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Artwork Featured in The Anxiety Issue

Deb Sokolow

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Artwork by Deb Sokolow. Courtesy of Western Exhibitions, Chicago.

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Spring 2015: The Anxiety Issue


Chicago-based Deb Sokolow, a contemporary artist who is rapidly gaining national attention, creates a paranoid universe of conspiracy theories, half truths, and general disease, destabilized, in turn, by an impish sense of humor. Her work brims with references to Jewish figures like Richard Serra and Sidney Gottlieb, a set of self-conscious references that undergirds a reading of Sokolow’s art as a performative enactment of and critical commentary on Jewish anxieties.

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