Kevin Riordan

Brasserie by LM
Chicago’s Essex Inn


Kevin Riordan is a lifelong Chicagoan and long time staff and faculty member of Columbia College Chicago. A primarily graphic artist, he published Stare magazine and other artists books include The Big Wasteland, Way Wrong, Division, Misdirection, Make No Plans, 1948, Autosuggestions, and most recently Past Up, presenting his paintings of Chicago as it appeared in earlier days. For more information visit kevinriordan.com, the only website liable to give you a paper cut.

He calls the horse Darwin in memory of an officer who died too young and did not meet enough horses.