Barbara Rossi (artist)

Barbara Rossi (born 1940) is a Chicago-based artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a action that in the 1960s and 1970s turned to representational art. She first exhibited like them at the Hyde Park Art Center in 1969. She is known for meticulously rendered drawings and cartoonish paintings, as without difficulty as a personal vernacular. She works primarily by making reverse paintings upon plexiglass that citation lowbrow and outsider art.

She is a literary at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her works are exhibited in several enduring art museum collections.