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Who are the Chicago Imagists, and why are they in Sydney?

Roger Brown was a pivotal character in the Chicago scene, an artist whose influence has made its way to the Hughes Gallery.

25 Mar 2014 12:00

Gina Fairley

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Little is known of the Chicago Imagists in Australia, a group that gained currency in the late 1960s through to the 1980s, and who are today icons of American art history. Among them was Roger Brown, whose painting Land of Lincoln (1978) was the catalogue cover for the important exhibition, Who Chicago?, which toured to the UK in 1981, banding together and branding the group.

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Gina Fairley

Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina