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Phyllis Bramson
Phyllis Bramson (born 1941) is an American artist, based in Chicago and known for "richly ornamental, excessive and decadent" paintingsWainwright, Lisa. "Phyllis Bramson," ''Women's Caucus for Art Honor Awards 2014'', New York: ''Women's Caucus for Art, 2014. described as walking a tightrope between "edginess and eroticism."Johnson, Carrie. "Introduction,''Phyllis Bramson: In Praise of Folly, A Retrospective 1985–2015'' Exhibition catalogue, Rockford, IL: Rockford Art Museum, 2015. Retrieved May 16, 2018. She combines eclectic influences, such as kitsch culture, Rococo art and Orientalism, in juxtapositions of fantastical figures, decorative patterns and objects, and pastoral landscapes that affirm the pleasures and follies of romantic desire, imagination and looking.Orendorff, Danny. "Anything Goes: Freedom, Fetish, and Phyllis Bramson,''Phyllis Bramson: In Praise of Folly, A Retrospective 1985–2015'' Exhibition catalogue, Rockford, IL: Rockford Art Museum, 2015. Retrieved May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the county seat of Dane County, Wisconsin, Dane County and the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census the population was 269,840, making it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the List of United States cities by population, 80th-largest in the U.S. The city forms the core of the Madison, Wisconsin, metropolitan statistical area, Madison Metropolitan Area which includes Dane County and neighboring Iowa County, Wisconsin, Iowa, Green County, Wisconsin, Green, and Columbia County, Wisconsin, Columbia counties for a population of 680,796. Madison is named for American Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and President James Madison. The city is located on the traditional land of the Ho-Chunk, and the Madison area is known as ''Dejope'', meaning "four lakes", or ''Taychopera'', meaning "land of the four lakes", in the Ho-Chunk language. Located on an isthmus and la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artemisia Gallery
Artemisia Gallery was an alternative exhibition space in Chicago, Illinois, that operated from 1973 until its closure in 2003. History The gallery was a cooperative, started by 20 women who were frustrated by the lack of opportunities for female artists in Chicago, and opened in the same month as the ARC Gallery, another Chicago women’s cooperative. Artmesia was named after Artemisia Gentileschi, an Italian 17th-century artist and painter whose best work was first attributed to her father. From 1973 to 2003, Artemisia exhibited local, national, and international artists, supporting the careers of over 150 women artists and their mentees. The gallery was an active site for exhibitions, lectures, discussions, artist exchanges, and meetings. In 1975, the gallery was home to the first meeting of what would later become the Chicago Artist Coalition. The gallery closed in 2003. Lynne Warren, a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, suggested that women had become less draw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Kind
Phyllis Barbara Kind ( Cobin; 1933–2018) was an American art dealer active in Chicago and New York. She promoted the work of the Chicago Imagists and outsider artists. Early life and family Phyllis Kind was born Phyllis Barbara Cobin in The Bronx, New York City on 1 April 1933 to Harold Cobin, a dentist, and Dorothy (Weintraub) Cobin. She was their only child. The family lived in Brooklyn as well as The Bronx. She and her mother also lived for about three years in St. Petersburg, Florida while her father performed military service. She attended the Bronx High School of Science and the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied chemistry. Her studies included chemistry at the graduate level. She married Joshua Kind, whom she met at university, in 1956. The couple moved to New York City; Phyllis taught elementary school while Joshua pursued a PhD in Renaissance art at Columbia University. Phyllis also studied composition at the Mannes School of Music. They m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyde Park Art Center
The Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) is a visual arts organization and the oldest alternative exhibition space in the city of Chicago. Since 2006, HPAC has been located just north of Hyde Park Boulevard, at 5020 S.Cornell Avenue, in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. History Beginnings The Hyde Park Art Center, established in June, 1939, was originally called the Fifth Ward Art Center of Chicago, Illinois. In 1940, the name was changed to the Hyde Park Art Center. Its founders, who included future Senator Paul Douglas, consisted primarily of artists and volunteers committed to creating a neighborhood space for the visual arts. The Art Center's first home was a defunct saloon next door to then-alderman Douglas’ constituent office at 1466 E. 57th Street. Post WWII During and after World War II, HPAC was housed in a variety of locations, including a dance studio and an apartment building. It was forced to move often because of rent increases and gentrification, but continu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
