Nick Drnaso Ghost Works

Press Release

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 6-8pm

Drnaso is known as a graphic novelist; his second book, Sabrina (Drawn & Quarterly) is the only graphic novel to have been nominated for a Booker Prize.  But Drnaso is also a powerhouse artist who has made an incredible series of backpainted glass and plexiglass works, many of them related to the haunted figures and urban and suburban atmospheres of his books.  This is Drnaso's first gallery exhibition and will present about a dozen works including a new body of "ghost" paintings including one based on the airspace around Midway Airport.