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Barbara Rossi

Born in 1940, Chicago, United States

Lives and works in Chicago, United States

Overview

Barbara Rossi is an artist associated with the Chicago Imagist movement of the mid-20th Century. Rossi’s paintings are recognisable through their pastel green, lavender and pale-yellow depictions of amorphous yet somehow perceptible figures and uncertain shapes in a style that straddles both abstraction and figuration. Rossi appropriated imagery and techniques from a wide variety of sources and cultures, including pointillism, surrealism, Mughal-era miniature paintings – for which Rossi travelle...Read more

Selected artworks
Barbara Rossi
Shep Step II, 1973
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Barbara Rossi
Black Rock Top, 1972
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