William Schwedler

1942 - 1982

American (Chicago -)

Befitting an artist born and trained in Chicago, Schwedler was much affected by funk and given to jokey titles and weird imagery, such as a section of a bedspring angled like sky across a pale blue ground. He worked mainly geometrically, alluding to figures occasionally in paint and collage, and he sometimes accentuated shapes by building them up in Rhoplex. Toward the end, he was painting on undulating bands of plywood mounted to stand a couple of feet off the wall. He died of AIDS in 1982 at age 40.