Eleanor Spiess-Ferris: Daphne’s Sister
Evanston Art Center
Feb. 29, 2024 - Mar. 29, 2020
1717 Central Street
Evanston, 60201
PHONE (847) 475-5300
www.evanstonartcenter.org/exhibitions/eleanor-spiess-ferris-daphnes-sister
Curated by Doug Stapleton, Associate Curator of Art at the Illinois State Museum
Eleanor Spiess-Ferris (b. 1941) is an American symbolist painter cited as a significant surrealist, narrative figurative and feminist artist. This exhibition of over 40 years of painting and drawing by Chicago artist Spiess-Ferris traces the development of her distinctive figures across her career and compares studies and sketches with final works. Spiess-Ferris’s figures are narrative bodies, telling stories of personal, spiritual and environmental crises.