Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective

Christina Ramberg (1946–1995) occupies a unique place within Chicago
Imagism. Like her contemporaries, she shared an interest in the human
form as a source of expressive meaning. Yet her covert images of the female
body, offering a decidedly feminist view of women’s identity and desire, have
only recently been given their rightful due. Ramberg’s gendered figuration
also emanated from a deeply personal place, as revealed in this first major
survey in more than thirty years, which included her somatic paintings and
drawings as well as late abstract canvases and quilts, alongside collections of
sketchbooks, 35-mm slides, and dolls.

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