On view February 25-March 14 Colleen Plumb: Thirty Times a Minute ***artist reception, book release and artist talk 2/28 5-7pm***

Current Exhibitions

Colleen Plumb: Thirty Times a Minute
February 25, 2020 - March 14, 2020
a rotating selection of gallery inventory
January 7, 2020 - February 22, 2020
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Colleen Plumb: Thirty Times a Minute
An exhibition of works by Colleen Plumb
Captive elephants exhibit what biologists refer to as stereotypy, which includes rhythmic rocking, head bobbing, stepping back and forth, and pacing. Colleen Plumb traveled to over seventy zoos in the US and Europe to film this behavior, and distilled her footage into a video that weaves together...
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a rotating selection of gallery inventory

Upcoming Exhibitions

John Santoro: Let's Talk About the Weather
March 21, 2020 - May 2, 2020
Works from the Estate of Janice Biala
May 9, 2020 - July 3, 2020
Suitcase Paintings revisited
July 11, 2020 - August 22, 2020
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John Santoro: Let's Talk About the Weather
An exhibition of works by John Santoro
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Works from the Estate of Janice Biala
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Suitcase Paintings revisited

Past Exhibitions

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Gordon Powell: Stray Cats
An exhibition of works by Gordon Powell
Gordon Powell’s assemblages are the epitome of abstraction, with shapes and tones composed according to the artist’s own intuitive combination of visual tension and harmony —an all-over-ness occupying that sweet spot where form is free from representation. Powell is a master of improvisation, so...
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Darrell Roberts: Succulent
An exhibition of works by Darrell Roberts
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Melville Price: In Search of Black Warrior
An exhibition of works by Melville Price
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Pooja Pittie: Moon Illusion
An exhibition of works by Pooja Pittie
“...the astronomer cannot prevent himself from seeing the moon larger at its rising than some time afterwards, although he is not deceived by this illusion.” Immanuel Kant, 1781 Pooja Pittie thinks deeply about painting, and even more about the physical act of painting. Her art, visually rich...
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High Drama in Union Pier
An exhibition of works by Michael Hedges
This is our fourth gallery show of Chicago based artist Michael Hedges since beginning representation in 2011. Mike is consistently one of our most sought after artists with paintings that exude a beautiful energy. In the past year he's had successful exhibitions in Santa Fe and Denver and we are...
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Vidvuds Zviedris: Old Cities & Ancient Walls
An exhibition of works by Vidvuds Zviedris
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OPEN PLAY: New Works by Ben Tinsley
An exhibition of works by Ben Tinsley
This show represents the curiosity, imagination and play of being a kid. Two and a half years ago, my daughter Charlotte was born. I made the decision to quit my full-time job and stay at home with her. This not only gave me time to focus on my art, but it also let me closely observe my...
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JAN MATULKA: THE MYSTERY PAINTINGS
An exhibition of works by Jan Matulka
Czech/American modernist Jan Matulka (1890-1972) stopped exhibiting publicly in 1943, yet lived another 29 years in a small New York City apartment. During that time he produced an amazing body of bold abstractions based on both his own experiences with Cubism, Synchronism and Surrealism and an...
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Born of Water
An exhibition of works by Janis Pozzi-Johnson
We are pleased to present our first solo exhibition of work by Janis Pozzi-Johnson. Pozzi-Johnson lives and works in Evanston, IL and has been a mainstay on the Chicago art scene for many years having shown with Perimeter Gallery before it closed in 2016. Janis' oil paintings are either...
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John Sabraw: Unearthed Topographies
An exhibition of works by John Sabraw
There is a hidden network most people have no idea exists, yet each of us has a part in its formation. Underground coal mines. In a recent series of art works I am unearthing these hidden topographies to examine their paradox. For they are at once wondrous feats of human ingenuity and...
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Yellow Pinto: new paintings by Anna Kunz
An exhibition of works by Anna Kunz
McCormick Gallery is pleased to welcome artist Anna Kunz back for her second solo exhibition of paintings. Kunz works in a variety of different media, producing works on paper and paintings as well as site-specific sculpture and installations. This show highlights the artist’s “porous paintings”...
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TROVE: A Collection of Works by Perle Fine
An exhibition of works by Perle Fine
We have been fortunate to represent the estate of Perle Fine for over sixteen years. Last winter an unexpected trove of material was made available from long term estate storage. Thrilled, this became the basis of this, our summer gallery exhibition. The timing is particularly ideal since Fine...
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High Definition: New Work by Kyle Surges
An exhibition of works by Kyle Surges
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MARY ABBOTT – NATURE
An exhibition of works by Mary Abbott
The naturalist influences of this important painter are explored in this exhibition. A 24 page catalog is available.
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Source Material
