Corbett vs. Dempsey

Bold Saboteurs
Collage & Construction in Chicago

April 6 - May 12, 2007
Opening reception April 6, 2007

Throughout its history, Chicago has enjoyed many different strands of artists committed to collage - formalists sparked by the challenges of Cubism, data scramblers and psychological subversives who extrapolated on Dada and Surrealism, and a generation of abstract artists inspired by the constructivism of the Bauhaus, the explosiveness of abstract expressionism, and the lyricism of Joseph Cornell. This survey is dedicated to the full expanse of collage, assemblage and construction in Chicago, from the 1930s to the present.

The exhibition is accompanied by a 24 pp., full color catalog.

Includes works by Ralph Arnold, Robert Donley, Tim Howe, Rodney Quiriconi, George Cohen, Harry Bouras, Miyoko Ito, Derek Webster, Bill Moll, Eve Garrison, Ed Flood, Ellen Lanyon, Thomas H. Kapsalis, Ray Yoshida, Hal Rammel, Lillian Rammel, James Garrett Faulkner, H.C. Westermann, Tom Palazzolo, Lenore Tawney, John Sparagana, Gladys Nilsson, Ronald Ahlstrom, Tony Fitzpatrick, Morris Barazani, Martin Hurtig, Roger Barnes, Robert Nickle, and Evelyn Statsinger.