Paul Nudd/Joell Baxter
August, 2001
Paul Nudd is represented in Chicago by Western Exhibitions. His solo and two-person shows include Bourouina Gallery in Berlin, Jack the Pelican Presents in Brooklyn, telephonebooth in Kansas City and the Hyde Park Art Center, Bodybuilder & Sportsmen, and Dogmatic, all in Chicago. His work has been included in group shows in Dusseldorf, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Houston, Denver and was recently included in Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. His prodigious zine work can be found in several national artist book collections including the Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; New Jersey Public Library; National Academy of Design, New York; Indiana University and School of the Art Institute of Chicago His collaborative printmaking work with the comix artist ONSMITH has been written about in Art in Print. He has curated shows at Antena, Dogmatic Butchershop and Western Exhibitions, all in Chicago and his work has been written about in the Chicago Tribune, art ltd, Modern Painters, New American Paintings and New City. Abraham Ritchie, writing in ArtSlant called his recent curatorial effort, “Heads on Poles”, organized with Scott Wolniak, “the Inadvertent Chicago Biennial”. Paul Nudd received his MFA from the University of Illinois-Chicago in 2001 and he lives and works in Berwyn, Illinois.
Joell Baxter (bio and images forthcoming).