IN A SATURNIAN WORLD

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven - Je Vous AttendsAnne-Mie Van Kerckhoven - Je Vous AttendsAnne-Mie Van Kerckhoven - Je Vous Attends ANNE-MIE VAN KERCKHOVEN

Van Kerckhoven’s artistic output includes a diverse array of mediums including painting, drawing, collage, computer animation, installation, and zines. Van Kerkhoven synthesizes disparate visual and textual elements in her work. Her illustrational technique favors hard-edged flat planes in a neon RGB palette, with her most common imagery being drawn from pre- sexual revolution soft pornography. She appropriates text from a range of discourses, including philosophy, science, poetry, theology. Her work addresses metaphysical reflections on mind, body, universe, and perception. 


The Swimming Hole

Gladys Nilsson The Swimming Hole, 1986 Watercolor on paper 40 ½” x 59 7/8” Christina Ramberg - .Christina Ramberg - .Gladys Nilsson, 1986 Watercolor on paper 40 ½” x 59 7/8”

 

The Chicago Imagists emerged in the late 1960's in a series of exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center that either shocked or excited their audiences, but were never ignored. Shows like "The Hairy Who," "The Non-Plussed Some," and "False Image," included works as irreverent as their names. These artists avoided mainstream sources for their art in favor of cartoons, cheap advertising, and naive art, and they emphasized personal and emotional responses. Imagism became known as "The Chicago Style" and it was this group of artists that put Chicago on the map for national and international art audiences.

While drawing has been integral to the endeavors of this group of artists because of the immediacy and spontanaeity it allows, the drawings are rarely exhibited. Drawings of the Chicago Imagists will present a body of work that has been largely overlooked to date.