Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune '62

LIKE Ellen Lanyon, collagist Gene Hedge took his training in Chicago. Similarly, he is featured in a handsome exhibition at the 13C. Holland Gallery, 155 E. Ontario, which reveals continued refinement in his work.

The comparison ends there. Hedge, now living in New York, has never veered from an austere abstract viewpoint. But the single-mindedness of his labors now appears to be paying rich dividends. Restricting his materials to weathered shreds of building construction paper (tarpaper, insulation paper, etc.), he arranges them in severe but astoundingly elegant order.