María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Ana Teresa Fernández, and Dorothea Tanning

September 27 - 30, 2018 | Navy Pier, 600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 | Booth 400

EXPO Chicago 2018, installation view, Navy Pier, 600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, Booth 400, September 27 - 30, 2018

EXPO Chicago 2018, installation view, Navy Pier, 600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611, Booth 400, September 27 - 30, 2018

María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Finding Balance, 2015, Composition of 28, Polaroid Polacolor, Pro 24 x 20 photograph, 96 x 140 inches (243.8 x 355.6 cm)

Dorothea Tanning, Elles Se Detachent, Majestueuses (Majestically), 1965 - 1984, Oil on canvas, 71 3/4 x 61 1/4 inches (182.2 x 156 cm)

Ana Teresa Fernández, Erasure 2 (performance documentation), 2016, Oil on canvas, 72 x 98 inches (183 x 249 cm)

María Magdalena Campos-Pons, The House, c. 2013, Dipytch, Polaroid Polacolor Pro 24 x 20 photograph, 24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm)

Dorothea Tanning, Visite jaune (Visite éclair), 1960, Oil on canvas, 35 x 45 inches (89 x 116 cm)

Ana Teresa Fernández, Erasure, installation view, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, 2016,

Photographer: John Janca

María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Freedom Trap, c. 2013, Polaroid Polacolor Pro 24 x 20 Photograph, 24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm)

Dorothea Tanning, Untitled, 1960, Oil on canvas, 6 x 5 inches (15 x 13 cm)

María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Freedom Trap, c. 2013, Polaroid Polacolor Pro 24 x 20 Photograph, 24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm)

Dorothea Tanning, Lucidité, 1960, Watercolor, 12.5 x 8.75 inches (31.75 x 22 cm)

Gallery Wendi Norris will present monumental works by three artists spanning five decades. Unapologetically deploying sensuality and beauty, the work of Dorothea Tanning, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Ana Teresa Fernández lures viewers into their supremely exquisite worlds only to reveal a deeper socio-political or liminal point of view.

To commemorate Tanning's highly anticipated traveling retrospective at the Reina Sofia and the Tate Modern, the Gallery will present paintings from the 1960s, the period marking a kaleidoscopic departure from her earlier Surrealist works. “Elles se detachent, Majesteuses (Majestically)”, reveals a seductive disintegration of form in one of the artist's largest oil paintings. Campos-Pons' “Finding Balance”, a signature composition of rare large-format Polaroids, employs a vibrant visual lexicon from the artist's African, Chinese, and Caribbean heritage. Fernández's larger-than-life black oil painting, "Erasure 2 (performance documentation)", meticulously documents a performance wherein she erases her body with black paint, an homage to the 43 Mexican students whose 2014 disappearance remains unacknowledged by the Mexican government.