A PROGRAM OF LOGAN CENTER EXHIBITIONS

Marcus the Artist: City of Gold, curated by Dorian Sylvain

May 17 - August 11 | Café Logan | Free

More Info: https://www.loganexhibitions.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/city-of-gold

The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts is proud to present Marcus the Artist’s “City of Gold" curated by Dorian Sylvain. The exhibition will be on view in Café Logan, 915 E 60th, from May 17 - August 11, 2024.

Inspired by a VISION during a near death experience, Marcus the Artist’s series of celestial cityscape collages represent a golden city of light reflective of Chicago’s rich, cultural backdrop of arts and architecture but are also symbolic of an otherworldly, spiritual experience that transcends the physical dimension.

Throughout history, humans have been fascinated with the properties of gold and its many uses. Gold is a conduit between the spiritual and physical words, but also a measure of status and advanced cultural consciousness. In some indigenous cultures it is said that when a person dies, they walk the galaxy to a city of golden light. This city of gold represents the penultimate attainment of a higher consciousness where a soul resides on the heavenly plane of paradise after its physical existence reaches completion and reunites with the universe.