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Shane Campbell Gallery 673 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60642 312.226.2223 Shane Campbell Gallery 673 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60642 312.226.2223 www.shanecampbellgallery.com New City September 19, 2012 Art 50: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists “A friend recently confessed to me that he secretly ranks the participants in Chicago’s art world according to their importance,” wrote artist Molly Zuckerman-Hartung in this publication. Molly’s friend doesn’t work at Newcity; although we annually rank half-a-hundred scenesters of the stage and page, this is our first line-up of visual artists. But everyone intimately knows Molly’s secret friend—the shuffler of the big rolodex, the line cutter, who maybe crept through a Deb Sokolow conspiracy, who buys all your friends’ artworks but never yours. Guess who? It’s you. You made this list and you ranked it and you live in it. You’re either on this list or you’re a product of this list or you’re on this list’s parallel universe (maybe, the Top Fifty People Who Read Lists list). Congrats! We agree that a linear fifty names is simplistic. Instead, picture this list as a family tree that’s been trimmed into an MC Escher hedge maze. Or see the names as intersecting circles, a cosmic Venn diagram, or raindrops hitting a lake. There could be a list of fifty (or 500) best painters, or a new list for every week we publish this newspaper. For now, here are fifty people who have made an impression on other peoples’ lives. Shane Campbell Gallery 673 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60642 312.226.2223 www.shanecampbellgallery.com Who are these people? They are mentors, magnets, peers, alchemists, art mothers, Chicago-ish, artists’ artists, evangelicals, alive today, polarizing, underrated, retired, workhorses and teachers. Lots of teachers. If you’re an artist in Chicago it’s likely that a handful of these artists trained you, or showed you that art was even a possibility. The bonus of local legends is that we can learn from them, face to face. Many lead by example. About the selection process: Artists only for this list. (Power curators and other hangers-on get their own list, next year). To rank these artists we surveyed hundreds of local living artists, racked our brains, had conversations, wrote emails, canvassed the streets with art critics, cast votes, then recalls, called important curators in London who promptly hung up on us, drank pumpkin latte, checked emails and then finally wrote it all down. And now, we present to you, the Art 50. (Jason Foumberg) The Art 50 was written by AJ Aronstein, Janina Ciezadlo, Stephanie Cristello, Alicia Eler, Pat Elifritz, Jason Foumberg, Amelia Ishmael, Anastasia Karpova, Harrison Smith, Bert Stabler, Pedro Velez, Katie Waddell and Monica Westin. Kerry James Marshall 1 Kerry James Marshall The Walmart-funded museum of American art, in Bentonville, Arkansas, is fascinating for many reasons (such as its Thomas Kinkade-ish name: Crystal Bridges), but most especially for its collecting strategy: fill the walls with masterpieces of American art, and fast. In their collecting frenzy they snatched the most iconic portrait of George Washington and a painting by Kerry James Marshall. “Our Town,” from 1995, shows an idyllic American suburb with kids running free and bluebirds tying yellow ribbons on every tree. Marshall’s inclusion in this version of American art history is more telling than his inclusion in “30 Americans,” the nationally touring Rubell Family show. Why? Because Marshall’s painting is what George Washington now sees when he looks out from his own canvas, with so much confident idealism, into the future. Marshall is a storyteller of American life. That he lives and works in Chicago makes us feel lucky, but his stories are as applicable to Chicago as they are to Los Angeles and Arkansas. Shane Campbell Gallery 673 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60642 312.226.2223 www.shanecampbellgallery.com Michelle Grabner 2 Michelle Grabner Michelle Grabner favors the role of “artist” above any other. It’s the one label, she realizes, that’s an all- access pass. In the art world, everyone wears many hats, some boastfully, but Grabner insists on an artist-first model. Even the tag “Chicago artist” is too rigid for her, despite the depth of her roots here. So artful is her self-confidence that even her rare bouts of bitterness seem intentional, even elegant. “I have no esteem” for Chicago’s “provincial disposition,” she confessed just months ago in the Brooklyn Rail. Was she forsaking the land that feeds her? Not really. She was merely stomping publicly on the old illusion that Chicago is a family values kind of town. The reality is that community begets clique begets incest begets mafia, a syndicate that blocks access to free trade and vital competition. So a dynamic artist like Grabner can be a diplomat, slip under gates, unlock them from the inside and keep them open for others to pass through. One might argue that she usurped the gatekeeper’s keys, and is now the gatekeeper herself. But