Documentation

Exhibition book for a showing of drawings by New York portrait artist Alice Neel (1900-84), held at the Arts Club of Chicago Sept.19-Nov. 8, 2003. Includes an introductory essay by Arts Club director Kathy Cottong and a biographical/critical essay by art historian Courtney Graham Donnell.

This exhibition of John Phillips paintings and drawings is the third installment in an ongoing series that surveys a local artist's work over an extended period. This particular exhibit features selections of Phillips' oeuvre from 1979 to the present (2004). Phillips has, from the very beginning as a practicing artist, maintained a commitment to abstraction. -abstract taken from Forward

The Suburban is a space in a home in Oak Park. In this home, artist contribute and show their work and have total freedom to do so.

This book features a variety of examples from the Art Institute of Chicago's collection of works by Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913), the preeminent Mexican broadside artist. Broadsides, a mainstay of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Mexican penny press, were colorful, graphically powerful handbills treating a variety of themes, produced by publishers in collaboration with graphic artists like Posada. A critical essay by Posada Project guest curator Donna Miliotes (featured in both English and Spanish) analyzes Posada and his art in the context of his biography, his era, his politics, and the genre of the broadside. Published in conjunction with a two-part Art Institute exhibit (June 24-September 25, 2006; October 7, 2006-January 17, 2007).

Catalog for an exhibition of works by predominantly Chicago artists that appeared in Playboy Magazine from its founding onward. Exhibition took place at Hyde Park Art Center from March 7 to April 24, 2004. Includes an essay by Playboy writer and History Channel contributor James R. Petersen, exploring not only the art and the artists but also Playboy's contributions to American pop culture.

This catalogue highlights Judy Ledgerwoods works on canvas from 1999-2000

Essays, case studies, and commentary from the cofounders, administrators, project facilitators, students, and project partners and consultants, describing Archeworks's 12-year history as an avant-garde education and design institution in Chicago.

In a photographic essay, Fred Leavitt documents the city of Chicago in the early 1980s. He captures its "size and hustle and complexity."

A documentation of the Contemporary Arts Council's (of Evanston, IL) 15th annual exhibition of new and emerging Chicago based artists. Presents artwork exploring the relationships of figure and ground, literally and metaphorically. Artwork presented shares a well defined graph of distances between subjects and objects which always portray a place, person, or idea which exists as a spatial and temporal background to the foregrounded object of art.

A collection of oral histories of descendant of Oak Park and River Forest's oral histories. Oral histories address a broad spectrum of topics ranging from farming, log cabins, Ernest Hemingway, the women's rights' movement and schools. Over 150 photographs accompany the interviews to provide an oral history of a visual picture of early village life.