the artistβs first return to Chicago in nearly twenty years: first exhibiting at the Renaissance Society as part of πππ π΅π©π¦ ππ³π¦π΅π΅πΊ ππ°π³π±π΄π¦π΄ (2006), Maddux went on to present his inaugural solo exhibition at gescheidle (2007). Curated once again by Susan Gescheidle, KC Madduxβs newest series of dioramic paintings commemorates his decades-long conceptualization of symbolisms and visual architectures that inhabit the spaces where binary language fails and dissolves.
Maddux constructs handmade frames to surround his recessed airbrush painted collages, which allows the work to be seen only through the opening of a silhouette. Inside, his paintings are built by layering images of architectural and bodily glyphs, rendering them indeterminate yet charged with a somatic, visceral disintegration. By abstracting the figure through a lexicon of voids, frames, and shadows, Maddux erodes the historically limited nomenclature of identity and instigates a new visual vernaculars that more accurately articulate the complexities of the physical and social body. Here, he conceptualizes the orifice as the beginning of semiotic production – an open maw where the internal, digestive process of language-making is revealed and new meaning can emerge.
π Opening Reception: Saturday 12/13, 6-9PM
On view through January 31, 2026
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