At The Chicago Cultural Center there is a Hollis Sigler retrospective filled with works from her "Breast Cancer Journal" and they are so ephemeral and lovely to look at. Her paintings have such life! Sigler , a leading feminist artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1985 and that is when she began her journal. Art in America called it one of contemporary art's richest and most poignant treatments of sickness and health… Taking on a kind of religious conviction, her jewel-colored symbols imbue a death-haunted situation with miraculous, celebratory life."
Click on Hollis' name above to see more images at Steven Scott Gallery.
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