ARTISTS OF CHICAGO

Wozniak and Birkenheuer at Center on Halsted

2012-02-06T10:56:00.000-08:00

Two Solo Shows premiere at the Center on Halsted

of two Chicago Artists with unique takes on the human form in space

THICK - the textured paintings of Joey Wozniak

and

Doug Birkenheuer Photographs

Center On Halsted

2nd and 3rd Floor Galleries

3656 N. Hasted, Chicago IL

Opening reception:
February 17th

7:00 to 9:30 PM

$5 Donation to support cultural programs.
Small Cash Bar
10% sales of work go to Center on Halsted.

Show runs February 17- March 27
More information at centeronhalsted.org

See more of the artists work at

joeywozniak.com and crazy8art.com

birkenheuerphotography.com

Paintings by Joey Wozniak

Photographs by Doug Birkenheuer

Happy Holidays

2011-12-16T06:54:00.000-08:00

Holiday Show Weekend

2011-11-26T05:18:00.000-08:00

Cornelia Arts Building

Dec. Holiday Show

Fri. Dec. 3, 6 - 9 pm

Sat. Dec. 4, 11 - 5 pm

Sun. Dec. 5, 11 - 5 pm

1800 West Cornelia, Chicago

(entrance on Ravenswood)

Join both resident building artists and special guest artists in the hallways for this once a year weekend of hand-made art and fine craft from Chicago area artists.

Featuring: Jewelry, Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography, textile Arts, Ceramics, Holiday Items, Glass and other unique gifts.
Holiday Show Listing
CorneliaArtsBuilding.com

August House Studio

Holiday Party and Exhibition

Fri. Dec. 2, 6 - 9 pm

Sat. Dec. 3, 6 - 9 pm

213 W. Roscoe, Chicago
Join Gallery Owner and Artist Marya Veeck as she showcases work from over 50 artists and artisans in this jewelbox-gallery located in the heart of Roscoe Village.
Exhibit runs thru Dec 22, Hours Tu - Sun, Noon - 5 pm
AugustHouseStudio.com

Cornelia Arts Nov. Pre-Holiday Open House

2011-11-06T07:07:00.000-08:00

Cornelia Arts Pre-Holiday

Open House and Studio Sale

Friday, Nov. 18, 6 - 10 pm

Cornelia Arts Building

1800 West Cornelia, Chicago

Entrance on Ravenswood.

Jason Messinger "Sky Rings"

PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, SCULPTURE, TEXTILES, JEWELRY, CERAMICS, DRAWING, AND MORE !

Susanne Siegel

Join Over 25 of the Cornelia Arts Building Artists and Artisans and their special guest artists as they open their working artist studios for a free, fun-filled one-night-only evening!

Joey Wozniak

See NEW artwork by the building residents, Shop for early Holiday Gifts, and Enjoy complimentary wine, beverages, and refreshments. Special Musical Guest band "North Branch" will be performing throughout the evening.

Lauren Harlowe "Blaine Hall"

Featuring the art and artisan-made works of: Jason Messinger, Doug Birkenheuer, Jeff Bryner, Nancy Charak, Jui Desai, Doug Frohman, Dan Hale, Lauren Harlowe, Beth Kamhi, Leo Kogan, Basia Krol, Alley Maranto, Ahavani Mullen, James Parenti, Emily Rapport, Pam Robinson, Emily Roynesdal, Judy Schumacher, Susanne Siegel, Scott Simons, Tiffany Stronsky, Tracy Syperski, Eric Weinstein, Joey Wozniak, Dan Hale, Doug Frohman, Pam Robinson, Katherine Drake Chial, Gloria Almada-Russell

Musical guest - North Branch.

Artslant Listing

Doug Birkenheuer "Lift"

CorneliaArtsBuilding.com

Alan Emerson Hicks Performance @ Plastic & Wax: Ad Astra

2011-10-19T12:56:00.000-07:00

PLASTIC & WAX: Ad Astra

Sculptural paintings by Shelley Gilchrist

Sculptures by Alan Emerson Hicks

Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston IL

Performance by Alan Emerson Hicks:
Oct. 21, 4pm, Norris Center, Ground Floor

Show runs Sept 29 - Oct. 31

Facebook Link

Gilchrist Link

Chicago Artist Month Listing

Write Now - Artists and Letterforms

2011-10-14T19:55:00.000-07:00

Jason Messinger; Nine Letter Tiles

WRITE NOW: Artists and Letterforms
Chicago Cultural Center

Chicago Rooms Gallery, 2nd Floor

78 E Washington, Chicago

Show runs through April 29, 2012

"Write Now: Artists and Letterforms" is a major exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, in partnership with the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture, that showcases a diverse range of recent works by more than 60 artists utilizing letters and text in a wide array of mediums.

