Robert Lostutter: Garden of Opiates
@ Corbett vs. Dempsey
1120 N. Ashland Ave., 3rd fl., Chicago, Illinois 60622
Opening Friday, September 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 20th
In his second exhibition at Corbett vs. Dempsey, Lostutter will unveil a suite of luscious new watercolors, as strange and particular as anything he’s accomplished to date. These bright, jewel-like works are all portraits of men, each one sporting some feature—a bald head woven in strips; a lower lip morphing into an orchid; face tinted blue; green hair tied up in a special braid—like an unknown, fantastic tribe of indigenous Central Americans. Some of them have slightly crossed eyes, recalling John Graham’s ladies, and these fellows are just as beguiling, a potent mix of psychedelia and Northern Renaissance. The watercolors are complemented by diabolically sensitive graphite drawings, featuring the same figures. Lostutter has been one of the most visible artists in Chicago since emerging on the scene the late 1960s. The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art opens a major survey of his work, The Singing Bird Room of Robert Lostutter, on October 5th. A 36-page full-color catalog accompanies Corbett vs. Dempsey’s exhibition.
In the West Wing, Corbett vs. Dempsey presents a small selection of new assemblages by Walter Hamady. A legendary book designer and publisher, Hamady has run his own Perishable Press since 1964. As a collage and assemblage artist, he’s been showing since even earlier, and his new box-works extend the mode he’s been exploring for the last 25 years, utilizing wooden containers retrofitted with impeccable ephemera into uncanny, surrealist-informed confabulations.
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Tags: Corbett vs. Dempsey, Noble Square, Robert Lostutter, Walter Hamady, Wicker Park
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