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‘I try to paint the things that everybody sees, things that are just a part of everybody's experience of life. Then I suppose it goes through a kind of personal transformation...’ – Roger Brown — Chicago Imagist painter Roger Brown forged his own path of representational painting, creating a body of work that speaks to his vivid imagination and relationship to the city in which he lived and worked. In 2019, his art was the subject of a significant exhibition mounted by Venus Over Manhattan (@v over m) and organized in collaboration with the @RogerBrownStudyXollection and @KaviGupta . Explore highlights of the show online at Venus Over Manhattan's website, which includes this striking depiction of a skyscraper. — Shown here: Roger Brown, ‘Hole in the Sky (With Nervous Travelers)’ (1978). Courtesy of Venus Over Manhattan. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #rogerbrown #venusovermanhattan #chicagoimagists #chicagoart #chicago #20thcenturypainting