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A Eulogy for Linda Warren Gallery
My recent eulogy for Shane Campbell's gallery got me thinking about another exhibition space that recently closed. Like Campbell, Warren is still in business, it's just that she does not mount...
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A Eulogy for Shane Campbell Gallery
  Chicago and Vicinity I'm embarrassed to say that I only discovered Shane Campbell's gallery in 2015 --- fourteen years after he opened it in Oak Park. (which is where I live) Ouch. How could I have...
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Bengt Lindstrom
Biegga Galles, God of the Storm Wind As it turns out -- I'm a big fan of the Swedish painter, Bengt Lindstrom (1925-2008) His stuff drives me crazy. I wrote about his show here . Below are some more...
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Art Expo Chicago 2019
Amoako Boafo (MARIANE IBRAHIM Gallery ,  437 N. Paulina St) The 2019 edition of Expo Chicago is different -- and better ! -- than the previous seven editions of Tony Karman's international art...
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Ludka Derke 1949-2019
What a sad day! Just last week she was mountain biking in Peru. Today, she's only a memory. What a beautiful and extraordinary life. I've only recorded a small part of it : Cambodiajewelry Nepal...
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Contemporary Cityscape Painting online
There will be no more entries to this post. It has been migrated to my MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLSFrancisco  Escalera  GonzalezDon’t think Guardi was any better with streets of water.Anna CherkashinaSheer joy...
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Contemporary Figure Sculpture online
There will be no more entries to this post. It has been migrated to my MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLSÂ PenkoBruno WalpothDaphne Dubarry
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Venice Biennial: Martin Puryear versus Alma Allen
 Alma Allen The American entry in the Venice Biennale is actually interesting this year. The Trump administration gave a big middle finger to the cultural elite by choosing a Florida pet shop owner to...
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Contemporary Landscape painting found online
 Alex KanevskySo vibrant. He loves to play with pictorial space just as Cezanne did.Francisco  Escalera Gonzalez, b. 1965, SpainGorgeous luminosityFrancisco  Escalera  GonzalezString sense of being...
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Drunken Sword Calligraphy
 Molly Zuckerman Hartung violent, unpredictable, improvisational, execution loose but composition tight. Perfection is sacrificed to freedom and defiance. Its punching upward, not down. Amy...
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Contemporary Figurative Painting found online
 ONGOING as I find them*************Jenna GribbonSuch a gift for composition She must  see the world as painting non- stopJenna GribbonAnd so much joy in her youthful body(Presumably a self...
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Sunday morning at the Art Institute of Chicago
 With two new special exhibits, it was time to visit the museum before my membership expires.I was going to review them, but as it turned out, neither were that remarkable.On the other hand, this piece...
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Abstract Chicago Iii. :From Chicago to Gowanus
 Has a comprehensive exhibition of Chicago abstract artists ever been mounted in Chicago?  None that I can recall, but now one is popping up in a gallery in Brooklyn. It's a not-for-profit, artist-run...
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Tribute to Robin Greenwood and friends
 Robin Greenwood’s "Thuvia , Maid of Mars," 210 x 120,  1990A funky, dramatic interplay of solid colors for the sheer fun of it,So appropriate for the absurd pulp fiction for which it was...
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Portraits of the Tao
 This is an ongoing post - a place where abstract paintings of a certain kind will be posted as I stumble across them and discussed - or discussed again - as the spirit moves me.Readers are invited to...
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American Modernists at the Art Institute of Chicago
 There is a floor of 20th Century art in the American Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago -  and gallery signage indicates that several kinds of Modernism are on display.They’re not saying that every...
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The Instagram Museum of contemporary painting
 An ongoing collection of images found on the internet - often on InstagramThe most recent are at the end.************************Cyndi LewisNina Rizzo’s,  Annie O, 2021Sarah Boyts Yoder, Squid Pink,...
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Chicago Abstract Painters - Part II
 I asked Scott Wolniak for a list of local non-figurative  painters when I met him gallery sitting his show at Dominican University        I didn’t care for all of them - but here are the ones...
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Visiting the Art Institute of Chicago : October 2024
 IEl Anatsui, Ghana b. 1944, The Deluge, 2021The subject here is nature,And I can’t recall a tapestry more powerful than this.Though, we might note, that unlike  Medieval examples,there are no human...
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Instagram Figure Sculpture
 When figure sculpture was knocked if it’s pedestal in the middle of the 20th  Century,  it’s formal, spatial qualities were mostly abandoned.This ongoing post will attempt to document exceptions to...
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