Alan Artner

1. Born in Iraq, 41-year-old artist Wafaa Bilal was arrested several times for his work by the regime of Saddam Hussein before refusing to serve in the Iraqi army and...

It has been a long time since Dominick Di Meo had a solo exhibition in Chicago, and the one now at the Corbett vs. Dempsey gallery makes the absence inexplicable....

Cecil McDonald Jr. is a Chicago photographer whose overriding theme is family. In the large color prints at the Catherine Edelman Gallery the family is McDonald's own, caught in such...

Arnaldo Roche showed paintings at the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center in the heyday of Neo Expressionism more than 20 years ago. Now he is back at the Chicago Cultural...

Angel Otero is a painter in his early 20s who showed in the "New Insight" group exhibition at Artropolis and is having a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Workshop....

Important works by Robert Gober and Donald Judd are the Art Institute of Chicago's most recent contemporary acquisitions in preparation for next year's opening of its Modern Wing. Gober's untitled,...

Christopher Schneberger's photographic installation at Printworks accomplishes the rare thing of creating a world fully and consistently. There are few false notes among its images, texts and props. And the...

I have to hand it to Kendell Carter, the Los Angeles artist exhibiting at the Monique Meloche Gallery. He has his mixture of hip-hop and traditional decorative art both ways,...

A century ago, pioneers of modern photography were engaged in a struggle to free the medium from the look of lithographs and paintings. Now, however, after more than 50 years...

Joy Episalla's most engrossing series of photographs are the "portraits" she made by shooting subjects' bookshelves. But close behind are comparatively vacant images of hotel rooms in different cities she...