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Acrylic on canvas; 72 × 96 × 1 3/4 in. (182.9 × 243.8 × 4.4 cm). Private collection. © Avery Singer. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Roman März."><img src="https://visit.mcachicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/tle_as_01_edited.webp" alt="Grayscale painting of two people sitting at a table with several works of art behind them, all rendered in different artistic styles."></div><div class="swiper-slide" data-caption="Jacqueline Humphries, <em>MN+//ssss</em>, 2023. Oil on linen; 114 × 127 in. (289.6 × 322.6 cm). Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York."><img src="https://visit.mcachicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/tle_jh_02.webp" alt="Jacqueline Humphries, <em>MN+//ssss</em>, 2023. Oil on linen; 114 × 127 in. (289.6 × 322.6 cm). Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York. 2024/05/tle_jh_02.jpeg "></div><div class="swiper-slide" data-caption="Tala Madani, <em>Solitaire</em> (still), 2023. Single-channel color animation; 5 minutes, 58 seconds. Courtesy the artist; 303 Gallery, New York; and Pilar Corrias, London."><img src="https://visit.mcachicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/tle_tm_v01.webp" alt="Against a flat green background a person plays solitaire on a brown blanket in front of a tv displaying static"></div></div></div><div class="swiper-button-prev"></div><div class="swiper-button-next"></div><div class="caption"></div><div class="thumbnails"><div class="swiper-wrapper"><div class="swiper-slide"><img src="https://visit.mcachicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/tle_as_01_edited.webp" alt="Grayscale painting of two people sitting at a table with several works of art behind them, all rendered in different artistic styles."></div><div class="swiper-slide"><img src="https://visit.mcachicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/tle_jh_02.webp" alt="Jacqueline Humphries, <em>MN+//ssss</em>, 2023. Oil on linen; 114 × 127 in. (289.6 × 322.6 cm). Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York. 2024/05/tle_jh_02.jpeg "></div><div class="swiper-slide"><img src="https://visit.mcachicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/tle_tm_v01.webp" alt="Against a flat green background a person plays solitaire on a brown blanket in front of a tv displaying static"></div></div></div></div> </div> <div id="row-1" class="row-section row-wysiwyg divider" data-title="About the Exhibition" > <div class="wysiwyg-section std-content"><div class="wrap"><h2>About the Exhibition</h2> <p>The claim that painting is dead has been a common refrain among critics for decades. Nevertheless, artists have continuously pushed the medium forward. <em>The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020</em> surveys the arc of painting over the last 50 years, highlighting it as a mode of artistic expression in a constant state of renewal and rebirth.</p> <p>This international and intergenerational group exhibition presents the work of more than 60 artists who have redefined painting using emerging technologies, imaging techniques, and their own bodies. Examining the impact that computers, cameras, and television, as well as social media and automation, have had on the medium, <em>The Living End</em> positions painting itself as a manual “technology” that has shifted further away from the immediacy of the artist’s hand over the past 50 years. The subsequent conceptual shift has led artists to challenge what constitutes a painting, how they are produced, and who (or what) can be considered a painter.</p> <p>Employing a range of mediums beyond painting, such as video and performance, the featured artists subvert longstanding traditions and mythologies of painting—and the notion of the painter as singular genius—to offer a vital portrait of a medium that is still being reinvented.</p> <p><em>The Living End</em> is curated by Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator, with Jack Schneider, Assistant Curator.</p> </div></div> </div> <div id="row-2" class="row-section row-wysiwyg " data-title="" > <div class="wysiwyg-section std-content"><div class="wrap"><h2>Related Content</h2> </div></div> </div> <div id="row-3" class="row-section row-cta_boxes " data-title="Related Content" > <div class="cta-boxes"><a class="box" href="https://visit.mcachicago.org/audio/living-end-audio/"> <div class="col-1"><div class="image" style="background-image: url('https://visit.mcachicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/JLPA203249.webp')"></div></div> <div class="col-2"> <button>Audio Tour</button> </div> </a><a class="box" href="https://visit.mcachicago.org/transcripts/the-living-end/"> <div class="col-1"><div class="image" style="background-image: url('')"></div></div> <div class="col-2"> <button>Exhibition Transcripts</button> </div> </a></div> </div> <div id="row-4" class="row-section row-event_links divider" data-title="Related Events" > <div class="event-links"><div class="wrap"><h2>Related Events</h2><a class="event-preview" href="https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/members-preview-the-living-end-painting-and-other-technologies-1970-2020/" data-program="members"><div class="col-1"><div class="image" style="background-image: url(https://visit.mcachicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/JLPA203224.webp)"></div><span class="tags"><span class="tag">Members</span><br></span></div><div class="col-2"><p class="time">November 8, 2024</p><p class="time">7:00 pm - 9:00 pm</p><p class="notes"></p><p class="title">Members’ Preview | <em>The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020</em></p></div></a><a class="event-preview" href="https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/family-day-screen-time/" data-program="family-and-youth"><div class="col-1"><div class="image" style="background-image: url(https://visit.mcachicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/November-Screen-Time.webp)"></div><span class="tags"><span class="tag">Family and Youth</span><br></span></div><div class="col-2"><p class="time">November 9, 2024</p><p class="time">11:00 am - 3:00 pm</p><p class="notes"></p><p class="title">Family Day | Screen Time</p></div></a><a class="event-preview" href="https://visit.mcachicago.org/events/talk-the-living-end-artist-roundtable/" data-program="talks"><div class="col-1"><div class="image" style="background-image: url(https://visit.mcachicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/tle_tm_v01.webp)"></div><span class="tags"><span class="tag">Talks</span><br></span></div><div class="col-2"><p class="time">November 10, 2024</p><p class="time">2:00 pm - 3:30 pm</p><p class="notes"></p><p class="title">Talk | <em>The Living End</em> Artist Roundtable</p></div></a></div></div> </div> <div id="row-5" class="row-section row-wysiwyg " data-title="Funding" > <div class="wysiwyg-section std-content"><div class="wrap"><h2>Funding</h2> <p>Lead support is provided by the Harris Family Foundation in memory of Bette and Neison Harris, the Zell Family Foundation, Cari and Michael Sacks, and R. 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