Click here to read and listen to Phyllis’ interview with Andrew Dziengel for KAXE Morning Show on the occasion of her exhibition The Bliss of the Picturesque at the Nemeth Art Center.

Click here to listen to Phyllis Bramson interviewed for Being an Artist With Tom Judd.

“A Chicago painter with an endless amount of surprises that unfold inside her landscapes of the Rococo and fantastical. Her work represents a continuation of the Chicago Imagists of the 60’s with an interest in combining eccentric figuration with abstraction. “Bramson incorporates the passionate complexity of eastern mythology, the sexual innuendos of soap operas, and sometimes the happy endings of cartoons” said critic Miranda McClintic She has shown her work prolifically in prestigious galleries and Museums internationally and her work is included in over 100 major collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago ,The national museum of American Art in Washington DC and many more. She also was a professor of art at the University of Illinois at Chicago and then a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago …. totaling over 40 years of being a teaching Artist.”

Click here to see Phyllis Bramson’s lecture “Love and Affection Despite this Hostile World” for the Bates Museum of Art.

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Click here to hear Phyllis Bramson and Susan Doremus in conversation on Story Corps.

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Click here to watch the full interview from WTTW Chicago, where artist Phyllis Bramson talks about the exhibition she organized, “What Came After: Figurative Painting in Chicago 1978-1998” showing at the Elmhurst Art Museum.

Phyllis Bramson's lecture at SOFA/Outsider 2011 show: Henry Darger's Bright and Guilty Place, (contemporary propositions about his influence.)
This video program, including a unique illustration of Darger's apartment, courtesy of Intuit, The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, and some back and forth with gallerist Carl Hammer in the audience, is an improvement on the stultifying History of Slides 202 that has turned so many college students from Art to Dance majors.
©2012 Doug vanderHoof

Phyllis Bramson: Love and Affection in a Hostile World
Filmmaker Doug vanderHoof used Bramson's written artist statement as the armature of this short documentary. Painting/collaging in her Chicago studio, discussing her work with a minimum of artspeak and a maximum of intimate detail, she invites the audience for a revealing studio visit.
©2012 Doug vanderHoof