Chicago Abstract Painters - Part II

 

I asked Scott Wolniak for a list of local non-figurative  painters 

when I met him gallery sitting his show at Dominican University              

I didn’t care for all of them - but here are the ones I’d like to remember:

Geoffrey Todd Smith

Geoffrey Todd Smith, b. 1973

Blood cells flowing through the arteries?

Seems to belong in the only medical textbook 

that I would ever want to browse.

Brian Kaperakas, untitled work on paper, 20 x 16, 2016

Brian Kaperakas, Blips and Dips, 42 x 30, acrylic on canvas, 2022

Perfect for a party room - if you have one.

Monica Rezman

Usually she works with fabric in three dimensions.

I wrote about one such piece here

Madeline Gallucci (b. 1990), Evening (in July), 18 x 24, acrylic on canvas, 2024

Girly girl stuff.

I may need some to balance all my manly guy paintings.

Madeline Gallucci, Noon at Dusk (detail) , acrylic and flashe on unstretched canvas with grommets, 2018

Yifan Lee (b. 2000), Morning Valentine, oil on canvas, 2014, 20 x 14

Gathering forces in a sea of immanent being.

Taoist Art.

Matt Irie

Action Teens 2020 Collaged Acrylic Latex on Panel 14" x 11" 

Happy, positive squiggles 

as opposed to the miserable kind by Christopher Wool.

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Matt Irie

Intimate Thunder 2023 Collaged Acrylic Latex on Panel 44" x 32"

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Matt Irie Graphic Navels 2016 Acrylic Latex on Panel 24" x 24"

Whenever Elon Musk decides to decorate his throne room,

this is whom he should call.

Aya Nakamura,  b. Tokyo, 1982, Encounter!, 2022. Coloured pencil on artist-made paper, 15 1/2h x 16 1/2w in.

Aya Nakamura, Panes, 2021. Coloured pencil on artist-made paper. 26h x 28w in.

 Aya Nakamura,  Interior, 2021. Coloured pencil on artist-made paper. 27 3/4h x 19w in.

Born sixty years after Miyoko Ito - but not that different.

Interweaving the American and the Japanese.

So intensely aesthetic.

Love the accommodation to the uneven edges.

 

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