The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Presents Ann Toebbe’s Latest Collages & Paintings

artwork: Ann Toebbe - "The Doctor's Wife", 2011 - Collage - 84" x 120" - Courtesy of the artist. - On view at the MCA, Chicago in "New Artists/New Works: Ann Toebbe" from October 8th until October 30th.


Chicago, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) is pleased to present the last in the series of UBS 12 x 12 exhibitions, “New Artists/New Works: Ann Toebbe”, on view from October 8th through October 30th. Toebbe’s meticulously detailed paintings, collages, and drawings comprise a fascinating world of domestic interiors reconstructed from memory and depicted from multiple viewpoints. Her three new large-scale works made of painted paper—The Doctor’s Wife, The Grocer’s Wife, and The Photo Engraver’s Wife—are based on conversations with her mother, mother-in-law, and step-mother-in-law that centered on fond memories of their childhood kitchens and the difficulties of being a wife and mother in the 1940s and 50s. With these works, the artist considers the role of women as homemakers and the ongoing centrality of the kitchen within domestic life.

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