The Chicago Public Library Foundation honors Richard Hunt with an Art Award. We talk with the artist about his career.

Richard Hunt’s studio is a repository of creativity that can give one whiplash. Upon entering the Lill Avenue cavernous structure, one sees light, shadows, books, cardboard and metal ready to be metamorphosed into something transcendental. Artistic works are in progress, and an artist like Hunt is always in process amid pictures and maquettes of his earlier works with metal. Visitors can’t ...

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