Elmhurst Art Museum

Welcome to the Elmhurst Art Museum!

Our mission is to provide the people of Elmhurst and surrounding communities with a center for visual arts - known for its welcoming atmosphere - where art can be viewed, studied, created and appreciated in an architecturally significant facility that enriches the lives of our visitors by broadening their knowledge, increasing sensitivity to the fine arts, and sparking the development of their own creative talents. As the cultural center of DuPage County, the museum specializes in late 20th Century American Art in an award-winning building designed around McCormick House, one of only three Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed residences built in the United States.

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Elmhurst Art Museum relies on your generous gift to continue an ambitious schedule of exhibitions, expanded education programs and the continued restoration of the McCormick House.

David Weinberg: Mr. Wild's Garden

Exhibitions - Current Exhibitions

01.06.12 - 03.24.12

Mr. Wild’s Garden is photographer David Weinberg’s provocative re-envisioning of his mysterious childhood
neighbor, Mr. Wild. Weinberg’s narrative body of photographs tells a story about a dilapidated greenhouse, a yard of towering weeds and a solitary, enigmatic man who inspired a range of emotionally charged images. Weinberg’s exhibition acts as a meditation on the natural process of growth, overgrowth and decay.

Molly McCracken Kumar: Blooming Atmosphere

Exhibitions - Current Exhibitions

01.13.12 - 03.10.12

Molly McCracken Kumar contemplates the birth, death and regeneration of the natural world in her exuberant paintings. McCracken Kumar’s paintings embody themes from Hindu philosophy and spirituality. Her whimsical compositions represent Shiva’s cosmic dance of the dynamic tension and change of the universe. McCracken Kumar says she “experiences this dynamic tension most keenly while gardening and observing plants.”

Carolyn Ottmers: Splice

Exhibitions - Current Exhibitions

01.13.12 - 03.10.12

Splice, Carolyn Ottmer’s installation of hanging vines and branches cast in stainless steel create a canopy of silver growth in EAM’s Hostetler Gallery. A hybrid of organic form, technical process and the use of specialized material, plant life that thrives in urban environments inspires the sculptures—like veins breaking through cracks in a sidewalk to clamber up inhospitable concrete walls.

Meghan Q. McCook: Terra Hive

Exhibitions - Current Exhibitions

01.13.12 - 03.13.12

Meghan Q. McCook’s Terra Hive series of blown glass terrariums seamlessly blend artistic exploration with functional craft. McCook creates flowing organic environments by blowing hot glass into a copper-wire structures. With the higher melting temperature of wire, the frame stays intact as the molten glass billows around the structure.

Stephen Eichhorn: Floral Burst

Exhibitions - Current Exhibitions

01.13.12 - 03.31.12 Stephen Eichhorn, Orchid Stack III Drape, 2011

Chicago artist Stephen Eichhorn creates delicate hand-cut paper collages from photos of foliage—palm fronds,
grasses, leaves and flowers. Quiet and poetic, Eichhorn’s work radiates a complex harmony between the natural
and handmade world. Eichhorn’s new work has on black backgrounds creates a floating image in cosmic space. Though complexly layered and intuitively organized, the work exudes a simple elegance. Eichhorn’s floral arrangements suggest an underlying structural rhythm to growth, adaptation and accumulation.