Martin Johnson Heade, “Magnolia Grandiflora,” about 1885–95. Oil on canvas, 15 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches
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Martin Johnson Heade
Milwaukee Art Museum
Turn-of-the-century paintings by a master of all genres.
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Dan Ramirez
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
Chicago’s own Modernist makes abstraction more real than life itself.
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Underlying System is Not Known
Western Exhibitions
An ambitious group show inaugurates the gallery’s new space.
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Peter Shear and Mie Kongo
Devening Projects + Editions
Abstraction delights and beguiles despite its elusiveness.
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Ryan Fenchel
Carrie Secrist Gallery
Fenchel reminds us that painting is alchemy.
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert is a curator, critic and editor. She is the inaugural Curator of Contemporary Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University. She was formerly Curatorial Fellow at the Chicago Artists Coalition, Art Editor of Newcity and Assistant Curator at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.
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