February 7 – April 27 2025
A Tale of Today: Materialities features artists who have created, adapted, and restaged artworks in response to specific objects in the Driehaus Museum’s Nickerson Mansion, bringing to light compelling and often forgotten histories in which the material itself is just as important as the message it conveys through its design.
With guest curator Giovanni Aloi.
Barbara Cooper works in sculpture, drawing, and public art, as well as designing gardens and structures for dance and theater. She has had numerous exhibitions, residencies and fellowships, both in the US and internationally, and has used them as opportunities to research and engage with new environments and geographies. A graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Cleveland Institute of Art, Cooper’s work is in the collections of many esteemed museums.
Bobbi Meier is a Chicago-based multimedia artist. Known primarily for her provocative, fiber-based abstract sculptures, she challenges boundaries between public and private, exploring themes of proper manners and repressed sexuality in her work. She earned both her MAAE and MFA degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was awarded a Kohler Arts/Industry residency in 2019.
Richard Driehaus Museum
50 E. Erie St.
Chicago