Featuring primarily existing work, along with some exhibit-specific installations, the artists exhibited are predominantly, but not exclusively, Chicago-based, and range from well-established to neophyte. Among the expansive survey of styles and mediums is painting, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, photography and video.

Artist exhibiting include: Actual Size Artworks, Nick Adam, Teresa Albor, Dylan Allread, Aviva Alter, Rahmaan “Statik” Barnes, Catherine Bouzide, Drury Brennan, Stephanie Brooks, Tom Burtonwood, Derek Chan, Erik DeBat, Louis DeMarco, Michael Dinges, Dzine, Ken Fandell, Samuel Feinstein, Doug Fogelson, Mike Genovese, Aron Gent, Mario Gonzalez Jr., Dan Grzeca, Matthew Hoffman, Jo Hormuth, Cody Hudson, Industry of the Ordinary, Matt Irie, Carol Jackson, Daniel Johnson, Kathleen Judge, Amos Kennedy, Chad Kouri, BJ Krivanek, Jason Lazarus, Harold Mendez, Adelheid Mers, Jason Messinger, Eddwin Meyers, Ray Noland, Todd Palmer, Jason Pickleman, Jaume Plensa, John Pobojewski, Karen Reimer, Bud Rodecker, Matt Rose, Joel Ross, John Santoro, Zach Schrey, Matt Siber, Nicholas Sistler, Buzz Spector, Christine Tarkowski, Scott Thomas, Michael Thompson, Tom Torluemke, Cecil Touchon, Rick Valicenti, Nathan Veach, Ian Weaver, Ian Whitmore, Bernard Williams & Fluxus Mail Art and Concrete Poetry.

The Fluxus/Visual Poetry Project is showcased in one section of the exhibition, featuring work by more than 100 artists from international Fluxus and Mail Art communities who submitted artwork via the postage system.

Free and open to the public.

Contact Chicago Cultural Center for hours.

Official Listing

Shown : Nine Letter Tiles by Jason Messinger

3 show weekend

2011-09-21T07:00:00.000-07:00

3 SHOW WEEKEND:

Thu. 9/29, PLASTIC & WAX: Ad Astra @ Ditmar Gallery
Fri, 9/30, WRITE NOW @ Chicago Cultural Center
Sat-Sun, 10/1+2, OPEN HOUSE @ Cornelia Arts Building (part of the Ravenswood Art Walk)

PLASTIC & WAX: Ad Astra

Sculptural paintings by Shelley Gilchrist

Sculptures by Alan Emerson Hicks

Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston IL

Opening Reception: Thur. Sept. 29, 7-9 pm

Performance by Alan Emerson Hicks: Oct. 21, 4pm, Norris Center, Ground Floor

Show runs Sept 29 - Oct. 31

Facebook Link

Gilchrist Link

Chicago Artist Month Listing

Jason Messinger; Nine Letter Tiles

WRITE NOW: Artists and Letterforms
Chicago Cultural Center

Chicago Rooms Gallery, 2nd Floor

78 E Washington, Chicago

Opening Reception: Fri Sept. 30, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Showcasing work from over sixty Chicago artist's using the letter form, including work by Jason Messinger (shown). Free and open to the public. Contact Chicago Cultural Center for hours. Show runs through April 29, 2012
Chicago Artist Month Listing

Emily Rapport, BLUE HOUSE

Cornelia Arts Open House

Cornelia Arts Building

1800 West Cornelia, Chicago

Entrance on Ranvenswood

Saturday, Oct. 1, 11 AM - 6 PM

Sunday, Oct. 2, 11 AM - 5 PM
Part of the Ravenswood Art Walk

Jason Messinger, La Dolce Vita

Open Studios: 25 Years of Art + Community Making

Join many of the over 40 building artists as they open their studios to the public for this long-running annual free family-friendly event. Part of the Ravenswood Art Walk!

Joey Wozniak, City

Artslant Listing

Cornelia Arts Building

RavenswoodArtWalk

SAVE THE DATES

2011-09-14T12:01:00.000-07:00

TWO SHOWS WEEKEND:

Fri, 9/30 : WRITE NOW @ Cultural Center

Sat + Sun, 10/1 + 2 : Cornelia Arts Open House,

- part of the Ravenswood Art Walk

WRITE NOW: Artists and Letterforms
Chicago Cultural Center

Chicago Rooms Gallery, 2nd Floor

78 E Washington, Chicago

Opening Reception: Fri 9/30, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Showcasing work from over sixty Chicago artist's using the letter form, including work by Jason Messinger (shown).
Free and open to the public.
Contact Chicago Cultural Center for hours.
Show runs through April 29, 2012

Cornelia Arts Open House

Cornelia Arts Building

1800 West Cornelia, Chicago

Entrance on Ranvenswood

Saturday, Oct. 1, 11 AM - 6 PM

Sunday, Oct. 2, 11 AM - 5 PM
Part of the Ravenswood Art Walk

Open Studios: 25 Years of Art + Community Making

Join over 40 other building artists as they open their studios to the public for this long-running annual free family-friendly event.
The Cornelia Arts Building is part of Chicago Artists Month 2011, the sixteenth annual celebration of Chicago's vibrant visual art community presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture.

