“Phyllis Bramson: Under the Pleasure Dome” at the Chicago Cultural Center

UIC Art Professor Emerita, Phyllis Bramson is currently exhibiting work in the Chicago Cultural Center.

Bramson is an enigmatic and influential artist in the Chicago art world. Her lush colors, coy figuration and wholehearted embrace of the decorative in the service of masterfully composed assemblages and paintings that draw the viewer ever further into many layered stories are continuous threads in her decades long practice of art making and teaching. Bramson’s use of kitsch objects, erotic overtones and Orientalist references creates lightly veiled, deeply complex works.

The Chicago Cultural Center’s exhibition “Under the Pleasure Dome” is a wide selection of paintings and assemblages drawn from the artist’s collection and illustrative of her work over many years including examples of her most recent “scroll” series.

This exhibition will run June 4 to August 28. More details of this exhibition can be found here.