An exhibition of works by Lisa Nankivil
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Fred Troller (1930-2002) Swiss Modernist in Gotham
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How Much Land
curated by Jessica Cochran artists include: Jessica Caponigro, Diane Christiansen, Deborah Handler, Anna Kunz, Zoe Nelson, Josue Pellot with Josh Reames, Allison Reimus, Ryan Richey, Philip von Zweck, Erin Washington, Amanda Williams
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Lunar Sea
An exhibition of works by Vidvuds Zviedris
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On Edge: Hard Edge Abstraction
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Going Home
An exhibition of works by Michael Hedges
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Robert Natkin in Chicago: the 1950s
An exhibition of works by Robert Natkin
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HER WORK
We are pleased to present this outstanding selection of nine women painters from the Abstract Expressionist era: Mary Abbott, Janice Biala, Lynne Drexler, Perle Fine, Gertrude Greene, Charlotte Park, Vivian Springford, Yvonne Thomas and Michael West. A 44 page catalog is available.
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NO EXIT: thirty years of trucks, icons and weird drawings
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Exquisite Objects
An exhibition of works by Darrell Roberts
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Resonance
An exhibition of works by John Sabraw
Resonance is comprised of new colorful and highly textured paintings that celebrate connectivity to nature by examining chroma and structure in micro-macro relationships. These works of art utilize pigments generated by remediating toxic streams polluted by coalmine runoff. In physics,...
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Rites of Passage
An exhibition of works by Ben Herr
"Like Camus’ Sisyphus as I again descend that steep hill, there are those brief moments of lucidity confirming that I am not just part of someone else’s dream." a catalog will accompany the exhibition
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Actuation - Conversion
An exhibition of works by Darrin Hallowell
The title for this exhibition is a riff on "action & reaction" or "cause & effect." All the pieces in this body of work have some force (or process) acting on a material to cause permanent change. Metal being changed by oxidation, paper being changed by metal, columns being hollowed into body...
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Vivian Springford: works from the estate
An exhibition of works by Vivian Springford
in collaboration with Vallarino Fine Art, NY
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The Dark Come Down
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Space Odyssey: The Work of John Little 1907-1984
An exhibition of works by John Little
in collaboration with Vallarino Fine Art, New York
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Metes and Bounds
An exhibition of works by Lisa Nankivil
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Wide to the Wind
An exhibition of works by Perle Fine
Perle Fine (1905-1988) was an important member of the abstract expressionist movement in New York and the Hamptons. While we have shown her work for many years this is our first exploration of her work in and on paper. Drawing, watercolor, collage and printmaking were disciplines at which she...
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Samuel Feinstein: Paintings from the Fifties
An exhibition of works by Samuel Feinstein
McCormick Gallery and Vincent Vallarino Fine Art are pleased to announce the representation of the estate of Samuel Feinstein (1915-2003). This is our inaugural exhibition of abstract paintings from the 1950s by this Philadelphia/New York/Provincetown artist. Fully illustrated catalog is available.
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Passing Through
An exhibition of works by Melanie Pankau
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Hello Northern Light
An exhibition of works by Michael Hedges
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Icon Americana
An exhibition of works by Kyle Surges
At the opening for this show many people thought these were photographs... Let assure you they are oil paintings!
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Moon and Cypress
An exhibition of works by Vidvuds Zviedris
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Norman Kanter (1927-2010)
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Summer Selections: A seasonal harvest of gallery artists
Summertime is always a good time to take stock of our good fortune with the wonderful artists we represent. A revolving group show in our Gallery II over the summer months will greet those of you able to visit us in Chicago. And for those of you who must visit online we are including the prices!
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Collage•Collage•Collage (Online Exhibition)
Who doesn't like collage? Certainly I have always felt an oddly comfortable attraction to the medium — a world at once childish yet sophisticated. We have mounted several collage exhibitions at the gallery over the years and I thought this a particularly appropriate topic for our first-ever...
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MARY ABBOTT — Island Works: Paintings from the 1950s
Mary Abbott, at the age of 92, is most readily identified as a member of the ground-breaking Abstract Expressionist movement in New York City in the late 1940s and 1950s. While she was certainly a part of that robust group (and one of the few women invited to join the Artist's Club) a...
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John Wehmer - Unseen Forces: Paintings from the 1950s and 60s