Cornelia Arts Building
Cornelia Arts on Google Map

RavenswoodArtWalk
ChicagoArtistsMonth.org

All work shown by Jason Messinger

Joey Wozniak Solo Show

2011-08-26T07:00:00.000-07:00

"Urban Flowers"

New paintings by Joey Wozniak

Eyewant / Eyeporium Gallery
1431 N Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago
Show Opens:
Friday September 9th, 7 - 9 pm

Show Runs Sept. 9 - Oct, 7
Artslant Listing

Birdhouse "Branching Out" Art Auction and Cocktail Party

2011-06-03T12:28:00.000-07:00

Art Auction and Cocktail Party
Benefiting Chicago House
Thursday, June 23, 6 - 9 PM
Room & Board

55 East Ohio Street, Chicago, IL

Tickets: $70 In Advance (ends June 22 at 5PM), $85 @ Door

Call (773) 248-5200 x303 for more information

Join Jason Messinger and over 50 other artists, designers, and architects as they present birdhouses, artwork, and merchandise for auction to benefit Chicago House. This year, Chicago House and their Co-Chairs Denise Antonucci, Jerry Sanfilippo and Spyros Petros are Branching Out with birdhouses and artwork for the masses! Bring home the functional or funky birdhouse designs you’ve grown to love, plus traditional, modern, and contemporary art pieces, all auctioned off to benefit the men, women, and children of Chicago House!

ChicagoHouse.org/

Birds On The Wire -by Jason Messinger

Cornelia Arts Spring Open House, Fri, May 13

2011-04-30T13:08:00.000-07:00

'Windy City Liquors' - Emily Rapport

Cornelia Arts Spring Open House

Friday - May 13, 6 – 10 pm

Cornelia Arts Building, first and second floors

1800 West Cornelia, entrance on Ravenswood

'Touch of Beauty' - Joey Wozniak

Featuring over twenty-seven building artists in their working artist studios. Come enjoy refreshments in a casual atmosphere, see what the building artists have been working on, and find something that is sure to please you!

'Untitled' - Jeff Bryner

Participants include:

Doug Birkenheuer, Anthony Bowers, Jeff Bryner, Nancy Charak, Kelsi Crivaro, Tor Dettwiler, Doug Frohman, Melinda Gordon, Lauren Harlowe, Beth Kamhi, Jeremiah Ketner, Reed Kirst, Alley Maranto, Teresa Matchett, Jason Messinger, Alisa Miller, Greg Milne, Ahavani Mullen, Matt Nichols, James Parenti, Emily Rapport, Judy Schumacher, Susanne Siegel, Scott Simons, Kevin Swallow, Eric Weinstein, Joey Wozniak and musical guest the Northbranch Band

'Urban Sentinels' - Jason Messinger

Artslant Listing


'Trees and the Dunes' - Joey Wozniak

Jason Messinger ART @ Studio #204 presents a special show of landscapes and cityscapes in paint, pastel, ink, and glazed tile, by guest showcase artist Joey Wozniak and Jason Messinger.

Beautiful City IV - Jason Messinger


Evening Blue - Joey Wozniak

'Cliff House' - Jason Messinger

CorneliaArtsBuilding.com

Jason Messinger & Armando Pedroso show at the Center on Halsted, Chicago

2011-03-19T09:19:00.000-07:00

Friday April 1, from 7 - 9:30 pm,
The Center on Halsted invites you to an
Art Opening Reception and Fundraiser
showcasing artwork by guest artists
Jason Messinger and Armando Pedroso.


Jason Messinger - Memory I

Armando Pedroso

Jason Messinger - WheatBerries

Jason Messinger will be showcasing over one dozen of his ink and watercolor paintings in the Third Floor Gallery.

Jason Messinger - Songs of Grass

Jason Messinger - Violet Hour

Inspired by Japanese Sumi-ink traditions and the caligraphic line, painted on cold-pressed heavy-weight watercolor paper and framed behind glass, most paintings are 24" x 32"in size.

Jason Messinger - detail of Writ On Water IV

A portion of the sale of all artwork goes to help support continuing cultural programming at the Center on Halsted. Priced to appeal to both beginning collectors, and the savvy seasoned art collector, Jason Messinger's artwork has been reduced from the artist's internationally listed prices on his web site, to encourage support for the Center. A video of Armando Pedroso's process and artwork can be viewed here: Pedroso on YouTube

Armando Pedroso

Jason Messinger - Gold Forces

The Center on Halsted is a community center for youth and adults in Chicago's LGBT communities. The Center's mission is to serves as a catalyst for the LGBT community that links and provides community resources, and enriches life experiences in a safe and nurturing environment.

