Seven miles away, in the Jefferson Park neighbourhood on Chicago’s Northwest Side, a different institution is working to steward the legacy of a fellow Imagist painter, Ed Paschke (1939-2004).

Ed Paschke (1939-2004), who is considered a Chicago Imagist, is one of the important painters to emerge from America’s heartland in the late 1960s that New York has never fully embraced. One ...

Ed Paschke’s exhibit at the Maya Polsky Gallery, 215 W. Superior St., runs through April 27. Originally Published: April 13, 1999 at 1:00 AM CDT. Share this: ...

A commonplace on the contemporary scene is that context has a tremendous influence on how we experience works of art. Anyone who ever has seen a traveling exhibition at more than a single stop of i… ...

THE MESSAGE ON ED PASCHKE`S ANSWERING machine startles: ”Here is a man who would not take it anymore. . . . Here is someone who stood up.” The speaker is Travis Bickle, crazed outsider of ...

Ed Paschke’s toxically glowing paintings of circus freaks, extreme dandies, tattooed ladies and hairy, wingtip shoes explore the dark side of Pop Art.

The Ed Paschke Art Center, which opened in Jefferson Park late last month, has done just that: diligently reproduced the studio in all its divey, chaotic glory. Wood panels cover the walls.

Ed Paschke, the Chicago-based painter who made provocative portraits of seamy urban realism and later created haunting simulated electronic images, has died. He was 65.

The Ed Paschke Art Center opened Sunday in Jefferson Park - a tribute to the internationally acclaimed Chicago artist who died 10 years ago. Latest U.S.

I was born on the Northwest Side of Chicago in 1939 into a modest working-class family of mostly Polish ancestry. All my relatives played the accordion and the concertina. My father, though he was … ...