Art Park Honoring Ed Paschke Opens in Chicago

Sunday holds a promise for family fun at the opening of an important art and cultural site on Chicago’s Northwest Side.

The Ed Paschke Art Center announces its public opening in Jefferson Park, on the city’s Northwest Side, on Sunday, June 22, 2014.

That would have been the late artist’s 75th birthday.

Paschke, a Polish guy who grew up on the Northwest side was a nationally known artist who belonged to a group called the Imagists and who painted in a style that was influenced by abstract and expressionist art and by the pop art movement of the 1960s.

Jefferson Park was chosen for the center because Paschke lived on the Northwest Side and was known for promoting access to world-class art to blue-collar communities according to Lionel Rabb of the Rabb Family Foundation. which works with the Ed Paschke Art Center to keep the populist, lighthearted style of Paschke alive.

The Center will be open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and will offer free public access to the largest collection of Paschke’s works, which were all selected from the holdings of the Ed Paschke Foundation.

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“You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.” Ed Paschke (1939-2004)

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Official Ed Paschke site
Official Ed Paschke site