Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

UBS 12 × 12: New Artists/New Work:
Jeni Spota

February 2–March 2, 2008

Spota's small, impasto paintings are as much about spirituality and reverie as about the Italian Renaissance paintings to which they refer by way of a scene from Pier Paolo Pasolini's film The Decameron (1971). Inspired by the composition of a dream sequence by the character named Giotto in The Decameron, Spota consistently uses this formal device in her paintings.