Ralph Arnold Who You / Yeah Baby

Press Release

Until his death in 2005, painter, printmaker, and collage artist Ralph Arnold was a subtle and masterful manipulator of image and identity. The Chicagoan’s early works, from the 1950s and early 1960s, were steeped in a earth-toned postwar vocabulary, while his work from the mid-60s utilized elements of neo-Dada and Pop Art, incorporating text fragments and detourned advertising images into a personal lexicon that drew on his experience as an African-American artist and Korean War vet. Corbett vs. Dempsey’s debut exhibition of Arnold concentrates on works from the first quarter century of his oeuvre.