<p>Art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object.&nbsp;</p>

Conceptual / Performance

<h3>Developed during the Italian Renaissance, primarily for aesthetics or beauty, the highest art was that which allowed the full expression and display of the artist's imagination.</h3>

Fine Prints & Painting – Pre 18th Century

<h3>Graphic Art covers a broad range of visual artistic expression, typically two-dimensional. It includes calligraphy, photography, painting, typography, computer graphics, and bindery.&nbsp;</h3>

Graphic Art

<p>Works of art that utilize the form of the book. They are often published in small editions, though they are sometimes produced as one-of-a-kind objects.</p>

Artists' Books

<p>The exploration of video art and music or sound set, including visual music, abstract film, audiovisual performances and installations.</p>

Video / Sound

<p>The objects produced by shaping pieces of clay that are then hardened by baking, or the skill of making such objects.</p>

Ceramics

<p>An artistic form in which hard or plastic materials are carved, modeled, casted, and constructed into a three-dimensional art object.&nbsp;</p>

Sculpture

<p>The process of creating artworks by printing, typically on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints that have an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting.</p>

Printmaking

<h3>Something made in an earlier period that is collected and considered to have value because it is beautiful, rare, old, or of high quality.</h3>

Antiques and Artifacts

<p>Imagery where the subject matter centers around a view or depiction of Chicago.&nbsp;</p>

Chicago Scenes & Regionalism

<p>Old Masters refer to any painter of skill who worked in Europe before about 1800.</p>

Old Masters

<p>Socio-Political art is used to help the public understand a particular social or political issue.</p>

Socio-Political

<h3>The attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements.</h3>

Realism

<h3>Artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real objects and is representational.</h3>

Figurative

<h3>Individual works of art that are substantially or wholly made of glass. Glass art ranges in size from monumental works and installation pieces, to wall hangings and windows, to works of art made in studios and factories, including glass jewelry and tableware.</h3>

Glass

<h3>Artwork that often deals with Rococo, the Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism.</h3>

Fine Prints & Painting – 18th & 19th C.

<p>From the Tate Museum's website: Modernism refers to a global movement in society and culture that from the early decades of the twentieth century sought a new alignment with the experience and values of modern industrial life. Building on late nineteenth-century precedents, artists around the world used new imagery, materials and techniques to create artworks that they felt better reflected the realities and hopes of modern societies.</p>

Modernism

<h3>Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue to challenge boundaries.</h3>

Fine Prints & Painting – Contemporary

<h3>Art that is concerned with the design and decoration of objects that are chiefly prized for their utility, rather than for their purely aesthetic qualities including, ceramics, glassware, metalware, furniture, textiles, clothing, and more.</h3>

Furniture & Decorative Arts

<h3>Emerging art is work by artists who are still building their artistic careers and have not yet reached a more established and widely recognized status.&nbsp;</h3>

Emerging

<h3>Fiber art refers to fine art whose material consists of natural or synthetic fiber and other components, such as fabric or yarn. It focuses on the materials and on the manual labour on the part of the artist as part of the works' significance, and prioritizes aesthetic value over utility.</h3>

Fiber Arts / Textiles

<p>The quality of dealing with ideas rather than events. Freedom from representational qualities in art.</p>

Abstraction

<h3>Art by African-American artists.</h3>

African-American

<h3>The art and science of designing and making buildings, or the style of a building.</h3>

Architecture

<h3>Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, an emphasis on light and its changing qualities, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.</h3>

Impressionism

<p>From the Tate Museum's website: Abstract expressionism is the term applied to new forms of abstract art developed by American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning in the 1940s and 1950s. It is often characterized by gestural brush-strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity.</p>

Abstract Expressionism

Numismatics

<p>Relating to Africa or people of African descent.</p>

African

<p>Eastern European art is a product of recent history. It can be traced to the division of Europe into the Western and Soviet spheres of influence of the allied victory over Germany in World War two.</p>

Eastern European

<p>Considered one of the most influential periods of art, featuring movements including Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism.</p>

Early 20th Century

<p>Skill and experience, especially in relation to making objects by hand.</p>

Craft

<h3>The skill of making plans, drawings, or arrangements to show how a building or product is made.</h3>

Design

<p>Asian art is diverse and rich, spanning thousands of years and dozens of countries. It is known for its ritual bronzes, beautiful ceramics, calligraphy, jades, textiles, painted landscapes, garden design, pagodas and stupas, and woodblock prints.</p>

