Architect and Urban Designer Alex Lehnerer Exhibits at Museum of Contemporary Art

CHICAGO, IL.- The April UBS 12 x 12 exhibition focuses on architecture as Chicago-based architect and urban designer Alex Lehnerer creates a three-dimensional relief along the gallery’s walls to form a constructed urban reality. Viewers enter the gallery space — limited to a 5 x 5 foot square — and peer though small holes to view the reliefs as if surrounded by a three-dimensional architectural model of a continuous cityscape. Lehnerer presents his work in a site-specific installation that opens on the evening of April 1 during First Fridays at the monthly UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, and runs through May 1, 2011. Lehnerer and his students at the University of Illinois at Chicago present the project Minor Features that looks at ubiquitous and abundantly available urban elements, or “attractions,” that are perpendicular to the road: doors, roofs, windows, lo

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