Each year Art Chicago provides an opportunity to see work by major artists rarely exhibited hereabouts. A few examples:
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Ann Hamilton is best known for her installation art, which is extraordinary for the way it engages the viewer in the viewing process. Her print Wreathe, shown by Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl (C113), is made with no ink at all–rather, raised scriptlike patterns are embossed on white paper. This white-on-white object is even quieter than Suda’s plants, and will likely make one blink, then wonder if its patterns are a decipherable language.
Art Chicago also offers the work of deceased artists still underrepresented locally. Christopher Wilmarth, who killed himself in 1987, is best known for his sculptures that combine metal and glass etched with acid (one of which is in the MCA’s collection); his early wood-and-glass Nimbus (1969), at Hirschl & Adler Modern (B116), shows Brancusi’s influence, but also suggests some of the mysterious, even self-abnegating blankness of his later work.