Asian

<h3>An artistic genre of three-dimensional works that often are site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.</h3>

Installations

<p>An art form that combines visual art with dramatic performance.</p>

Performance

<p>Some of the most prominent, highly influential artists, who challenged preconceptions and pushed the limits of visual art, shaping the art world of our time.</p>

Modern Contemporary Masters

<p>Created in accordance with the vision of the artist as a photographer, using photography as a medium to bring something to life that only lives in the artist's mind.</p>

Photography

<p>The design movement in interior, product, graphic design, architecture, and urban development from roughly the 1930's to 1965.</p>

Mid-Century

<p>A movement in art and literature that flourished in the early 20th-century. Surrealism aimed at expressing imaginative dreams and visions free from conscious rational control.&nbsp;</p>

Surrealism

<p>An innovative discipline which seeks to unify a large range of art forms. This is creatively achieved by combining an array of artistic insights and crafts such as film, literature, performance, music and sound, drama, visual arts, or design.</p>

Multi-Media

<h3>The depiction of landscapes in art—natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.</h3>

Landscape

<p>Plein air is the act of painting outdoors. This method contrasts with studio painting or academic rules that might create a predetermined look.</p>

Plein-air

<p>Printed 2-D artwork which is designed to be affixed to a vertical surface, may consist exclusively of images, or images and text.</p>

Poster / Lithography

<h3>A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person.</h3>

Portraits / Portraiture

<h3>These works are often stunningly beautiful, and encourage the viewer to engage with the rich history of research and experimentation that led to the piece’s conception.</h3>

Scientific

<h3>The Art of the American West is defined by geographical subject, consists of historic and contemporary works of art which focus on varying expressions of individuals, landscapes, ideals, and myths of the American West.</h3>

Western (The American West)

<h3>Borrowed from Wikipedia: In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt, and Frank Stella. It derives from the reductive aspects of modernism and is often interpreted as a reaction against abstract expressionism and a bridge to postminimal art practices.</h3>

Minimalism

<h3>Occupying the space between fine art and the everyday, functional art refers to aesthetic objects that serve utilitarian purposes. The genre is remarkably inclusive, it encompasses everything from furniture and lighting to dishes and even books.</h3>

Functional Art - Jewelry / Fashion

<p>A range of artistic practices encompassing both historical approaches to nature in art and more recent ecological and politically motivated types of works.</p>

Wildlife / Nature

Watches & Timepieces

Sports Collectibles

3-Dimensonal

Rare Books / Manuscripts

<p>Western European art represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from antiquity until the present time. Until the mid-19th century it was primarily concerned with representational and Classical modes of production. After the mid-19th century modern, abstract and conceptual forms gained favor.</p>

Western European

<h3>Artistic expression of Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, as well as Latin and Hispanic Americans living in other regions. Latin American art has roots in the many different indigenous cultures that inhabited the Americas before European colonization in the 16th-century.</h3>

Latin American and Hispanic

Comics

Large Scale (over 6')

<p>Visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues. Common forms and media include spray paint graffiti, stencil graffiti, poster art, sticker art, street installations, and sculpture.</p>

Pop / Street Art / Graffiti

Medieval / Renaissance 

Non-Western

<h3>Art produced by self-taught or naïve art makers. Typically, those labeled as outsider artists have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or art institutions. In many cases, their work is discovered only after their deaths. Often, outsider art illustrates extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds.</h3>

Folk / Outsider / Self Taught

American Regionalism

Literary Arts

Mosiac

<p>Includes manuscripts, prints, drawings, collages, and paintings on paper.</p>

Works on Paper

Prints and Drawings

<p>Carl Hammer Gallery is recognized world-wide for its discovery and representation of historically significant artists within the “Outsider” and self-taught genres, including internationally renowned artists Marcos Bontempo, Henry Darger, Bill Traylor, Joseph Yoakum, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Lee Godie, Howard Finster, Frank Jones, William Dawson, Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley, Simon Sparrow, Albert Zahn and others. &nbsp;</p><p>Additionally, it represents both important historically and contemporary significant artists from major art traditions both nation-wide and world-wide, including Don Baum, Guy Benson, Grace Graupe Pillard, Chris Pyle, Neil Goodman, Cameron Gray, Alicia Henry, Jay Kelly, Marilyn Murphy, Ed Paschke, Bill Rauhauser, David Sharpe, Hollis Sigler, Fred Stonehouse, Ken Warneke, and Mary Lou Zelazny.&nbsp; The dialogue between “mainstream” and “Outsider” artists is both important and is influential in determination of both our exhibition criteria and artist representation. &nbsp;</p><p>Visit our website for 2024 exhibition and opening information.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Images, clockwise from top left: Bill Traylor; Neil Goodman; Mary Lou Zelazny; Henry Darger</p>

