Stella Brown meditates on the state of construction at the MCA and across the city of Chicago through an excavation of the building itself, imagining the past, present, and future archaeologies and geologies of this site.

About the Artist

Stella Brown is an artist and curator based in Chicago. Through an interdisciplinary research-based art practice, her work explores narratives within natural history, geology, and culture using modes of collection, documentation, and display. She has recently shown work with the Terra Incognita art series at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Slow Pony Project and Comfort Station in Chicago. She has presented curatorial projects with Efrain Lopez Gallery and Shoot the Lobster, among others.