Lauren Greenfield
The relationship of self-image to privileged materialism has long driven Lauren Greenfield's photography and filmmaking. Her current book, "Generation Wealth," connects the attractive side of this with the mania for body control and the self-abuses that illuminate the dark side of trying to be more than what one is. More...
Frank Romero
Boyle Heights in East L.A. is closely associated with Chicano culture, and few artists are more associated with it as an emerging cultural force in the second half of the 20th century than Frank Romero. This retrospective tells us why in a body of work that by turns tough, charming, deadly serious, humorous and ironic. More...
Sarah Ball
Sarah Ball's paintings are drawn from photographs of new arrivals at Ellis Island, and of displaced migrants in their own country of Romania. More...
Marimekko, With Love
The rise and continued cultural influence of the Swedish fashion design house Marimekko is here traced and assessed. More...
Marimekko, With Love
The rise and continued cultural influence of the Swedish fashion design house Marimekko is here traced and assessed. More...
Frederick Hammersley
In a career survey, Frederick Hammersley's wide-ranging technical skills are impressive, but the real story is the vibrancy of personality and wide range of intent. He showed that the art of abstraction need not be unremittingly serious. More...
Ann Johnson/Desira Garcia
Political content plays a key part on Ann Johnson's mixed media sculptures. Desira Garcia's paintings critique the questionable effects of social media. More...
Cameron Martin
The aggressively optical abstract paintings of Cameron Martin are built on linear patterns that fool the eye in clever and unexpected ways. More...
Corey Stein
Corey Stein takes quaint little glass beads sewn onto felt to build sophisticated images that speak of environmental concerns and cultural respect embedded into both the media and what she does with it. More...
America’s First Contemporary Art Star
Currently on view the Art Institute of Chicago, James McNeil Whistler's portrait of his mother Anna is not the public event that it once was. But it does remain one of American art's most iconic images, and we do well to remember the artist's standing as perhaps America's first major international art star. More...
Margaret Lazzari
For Margaret Lazzari her ability to represent the natural world facilitates the symbolism of "Wild Biology's" autobiographical source material. More...
