Rituals—religious and cultural, institutional and domestic—provide the thematic infrastructure for OFF-SPRING: New Generations. These sculptures, paintings, photographs, and videos employ iconographic imagery to explore the development of both personal and group identity, childhood, family, history, and gender politics. At the wedding altar, in the family home, or in the classroom, within the fantasy of childhood play or the familiarity of grown-up habit, these new, old narratives generate a spectrum of meditations on the contemporary construction of self and society.

A guided tour of OFF-SPRING: New Generations at 21c Chicago with Museum Manager Juli Lowe. 21c Museum Hotel is open and free to the public 365 days a year, and Museum Manager Juli Lowe offers an hour-long guided tour each week.