In the February 2018 issue of Artforum, Dan Nadel untangles the art of Christina Ramberg, an oeuvre marked by a “fierce attention to structural integrity and an unflinching exploration of the female body, first as a subject of fetishistic fascination and later as a more or less foregrounded armature for audacious experiments in texture, pattern, and imagemaking.”
 
“It is often the . . . subtle tension between idea and execution that makes her work so compelling,” Nadel observes of the Chicago artist. “They are eerily quiet, like fireworks on television with the sound off.”
 
“Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective,” organized by Thea Liberty Nichols and Mark Pascale, is on view at the Art Institute of Chicago through August 11.  —The editors