Dual receptions for both Messinger and Pedroso will take place on both the Second and Third Floor Galleries. There is a suggested $5 donation to help support the Center On Halsted's programming, and a cash bar.

Armando Pedroso

Center On Halsted
3656 N Halsted, Chicago
Art Opening Reception and Fundraiser
Friday, April 1, 7 pm - 9:30 pm
$5 suggested donation, cash bar
Shows run April 1 - May 17th, 2011

Center On Halsted - Art Listing
ART SLANT Listing

A portion of all art sales goes to continuing the Center's programming.
Contact each artist directly at the reception, or after, for sale inquiries:
Jason Messinger
Armando Pedroso

Jason Messinger - Instinct

Valentine Show @ Cornelia Arts

2011-01-24T08:46:00.000-08:00

YOU ARE BEAUTY

Valentine Show @ Cornelia Art

Saturday, Feb. 5th,

12 noon - 4 pm

Cornelia Arts Building

1800 West Cornelia,

entrance on Ravenswood.

Featuring:
Goddess Paintings by Melinda Gordon,
Erotic Paintings by Joey Wozniak,
'52 Pick Up' Erotic Collages
and Watercolor Valentines by Jason Messinger

Original Jewelry, Textiles, Paintings, Photography, Prints, Ceramics, Sculpture, and Erotica by over a dozen Cornelia Arts Building Artists Including:
Jason Messinger, Judy Lichtenstein, Beth Kahmi, Sandy Stannez, Sharon Burns, Alley Marranto, Judy Shumacher, Emily Rapport, James Parenti, Eric Weinstein, Reed Kirst, Kelsi Crivaro, Tor Detweiller, Match Ceramics, and others!

Find or COMMISSION a unique gift for the object of your affection!

ArtSlant Listing

Kass Copeland @ The Belmont

2011-01-18T11:39:00.000-08:00

Chicago Artist Kass Copeland's exhibition of new large scale paintings is not to be missed. Eight large scale works are on display in the recently remodeled lobby of The Belmont, at 3170 N Sheridan Road.

Devotees of Copeland's smaller work will be mesmerized by the shear exuberance of these paintings. One part Fritz Lange's classic film 'Metropolis', one part Busby Berkley Musical, the pieces are perfectly situated in the retro deco lobby.

While some of the works are already sold, the remainder are to be had at terrific end-of show sales prices. But don't wait, at the show ends January 30th. The Belmont Lobby is open seven days a week, including evening hours.

KassCopeland.com

DECEMBER ART EVENTS

2010-11-26T07:33:00.000-08:00

DECEMBER ART EVENTS

Cornelia Arts

Holiday Show

Fri. Dec. 3, 6 – 9 pm,

Sat. Dec. 4, 11 am – 5 pm

Sun. Dec. 5, 11 am – 5 pm

Three dates only!

Home for the Holidays

@ August House

Reception Fri. Dec. 10, 6 – 9 pm

Through Dec 31

St. Nick’s Top Picks

@ Eyeporium Gallery

Reception Sat. Dec. 11, noon – 5 pm

Through Jan 5

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Cornelia Arts Holiday Show

Fri. Dec. 3, 6 – 9 pm,

Sat. Dec. 4, 11 am – 5 pm

Sun. Dec. 5, 11 am – 5 pm

1800 West Cornelia, Chicago

Entrance at Cornelia and Ravenswood, (west side of Metra Tracks).

Three Days Only!

Featuring hand-made art and fine craft by Cornelia Building resident artists and the hallways full of other Chicago area artists and artisans!

CorneliaArtsBuilding.com

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Home for the Holidays

@ August House

Opening Reception:

Fri. Dec. 10, 6 – 9 pm

2113 W Roscoe, Chicago

Show runs Dec 3 – 31.

Gallery Hours:
Tue. – Sun., Noon – 6 pm

Featuring artwork and hand-made gifts by 24 Chicago artists and artisans.

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St. Nick’s Top Picks

@ Eyeporium Gallery

Opening Reception:

Sat. Dec. 11, noon - 5 pm

Eyeporium Gallery @ Eyewant

1431 N Milwaukee, Chicago

Show runs Dec 11 – Jan 5.

Gallery Hours:
Mon - Fri , noon - 7 pm
Sat, noon - 5 pm
Featuring artwork and gifts by local artists; Tony Fitzpatrick, Jason Brammer, Elke Claus, Nancy Deal, Ken Gold, Jason Messinger, Teresa Petersen, Charlie B. Thorne, Bruce Riley, Doug Stapleton, Scott Wills, and Joey Wozniak.

