Corbett vs. Dempsey

Robert Lostutter
Early Girls
Watercolors 1968 - 1973
December 5, 2008 - January 3, 2009

Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to present an exhibition of early watercolors and drawings by Chicago artist Robert Lostutter.

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Joseph Goto
Iron Man
Paintings & Sculpture 1950 - 1965
October 17 - November 22, 2008

Joseph Goto (1916-1994) was one of the most forceful and original artists in 20th century Chicago.

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Margot Bergman
The Dust Blows Forward, The Dust Blows Back
Recent Paintings
September 5 - October 11, 2008

Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to present its second solo show of work by Chicago painter Margot Bergman.

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Frank Vavruska
The Horizon is a Circle
Paintings 1942 - 1956
July 11 - August 23, 2008

Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to present the first one-person exhibition of Frank Vavruska's work in nearly 40 years.

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Dominick Di Meo
Man in the Moon
Paintings, Drawings, & Reliefs 1947 - 1974
May 16 - June 28, 2008

It is with great anticipation that Corbett vs. Dempsey presents a rare exhibition of work by one of Chicago's most influential and original artists, Dominick Di Meo.

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Isobel Steele MacKinnon
Weimar Portraits, Riviera Landscapes
A Chicagoan in Hofmann's Studio 1925 - 1929
March 28 - May 3, 2008

Isobel Steele MacKinnon's (1896-1972) adventures as an American artist living and working in Europe echo those of many other expatriates of the epoch.

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James Garrett Faulkner & Thomas H. Kapsalis
Collages & Paintings
February 15 - March 22, 2008

Two divergent lineages out of modernism are represented in this survey of recent works by Chicago mainstays Faulkner and Kapsalis.

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Philip Hanson
Organ Music
January 11 - February 9, 2008

One of the original Chicago imagist painters, Philip Hanson continues explore vivid new ideas in his most recent work.

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Ralph Arnold
Who You / Yeah Baby
December 7, 2007 - January 5, 2008

Until his death in 2005, painter, printmaker, and collage artist Ralph Arnold was a subtle and masterful manipulator of image and identity.

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Peter Brötzmann
Paintings & Objects
October 26 - November 30, 2007

Renowned internationally as a musician, saxophonist and clarinetist Peter Brötzmann has maintained a parallel life as a visual artist.

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Harold Haydon
Binocular Vision
Paintings 1930 - 1960
September 14 - October 20, 2007

For over 50 years, from 1931 until his death in 1994, Harold Haydon pursued a unique compositional theory, which he called "binocular vision."

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Jimmy Wright & Mark Mulhern
Arrivals & Departures
Paintings & Monoprints
July 13 - September 2, 2007

Ex-Chicagoan, NYC-resident Jimmy Wright shows for the second time with CvsD, this time in tandem with the wondrous Milwaukee painter Mark Mulhern.

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Ted Halkin
First In, Last Out
May 18 - June 30, 2007

Ted Halkin is one of the most venerable and versatile figures in the history of Chicago art.

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Bold Saboteurs
Collage & Construction in Chicago
April 6 - May 12, 2007

Throughout its history, Chicago has enjoyed many different strands of artists committed to collage - formalists sparked by the challenges of Cubism, data scramblers and psychological subversives who extrapolated on Dada and Surrealism, and a generation of abstract artists inspired by the constructivism of the Bauhaus, the explosiveness of abstract expressionism, and the lyricism of Joseph Cornell.

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Imagist Classic Hits Vol. 1
Art Green & Suellen Rocca
February 23 - March 31, 2007

The debut of a new series of exhibits exploring the rich history of Chicago Imagist art, this show focuses on two seminal figures from the original Hairy Who exhibition group.

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Gina Litherland
Recent Paintings
January 12 - February 17, 2007

In her magnificently detailed and inventive paintings, Gina Litherland extends a tradition of Midwest surrealism and magic realism that stretches back to the '30s and '40s and the work of Gertrude Abercrombie, Sylvia Fein, Julia Thecla and John Wilde.

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Joseph Friebert, Fred Berman, and the Milwaukee Scene
1935 - 1965
December 1, 2006 - January 6, 2007

Chicago's great working-class neighbor to the north, Milwaukee is the home of a longstanding and powerful artistic legacy.

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Abstract Imagist
October 27 - November 25, 2006

Exploring abstract works by Chicago artists affiliated with and on the margins of the Imagist tradition.

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Max Kahn & Eleanor Coen
Contemplating a Roller
Major Works
September 8 - October 14, 2006

Two of Chicago's most influential printmakers and painters, Eleanor Coen and Max Kahn were the indomitable artistic couple of the '40s and '50s, cultivating and spreading print techniques they learned in Mexico a decade earlier.

