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Title
Christina Ramberg
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Ramberg, Christina (Artist)
Nichols, Thea Liberty (Editor)
Pascale, Mark, 1954- (Editor)
Kirshner, Judith Russi (Contributor)
Katz, Anna, 1981- (Contributor)
Lehrer, Riva, 1958- (Contributor)
Swallow, Ricky, 1974- (Contributor)
Gunn Wirsum, Lorri (Contributor)
Art Institute of Chicago (Host institution)
Subject
Ramberg, Christina--Exhibitions. (LCSH)
Ramberg, Christina--Catalogs. (LCSH)
Chicago Imagists (Group of artists)--Exhibitions (LCSH)
Women artists--20th century--Exhibitions (LCSH)
Art--Illinois--Chicago--Exhibitions (LCSH)
Women in art--Exhibitions (LCSH)
1900-1999
Femmes artistes--20e siècle--Expositions (RVM)
Art--Illinois--Chicago--Expositions (RVM)
Femmes dans l'art--Expositions (RVM)
Chicago Imagists (Group of artists) (FAST)
Women artists (FAST)
Genre Form
Biographies (LCGFT)
exhibition catalogs (AAT)
Exhibition catalogs (LCGFT)
Exhibition catalogs (LCGFT)
Catalogues d'exposition (RVMGF)
Language
English (eng)
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
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Geographic Coverage
Classification
LCC: N6537.R2375 A4 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 759.13 full (Source: 22/eng/2003)
Supplementary Content
bibliography (bibliography)
index (index)
Content
text (txt)
still image (sti)
Summary
"While best known for her stylized paintings of fragmented female bodies, throughout her brief yet focused career, she vacillated between the depiction of various figural elements--hair, hands, torsos, and garments--while also creating equally rich, abstracted forms that emphasize structure and surface. This retrospective presents approximately 100 works from public and private collections, with several key pieces drawn from the Art Institute's collection. From intimate early paintings focused on the pattern and form of women's hairstyles and garments, to mature work featuring cropped female torsos in lingerie that contains and restrains, the exhibition presents her most iconic imagery while grappling with all phases and elements of Ramberg's continually evolving career. During the mid- to late 1970s, Ramberg pushed her boundary-blurring paintings into a new mode that straddled figuration and abstraction while still questioning idealized body types and gender presentation. These paintings are joined in the exhibition by the artist's experimental quilts of the late 1980s, when her pioneering obsession with handicraft, garment construction, and domestic textiles led her to abandon painting and focus fully on quilt making. The show additionally includes her final body of work as she returned once again to painting, making dark geometric abstractions that still reveal traces of her lifelong fascination, the human torso. The exhibition also recognizes that, in addition to her devotion to drawing, painting, printmaking, and quilting, Ramberg was a note-taker, slide-maker, collector, and diarist. Sketchbooks, 35mm slides, and dolls from Ramberg's informal archive of ephemera offer a fuller understanding of the artist's practice and how she digested an enormous breadth of source material to create her edgy yet empathetic body of work, or as she once put it, '[made] from my obsessions and ideas the strongest, most coherent visual statement possible.' " - exhibition website, viewed 5/3/2024.
Table Of Contents
Artist, mentor, mother, friend / Mark Pascale
Parallel manipulations : Christina Ramberg's art and archives / Thea Liberty Nichols
Christina Ramberg's diary : 1969-1980 / Judith Russi Kirshner
Building blocks : Christina Ramberg's quilts / Anna Katz
Body parting / Riva Lehrer
Forms on collecting / Ricky Swallow
Remembering Chris / Lorri Gunn Wirsum
Works in the exhibition
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Christina Ramberg
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Description Language: English
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Christina Ramberg