ArtSlant Listing

Nov. 19 - Open House @ Cornelia Arts Bldg.

2010-11-06T09:41:00.000-07:00

November Open House

@ Cornelia Arts Building

On Friday Night, Nov. 19, from 6 - 10pm, the Cornelia Arts Building at 1800 West Cornelia celebrates its annual November Open House. Featuring the work of over 20 of the building artists and artisans in their working art studios. Jason Messinger continues his Guest Artist Showcase with oil paintings by Joey Wozniak in studio #204.

CAB November Open House

Fri. Nov. 19 6-10 pm

1800 West Cornelia,

entrance on Ravenswood.

CorneliaArtsBuilding.com

Artists Include:

Art Loop Open Prizes Awarded

2010-10-29T23:19:00.000-07:00

Art Loop Open Prizes Awarded
Chicago's Art Loop Open ended the first half of the show with awards given to the top three most popular pieces by public vote, and twelve additional prizes.

In the next half of the show, the artworks are offered for sale. Sale prices will be listed by each work. All 190 pieces remain up in their respective venues through November 12th.

The additional awards are as follows:

The Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Representational Art

Presented and judged by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, this $5,000 cash prize is awarded to the artist with the best ‘representational work.’
Winner: Renee McGinnis: Park 60654 (Painting)

The WIT Prize

Presented and judged by theWit Hotel, this $5,000 cash prize is awarded to the artist whose work best reflects the concept of ‘WIT’- the power of thinking and reasoning, intellectual and perceptive, humor and intelligence.
Winner: Younghwan Choi: My Dear Friend (Installation)

3Arts Prize

Awarded by 3Arts, this $2,000 cash prize reflects 3Arts’s mission of supporting women artists, artists of color, and artists with disabilities whose work evinces a fearless, distinctive artistic voice and embodies the dynamic, risk-taking qualities that make Chicago artists second to none.
Winner: Catherine Jacobi: Forgetting (Sculpture)

Art Chicago | NEXT Prize

The winning artist, selected by Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc. (MMPI), will have his/her artwork exhibited in the Chicago Artists’ Coalition booth at Art Chicago/NEXT April 28 - May 2, 2011.
Winner: Duncan Anderson: Amputee with First Day of School (Collage)

Artropolis Prize

The winning artist, selected by MMPI, will receive an extended exhibition within a public space at the Merchandise Mart from November 2010 through the duration of Artopolis in the spring of 2011.
Winner: Bernard Williams: Buffalo Chart (Installation)

One of A Kind Prize

The winning artist, selected by MMPI, will receive a booth at the 2010 One of A Kind Show, December 2 – 5, 2010.
Winner: Lynn Basa: Lotus Lake 4 (Painting)

Hard Rock Hotel Prize

The winning artist, selected by the Hard Rock Hotel, will exhibit a piece and/or collection of their work for one year in one of the hotel’s suites, along with an opening reception at the suite and a two-night stay.
Winner: Kip Pasta: 'Cityscape' (Sculpture)

The CADA Choice (four awards)

The Chicago Art Dealers Association (CADA) is an arts organization comprised of the city’s foremost visual arts dealers. One winning artist was chosen by each of four galleries – Catherine Edelman Gallery, Packer Schopf Gallery, Roy Boyd Gallery and Perimeter Gallery – for a one-month exhibit in their respective galleries during the next twelve months.
Catherine Edelman Gallery Winner:
Brad Pogatetz: Washburne Trade School (Photography)
Packer Schopf Gallery Winner:
Aaron Delehanty: Flock 'Visible City' (Painting)
Roy Boyd Gallery Winner:
Andrew Holmquist: The Formation of a Rainbow (Painting)
Perimeter Gallery Winner:
Roland Oria: REFUSE (Multi-Media)

The Palmer House Hotel Prize

The winning artist, selected by the Palmer House Hotel, will receive $1,500 and be invited to exhibit a piece and/or collection of their work for one year in one of the hotel’s suites, along with an opening reception at the suite and a two-night stay.
Winner: Jim Newberry: Momentum Mori Memorial Ghost Riders (Photography)

Congratulations to all the artists and the Chicago Loop Alliance and Chicago Artist's Coalition for the success of this first annual show, and to Chicago's public for their enthusiasm and support.

All Art will now be on Sale from October 30 - November 12.

See full list of artwork for art locations and artist info: Artist List

Prices will be affixed to each piece of art.

First come first served! Please email s ales@artloopopen.com to make your purchase.

