Painterly figures with an edge of feminine mystery
Rose Freymuth-Frazier is a figurative painter in her late 20s who has studied with Steven Assael and Odd Nerdrum. Her large solo exhibition at the Ann Nathan Gallery indicates she...
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Snyder and Cage create smart, simple music made visible
Ellsworth Snyder was a remarkable pianist who, like the better-known David Tudor, specialized in contemporary music. A composer to whom he was close was John Cage, so while the fascinating...
In the hands of Marc Dennis, dead wasps sting
Marc Dennis is a representational artist who has painted portraits, animals, birds and foodstuffs with crisp and glossy precision. However, for his exhibition at the Carl Hammer Gallery, his subject...
Fascinating visual curiosities unique to Chicago?
The most beguiling work in the show by Harold Haydon at the Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery reproduces part of a landscape seen from a train window. By 1934, the year...
Brief guidance before your voyage
In a couple of years, Around the Coyote will be 20, and as it heads toward that landmark, it is changing. Our list of things not to miss at this...
His work is so singular, he’s a true original
Jacob Hashimoto is an original. Nobody did what he does before he did it, and his work is so singular that it's impossible to imagine anyone following him now. Hashimoto's...
‘Inanely primitive and incontrovertibly hip’
Even at the distance of 41 years, I recall "Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable." Now it's a quaint Chicago prelude to decades of art and rock at the Museum of...
Terry Evans’ romantic, mysterious take on the steel industry’s might
In the last few years a number of artists working in different media have approached American industry only to show it on the wane, as a sign of the last...
Gallery morphs into externalized landscapes
Beginning in November, more than 25 Chicago institutions will explore scientific and artistic aspects of mapmaking. But Gisela Insuaste's installation at the Fine Arts Center Gallery of Northeastern Illinois University...
Pretty glass sculpture may confuse some; photos at City Gallery
Glass sculpture seldom gets more seductive than the work of Lino Tagliapietra, the 73-year-old master from Murano who has a large exhibition of pieces completed mainly since 2000 at the...