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Full Frontal
The Dirty, Lewd, Erotic Show
July 14 - August 26, 2006

Featuring paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, books and sculpture by Roger Brown, Seymour Rosofsky, Philip Hanson, Faith Wilding, Margot Bergman, Jimmy Wright, Ann Starr, Macena Barton, Murray Simon, Robert Lostutter, Peter Brötzmann, Tom Van Eynde, Robert Amft, Tristan Meinecke, Henry Simon, Walter Sanford, Robert Donley, Simone Shubuck, Jim Lutes, Linda Kramer, Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Tim Howe, Polly Noonan, Thomas King Baker, John Sparagana, Kerig Pope, and Laura Szumowski.

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Morris Barazani
Expert Marksman
Paintings & Collages 1948 - 1968
May 12 - June 24, 2006

One of the Midwest's outstanding painters, Morris Barazani has been an integral part of the fabric of Chicago art since the late 1940s, when he arrived at the Institute of Design.

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Margot Bergman
Wonderland & Other Reveries
Paintings 1995 - 2005
April 7 - May 6, 2006

Corbett vs. Dempsey is proud to present a solo exhibition of recent work by painter Margot Bergman. Active in Chicago since the late 1950s, Bergman presents selections from two series, the Wonderland paintings and her slightly older Other Reveries series.

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Robert Amft
Major Works
1940s & 1950s
February 24 - April 1, 2006

In his first one-man exhibition at Corbett vs. Dempsey, Robert Amft's work from the period of the 1940s and 1950s, including monumental paintings such as "King Kong" (1939) and "Landscape with Crow" (1947-48) as well as a selection of never-seen watercolors, will fill the gallery.

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New Acquisitions & Gallery Artists
January 13 - February 12, 2006

Recent arrivals to CvsD including work by Gertrude Abercrombie, Jean Crawford Adams, Fritzi Brod, Francis Chapin, Eleanor Coen, Jordan Davies, Robert Donley, Susanne Doremus, Leon Golub, Philip Hanson, Richard Hull, Miyoko Ito, Max Kahn, Ellen Lanyon, Robert Lostutter, Jim Lutes, John Miller, Murray Simon, Ray Siemanowski, Joseph Stella, Jimmy Wright, Frank Vavruska and others.

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Briggs Dyer & Paul LaMantia
Inside Out
Drawings & Paintings of the 1960s
December 3, 2005 - January 7, 2006

An early acolyte of influential painter Francis Chapin, Briggs Dyer was originally a painter of the Midwest landscape and Chicago cityscape, working under the realist style known as American Scene painting.

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Four WPA Muralists in Their Studios
1925 - 1945
October 22 - November 26, 2005

These four artists were all well known as Chicago muralists, contributing paintings to public buildings across the Midwest and elsewhere during the period of the Works Progress Administration.

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Philip Hanson
Etymology
Recent Paintings & Their Roots
September 9 - October 15, 2005

One of the original Chicago Imagist painters, Philip Hanson showed in the late '60s with Roger Brown and Christina Ramberg as part of a group known as the False Image. He remains one of Chicago's most original artists, though his work hasn't been shown extensively over the last decade.

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Six Rings
July 1 - August 27, 2005

Corbett vs. Dempsey's summer show this year takes on the idea of the multi-ring circus, consisting of six independent simultaneous exhibits, each tightly focused on a specific group of works by one artist.

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Walter Hahn
1950s Paintings & Drawings
May 13 - June 18, 2005

Early in the 1950s, WALTER HAHN was a force to be reckoned with in Chicago painting. In 1951, his final year as a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Hahn won first prize in oil in the Chicago and Vicinity exhibition.

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Anatomically Correct Woman
Ann Starr & Linda Kramer
April 8 - May 7, 2005

Ann Starr paints, draws and makes artist-books that deal with the ambiguities and wonders of the medicalized body. Born in New York City in 1937, raised in California, Linda Kramer has been an important figure in Chicago's art scene since the late '60s, when her work was selected for the Art Institute's Chicago and Vicinity Show.

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Chicago South Side / North Side
1950s Paintings by Walter Sanford & Jerry Pinsler
February 25 - March 27, 2005

Emphasizing both the diversity and dividedness of Chicago's art scene, this show spotlights two great abstract painters who worked at the same time in the same city, painting in styles that were not too distant, without knowing one another.

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Eye & Ear
Artist - Musician
December 3, 2004 - January 15, 2005

This group exhibition assembles a wide-ranging assortment of artwork by musician-artists and artist-musicians, both historical and contemporary, exploring myriad ways that passage between the visual and the sonic can serve as a creative catalyst.

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Jimmy Wright
An Overview
October 15 - November 6, 2004

Paintings, drawings, sculpture and prints by one of the unsung early Chicago imagists, Jimmy Wright (b. 1944, Kentucky), now a renowned New York artist, spotlighting his rarely seen work from the '60s and early '70s.

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Eve Garrison
Chicago WPA Cityscapes
1932 - 1940
September 10 - October 3, 2004

Eve Garrison's beautiful, gritty paintings and drawings of the city of Chicago are the focus of Corbett vs. Dempsey's first major exhibition.

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