The Walker Art Center opened a solo exhibition of work by SAIC alumnus Frank Gaard (BFA 1967)
on January 26. By far the largest showing of Gaard’s work to date, the
exhibition includes 75 paintings, records, and issues of the artist’s
cult zine, Artpolice. Huffington Post contributor Kathleen Massara conducted an interview with exhibition curator Betsy Carpenter
published January 25, in which Carpenter notes that Gaard’s
"fetishistic, sometimes ribald imagery stems in part from what he has
identified as early-childhood traumas… as well as his exposure early on,
growing up in Chicago in the 1950s and attending art school at the Art
Institute of Chicago in the late 60s.”
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