3-D 12: One Day Event - Fri., 6-10pm

2010-10-27T20:56:00.000-07:00

3-D 12:
Chicago Sculptors
Pop Up / Tear Down / Installation
One Night Only
Friday, October 29th,
6 - 10 pm

Gilchrist, Gray, Hicks, Ho, Kamhi, MacRoberts, Peterson, Putnam, Steele, Stone

Performance - 8pm
Alan Emerson Hicks
Space 900
1040 West Huron

Party at 760 following performances
760 N Milwaukee

Interactive Installation
Please bring a donation of used clothing

Art Loop Open Expands to 11 contestants

2010-10-26T21:14:00.000-07:00

This just in: 11 Artists Make it to Finals..have you voted yet for your favorite?

Vote once for your favorite piece among the top 11.

Bernard Williams: Buffalo (Installation) ALO179
Block 37
Catherine Jacobi: Forgetting (Sculpture) ALO82
Block 37
Daniel Lavitt: Till We Meet Again (Sculpture) ALO104
Chicago French Market - MetraMarket
Giovanni Arce: Bush (Painting) ALO6
Block 37
Jeffrey Conroy: Koodoo (Sculpture) ALO36
theWit
John Dempsey: "The Great American Landscape" (Painting) ALO40
Macy's
Joseph Ivacic: Staying Connected (Sculpture) ALO81
Hotel Burnham
Lauren Brescia: Surprise... (Installation) ALO22
Block 37
Len Upin: Helen (Work on Paper) ALO176
theWit Hotel
Steve Hamann: History of 'Bad at Sports' (Work on Paper) ALO64
theWit Hotel
Yva Neal: WAKA: Wall Altat of Kismet Abundance (Installation) ALO139
W Chicago - City Center

Voting begins October 22nd at 12pm and ends October 28th at 8pm. Top prize winners announced October 29th.

TODAY Meet the Artists - Oct. 21., 5:30-8pm

2010-10-21T07:40:00.000-07:00

MEET THE ARTISTS

Tonight, Thur. Oct. 21
5:30 - 8 pm

Last Day to Vote!

You could WIN a trip to HAWAII!

Chicago’s inaugural Art Loop Open, a major new art competition, continues the First Round of Public Voting, (ending TODAY, Thur., Oct. 21 at 8 pm). Visit and vote at 3 or more venues October 15 - 21 and be entered to win a trip to Hawaii courtesy of the Hawaii Visitors and Conventions Bureau!

191 local artists, selected by jury from over 800 entries, are on display at the ten official Art Loop Open venues: Block 37, Hard Rock Hotel Chicago, Hotel Burnham, Macy’s, Merchandise Mart, French Market - Metra Mart, Palmer House, Hotel Allegro, theWit Hotel, and W Chicago-City Center. Together these iconic venues create a web of instantly connected neighborhood galleries, open and free to the public. Together these works show the wide range of talents Chicago has to offer!

During the First Round of voting, visitors can vote for as many art pieces as they’d like, via Smart Phone Application or Text Message. Info on voting is at each venue. Block 37 hosts many of the artworks as well as the "HUB 37" pedway-level interactive area, where you can see thumbnails of all works and their locations, and plan out your visit with high tech tools. Artists are competing in over $60,000 in cash and other prizes, with top cash prizes awarded by the public.

Jason Messinger's artwork “Sympathies” (a 5' x 9' tile mural) on display at the Palmer House, 17 E. Monroe St., - across from Potters's Lounge bar.

For more information about the inaugural Art Loop Open, including location map, and interactive guides, please visit

ArtLoopOpen.com

List of artists / artwork / locations:

ArtLoopOpen.com/artists-list

Watch the Video Preview:
http://www.youtube.com

Art Loop Open: Loop Art Crawl

2010-10-06T07:50:00.000-07:00

Loop Art Crawl
Friday, Oct. 15,
5 - 8 p.m.
@ 10 venues throughout the Loop

Art Loop Open
October 15 – 29

Chicago’s inaugural Art Loop Open, a major new art competition judged by the public, will launch with a festive Loop Art Crawl throughout the downtown area, Friday, October 15, from 5-8 p.m.

191 local artists, selected by an esteemed jury from a pool of 800 entries, will be on display at the ten official Art Loop Open venues: Block 37, Hard Rock Hotel Chicago, Hotel Burnham, Macy’s, Merchandise Mart, French Market/Metra Mart, Palmer House, Hotel Allegro, theWit Hotel, and W Chicago-City Center. Together these iconic venues will create a web of instantly connected neighborhood galleries, open and free to the public.

On October 15th, the public is encouraged to visit each venue and begin voting for their favorite artworks, while enjoying specially-priced “Artini” cocktails and other offerings. Many of the artists will be on hand that evening to discuss their works. Artists are competing in over $60,000 in cash and other prizes, with top cash prizes awarded by the public.

Jason Messinger’s 5' x 9' tile mural “Sympathies” will be on display at the Palmer House, at 17 E. Monroe Street.

