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The Singular Style of Chicago’s Art
The more time I spent at Four Chicago Artists, the more I wanted to know about the less familiar paths these artists took in their work.
John Yau
John Yau is an award winning poet, critic, curator, and publisher of Black Square Editions. He has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism.
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Brenda Goodman’s Unknowable Language of Grief
The fluidity of the artist’s line parallels her thought process and openness to taking unexpected paths, often prompted by a memory or life event.
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Fritz Scholder’s Art of Non-Belonging
Scholder, who called himself a "non-Indian Indian," refused to conform to expectations and rejected limiting definitions of his identity as Native American.
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Seeing Is Creating in Mark Milroy’s Art
Milroy begins his paintings with direct observation but ends up someplace that I cannot name.
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Xingzi Gu’s Dreamlike Portraits of Youth
The tension between moments of quiet joy and inevitable calamity in Gu's ethereal portraits is riveting.
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Abigail Dudley’s Paintings of the Observed and Imagined
I can think of no other painter who can so effectively pull the viewer into a space where clarity and puzzlement cannot be separated.
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Melissa Meyer’s Lush Urban Glyphs
Working with line and color for more than two decades, Meyer has shown that reductive painting need not squeeze out improvisation.
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Phoebe Helander Paints Objects in Time
Helander removes her art from the frozen time in which still life paintings exist and reminds us that the moment recreated has already come and gone.
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The Unclassifiable Brilliance of Joanne Greenbaum
Fiercely independent, the artist belongs to no art group, movement, or style.
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Tamiko Nishimura Makes the Invisible Visible
In Nishimura’s devastating photographs of everyday life in Japan, the past is never past, and the people are rendered invisible.
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Lothar Osterburg’s Inner Longings
The tension between optimism and yearning remains taut throughout the artist’s exhibition of photogravures and found-material sculptures.
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Remembering the Rebellious Spirit of Joe Zucker
More than any other artist of his generation, Zucker rejected the conventions associated with Abstract Expressionism, particularly its subjectivity.