Barbara B. Buchholz

As part of the second Absolut Vision tie-in that many River North galleries participate in, the Gwenda Jay Gallery offers several simultaneous exhibitions this month: the concrete sculptures and concrete/pigment...

Catch the large exhibition of prints and drawings by such masters as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso and Lovis Cornith at the R.S. Johnson Fine Art gallery. But...

House of Swing, a new gallery and studio in the River West neighborhood, has nothing to do with music and everything to do with art, crafts and furnishings. After three...

Pauline Simon, who emigrated from Poland at age 18 in 1894 and died in 1976, did not begin painting until she was 70 years of age, after the death of...

The mixed-media works of the late BILL TRAYLOR ought not to be judged only in the context of African-American folk art. The former slave and sharecropper, whose work was discovered...

If you've ever felt the constraint of space, you'll understand the problem of trying to write the perfect résumé. You need to squeeze your work history into no more than...

Michigan artist Rick Beerhorst may suggest that his oil-on-canvas paintings of people are to be taken as religious icons by placing them in gold, silver or painted wood frames, which...

In his latest show of acrylic paintings on paper, Chicagoan DAN GUSTIN continues to take viewers to the Italian countryside he loves. His colors in these Umbrian settings are cleaner...

"The Young And/Or Restless" show at Phyllis Kind Gallery has nothing to do with chronological age and all to do with how short a period all eight artists have exhibited...

The Judy A. Saslow Gallery's annual selection of outsider art from around the world brings together the work of 16 artists, many of whom, like Italy's Claudio Ulivieri, display the...