From Oct. 15 - 21, the public is urged to participate in the First Round of voting, at which time they can vote once in support of as many pieces as they’d like. Viewers will have access to a wealth of information about the Artists and the work available to them via the web site, traditional print materials and through specially designed technology accessible through their smart phones and social media applications, including technologies that will enable audiences to engage with art, artists and venues through innovative mapping tools, virtual dialogues, and extensions to artists’ studios. Viewers can also follow ALO through Facebook and Twitter.

For more information about the inaugural Art Loop Open, visit
ArtLoopOpen.com

List of all the artists and their work and location:
ArtLoopOpen.com/artists-list

Cornelia Arts Building October Open House

2010-09-20T08:45:00.000-07:00

Coinciding with the Ravenwood Art Walk,

the Cornelia Arts Building will host its

24th annual October Open House,

featuring the artwork of over 30 artists and artisans

in their working art studios.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY

OCTOBER 2 & 3

11 am - 5 pm

Cornelia Arts Building

1800 West Cornelia,

entrance on Ravenswood
CorneliaArtsBuilding.com

Cornelia's Open Houses are a unique opportunity to "meet the artists" in their working studios. This year, they are a featured participant in Chicago Artists' Month and the only ALL artist/artisan studio building participating in the Ravenswood arts tour. Their family-friendly events offer an inside look into how and where art is made and highlights the contribution of local artists to Chicago's urban cultural scene.

The Cornelia Arts Building is Venue #48 on the Ravenswood ArtWalk (RAW) 9th annual Tour of Arts & Industry. Maps for the arts tour will also be available on site, most locations are convenient to public transportation and we encourage you to bike the Corridor! Learn more about the arts tour at: RavenswoodArtWalk.org

Jason Messinger, studio #204, will have Guest Showcase Artist Joey Wozniak, showing work using his signature layered hand-cut stencil and palette-applied oil paint technique.
JasonMessingerART.com
New Art of Joey Wozniak on Crazy8Art.com

Participating Artists at the October Open House Include:

Doug Birkenheuer • Anthony Bowers • Veronica Bruce • Jeff Bryner • Nancy Charak • Jui Desai • Tor Dettwiler • Katherine Drake-Chial • FOTA • Lauren Harlowe • Beth Kamhi • Jeremiah Ketner • Basia Król • Alley Maranto • Teresa Matchett • Jason Messinger • Greg Milne • Joan Minsky • Alexandra Paez-Quijano • James Parenti • Emily Rapport • Darrell Roberts • Judith Roth (Guest) • Emily Roynesdal • Roberta Schlesinger • Judith Schumacher • Johannah Silva (Guest) • Scott Simons • Eric Steele • Andrew Steiner (Guest) • Tiffany Stronsky • Kevin Swallow • Tracy Syperski • Alexander von Agoston • Eric Weinstein • Joey Wozniak (Guest) • Judy Zeddies

Danny Mansmith at LillStreet Art Center

2010-09-14T18:30:00.000-07:00

DANNY MANSMITH
SOLO EXHIBITION AND FEATURED EVENTS

The gallery at Lillstreet Art Center will host an exhibit by Danny Mansmith

from September 17 to October 8, 2010.

Danny Mansmith is a self-taught artist who works with fiber and mixed-media, who was also named a Breakout Artist by Newcity in 2009. He is known for being a prolific creator who uses fabric, sewing machines, sharpies, paper cut-outs, and many other materials to create a world uniquely his own.

There are several events associated with this exhibit including an opening reception and live gallery event.

OPENING RECEPTION:

Friday, September 17, 2010

from 6-9 PM

Opening reception of the Danny Mansmith Exhibition.

Refreshments will be served and live music will be provided by Graham Nelson.

Lillstreet Art Center

4401 North Ravenswood Avenue

Chicago, IL

773-769-4226
gallery@lillstreet.com

Reviews of Danny Mansmith's Work on this blog:

Danny Mansmith On ArtistsOfChicago.blogspot.com

Double Art Show at Eyeporium Gallery

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Eyeporium Gallery has done it again by conjoining two fantastic shows of artists in one unique space.

In Revisionists' Realities, three collage artists share both an appealing magical aesthetic and masterful craftsmanship. Featuring the new work by ArtistsOfChicago favorite Kass Copeland, as well as intimate and evocative collages by Chicago artists Michael Pajon, and Doug Stapleton.

In the same space, a large-scale installation by Toni Damkoehler titled Kitschy Koo. These hexagonal prints question modern celebrity by joining graphic images of stylized bees with Princess Diana in works that plunge much deeper than their glossy surfaces.

Show runs now through September 1st
Eyeporium Gallery
1431 N Milwaukee, Chicago

Eyeporium Gallery on Artslant

Image: Space Dreamer by Kass Copeland

See work by Jason Messinger & Joey Wozniak

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Missed the Cornelia Arts Open House? A fine selection of artwork is still available! Come for a private viewings of work by Jason Messinger and Joey Woznaik for the next seven days. Make your appointment today by calling Jason at (773)255-0993.

