Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Scott Wolniak works in video, drawing, and sculpture, investigating visual systems and patterns that appear in our everyday environment. For this exhibition, the artist creates a "graphically patterned meadow" by collecting items such as wrappers, packaging, and straws found on the street as he walks from his West-Side home to the MCA. Wolniak will then reconfigure this debris into the forms of vegetation and weeds, drawing a connection between unwanted plants and the proliferation of postconsumer matter in our physical and psychological environments.