Painters’ Painters
@ SECRIST | BEACH
1801 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, July 10th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, August 22nd
Painters’ Painters is a curated summer exhibition featuring artists whose work is held in high esteem within the discourse of contemporary painting. The twelve featured artists were selected by the gallery as exemplars of what we most admire in this medium. Just as importantly, they are artists who admire one another’s work. While the idea of a “painter’s painter” is inherently subjective, the defining quality shared by these artists is an intuitive command of the medium.
Embedded within the exhibition is the often private ecology of influence that defines artistic practice. Painters look relentlessly at other painters: studying decisions, testing assumptions, tracing formal problems across generations, and discovering unexpected solutions. Looking becomes a form of research as much as a catalyst for invention, situating each new painting within an ongoing conversation that is at once historical and contemporary.
Throughout the exhibition, we will be taking a closer look into each artist’s studio practice, exploring their inspirations, frustrations, aesthetic philosophies and the artists they consider “painters’ painters.” These conversations will be published on our website, culminating in a full-color exhibition catalogue to be released later this summer.
Image: Dana DeGiulio, A structure to pour into that wields nothing, 2023. Oil on MDF, 16 x 12 inches
Featured artists: Sam Bornstein, Nik Cho, Tavin Davis, Rob Davis, Dana DeGulio, Kevin Ford, Dana Frankfort, April Gornik, Jeffly Gabriela Molina, Richard Tinkler, Emma White and Kevin Wolff
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Tags: April Gornik, Dana DeGulio, Dana Frankfort, Emma White, Gallery, Jeffly Gabriela Molina, Kevin Ford, Kevin Wolff, Nik Cho, Painters' Painters, Richard Tinkler, Rob Davis, Sam Bornstein, Tavin Davis, West Town
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