Calling All Art Detectives (pt 2)
June 23, 2018 4:12 PM Subscribe
I'm looking for an art print/poster that I got at Chicago MOCA sometime around April 2008. Lame attempt at a description inside.
I got it at Chicago MOCA, it's about 3 feet tall, 4.5 feet long and the best way I can describe it is that it was a contemporary illustrated city. The closest thing I can compare it to is the art of Rod Hunt in that it was a colorful, pop art kind of urban cityscape - but not a specific city. I obviously have no idea who the artist is.
Pretty sure it was around April 2008 and I don't think it was reflective of an exhibit that was up at the time, but it was in the museum store. It was a poster/print so I took it home rolled up in a cardboard tube. I loved that picture so if anyone can help me find it again I will definitely owe you one.
I got it at Chicago MOCA, it's about 3 feet tall, 4.5 feet long and the best way I can describe it is that it was a contemporary illustrated city. The closest thing I can compare it to is the art of Rod Hunt in that it was a colorful, pop art kind of urban cityscape - but not a specific city. I obviously have no idea who the artist is.
Pretty sure it was around April 2008 and I don't think it was reflective of an exhibit that was up at the time, but it was in the museum store. It was a poster/print so I took it home rolled up in a cardboard tube. I loved that picture so if anyone can help me find it again I will definitely owe you one.
Response by poster: These are so helpful! It was in landscape view, and the Eboy cityscape is definitely closest to what it was. After I posted I realized there may have been a pixelation/8-bit component. I thought maybe it was an Eboy of Chicago but nothing on the webs is matching so far...
posted by buzzkillington at 7:10 AM on June 24, 2018
posted by buzzkillington at 7:10 AM on June 24, 2018
Best answer: Ok. I stopped by the MCA store at lunchtime.
a) Of course, things might have changed in the last 10 years, but they don’t sell posters.
b) I was informed snottily, that they sometimes sell “prints”, but only in connection with an exhibit; Exhibitions going back 50 years are actually listed here
c) The only thing in the bookstore that remotely fit what you are describing was Monograph by Chris Ware, already mentioned above
d) No one at the store seemed old enough or friendly enough to ask. Sorry.
posted by Dotty at 10:39 AM on June 26, 2018
a) Of course, things might have changed in the last 10 years, but they don’t sell posters.
b) I was informed snottily, that they sometimes sell “prints”, but only in connection with an exhibit; Exhibitions going back 50 years are actually listed here
c) The only thing in the bookstore that remotely fit what you are describing was Monograph by Chris Ware, already mentioned above
d) No one at the store seemed old enough or friendly enough to ask. Sorry.
posted by Dotty at 10:39 AM on June 26, 2018
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posted by gennessee at 5:39 PM on June 23, 2018