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Big School Picture; Little Paper Mural, 1992. Gladys Nilsson. Among the most celebrated watercolorists working today, longtime Chicagoan Gladys Nilsson studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and has taught at the school for over 25 years. As a member of the artist group known as the Hairy Who, Nilsson helped inject new and ...
For artists with more than one type of work in the collection, or for works by artists not listed here, see the Artic website or the corresponding Wikimedia Commons category. Of artists listed, less than 10% are women. For the complete list of artists and their artworks in the collection, see the website.
Discover the diverse and vibrant art scene of Chicago through the profiles of over 300 local artists, from painters and photographers to sculptors and mixed-media creators.
by Kerry Cardoza | September 3, 2020. It’s always daunting to come up with the top fifty artists’ artists in Chicago, a city flush with creatives and makers dedicated not only to their craft, but to the sustainability and strength of the art community as a whole.
Nov 29, 2023 · By Lauren Brocato And Melanie King | November 29, 2023 | People, Originating from various corners of the globe and paving different paths along the way, these five Chicago visual artists are all making an impact on the art scene across the city and beyond.
Art Self-portrait created by Jennifer Caron Hall. In 2009, Hall began painting on her iPhone and exhibiting on a blog, The Blue Biro Gallery. Her digitally enhanced self-portrait was featured in Vogue online. In 2012, the Theatre Royal in Bath commissioned her to paint a portrait of her father in oils. In 2013, Hall had a solo show at the ...
Since the late 1960s, the pioneering Realist artist Chuck Close has used the human face, tightly framed, as the basis for his art. In 1987 the artist made 24-x-20-inch Polaroid portraits of several fellow artists, which he then turned into studies for oil paintings. Two years later, he suffered a collapsed spinal artery, which severely limited ...
