This manifestation of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ “Untitled” (L.A.) was installed twice in the hallways of CWAC by students and instructors of the Department of Art History’s Spring 2023 Earthworks Seminar (taught by Christine Mehring) and the Spring 2023 Suzanne Deal Booth Conservation Seminar (taught by Christian Scheidemann). The work was originally installed in the Smart Museum of Art exhibition Monochrome Multitudes (September 22, 2022–January 8, 2023) curated by Christine Mehring and Orianna Cacchione and is made up of pieces of green candy, intended to deplete over time as viewers engage with the work and take candies away. Other iterations of the work were installed in the Media Arts, Data, and Design Center (MADD) on the first floor of Crerar Library, overseen by Laura Steward, Curator of Public Art at the Smart Museum of Art, who additionally oversaw the installation at other locations on campus, including the Campus North Residence Hall, Saieh Hall for Economics, and UChicago Student Wellness, the last which was spearheaded by a student curator in the Conservation Seminar. More information, including the label text written by Darby English, Carl Darling Buck Professor, Department of Art History, and installed with all iterations of the work, can be found here.
CWAC Exhibitions Installation
Cochrane-Woods Art Center (first and second floors)
CWAC Exhibitions Curators
Arnie Campa (Conservation)
Jenny Harris (Earthworks)
Emma Huerta (Conservation)
Emily Lin (Conservation)
Hugo Ljungbäck (Conservation)
Bridget Lu (Conservation)
Zoey Mao (Conservation)
Claire Rich (Earthworks & Conservation)
Stephanie Strother (Earthworks)
Kina Takahashi (Earthworks)
Sila Ulug (Earthworks & Conservation)
Amy Wang (Conservation)
Advised by:
- Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor in the Department of Art History and the College and instructor of the Earthworks Revisited seminar
- Shane Rothe, Curatorial Research Assistant, Smart Museum of Art
- Christian Scheideman, Lecturer in the Department of Art History and instructor of the conservation seminar
Other Installations
Smart Museum of Art (Monochrome Multitudes exhibition)
Crerar Library (MADD Center, first floor)
Campus North Residence Hall
Saieh Hall for Economics
UChicago Student Wellness
Related Audio Entries from Monochrome Multitudes
“Girlfriend in a Coma” and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (L.A.), narrated by Cecille Graham, Student in the College
Candy Pixels and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (L.A.), narrated by Marc Downie, Lecturer in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Media Arts and Design, and the College at the University of Chicago
