Julia Haw – Comfort and Control & Other Paintings
Julia Haw is a lively gregarious spirit that understands the importance of balance within life and her astute layered technical approach in painting. This week The COMP Magazine caught with Haw to discuss her immersion into Chicago's art community, her analytic and technical approach in painting, how life experiences ...
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Barbara Eberhard – Gummin’ It Up & Other Investigations
At a time where most photographs are made digitally, Barbara Eberhard continues to investigate photographic processes that originated in the 19th century with a diligent fervor that regularly yields imagery that is graceful and intimate while transcending time. Recently, The COMP Magazine caught up with Eberhard in Joliet, Illinois ...
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C2E2 2016 – In Review
C2E2 (Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo)
McCormick Place
Chicago, IL
March 18-20, 2016
Since 2010, some locals will agree that the beginning of spring is marked by the opening of C2E2 (Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo). There is a breaking in the weather and a bit more sunshine, lost time from those late ...
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Aimée Beaubien – Collecting Within & Recent Works
Over the past year, Aimée Beaubien has been exhibiting a series of elegant, labor intensive site-specific installations in various locations (Texas, Wisconsin and Illinois) around the country. These determined efforts offer a distinct aesthetic strategy that on one level contemplate the intersection between photography and sculpture. One of these ...
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Thomas Frank – Environmental & Urban Ruminations
Thomas Frank is an artist/activist who creates complex multi-layered paintings that combine research regarding the impact of industrialization on our environment with an alluring and astute formal technique. Earlier this month, The COMP Magazine caught up with Frank to discuss his enduring connection with the Chicagoland region, the ...
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Claire Molek – Art Wing & Building a Base
Claire Molek has set upon that long and winding journey to establish a platform for artists of her generation and a collector-base to support their efforts. On the coldest and windiest January day of this year, The COMP Magazine trekked out to Molek's Oak Park salon to take a ...
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Roger Carlson – Painting In Reverse
Last Fall at Joliet's Gallery 7, USF Art & Design alum and Joliet, Illinois native, Roger Carlson produced the comprehensive and thoughtful exhibition, Innocent Dawn. The exhibit consisted of a number of artworks he has been diligently working upon since 2006. In early January, The COMP Magazine caught up ...
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Anders Lindseth – Transitioning Points of View
In the fledgling stages of his career, Anders Lindseth is at a crossroads. Lindseth is juggling the daunting task of building a serious practice as a painter, while simultaneously establishing a strategy for creating an outlet for young art collectors. The COMP Magazine caught up with Lindseth at his ...
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Jaime Foster – Telluris Corda, Hearts of the Earth
Jaime Foster
Telluris Corda, Hearts of the Earth
February 1 - February 26, 2016
Public reception: Thursday, February 4, 6:30-9:00pm
The University of St. Francis Gallery
25 East Van Buren
Joliet, Illinois 60432
Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday, 10am-2pm
Telluris Corda, Hearts of the Earth is a solo exhibition featuring the work of artist Jaime Foster, a self ...
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Lee Blalock – Re-Designing Bodies & Worlds
Cross-pollinating new art techniques, sound, technology, and video, Lee Blalock explores a variety of critical and complex topics that confirm our society's immersion into a time-period which many are now defining as "posthuman". The first week of 2016, The COMP Magazine visited Blalock's Bryn Mawr studio to discuss her ...
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