Jan Cicero Gallery

rdf:langString Jan Cicero Gallery

rdf:langString Jan Cicero Gallery

rdf:langString Jan Cicero Gallery

rdf:langString Jan Cicero

rdf:langString Chicago, Illinois; Telluride, Colorado; Evanston, Illinois

rdf:langString Contemporary art gallery

rdf:langString Jan Cicero Gallery was a contemporary art gallery founded and directed by Jan Cicero (née Pickett), which operated from 1974 to 2003, with locations in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois and Telluride, Colorado. The gallery was noted for its early, exclusive focus on Chicago abstract artists at a time when they were largely neglected, its role in introducing Native American artists to mainstream art venues beyond the Southwest, and its showcasing of late-career and young women artists. The gallery focused on painting, and to a lesser degree, works on paper, often running counter to the city's prevailing art currents (e.g., Imagist figuration in the 1970s and Conceptual art in the 1980s and 1990s). It was also notable as a pioneer of two burgeoning Chicago gallery districts, the West Hubbard Street alternative corridor of the 1970s, and the River North district in the 1980s. Jan Cicero Gallery represented notable artists including: abstractionists Carol Diehl, Laurie Fendrich, Virginio Ferrari, Budd Hopkins, Vera Klement, Susan Michod, and Corey Postiglione; Native Americans Edgar Heap of Birds, Truman Lowe, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Emmi Whitehorse; early Chicago Imagists George Cohen Theodore Halkin and Evelyn Statsinger; representational painters Arthur Lerner and James Cook; and artist/critics Keith Morrison and Peter Plagens. The gallery was frequently featured in national and regional art coverage in Artforum, Art in America ARTnews, Arts Magazine New Art Examiner, and Chicago's major newspapers, as well as in articles about the art market in Art+Auction, Crain's Chicago Business and the Chicago Tribune.