Sentences with phrase «imagists during»

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Opening: «The Chicago Show» at the Chicago Show House Curated by Madeleine Mermall, this group exhibition pairs up - and - coming artists based in the Windy City with works by the Chicago Imagists, a group active during the late 1960s that was inspired by both Surrealist art and pop culture.

Like Ray Yoshida, one of the Chicago Imagists, and Tadanori Yokoo, described as the «Japanese Andy Warhol,» Parker has developed a distinct visual vocabulary, through the manipulation of found images and an interest in popular culture produced during eras of social, political, and economic revolution.

As Michael Ned Holte writes, Bad Brain draws on the artist's «teenage fondness for Eddie, the skeletal mascot of Iron Maiden, and the gnarly skull drawings of Pushead, who provided artwork for Metallica t - shirts and Texas - based Zorlac skateboards; his eventual encounters with the weird figuration of the Chicago Imagists, the Hairy Who and the oozing faces of Peter Saul during his time in Chicago; and still later his close encounters with Richard Hawkins and Mike Kelley... who provided support and encouragement for mining the margins (if not broad middle) of culture.»

Known best for his politically wry faux - naif paintings, Roger Brown is associated with the Chicago Imagists who were trained at the Chicago Institute of Art during the late 1960s.