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Deb Sokolow Sampler: 20 Years of Speculative Drawing鈥 rounds out the suite. Sokolow is a Chicago-based artist for whom observed reality becomes a point of departure for researching and imagining the unknown and the plausible. Snippets of truth jump out at the viewer when reading the early, somewhat crudely rendered diaristic work, as well as when one studies Sokolow鈥檚 later, more visually elegant architectural renderings. Both exemplify the artist鈥檚 obsessive dissection and diagramming to clarify the unexplained. With humor and a dose of paranoia, she burrows deeply when researching her topics, deconstructing and critically imagining her apocalyptic narratives.