“Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes”

Brown (1941–1997) was associated with the Chicago Imagist school, a group of Windy City artists who, beginning in the 1960s, used punchy colors and bold graphics to create eccentric, genre-defying artworks that borrowed from comic books and folk art. Brown’s own work featured vivid, stylized compositions of urban and rural landscapes depicted as repeating motifs. Evoking wallpaper, Art Deco, Pop Art and Outsider Art, Brown’s paintings relayed the malaise of modern life. Brown was also an avid collector, and this show present a late-career series canvases abutted by shelves lined with his thrift-store finds.