Book Signing at Staple and Stitch Print and Art Book Fair

Our artists Ricky Willis and Kareem Davis will be attending a book signing at the Staple and Stitch Art Book and Print Fair at 21c Millennium Hotel with Almighty and Insane Books between 11:00AM and 3:00PM for their book "Towers of Steel, Concrete and Glass"! Come by, say hi, grab a signed copy and check out the rest of the fair!

The book displays images by Kareem Davis and Richard Willis, whose work concerns the urban landscape around them. Their shared enthusiasm for the histories of buildings and other structures around the city betrays a passion for Chicago’s architecture—famed or otherwise. Davis’s line drawings of residential buildings (from luxury condos to now demolished CHA high-rises) float between architectural renderings and geometric abstraction while Willis’s drawings of water-tanks and water-towers are more expressive in character with added color and imaginative flourishes. Both these artists record and interpret Chicago’s architectural history through…