Most people are lucky to have one act that hits. William Horberg is well into his third. Horberg was born in Chicago and grew up around Belmont and Broadway in the Lakeview neighborhood in the 60s and 70s. He ran a repertory movie theater called the Sandburg at the corner of Division and Dearborn from 1979 to 1981, then moved out to Hollywood.
Memory plays a starring role. Decades removed from his subject matter, Horberg has used family photos and period snapshots to get the details of the architecture right. There are certain things that are impossible to render without visual source material, whether perceptual or photographic—you just can’t make them up. The particularity of a cornice or how a street sign might have a typo or some other unique irregularity—these are aspects that make Horberg’s drawings distinctive.
This series was largely completed during the plague lockdown, a time when many artists looked inward by necessity and circumstance. If you can’t go outside you must find subject matter elsewhere. One’s past can be a deep well to draw from but holds its share of pitfalls and false paths. Fortunately for Horberg and for us, his looking back has produced images that teem with life even as they mourn what’s gone.
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