As a part of the Northern Illinois University Art Museum’s upcoming Mapping Exhibition Suite, “OBJECTIVE / SUBJECTIVE: Mapping as Visual Language” features contemporary artists using the visual and conceptual language of mapping to respond to real or imagined spaces.

This exhibition will be curated by art museum staff Peter Olson and Heather Green and will be held in the North and Rotunda galleries of the NIU Art Museum from March 19 through May 24. A public reception will be held from 4:30 to 7 p.m. April 4.

This exhibition focuses on national and international artists, using the objective visual language of maps for subjective and personal inspiration. The ways in which these artists appropriate maps includes a variety of eclectic media and conceptual interpretations. Their works range from sincere to satirical subject matter and from cosmic to intimate scale.