Shreya Sethi reviews the exhibition Margot Bergman: Greetings at Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, on view through July 19, 2014.

Sethi writes the the show "features brash and vigorously emotive neo-expressionist paintings. Large flat female faces with rough features and tense expressions stare directly at incoming viewers from some of the paintings while others exist as perverted, almost violent still-lifes of abstracted flowers and patterned wallpaper… The bold directness and volatile energy of the paintings conjure the rough aesthetics of children’s drawings, while maintaining self-aware and complex psychological depth."