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Theaster Gates

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  1. Theaster Gates combines pottery and music in a collaborative performance, Chicago
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  2. Theaster Gates combines pottery and music in a collaborative performance, Chicago
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  3. Theaster Gates combines pottery and music in a collaborative performance, Chicago
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  4. Theaster Gates combines pottery and music in a collaborative performance, Chicago
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  5. Theaster Gates at the 2015 Istanbul Biennial, creating work in his pottery studio installation "Three or Four Shades of Blue"
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  6. Theaster Gates at the 2015 Istanbul Biennial
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  7. Theaster Gates at the 2015 Istanbul Biennial
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  8. Theaster Gates at work in his Chicago studio
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  9. Work by Theaster Gates in progress, in the artist's Chicago studio
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  10. Theaster Gates at work in his Chicago studio
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  11. A studio assistant welding in Theaster Gates's studio, Chicago
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  12. Theaster Gates at work in his Chicago studio
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  13. Theaster Gates working with tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria
    2016

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  14. Theaster Gates working with construction materials at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria
    2016

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  15. Theaster Gates working with tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria
    2016

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  16. Theaster Gates working with tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria
    2016

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  17. A work in progress using melted tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria
    2016

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  18. A work in progress, featuring an issue of "Ebony" magazine and melted tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria
    2016

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  19. A work in progress using melted tar at TECTUM GmbH, Hohenems, Austria
    2016

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  20. Theaster Gates's Listening House, which holds the collection of Dr. Wax records and makes them available to the public
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  21. Theaster Gates at the opening of the Stony Island Arts Bank
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  22. The library at Theaster Gates's Stony Island Arts Bank
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  23. Three people read books in a large library filled with tall, packed bookshelves and rows of chairs and tables on a wooden floor.
    The library at Theaster Gates's Stony Island Arts Bank
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

  24. Exhibition space at Theaster Gates's Stony Island Arts Bank
    2015

    Production still from the Art21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 8 episode, "Chicago," 2016

    © Art21, Inc. 2016

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