Kavi Gupta Gallery

2010 has been a good year for Tony Tasset. Known for his witty and often sardonic approach to Postmodern art, Tasset’s work has gained quite a bit of attention in the city he calls home. The artist was selected alongside fellow Chicago artist, Phyllis Bramson to participate in the College Art Association’s annual Artist Interviews during the organization’s conference that was held in Chicago in February 2010. Last month, Tasset’s Blob Monster (2009) was one of several large scale installations that made an impressive appearance on Orleans Avenue outside of The Merchandise Mart, in collaboration with Art Chicago and NEXT. This summer, Tasset’s larger than life sculptures will once again join the public sphere thanks to a dual commission from the Chicago Loop Alliance for their inaugural Art Loop program slated for early July. The artist will unveil Cardinal (2010)an installation of more than one hundred banners along Chicago’s famed State Street. Tasset’s vision for the series of installed sculptures is to form a collective image of the state bird, a cardinal taking flight. The second work, standing 30 feet in the air and scheduled for Pritzker Park, is aptly titled Eye(2010), a massive mixed media sculpture of an eyeball overlooking the Chicago community.