Sarah Canright, Associate Professor of Practice in Painting & Drawing, is featured in the latest Goldsmiths Center for Contemporary Art exhibition, How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s. This will be the first significant exhibition in the UK in almost 40 years of work by the Chicago Imagists. Additional artists in How Chicago! include Roger Brown, Jim Falconer, Ed Flood, Art Green, Phil Hanson, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, Karl Wirsum and Ray Yoshida.
From the exhibition materials:
How Chicago! focuses on fourteen artists associated with Imagism, and features painting, objects, drawings, prints and ephemera. The exhibition concentrates on works from the 1960s when they first met, through to the late 1970s, when many of them moved away, both stylistically and geographically. All of the artists studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where teachers introduced them to non-Western and self-taught artists, and fostered delight in cast-off objects gleaning in the city’s thrift stores and street markets. How Chicago! highlights the affinities between a group of divergent artists who had a lasting impact on 20th century art.
There will be a fully illustrated catalogue available titled Chicago Imagists 1960s – 1970s that includes essays by the co-curators and art historian Lynne Warren, in addition to individual texts on each artist.
How Chicago! opens on March 15, 2019 and will be on view until May 26, 2019.
Reviews for the exhibition have appeared in Elephant magazine, The Guardian, Apollo magazine, The Art Newspaper online, and Cool Hunting online.