Tom Torluemke is one of Chicago’s most gifted contemporary artists. Prolific in output and prodigious in scope, his three-decades-long career is chameleonic, effortlessly embracing complex figuration, non-objective abstraction and two- and three-dimensional works like few others. “Born in the USA” at One After 909 is his latest foray in a series of “the end is nigh”-style visual homilies addressed to a wayward flock, and his best yet.
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