Artist Talk: Kristi Cavataro
Tuesday, February 10, 2026 at 4:30pm
Reading Room, South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
RESERVE NOWFree and open to the public.
Kristi Cavataro will discuss her current exhibition in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery.This intergenerational exhibition brings together an abridged survey of Robert Lostutter’s paintings and drawings (from the late-1960s to the present) with Cavataro’s recent stained glass sculptural works.
Robert Lostutter is known for creating meticulously-rendered hybrid human forms in surreal settings. Seemingly beatific, even when contorted with exposed innards, these adorned creatures demonstrate both a technical mastery and wild imagination that is at once bound up with and reaches beyond the human figure. Occupying the gallery’s floor, Kristi Cavataro’s sculptures, constructed out of opaque or translucent stained glass, create abstract shapes that evoke biomorphic resonances. Taking advantage of the abundant natural light of the gallery’s large windows, these closed volumes reveal an interior space defined by their color. More than a superficial skin, the color in the glass goes all the way through the medium.
Exhibition on display through Sunday, March 1, 2026.
Admission is free, and everyone is welcome.
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While you’re on campus, feel free to talk with our gallery assistants about the exhibitions and other upcoming special programs, like our student-led tours.
Left: Robert Lostutter, "Poem for Everyone," 1972, Oil on canvas, 54 1/2 x 42 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago. Right: Kristi Cavataro, "Untitled," 2025, Stained glass, 44 x 27 1/8 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Gisela Capitain, Cologne. Photo by Simon Vogel.