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#set up #murals #portray #sculpture #Sentrock
September 26, 2022
Grace Ebert
Photograph by Steven Koch
Wander through Chicago’s streets, and you’re certain to experience a single of Sentrock‘s signature hen people (formerly). Disguised in a red mask with huge eyes and round, pink cheeks, the boy is curious, imaginative, and playful, usually observed interacting with animals, daydreaming, or riding a bicycle. The fictional determine is also the artist’s expression of energy and hope, notably as it relates to his very own childhood in the Mexican-American neighborhood of the city’s Pilsen neighborhood.
An ongoing exhibition at Elmhurst Artwork Museum celebrates the character and his lineage through sculptures, installations, paintings, and murals. Drawing on Sentrock’s history in avenue art and graffiti, The Boy Who Wanted to Fly spreads a number of narratives across the galleries. A large, 10-foot sculpture lounges on synthetic turf, and smaller sized, colourful paintings assistance compose the figure’s origin story. At the middle of one gallery is a little one-sized birdhouse cloaked in the artist’s stylized renderings, with lively will work on paper taped to the inside partitions. Interactive mild switches remodel the inside into a vividly colourful playhouse. A remaining gallery culminates in a wall-sized animation that brings Sentrock’s perform to existence for the first time, and as a whole, the selection is an homage to Sentrock’s upbringing and “a gesture of compassion for his neighborhood.”
The Boy Who Wanted to Fly is on check out through January 15, 2023. Stick to the artist’s work and information about foreseeable future minimal-edition prints and sculptures—keep an eye out for a unique merch launch in the Elmhurst gift store in early December—on Instagram.
Photograph by Steven Koch
Picture by Steven Koch
Photographs by John McKinnon
Picture by Christopher Jobson
Picture by Steven Koch
Photo by Steven Koch
Photograph by Steven Koch
Photo by Steven Koch
#set up #murals #portray #sculpture #Sentrock
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