McArthur Binion (b. 1946 Macon, MS) lives and works in Chicago, IL. He creates highly personal and labor-intensive works that assert his unique position between minimalism, identity politics and abstraction. Binion employs materials such as paint stick, ink and graphite to create interlacing geometric grids on the surface of his paintings, applied to a ground layer of neatly tiled images-reproductions of personal photographs and documents-offer a glimpse into the artist’s life. Binion’s work can be found in nationally recognized museums and galleries across the country, including the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; and the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, to name only a few.

This lecture was made possible in part through the Nan and Ben Stevens Art and Music Endowment and a grant from Partners for the Arts.

Lecture to be followed by an opening reception for the National Juried Painting Exhibition 2025, in the Gallery of Art & Design, starting around 7 p.m.