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Page 3 - Chicago Abstraction... / January |
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that seems to go on forever. My timing couldn�t have been more perfect since the featured exhibition was The Chicago School II, curated by Jim Klein - an unrelated friend of the gallery. This show included a wide range of work from free standing & wall sculpture to painting and featured artists that emerged on the Chicago Art Scene 25 to 30 years ago. Among them was Steve Heyman whose last New York show at the Lyon-Weir gallery was reviewed here. As with Roy Boyd this gallery lives and breathes abstract art. Klein Art Works also features a terrific and spacious sculpture garden adjacent to the gallery |
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Klein Art Works gallery - The sculpture garden |
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The West Side area feels a great deal more like Chelsea with its somewhat remote location and nestled in, as it is, among meat and produce wholesalers and multiple light industrial buildings most of which climb 2 to 3 stories. In comparing River North to West Side, you get a sense of New York about 10 years ago when SoHo dominated the New York art world and Chelsea was still up and coming. |
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On the walk back to the Loop I stopped in at the Rhona Hoffman gallery (www.artnet.com/rhoffman.html) to see the reductive abstract paintings of Peter Wegner in pleasant space right off the street. Just around the corner on Washington Street, the last gallery I visited was Thomas McCormick (www.thomasmccormick.com) and saw a dynamite show of painterly abstraction by Vidvuds Zviedris. He is a young painter whose work recalls another young New York painter, Andrew |
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