When John Wehmer mustered out of the Navy in 1947 he ended up enrolled in the painting program at Washington University in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. What he might not have known at the time was that this would be come the locus point for a thriving circle of devoted abstract painters,...
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John Sabraw - arborescent
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Melanie Pankau - New Work
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Darrell Roberts - hand held
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Jack is Back
An exhibition of works by Jack Roth
This exhibition focuses on the work of Jack Roth. Roth was a multi-tasking painter, photographer, collagist, box maker, poet, professor and Guggenheim Fellow.
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Mutable Currency: Past and Present
An exhibition of works by Richard Hunt
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Sailor's Bag Rag - recent paintings
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A Screen and a Thing
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New work by Nicole Northway and Michael Hedges
Works by Nicole Northway and Michael Hedges will be on view.
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Marzano
An exhibition of works by Vidvuds Zviedris
After spending eight months in Marzano Appio, Italy, Zviedris presents a new body of abstract paintings.
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Flying Dreams
An exhibition of works by Lisa Nankivil
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Painter's Forms
An exhibition of works by John Santoro
We are pleased to present John Santoro's third solo exhibition at the McCormick Gallery.
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Saltillo Sarape: A Survey 1850-1920
One of the great textile traditions of the world, the magnificent Saltillo Sarapes of Mexico have been a symbol of wealth, prestige and rugged individualism for over 250 years. In the second half of the 19th century, beginning with the reign of Mexican Emperor Maximilian, the Saltillo enjoyed a...
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When I Grow Up I Want to Be Just Like Jasper Johns
An exhibition of works by Jack Roth
This exhibition examines the drawings created by artist Jack Roth in the 1960's. Roth was an abstract painter and a mathematics professor. The ink drawings, watercolors and collages from this period combine Roth's awareness of Pop Art and wry humor with curiosity about the worlds of fashion,...
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Time and Again
A group winter exhibition of modern and contemporary painting and sculpture
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Contemporary Painting
On view in our second gallery is new work by contemporary artists Isak Applin, Andrea Myers and Jenn Wilson.
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An exhibition of works by John Sabraw
I have a deep and long-standing captivation with metaphysical and pragmatic concerns regarding our universe. My current research focuses on natural phenomena, the earth’s ecosystem as a whole, and our role within that. This in turn has driven me to incorporate ever more sustainable practices in...
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Mine(d) Museum
The mine(d) museum is a gathering of recent studio activity. The work continues previous interests in urban space, history, and cultural forces. Recent gestures add a turn toward the body and mental places. The show contains numerous portrait forms, which concern themselves with psychic states...
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Well Put Together II
In 2004 we made an exhibition of Abstract Expressionist collage titled "Well Put Together." The show was very well received and now comes version II. This time we are combining a far flung assortment of artists including the young, the old and the departed. We are showing both gallery regulars...
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Early Spring
An exhibition of works by Lynne Drexler
Lynne Mapp Drexler was born in Newport News, Virginia in 1928. In the late 1950s, after attending the College of William and Mary in Virginia, she immersed herself in Abstract Expressionism, studying with Hans Hofmann in both his New York and Provincetown schools. From there she went on to...
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Recent Acquisitions
Works on view by: Fred Mitchell, Michael Loew, Herman Cherry, Milton Resnick, John Grillo, Robert Natkin, Michael Goldberg, Cleve Gray, John Hultberg, Jan Matulka, Michael West, Tobias Schneebaum, Ben Herr, Albert Kotin, Mary Abbott, Robert Richenburg, Mark Tobey, Charles Green Shaw, Paul...
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USA: Works from the 1960s
An exhibition of works by Melville Price
A look at the 1960's work of Melville Price (1920-1097). Complete with a fully illustrated catalog with an essay by Vered Lieb.
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new works by all of our contemporary artists will be on view: Rodney Carswell, Darrin Hallowell, John Henry, Wonsook Kim, Lisa Nankivil, Darrell Roberts, John Sabraw, John Santoro, Barry Tinsley, Ben Tinsley, Bernard Williams and Vidvuds Zviedris.
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Works created in the year 1959 by: Mary Abbott, Morris Barazani, David Budd, Herman Cherry, Lynne Drexler, Ben Herr, John Little, Melville Price, Milton Resnick, Vivian Springford and others
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Structured Forms
An exhibition of works by Harold Krisel
Harold Krisel (1920-1995) was a noted architect, painter, designer and printmaker. The gallery is pleased to present this selection of paintings and silkscreens from the estate. An extensive catalog with an essay by Peter Frank will accompany the exhibition.