About this Event
Love and Affection in a Hostile World
Phyllis Bramson’s collage-based paintings are infused with amusing anecdotes about love and affection in an often cold and hostile world. She uses source imagery from 18th-century Rococo and Chinoiserie, Chinese Pleasure Garden paintings, and the French painters Boucher and Fragonard, combined in her own unique style with contemporary kitsch. Bramson’s paintings are reactions to sensuous events, from the casual encounter to highly formalized exchanges of lovemaking. Refusing to separate matters of taste from larger questions about “good behavior,” her work embraces life’s imperfections and doesn’t take decorum all that seriously.
Over her fifty-year career, Chicago-based painter Phyllis Bramson has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among many institutions. She has had more than forty solo shows at venues such as the New Museum, New York, the Renaissance Society, the Chicago Cultural Center, and numerous galleries. Bramson is the recipient of three National Endowments, a Senior Fulbright Scholarship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant, Guggenheim Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Grant, Artadia Award, and the Anonymous Was A Woman Award. She is represented by Engage Projects in Chicago.
The Good Keeper of All Living Things, 2016, mixed media on canvas, 70 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Phyllis Bramson. Courtesy of the artist.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Film Row Cinema, 1104 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, United States
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