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Despite affinities with Chicago Imagist and Northwest Coast abstraction traditions, Jim Lutes’s enigmatic work resists classification within any one school or group. According to critic David Pagel,...

Judy Ledgerwood paints boldly patterned abstract compositions that are deeply rooted in the tradition of modernist painting. Drawing from a wide range of sources—such as fashion, decorative arts,...

In January every year, The Society for Contemporary Art focuses attention on the very best artists working in Chicago. Karen Reimer explores notions of context and limitation by creating embroidered...

A leading figure of Conceptual art, Lawrence Weiner is best known for his text-based works that focus on the potential for language to serve as an art form. The subjects of these statements often...

For over 40 years, Mierle Laderman Ukeles has been known for a performance and installation-based practice that she defined in a 1969 manifesto as “Maintenance Art.” Seeking to combine her roles as a...