As part of their mid-career survey Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Industry of the Ordinary 2003-2013, at the Chicago Cultural Center, Industry of the Ordinary solicited a number of Chicago-based artists to make their portrait, in a wide variety of media. IOTO’s interest was in creating a collective work that reveals the artists behind the portraits, reflects on the place of the portrait in contemporary art practice and considers the motivations behind the enduring urge to fashion a likeness.

Judy Natal
Born 1953, Chicago, Illinois, www.judynatal.com
Adorno's Constellation (We Are But Stardust), 2012
Archival inkjet on rag paper

Heidi Norton
Born 1977, Baltimore, Maryland, www.heidi-norton.com
I Want to Be Ordinary (Adam's Anthurium Plant); I Want to Be Ordinary (Mat's Cat-Chewed Plant), 2012
Two archival pigment prints and text

Paul Nudd
Born 1976, Harpenden, United Kingdom, www.paulnudd.com
Ordinary Post-Industrial Dipstick Sludge, 2012
Ink, acrylic, colored pencil, & watercolor on paper