Installation view of Evelyn Statsinger at GRAY Chicago
GRAY is pleased to participate in Chicago Exhibition Weekend 2024 (October 3-6), celebrating our newly expanded space with a solo presentation of Evelyn Statsinger's work alongside selections from the gallery's program.
GRAY's new West Gallery features Evelyn Statsinger's work from the 1940s to the 1980s. Evelyn Statsinger (1927-2016) worked across a range of media creating complex compositions that balance abstraction, representation, and fantasy. She was born in Brooklyn and relocated to Chicago in the 1940s to attend the School of the Art Institute. Her early drawings, characterized by their depiction of whimsical figures and intense, all-over patterns, drew the interest of luminary artists and museum curators including Mies Van Der Rohe, and Art Institute of Chicago curators Katharine Kuh and Carl Schniewind, and led to solo exhibitions at the Art Institute in 1952 and 1957. In her mature work, she relinquished readily identifiable forms such as the figure in favor of layered patterns abstracted from nature. On view in Chicago are photograms, drawings, and paintings that express her singular vision.
In the main space, GRAY is pleased to present a curated selection of works by Jules Allen, McArthur Binion, Jim Dine, Torkwase Dyson, Theaster Gates, Alex Katz, David Klamen, Jim Lutes, Jaume Plensa, Leon Polk Smith, and Bob Thompson.