Strolling through the annual Chicago Art Fairs

(painting by Eric Fischl)

This is the 10th anniversary of Mountshang at the Chicago international art fairs - and here's what I've recorded so  far:





2006
2007(1)   2007(2)  2007(3) 2007(4)
2008(1)   2008(2)  2008(3)
2009        2009 (Next)
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015


How have these exhibits changed over that decade ?

I'm no longer finding contemporary figure paintings that interest me.  What happened to Bo Bartlett? Or Odd Nerdrum ?  Or William Bailey? Or Claudio Bravo? or Vincent Desiderio?

I've never cared much for shock-art, but neither am I thrilled that that the fair has become more about decoration than anything else. Isn't one annual SOFA show enough ?