Articles by Kat Parker

James Bishop at The Art Institute of Chicago and The Modern Wing

James Bishop at The Art Institute of Chicago and The Modern Wing

A Focus exhibition of drawings and paintings by James Bishop opened this week at The Art Institute of Chicago. Bishop, who is American but has lived in France since the …

Gordon Matta-Clark at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Gordon Matta-Clark at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

“You Are the Measure,” the first retrospective in twenty years of work by Gordon Matta-Clark (1943 – 1978) curated by Whitney Museum of American Art’s Elizabeth Sussman has come to …

Lilli Carr√®’s The Lagoon

Lilli Carr√®’s The Lagoon

Chicago-based filmmaker, illustrator, and comics artist Lilli Carr√® just completed her new book The Lagoon which will be available in October through Fantagraphics. You can view excerpts here. Her comic …

Current gallery exhibitions in Chicago

Current gallery exhibitions in Chicago

This is gonna take one more night, an exhibition of photographs by Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus has opened at Bucket Rider Gallery. Lazarus’s work has always re-defined notions of self-portraiture …

Weekend: Robert Heinecken, Times New Viking, Onibaba

Weekend: Robert Heinecken, Times New Viking, Onibaba

Robert Heinecken: Dream/Circles/Cycles opened at Rhona Hoffman Gallery this past Friday. The first gallery show since his death in 2006, this exhibition features work created between 1964-1973, much of which …