What Remains To Be Seen of Howardena Pindell

WDCB's Gary Zidek talks to the two curators behind the Museum of Contemporary Art's latest major exhibition, Howardena Pindell: WHAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN.

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WDCB's Gary Zidek talks to curators Naomi Beckwith and Valerie Cassel Oliver about the new exhibit, HOWARDENA PINDELL: WHAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts curator Valerie Cassel Oliver and MCA curator Naomi Beckwith

"There seems to be this split understanding of who and what Howardena has been. Some people understand her as this amazing experimental painter, who did all these great innovations and other people understand her as this deeply, socially concerned activist artist." - MCA curator Naomi Beckwith

Oliver, Beckwith and Pindell on stage at the MCA for the exhibit's preview event

Diallo, Howardena Pindell, 2000

Autobiograpgy: Scapegoat, Howardena Pindell, 1990

Till Birname Wood Remove to Dunsinane, Howardena Pindell, 1991

HOWARDENA PINDELL: WHAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN will be on display at the MCA through May 20th. Visit MCAchicago.org for more information