New paintings by Leslie Baum's present intensely satisfying nuggets from modernist faves (Guston, Gottlieb, Dove, Baziotes to name a few) floating in fields of gestural brushwork.
Deborah Boardman is a painter, installation artist and Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and founding member of the International Network for Urban Agriculture (INUAg). She is a recipient of recent grants from the Illinois Arts Council, Indiana Humanities Council, an EAGER grant from SAIC and a Propeller grant with the Rhizome Alliance (Rodger Cooley, Eric May, Kevin Kaempf and Akshay Raj Singh Rathore). Her work is in the public collection of the Chicago Cultural Center, and her artist books are in collections of the Bibliothecha Alexandrina, Egypt, Newberry Library's Wing Collection and at Harvard University's Houghton Library, MoMA Queens and Brooklyn Museum of Art, among others