9 Standout Lots on Artsy This Week – Artsy

got her start in the art world as a member of the Hairy Who—a group of six recent graduates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who showed their work together in the mid-1960s under that oddball moniker. This particular work, a luminous watercolor portraying what appears to be an audience and performers, was painted a year before the Hairy Who was formed, though it speaks to the artist’s signature style.

True to the Hairy Who ethos, Nilsson’s work is rife with cheerful colors and humorous scenarios, though her talent truly shines through her weird and wonderful interpretations of the body—including long spaghetti-like limbs, droopy boobs, poofy coifs of hair, and at times, animal features.

Though Nilsson has steadily been exhibiting in solo shows since the late ’60s, there’s been a renewed interest in her work within the past decade. Since 2019, she’s held solo shows with several prominent galleries, including Hales London, Parker Gallery, Matthew Marks, Garth Greenan Gallery, and Rhona Hoffman Gallery. And her market has been growing in step: At a 2019 Hindman auction, Nilsson’s Dipdick…Adam and Eve after Cranach (1971) sold for $324,500—more than 10 times its high estimate. Like her peers of the Hairy Who and the related Chicago Imagists group, Nilsson’s work has not only gained commercial and critical recognition in recent years, her whimsical, dynamic style is also inspiring new generations of painters.

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