Carl Hammer Gallery

<html><head></head><body><p>Vertical Gallery is Chicago’s premier urban-contemporary art gallery. Established in 2013, the gallery focuses on work influenced by street art, urban environments, graffiti, pop culture, graphic design and illustration. Vertical Gallery has distinguished itself as a pioneer in its consistent programming of emerging and established local, national and international artists. The gallery has served as a catalyst for numerous artists who have moved on to exhibit at major art venues and museums worldwide.</p><p>Image: Installation view</p><figure class="image"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dfafo598z/image/upload/v1721419612/zlnakrvxokys5vxq2axe.webp"></figure><p>&nbsp;</p></body></html>

Vertical Gallery

<p>Sculpture Milwaukee produces an annual exhibition of contemporary sculpture, sited throughout Milwaukee’s downtown and the neighborhoods adjacent. Each year, established artist-curators are invited to serve as guest curators of the exhibition with Ugo Rondinone holding the post in 2022–2023.</p><p>The exhibition can be viewed year-round at no cost, with works sited publicly in accessible locations. Programming that includes artist conversations, curatorial tours, and lectures by visiting curators is held throughout the year both in-person and virtually.</p><p>Information regarding the works currently on view, including sculpture locations, and upcoming programming can be found on the Sculpture Milwaukee website.</p><p>Support Sculpture Milwaukee by becoming a member. Members enjoy benefits that include access to additional lectures and events.</p><p>Image: Maren Hassinger, <i>Pyramid (Monument)</i>, 2022. Photo: Brian Pfister/Sculpture Milwaukee</p>

Sculpture Milwaukee

<p>Nestled in the heart of West Town and established in 2011, Chicago Truborn is a sanctuary for both emerging and established artists, specializing in street/graffiti/pop art. Unconventional and welcoming, this gallery has become synonymous with showcasing affordable art and creating an atmosphere where art collectors and novices alike can explore and indulge.</p><p><br></p><p>Dubbed “Chicago’s Best Gallery”, Chicago Truborn further distinguishes itself through two site-specific murals accompanying every new exhibition. The rotating murals breathe life into the space, immersing viewers in a dynamic encounter with each visit. This distinctive approach not only transforms the space but also empowers artists to express their vision&nbsp;- transcending the constraints of traditional galleries and canvas works.</p><p><br></p><p>As the gallery director and public art specialist, Sara Dulkin’s influence extends far beyond the gallery’s walls.&nbsp;Sara has spearheaded multiple large-scale mural projects across Chicagoland such as the Wabash Arts Corridor, the West Town Public Arts Initiative, and Tri-Taylor’s iconic “Chicago’s Most Instagrammable Alley.”</p><p><br></p><p>Enjoying and collecting artwork is for EVERYONE. Come in, ask questions, take pictures and <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/search/keyword/?q=becomeacollector" target="_blank">#BecomeAcollector</a></p><p><br></p><p>Browse available works, purchase direct, anytime online or visit in store to <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/search/keyword/?q=becomeacollector" target="_blank">#BecomeAcollector</a></p><p><br></p><p>&nbsp;Image: Gallery View, Anthony Lewellen’s “Retrospect”&nbsp;(Photo by Thomas Ahn)</p>

Chicago Truborn

<p>VSG CONTEMPORARY is dedicated to presenting the work of emerging and mid-career artists through both solo exhibitions and curated group shows. Since opening its doors in 2022, the gallery has quickly gained recognition from esteemed publications such as <em>The New York Times</em> and <em>The Economist</em> for its distinctive fusion of humor and high-caliber contemporary art.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Located in Chicago’s dynamic West Town Art District, VSG is committed to cultivating a vibrant community of artists, collectors, and art lovers—shaping the cultural landscape of tomorrow.</p><p><br></p><p>Image: Gallery view</p>

Pop / Street Art / Graffiti

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