Installation view of"Edra Soto: Destination/El Destino: A Decade of GRAFT" at the Hyde Park Art Center.For the past 10 years, the Puerto Rican-born artist has been transplanting the ornamental iron gates and concrete-block breeze walls of her homeland onto unsuspecting structures and landscapes in Chicago and elsewhere across the U.S. The effect is never just decoratively tropical, and this show, Soto’s largest to date, offers a chance to take stock.
Through Aug. 6 at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, 600 S. Michigan Ave.; more information at 312-663-5554 and“Brenda Draney: Drink from the river”: June 14-Aug. 15 at the Arts Club of Chicago, 201 E. Ontario St.; more information at 312-787-3997 andSince 2013, Youd has been hard at work retyping 100 iconic novels in locations specific to each story, using the authors’ original make and model of typewriter, and on a single sheet of paper per book, to the point of illegibility. In celebration of CPL’s 150th anniversary, he’ll retype Richard Wright’s “Native Son”Through Aug.