Nilsson’s fascination with comics and all manner of popular art, which provided an alternative to the abstract, formalist tradition of painting that dominated the postwar art market, has continued to inform her work since the 1960s. Perhaps quotation would reinforce a hierarchy of avant-garde versus commercial or folk art. Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to represent Gladys Nilsson. Text by Russell Bowman

They come across as youthful and wise, a rare combination in any art. Hardcover, 68 pages Thank you for your cooperation. Besides the obvious formal divergences between Nilsson and de Chirico, it seems to me that her humor is what most differentiates them. https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46843_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46845_015.jpg, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46844_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/42833_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/42832_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46842_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46840_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46841_010.jpg, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46849_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46850_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46851_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46852_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46853_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46854_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46855_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46856_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/39907_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46885_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46857_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/39309_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/39909_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46848_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46823_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46846_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46817_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46847_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46824_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46344_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46864_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46861_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/39908_012.jpg, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46865_010.jpg, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46874_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46867_010.jpg, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46873_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46749_010.jpg, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46872_010.jpg, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46870_010.jpg, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46868_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46869_010.jpg, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46871_010.jpg, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46457_010.jpg, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46877_010.jpg, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46876_015.png, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46866_010.jpg, https://www.matthewmarks.com/www_matthewmarks_com/46875_015.png, 523 West 24 Street New York 10011  212 243 0200.

Her work has also been featured in many important museum exhibitions, such as: Human Concern/Personal Torment (1969, Whitney Museum of American Art); Who Chicago? Text by Robert Storr Distracted by the voyeuristic opportunity, her male companion is unconcerned with the precarious tilt of the boat, which threatens to send them overboard at any moment. The show marked the emergence of an art scene independent of what was going in New York and the West Coast, which deepened the diversity of American art. See all current and upcoming shows. In 1966, Gladys Nilsson and five other young artists organized an exhibition of their work in Chicago’s Hyde Park Art Center, and overnight became the talk of the town.

Nilsson’s work is featured in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Morgan Library, New York; the Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. See all articles. Fifty Years of Painting, the next exhibition in his gallery at 523 West 24th Street. In her right hand, she holds a rather small palette on which a dollop of green paint is about to slide off.

New York: Monday Morning, 2003. Her work often focuses on aspects of human sexuality and its inherent contradictions. Gladys Nilsson (born 1940, Chicago) has been a lifelong devotee of the Art Institute of Chicago. 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. daily, East Building

In 1990, Nilsson accepted a teaching position at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is now a professor. She lives and works in Chicago. In the 1960s and early 1970s, she produced acrylic paintings on plexiglas and canvas, before returning to the medium with vigor in recent years. As May of 16, 2019, our website, www.garthgreenan.com, is compliant with best practices and standards as defined by Section 508 of the U.S. Antonia Pocock Titled Three Famous Artists: Gladys Nilsson, Joseph E. Yoakum, Jim Nutt, the exhibition encouraged viewers to consider the artists on equal terms.

Gladys Nilsson and Karl Wirsum are included in the group exhibition Surplus Slop from the Windy City at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Gladys Nilsson has a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute's Clay Street Gallery. © 2020 National Gallery of Art   Notices   Terms of Use   Privacy Policy, Outliers and American Vanguard Artist Biographies.

These paintings are as sharp and tough as nails. Out After Dark, 2019. Girly Stuff, 2016. Free, timed passes are required and released each Monday at 10:00 a.m. for the following week.

She has never lost her enthusiasm. Includes Press Release, Works in Exhibition, Press, Books, Posters, and associated Artists. “Gleefully Askew” is one of the highlights of the most comprehensive exhibition of her paintings to date, Gladys Nilsson: Honk! In line with her characteristic use of hierarchical scale and horror vacui, the artist fills the composition with lilliputians, their bodies as unruly as our female protagonist’s. Opening on Thursday, January 30, 2020, the exhibition will feature a selection of the artist’s large-scale, densely layered, and intricately detailed paintings from 2017 to 2019. Look at the blue skin tone and the colors that are mixed in, or the clothes she is wearing. Interview by Dan Nadel While Nilsson painted on the back of Plexiglas, canvas, and panel early in her career, she became known for her watercolors, which she concentrated on when she became a mother; she has gone on to be recognized as a master in that medium. Imagists 1960s–1970s (2019, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, University of London). And Nilsson, like many of her Chicago-based colleagues, rejects such divisions. In 1990, she accepted a teaching position at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is now a professor. Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. If you would like additional assistance or have accessibility concerns, please contact us at (212) 929-1351 or [email protected]. Acrylic, ink, and paper collage on board, 9 x 12 inches. If so, what is their relation to each other? In many ways, Nilsson’s recent works mark a return to the ambition and scale of those early works that helped establish the Hairy Who. The other artists in that groundbreaking exhibition were Jim Falconer, Art Green, Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum. The result was a style that bordered on surrealism and pop, fantasy and cartoon. Davis, CA: John Natsoulas Press, 1993. Includes Press Release, Works in Exhibition, Press, Books, Posters, and associated Artists. 1966–1969 (2018–2019, School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Chicago Imagists from the Phyllis Kind Collection (2019, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago), and How Chicago! Teeming with humor and activity, her works examine themes of sexuality and gender, often depicting diverse characters performing a range of domestic rituals or alternately engaging in acts of explicit voyeurism. 6th St and Constitution Ave NW Soft, 2014.

Once you realize that a lot is going on in Nilsson’s works, you recognize there is even more to see. 1970. Advance appointments via [email protected] are suggested but not required. Between 1966 and 1969, Gladys Nilsson, a recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, collaborated on a series of Hairy Who group shows with like-minded fellow alumni—including her husband, Jim Nutt, as well as Jim Falconer, Art Green, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum.

I collect postures, in my mind, when somebody doesn’t think that they’re onstage so to speak, when they’re slumped or moving in a strange or exaggerated manner. Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present (2014, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence). In 1970, when Nutt and Nilsson were living in Sacramento, they organized a three-person show with self-taught Chicago artist Joseph Yoakum at the Candy Store in Folsom, California. Her arms, head, neck, and breasts flail autonomously.

Gladys Nilsson: Honk! As the Hairy Who, Jim Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum—all recent graduates of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago—began mounting unconventional displays of bright, bold graphic work at the Hyde Park Art Center on the city’s South Side. We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history.

What this viewer got from the myriad poses in the paintings is that Nilsson sees everybody as idiosyncratic, vulnerable, up to something, and interesting. She first came to prominence in 1966, when she joined five other recent Art Institute graduates (Jim Falconer, Art Green, Jim Nutt, Suellen Rocca, and Karl Wirsum) for the first of a series of group exhibitions called the Hairy Who. There are 16,365 drawings online. In 1970, when Nutt and Nilsson were living in Sacramento, they organized a three-person show with self-taught Chicago artist Joseph Yoakum at the Candy Store in Folsom, California.