Corbett vs Dempsey
1120 N Ashland Ave
773.278.1664
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Robert Lostutter, Image from Early Girls: Watercolors, Courtesy Corbett vs Dempsey
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Dec 5, 2008 – Jan 3, 2009
Thursdays–Saturdays (11am–4pm)
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Note: On view concurrently are paintings by Sarah Canright, also dating from the late '60s and '70s. The gallery is closed on Christmas day.
Rising alongside the Chicago Imagists in the late 1960s, Robert Lostutter is known for his richly rendered, subtly unnerving watercolor portraits of steely-eyed men sprouting bird plumage. Before the avians, however, came the "early girls." In these small, beguiling paintings, half-dressed women loom large overhead — in effect, a series of upskirt views — but they appear more as mysterious monoliths than objects of desire. Surrounded by geometric planes of color and vaguely biomorphic objects, the women coolly inhabit a surreal but ordered world. Lostutter observes that he was still developing his artistic voice in these early pieces; nevertheless, they lay the groundwork for his evolving watercolor techniques, and, occasionally, foreshadow the imagery of his later pursuits.
