Sub-rural #23, Gerda Meyer Bernstein

Sub-rural #23, Gerda Meyer Bernstein

Since the early 1970’s Gerda Meyer Bernstein has produced work that tweaks the genetic material of sculpture, installation, and even performance art, more recently in tandem with the late gallerist and friend Ingrid Fassbender, who continued to represent the artist...
Sub-rural #22, Hubbard Street at Fifty

Sub-rural #22, Hubbard Street at Fifty

Twenty years before Mary Jane Jacob’s 1993 community interactive “Culture in Action” where Grennan & Sperandio collaborated with union confectioners to design and distribute the peoples’ chocolate bars, Susanne Lacy hosted prominent women leaders at the Jane...
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...