Ed Paschke
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Ed Paschke
Biography
Born: Chicago, Illinois, 1939
Died: Chicago, Illinois, 2004
Ed Paschke is an internationally known painter and printmaker from Chicago. He received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was a professor of art at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Paschke was one of the major influences in a group of artists referred to as the “Chicago Imagists.”
Artist Statement
“Deriving his subjects from popular media and the mixed and sometimes conflicted images of American counter-culture, Paschke confronts the contradictions that arise in collective visual experience…’some of these faces have…societal, iconic, almost religious significance in terms of how widely distributed that face has been. We all have a certain way of associatin with them. From that as a starting point, I proceed to destroy the image by what I do to it (i.e. intrducing pastel colors, tattoos, etc.)”
– Ed Paschke, interviewed by Dennis Adrian, October, 1988 –