![]() It is not surprising, therefore, that the artists who developed during this time, and who are the focus of this exhibition, often display imagery significantly more fraught than the artists who came before.Īnd while we acknowledge and reference the Chicago artists whom the artists in this exhibition “came after”, it is also important to our understanding to remember how exceedingly localized culture was at this time. Nnedy, the 1968 Democratic Convention and police riots, the Chicago 7 trial, and then Watergate – that had left a darkened culture in their wake. The buoyant optimism that had defined most of the 1960s had become undone by the end of the decade through a series of horrible events – the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]() Even for those of us who lived it, it is hard to remember now how very different Chicago was in the late 1970s – less tall and shiny downtown, more a grid of gritty, heavily segregated neighborhoods. This exhibition features 15 artists who came to attention in Chicago over 40 years ago and, if we are to understand them properly, we must first lay out both the place and times in which they emerged. The past is a foreign country they do things differently there. At the Elmhurst Art Museum, Septem– January 12, 2020: My catalogue essay from What Came After: Figurative Painting in Chicago 1978 – 1998, organized by Phyllis Bramson. What Came After: Figurative Painting in Chicago 1978 – 1998 at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL Septem– January 12, 2020
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