Niki in the Garden

I'm trying to break this up into manageable blog-sized chunks, so here goes. I foresee many dinky entries, a few rambling ones, and a bunch of random ones. You've been warned.

On Monday, after another freebie haircut at Art + Science (classic bob with a sharp line), I finally made it to see Niki in the Garden over in Garfield Park, which has been on my list since May.

In general, I am a big fan of public art. Art in place, step-on-art, public exhibitions, performance art, etc. So I was really excited to see that Chicago had commissioned/acquired a series of statues from the artist Niki de Saint Phalle, and had installed them situationally in and around the Garfield Conservatory.


I much preferred the exterior works, mostly because of her use of mosaic, and because they begged to be interacted with. Although I did like the statues lurking within ferns and palms and aroids. Alot of the work reminded me of modernista and Gaudi in Barcelona, largely because of the use of texture, color and line. Add to this the lovely afternoon light, and I went a little photo happy as you can check out on my flickr site.

For my last day in Chicago, this was a nice moment.