On the Abject in Christina Ramberg's Torso Paintings
My interest in the abject stems from my medical background. As a pathologist it is not uncommon to refer to a lesion's gross and microscopic appearance according to its similarities to food in color, pattern and consistency. My latest body of work has to do with the sordid history of medical instrumentation. I have been creating specula in different sizes and materials to explore the sordid history of this instrument, including the experimentation done on enslaved Black wo
The Abject in Christina Ramberg’s Torso Paintings
Christina Ramberg (b. 1946, Kentucky; d. 1995, Chicago, IL) was one of the “Chicago Imagists,” a group of artists who studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1960s. The group incuded Roger Brown, Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, and Ed Paschke, representational artists who were influenced by Pop art, including comics and advertising, folk art, outsider art, and Surrealism. An avid collector, Ramberg’s numerous notebooks and photographic slides documented and cat
