13 Facts About Ed Paschke

Ed Paschke was born in 1939 in Chicago, where he spent most of his life.

Ed Paschke received his bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1961, and later his master's degree in art in 1970 from the same school.

Ed Paschke was a sensitive and supportive professor, often inviting students to his Howard Street studio and forging personal relationships.

On November 22,1968, Ed Paschke married Nancy Cohn; with whom he had a son Marc, and a daughter Sharon.

Ed Paschke lived and worked in Chicago, where he died in his house on Thanksgiving day, 2004, apparently of heart failure.

Ed Paschke's wife Nancy Paschke was an artist as well and died seven weeks after him on January 17,2005, in Chicago.

Ed Paschke avidly collected photographs-related visual media in all its forms, from newspapers, magazines, and posters to film, television, and video, with a preference for imagery that tended toward the risque and the marginal.

Ed Paschke made use of an overhead projector to layer images, which he then rendered using the traditional and time-consuming medium of oil painting.

Ed Paschke began with an underpainting in black and white, using a simple can of "Tru-Test" house paint, then addressed it with refined systems of colored glazing or impasto to enliven the optical and physical textures of his painting.

Ed Paschke often used synthetic Phthalocynine colors to achieve his neon colored look.

In 2000, Ed Paschke was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts.

Ed Paschke's work is included many museum collections including: the Art Institute of Chicago, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg.

Ed Paschke would prove to be an important mentor and formative inspiration for the young artist.