Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 6 pm

This event takes place in the second-floor lobby, adjacent to the MCA Store. The Rockabillies is available for $50 ($45 for MCA members).

Purchase The Rockabillies from the MCA Store.

At this unique event, photographer Jennifer Greenburg signs copies of her first monograph, The Rockabillies.

The Rockabillies is a series of photographs of members of Jennifer Greenburg's own community in Chicago and across the country, who place great importance on the aesthetic of the 1950s. As a photographer, Greenburg's interest in vintage comes from her family who cherished and celebrated its history with snapshots and artifacts. As a child, Greenburg was captivated by her family's past and often spent afternoons reconstructing it. Turning a lens on her community, she documents the iconography of the rockabilly subculture, and makes icons of the subjects themselves.

Greenburg's photographic series is accompanied by her own introduction and essays by Bruce Berenson, host of the Rockabilly Roadtrip on Sirius/XM Radio, and Audrey Michelle Mast, curator and art critic. 

Jennifer Greenburg was born and raised in Chicago, where she currently resides. She has a BFA in fine arts from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and a MFA in conceptual art (emphasizing documentary video and photography) from the University of Chicago. She has had solo exhibitions of her work at the Hyde Park Art Center; Indiana University Northwest Gallery for Contemporary Art; the Richmond Public Library, Virginia; the Latin School of Chicago; and the ARC Gallery, Chicago. Light Work awarded Greenburg a grant and Artist-in-Residency in 2005, publishing a selection of The Rockabillies in its publication Contact Sheet. Greenburg is a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Grant and two Community Arts Assistant Program (CAAP) Grants. Her work is part of the collections of Light Work and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Greenburg has taught at Columbia College Chicago, Loyola University Chicago, Harold Washington College in Chicago, and College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois.