The Boca Raton Museum of Art presents, Smoke and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art on view until May 12. The exhibition originated by Kathleen Goncharov, the Museum's Senior Curator, and features 30 contemporary artists, including:
Tony Oursler, Urs Fischer, Alfredo Jaar, Jim Shaw, Sarah Charlesworth, Glenn Kaino, Christian Jankowski, Kristin Lucas, Jane Hammond, Gavin Turk, Michael Ray Charles, Faisal Abdu'Allah, Mark Thomas Gibson, Robin Tewes, Jeanette Andrews, Stephen Berkman, Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.), Jacob Hicks, and The Yes Men.
Creature Features
The largest gallery in the exhibition is transformed by Tony Oursler into an otherworldly landscape titled Creature Features. Tony Oursler is one of the world’s foremost pioneers of video art, working with moving images, installation and projection. His inspirations include conspiracy, mysticism, narrative evolution and facial recognition technologies. This portion of the exhibition runs through October.
This is the only exhibition in South Florida (and in the entire Southeast U.S.) to win the prestigious Teiger Foundation 2023 Grant Award for Curator-Led Projects and is among only 13 museum shows selected nationwide in the Single Exhibition category, recognizing boundary-pushing curatorial work.
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Photo Credits: The Magician, by Jacob Hicks. Video, computer with internet connection, black electric candles, computer tablet, crystal bubble vase, table (2023).