go and sit with Grabner on her stoop—everyone is invited to her home on several Sunday afternoons throughout the year—and her generous intelligence and warmth will be quickly revealed; it’s no wonder that many young artists seek her mentorship. Even during the school year, when she is the mightily influential chair of the Painting and Drawing department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and between the lines of her potent art criticism that she contributes to legendary and emerging publications alike, and especially on the grounds of her own suburban backyard, which she runs as a non-commercial outpost of the international contemporary art world with her husband Brad Killam (also an artist), Grabner maintains that her artwork, and the life of the artist, are fundamental to her success. So, what does she make? Her signature painting motifs are simple: one is an infinite field of orderly dots, another is the familiar picnic tablecloth or checkerboard grid. They are handmade to look mass-produced. Their persistence, of pattern and quantity, suggest insatiable sprawl. Likewise, Grabner’s protégés populate this city. A sideshow of nineteen former students augments her twenty-year art survey at Inova Gallery, in Milwaukee, complete with a life-size replica of The Suburban itself—it is the third time this white-painted cinderblock shed has colonized another museum. Further northwest, in rural Little Wolf, Wisconsin, Grabner and Killam purchased a 6,000-square-foot farm manse, christened it The Poor Farm, and launched an expanded curatorial program and artist residency; does this new settlement foreshadow a quiet country retirement, or will it fortify the muscle of Grabner’s dynasty? Shane Campbell Gallery 673 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60642 312.226.2223 www.shanecampbellgallery.com Dan Peterman 3 Dan Peterman Decades before Theaster Gates revitalized some homes on Chicago’s South Side, Dan Peterman invented the genre of creative reuse. What’s old is new. Still, he may be better known in Berlin than in his hometown, despite all he’s done for Chicago. In the 1980s he helped to found The Resource Center, a material-reclamation initiative on the South Side, and a cultural, educational and community project space at 6100 South Blackstone—reborn after a devastating fire as The Experimental Station. His “Universal Lab” project brought to light a cache of University of Chicago science junk for installations at the Smart Museum and the MCA, while helping to bring about the safe disposal of a huge quantity of hazardous materials. He frequently uses recycled plastic, as in the bricks he made in 1995 which are still being used for a public dance floor in Millennium Park, where one can also see the geo-minimalist plastic picnic tables that spent several summers in front of the MCA and provide communal seating for one-hundred. For years his repurposed scrap materials and decaying foodstuffs have represented modular stations for illustrating the enormous time scale of physical resources. Jim Nutt 4 Jim Nutt Jim Nutt is the grandfather of us all. His painted parade of weirdos is weirder than the weirdest Henry Darger drawing, and in Chicago that’s what we call style. His early Hairy Who? artworks showed us that we could actually mix playfulness with abjection. Now, as a mature artist, he’s refined his output to a tight focus on a woman’s serious and seriously abnormal face. Many have called her his wife—the watercolorist Gladys Nilsson—in which case it would be the most romantic artistic gesture ever, as he toils over her features and reinvents them each time, as Nilsson must have helped Nutt reinvent his own art over the years. While the other artists on this list may have more international influence than Nutt, you won’t meet a “Chicago artist” more revered than him. Shane Campbell Gallery 673 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60642 312.226.2223 www.shanecampbellgallery.com Temporary Services Tony Fitzpatrick 5 Temporary Services Since 1998, artist-collective Temporary Services has served as a model for alternative cultural projects in Chicago and abroad. Temporary Services arrived in Chicago as many longstanding alternative spaces in the city were falling victim to changes in national arts funding. Since then, Temporary Services has relied heavily on community, promoting forms of collaboration, intervention and ephemerality that are, at face value, in dissonance with traditional art markets. Temporary Services’ most significant contributions to the cultural landscape of Chicago have been in the construction and maintenance of community networks and egalitarian platforms for idea exchange. The collective of Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer has established a lengthy oeuvre of interventions and projects, facilitated national conversations on arts labor and organizing, developed alternative interview formats with participants ranging from activists to prisoners, co-founded an alternative space, Mess Hall, with its own rich history and opened an imprint for alternative publications, Half Letter Press.
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