Ingrid Fassbender, 1944 – 2022

Ingrid Fassbender, 1944 – 2022

Ingrid Fassbender was born in Reutlingen, Germany in 1944 and came to the U.S. with her parents and brother when she was eleven. She received a BA at the University of Illinois Chicago Navy Pier and later became certified as an Occupational Therapist which she...
Sub-rural # 21, Michiko Itatani

Sub-rural # 21, Michiko Itatani

Michiko Itatani’s virtual post-mortem and subsequent rejuvenation of civilization’s master projects at Tadao Ando’s resplendent Wrightwood 659 space has been extended through January, giving Chicagoans an opportunity to see a selection of her elaborate,...
Sub-rural # 20, Leslie Bellavance

Sub-rural # 20, Leslie Bellavance

Leslie Bellavance searches for capacity, pattern, and agency in an expansive patchwork of modern and contemporary art and literature. Her pictures display critical co-ordinates on a spectrum of detached grammar and buoyant chromatics revealing deep structure as...
Sub-rural # 19, Susan Snodgrass Interview, Part 2.

Sub-rural # 19, Susan Snodgrass Interview, Part 2.

(Here is part 2 of an interview that first appeared in my August Sub-rural blog with the noted independent critic and curator Susan Snodgrass. She has written for print and online publications, served as a Corresponding Editor of Art in America for twenty years, and...
Sub-rural #18, Amanda McCavour

Sub-rural #18, Amanda McCavour

Interventions into museum collections, a still-evolving staple of exhibition schedules, often allow close readings of acquisition narratives while they let artists stretch the domain of the curatorial. Amanda McCavour’s exhibition, “Suspended Landscapes” at the...