Imagists

On the occasion of the Hairy Who retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago, SAIC alum and current professor Gladys Nilsson looks back on the group's formative years.

The Chicago Imagist movement took place in tandem with New York’s pop art scene, which overshadows it historically. The Imagists were less concerned with being ironic and pretentious and more concerned with being completely bizarre. Most of their works take the form of comic books and paintings.