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Home » Chicago Imagists

Tag: Chicago Imagists

Posted inArts & Culture

The mix master

by Isa Giallorenzo February 25, 2020August 18, 2021

Nigerian-born, London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu curates one of the MCA’s largest shows ever filled with local treasures.

Posted inArts & Culture

Art in Chicago may not be able to distill 150 years of history into one volume, but it sure looks good trying

by Dmitry Samarov November 9, 2018August 18, 2021

Anyone involved in that history may be distracted by the gaps and omissions.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Looking back at the Hairy Who, the 1960s Chicago art world’s greatest branding exercise

by Deanna Isaacs September 26, 2018August 18, 2021

On the eve of the collective’s Art Institute retrospective, Suellen Rocca tells all. (Well, some.)

Posted inArts & Culture

Lee Grantham can’t escape the long shadow of the Chicago Imagists

by Dmitry Samarov January 11, 2018August 18, 2021

The Milwaukee-based artist’s show “Reverse Acrylic Paintings” is showing at the Jean Albano Gallery.

Posted inBlogs

Karl Wirsum, a film about one of the founding members of the Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists, has been restored

by Leah Pickett October 21, 2016August 18, 2021

The short by Suzanne Simpson offers a rare glimpse into the artist’s early creative process.

Posted inBlogs

Street View 222: Spectacular spectacles and the Chicago Imagists

by Isa Giallorenzo October 3, 2014August 18, 2021

Isa Giallorenzo’s Street View 222

Hairy Who, from The Portable Hairy Who (1966)
Posted inFilm

The where and why of the Hairy Who

by J.R. Jones May 14, 2014August 18, 2021

The Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists revisits the local artists who freaked out the world.

Posted inArts & Culture

Michael Russick and David Russick

by Mark Michael Leonhart April 16, 1987August 20, 2021

Tucked away in the back rooms of Artemisia Gallery (which is capable of mounting five one-person shows at once) is a refreshing surprise. The drawings of Michael Russick and paintings by his brother David are entirely unfamiliar to me, yet both follow a familiar sensibility uneasily known as the “Chicago style” of art. Nevertheless, each […]

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