Constraint and Variability: Christina Ramberg’s Distinctive Brand of Figuration

Most visitors to “The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue” probably weren’t familiar with the exhibition’s protagonist, an artist primarily associated with the Chicago Imagists who died in 1995 at the age of forty-nine and who remains relatively obscure even to American audiences. Those of us not already in the know can count ourselves lucky that Ramberg’s work has been slowly but steadily gaining institutional visibility over the past decade. The KW e