EVERY MORNING, ARTIST Maryam Taghavi wakes before dawn and walks from her home in Hyde Park to Promontory Point. When it’s warm enough, she swims, emerging in time to record the sun as it rises over the lake, using her phone to take a video of the brightening sky.
The colors of the sunrise over Lake Michigan, soft pinks and blues bleeding into each other,, Taghavi’s solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, on view December 20 to July 14. Part of Chicago Works, the museum’s series spotlighting local artists, the mixed media exhibition includes the Iranian-born Taghavi’s sunrise paintings, sculptures, and a poem in traditional Persian calligraphy.
