Abstract Imagist

Press Release

Exploring abstract works by Chicago artists affiliated with and on the margins of the Imagist tradition. This exhibition, the first of its kind, will challenge the prevailing notion that Chicago Imagist art is exclusively figurative and narrative, looking at less well-known Abstract Imagist artists (Jordan Davies, Ed Flood, Murray Simon, Sarah Canright, Ray Siemanowsky) as well as abstract tendencies in work by some of the movement’s celebrities (Miyoko Ito, David Sharpe, Art Green, Ray Yoshida), and looking back at influential precursors (Ted Halkin, Thomas Kapsalis) and at the tradition as it manifests itself in the present (Philip Hanson, Bruce Thorn).