Oli Watt – A Bit of Mischievousness Anyone?
The city of Chicago has a long history of mischievous creators. The enigma that is Oil Watt continues in this spirit of innovation through creating distinctly upper Midwest artworks and the running of Free Range Gallery. Through his creation of prints and sculptural works, curatorial practices, and teaching, one can ...
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Kun Zhao – A Collision of Cultures & Consumerist Concern
Kun Zhao came to the United States after completing an MFA at the prestigious Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. During her studies, she was introduced to new methods for considering and advancing one's aesthetic practice. Today, Zhao combines ...
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Jim Terry – Wrestling Demons: Imaginative & Real
Cartoonist Jim Terry is drawn to demons, imaginative and real life. You know, the ones that get their fangs in you and drain you of your life force beyond repair. He's battled demons head-on for decades. He's prevailed. Now in middle age, he has found balance and carved out ...
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Kelly Reaves: Pushing a Slug up a Mudslide
Kelly Reaves: Pushing a Slug up a MudslideON EXHIBIT: FEBRUARY 8 - MARCH 19, 2024ARTIST TALK: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 @ 1PM
Kelly Reaves, Slug Princes, ink, gouache, acrylic, pastel, colored pencil and collage on paper, 2024
Kelly Reaves is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Chicago. She received her BFA ...
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Glenn Wexler – An Enduring Studio Practice Above & Below
On view now through December 23, 2023 at Zolla Lieberman Gallery is Glenn Wexler's Above & Beyond. This dynamic and sleek installation couples works from Wexler's Urban Sky series with images made in depopulated train stations in Seoul, South Korea, and Bangkok, Thailand. Wexler, a long practicing artist and ...
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Zachary Weber – Porcelain to Spray Paint Concoctions
The transition from traditional art studies to establishing a career as a young artist is piled high with obstacles. There is need to establish a rhythm for advancing one's investigations, the managing of connections to a growing art world network, and many unforeseen occurrences. At inception, Zachary Weber appears ...
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Paul Erschen: LEACHFIELD
Paul Erschen: LEACHFIELDOn exhibit August 24 – October 6, 2023Reception: Thursday, August 24, 5-7pm
Paul Erschen, LEACHFIELD, exhibition view, University of St. Francis Art Gallery, Joliet, Illinois, 2023.
The USF Art Gallery presents an exhibition by Paul Erschen: LEACHFIELDBorn in 1975, in Aurora, IL, Paul Erschen lives and works in Chicago, ...
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Matthew Bandsuch – Isolated Aesthetic Excavations
Working in isolation for roughly 20 years, Matthew Bandsuch has focused his studio practice on translating an understanding of carbon-based materials into visual representations. In this, Bandsuch works with foundations of drawing to create a long form series of works that takes on a physical manifestation through layering of ...
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Matthew Allison – Cankor: Psychedelic Mayhem in a Colored Nightmare
Chicago has a long history of supplying talented artists that work in the medium of comics. Lyonel Feininger, Jackie Ormes, Chris Ware, Anya Davidson, Nick Drnaso, Linda Barry, Emil Ferris, Lane Milburn, Ivan Brunetti, to name a few, have expanded the medium through various forms of exploration in this ...
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Milo Christie – Retroreflective Pseudo Volumetric
One of the most remarkable times to make art is in youth. An undefinable raw freedom and fluid yet erratic approach can give rise to something unknown, potentially something the audience (and artist) struggles to identify by name. In the seemingly disjointed visual vocabulary of Milo Christie there appears ...
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