Statsingers intricate compositions describe vast ethereal worlds evoking the biological systems and cellular structures of plants as if viewed under a microscopeAmerican painter Evelyn Statsinger 19272016 moved to Chicago from Brooklyn in the 1940s to attend the School of the Art Institute where she became affiliated with the Monster Roster and received mentorship and support from notable Chicago figures including Katherine Kuh Kathleen Blackshear and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Deeply informed by her impressions of the natural world in 1972 Statsinger moved her Chicago studio to a rural 1890s schoolhouse in Allegan Michigan. The remote property allowed Statsinger to closely observe nature in all its orders of magnitude.