Femme Noir by
Ed Paschke, 1987.
IMAGE
BY
ED
PASCHKE
Ed Paschke's pictures were
never easy on the eye.
Violently hued and sometimes
frightening, they challenged
the proprieties of painting,
often conjuring a Mad Max
world populated by uncatego-
rizable figures that stopped
you in your tracks.
Combining an in-your-face
attitude with an absolute
delight in image making, his
work found its way into major
institutions around the world,
from the Metropolitan
Museum of Art to the Louvre.
The Northwest Side native
passed away in 2004; now, the
new Ed Paschke Art Center
offers free access to the largest
collection of his work on
public display. And fittingly,
for a man who was known as a
supportive friend to artists, the
sprawling space in Jefferson
Park serves as a showcase for
the efforts of others.
The Center partners with
the Luminarts Cultural
Foundation at the Union
League Club of Chicago in
identifying and encouraging
emerging local talents, and
this summer it launched the
search for its first artist-in-
residence. The center is also
presenting "Andy Warhol,
Lou Reed, and the Velvet
Underground," an exhibition
of works by local photogra-
pher Steve Schapiro. A
favorite of Life, Time, and
Rolling Stone magazines,
Schapiro has captured all
sorts of folks in the last 50
years, from migrant workers
to movie stars, Samuel Beckett
to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Through January 2, 2015. 5415
W. Higgins St., 312-533-4911;
edpaschke.org
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ROOM WITH A VIEW
A NEW VISUAL ARTS CENTER CELEBRATES THE WORK OF THE LATE, GREAT Ed Pasc h
E AND SPOTLIGHTS
OTHER EMERGING CHICAGO ARTISTS.
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