Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
She first exhibited with them at the Hyde Park Art Center in 1969. She is known for meticulously rendered drawings and cartoonish paintings. She works primarily by making reverse paintings on plexiglass that reference lowbrow and outsider art as well as a personal vernacular.
She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Rossi was born in Chicago in 1940, and lives in Berwyn, Illinois. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Saint Xavier College in 1964.
Rossi’s drawing style began to emerge in 1967, during a Saturday course at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She exhibited a drawing in the 1968 Chicago and Vicinity exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, and later that year, she entered the Master of Fine Arts program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
She met and was soon exhibiting her work alongside other Imagist artists.
She received her Master of Fine Arts in 1970. Barbara Rossi: Poor Traits. New Museum New York (16 September 2015 - 3 January 2016)
Meanwhile in Lonesome Valley.
Loudhailer Gallery Los Angeles (20 June - 1 August 2015).
Group exhibit. Barbara Rossi (21 April - 4 June 1995) Tarble Arts Center Eastern Illinois University
Barbara Rossi Selected Works: 1967-1990 (13 January - 24 February 1991) Renaissance Society, University of Chicago
Some Recent Art from Chicago. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (10 February - 2 March 1980).
Group exhibit. Who Chicago? an exhibition of contemporary imagists.
London (10 December - 25 January 1981). Group exhibit. Works exhibited: Poor Self Trait 3 (Curls) Diptych (1970), 3-Doctorate Do (1973, Shep Step II (1973), Fishing Picture (1975), Quick-n-Quack (1975), A Bark Drawing (1976), Waveland (1977), De Risen (1978)
XII Bienal de São Paulo: Made In Chicago (1973-1974) Museu de Arte, São Paulo, Brazil
Twenty-Fourth Illinois Invitational Exhibition (1971) Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
Seventy-First Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity (30 March - 12 May 1968) Art Institute of Chicago.
