CHICAGO, IL.- The first U.S. survey exhibition of artist Richard Hawkins (b. 1961)—whose works are making a crucial contribution to contemporary art—will premiere at the Art Institute of Chicago this fall. Richard Hawkins: Third Mind, on view October 22, 2010, through January 16, 2011, consists of more than 80 objects, including books, collages, drawings, paintings, and sculptures that span his twenty-year career. The exhibition is installed in two spaces in the museum: the Modern Wing’s Abbott Galleries (G182–184) as well as the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries. Since the early 1990s, Richard Hawkins has become one of the most important figures living and working in Los Angeles, first and foremost as an internationally recognized artist and also as curator, writer, and teacher. His work is emphatically diverse and resists easy classification. Hawkins’s