Intuit Presents DARGER AS READER, WRITER AND BOOKMAKER — Preview

WHEN: 

Through July 18, 2021
11 am – 5 pm
7pm – 8pm CDT

WHERE:

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
756 N. Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL 60642

TICKETS: 

$5

Make reservations via the Intuit website

Intuit presents the first of three exhibitions, Darger as Reader, Writer and Bookmaker, in a series focusing on the Henry Darger Room and its forthcoming de-installation. The exhibit focuses on Darger's literary influences, writing techniques, and bookmaking practices, notably his scrapbooks. Darger was a collector of children's literature, coloring books, National Geographic magazines, Chicago newspapers, and Catholic paraphernalia, which curators explain influenced his writing and art-making.

Henry Darger (1892-1973) is an outsider artist who, for a time, lived in the Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children. Upon his death, an extensive body of his art and writings was discovered, including a 15,000-page novel. His work—via paintbrush and pen—addresses themes of gender, religion, violence and adoption, among others. In 2000, his former landlady, Kiyoko Lerner, donated the remaining contents of his space to Intuit, installed as a permanent exhibition in 2008, which is now known as the Henry Darger Room Collection.

Following this exhibition, Intuit will present Methods and Manipulations (July 23–September 6, 2021) and Caring for a Chicago Legacy (September 17–October 31, 2021).

For more information, visit the Intuit website

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