Steven Urry: Splatscape
June 18, 2026 – August 8, 2026
Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2156 W. Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60612
Steven Urry (1939–1993) was based in Chicago and New York. Fabricated, as was much of Urry’s work from the late 1960s into the '70s, out of aluminum that had been cast and welded in his studio above the Biograph Theater, the monumental sculpture in Splatscape comes from a period in which Urry was closely associated with the Chicago Imagist artists. His work was curated into numerous group exhibitions with members of the Hairy Who, False Image, and Nonplussed Some, and he showed alongside them at Phyllis Kind Gallery, despite the fact that his oeuvre was virtually all abstract