Barbara Rossi, Moon Met May, 1993
Etching and aquatint on paper
Edition 76 of 80
17 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.

The artist Barbara Rossi began exhibiting her work in late-1960s with the Chicago Imagists, young artists known for their irreverent, outrageous, and humorous that reflect a very personal expression of popular culture. According to the New York Times, "Ms. Rossi's graphite drawings resemble old master silverpoints-an old master in a state of ecstatic delirium, that is. Made with exquisite delicacy-some in pencil, some in colored pencil-these doodlelike compositions feature weirdly distorted faces and body parts that seem to be emerging from jumbled patterns, loopy lines and fragments of landscape. Like Ms. Rossi's paintings, they are as fresh today as they were four decades ago."

Barbara Rossi was born in 1940 in Chicago, Illinois, where she lives and works. Since 1971, she has taught painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she also received her MFA. She recently had a survey show at the New Museum, New York. She has also had exhibitions at the Renaissance Society, Chicago; Bienal de Sao Paulo; Whitney Biennial; Sunderland Art Center, U.K; Parallel Visions, LACMA; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Rossi's works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Baltimore Museum of Art; Fogg Art Museum; Milwaukee Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; and Smithsonian American Art Museum.