Courtesy of the artist and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
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