Aglae Bassens
Serena Stevens
Jess Allen
Caroline Walker
Miho Ichise
Kyle Coniglio
Bertram Hasenauer
Emil Robinson
Nancy Friedland
Louise Giovanelli
Paul Rouphail
Emilia Kina
Cait Porter
Guim Tio Zarraluki
Caleb Hahne
Mathew Cerletty
Alejandro Sintura Castro
Polly Shindler
Claudia Keep
Alexis Ralaivao
Keiran Brennan Hinton
Laura Karetzky
Grace Mattingly
Caitlyn Murphy
Amy Applegate
Tala Madani
Quentin James McCaffery
Roger White
Dike Blair
Matthew Wong
Nicolas Party
Henni Alftan
Gretchen Scherer
Caroline Walker
Claudia Keep
Lenz Geerk
Salman Toor
Doron Langberg
Jenna Gribbon
Sarah Slappey
Ambera Wellmann
Hank Ehrenfried
Leslie Wayne
Rudy Cremonini
Gina Beavers
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Maureen Gallace
Kyle Staver
Katherine Bradford
Celeste Rapone
Claire Sherman
Josephine Halvorson
Chantal Joffe
Margot Bergman
Elizabeth Livingston
Brandi Twilley
Hanneline Rogeberg
Nicole Eisenman
Angela Dufresne
Katarina Janeckova
Ridley Howard
Holly Coulis
Eric Aho
Justin John Greene
Elise Ansel
Ann Craven
Catherine Murphy
Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Vija Celmins
Alex Katz (the landscapes, not the portraits)
Wilhelm Sasnal
Peter Dreher
Sarah Sohn
Eleanor Ray
Greta Waller
Carly Silverman
Alexi Belsey Worth is a good painter and writer. Here's an excellent piece he wrote for Cabinet Magazine
Amy Bennett
Monica Tap
George Ault

Robert Doak (best oil paint maker I've ever found)

What is it LIke to Turn on A Light? By Tim Carmody
After Dark-- The Art of Life at Night and in New Lights by Francine Prose
The Sight of Death by T.J. Clark
The Gift by Lewis Hyde (ignore the cheesy cover)
The Art of Arts by Anita Albus
Rooms with a View The Open Window in the 19th Century by Sabine Rewald
John James Audubon by Richard Rhodes
Istanbul Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
Mapping Home by Aleksandar Hemon
Secret Knowledge by David Hockney
Bette and Joan the Divine Feud
Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino

I am trying to keep the Chicago chapter alive, despite the pandemic. Contact me if you'd like to join.