Friday and Saturday - Cornelia Arts Open House

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Cornelia Arts Building May Open House

and "Urbs in Horto" show

Fri. May 21, 6 - 10 pm

Sat. May 22, 11 - 3 pm (limited # artists open)

1800 West Cornelia, at Ravenswood, Chicago, IL

On Friday May 21, 6 - 10 pm, local painter Joey Wozniak will be the special guest artist in the studio of Jason Messinger at the Cornelia Arts Building May Open House. Over 35 artists will be open for the Friday night event in a fun and free event showcasing artwork in a variety of mediums, held in the working studios of Cornelia Arts Building artists and artisans.

An additional special feature of this building-wide open-house event is

"Urbs in Horto" - local artists inspired by the City in a Garden

a curated hallway exhibit featuring resident artists' interpretation of the City of Chicago's official Latin motto. This first floor hallway show of paintings, drawings, photography, and other artwork leads into two full floors of artists in their working art studios.

On Sat. May 22, 11 - 3 pm, a limited number of artists will be open for the "Second Chance Open House."

Cornelia Arts Building May Open House
Fri. May 21, 6 - 10 pm

Sat. May 22, 11 - 3 pm (limited # artists open)

1800 West Cornelia, at Ravenswood, Chicago, IL

CorneliaArtsBuilding.com

Cornelia Arts Building Blog

Image list - from top

River Scape - Jason Messinger
Humid August - Joey Wozniak
Night Drive - Jason Messinger
Cross Pollination - Joey Wozniak

Joey Wozniak guest artist @ Cornelia Arts May 21 Open House

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Cornelia Arts Building May Open House

and "Urbs in Horto" show
- featuring guest artist Joey Wozniak
Fri. May 21, 6 - 10 pm

Sat. May 22, 11 - 3 pm (limited # artists open)

1800 West Cornelia, at Ravenswood, Chicago, IL

On Friday May 21, 6 - 10 pm, local painter Joey Wozniak will be the special guest artist in the studio of Jason Messinger at the Cornelia Arts Building May Open House.

Jason Messinger inaugurates his new "Featured Guest Artist" spot with local celebrity artist Joey Wozniak, who's oil paintings have been a draw for many of Mr. Messinger's curated art shows, including the highly celebrated Crazy 8 show.

Joey Wozniak will be showing new oil paintings in his signature style using thickly-applied and scrapped paints in combination with hand-stenciled imagery.

Over 35 artists will be open for the Friday night event in a fun and free event showcasing artwork in a variety of mediums, held in the working studios of Cornelia Arts Building artists and artisans. Artwork is for sale and includes paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, print making, ceramics, mixed media, apparel, and jewelry. Steps from Roscoe Village shopping, and convenient to the CTA - two blocks from Brown Line Addison stop, with free parking available in front of building and near by in neighborhood.

An additional special feature of this building-wide open-house event is

"Urbs in Horto" - local artists inspired by the City in a Garden

On Sat. May 22, 11 - 3 pm, a limited number of artists will be open for the "Second Chance Open House," including the studio of Jason Messinger, showing Joey Wozniak.

Jason Messinger will be showing new original tile murals. All tiles are available individually, rather than only as larger sets, repeating the great success of his recent solo show at the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts. Besides new art tiles, the artist is introducing new modestly priced gifts; including new playing card sets, postage stamps, and posters. Also on view are Jason Messinger's drawings, paintings in watercolor and ink, and sculpture.

Cornelia Arts Building May Open House
Fri. May 21, 6 - 10 pm

Sat. May 22, 11 - 3 pm (limited # artists open)

1800 West Cornelia, at Ravenswood, Chicago, IL

CorneliaArtsBuilding.com

Cornelia Arts Building Blog

Artists Open Friday Night include:

Jason Messinger

Joey Wozniak

Doug Birkenheuer
Rob Benton

Artists Open Saturday include:

Jason Messinger

Joey Wozniak
Guillermo Carrillo
Nancy Charak
Fire Arts Center
Joan Minsky
Judy Schumacher
Alexander von Agoston
AND MORE - Check CorneliaArtsBuilding.com for additional names

See more of Wozniak's work at:

Crazy 8 Art - Joey Wozniak

See more of Messinger's work at

JasonMessingerART.com

Image list - from top

Night - Joey Wozniak

Parade - Joey Wozniak

Noon - Joey Wozniak

Dog Lands - Joey Wozniak

Beautiful City II - Jason Messinger

City Sunset - Jason Messinger
Calendar Year - Jason Messinger
Blooms - Jason Messinger
Sunny Window - Joey Wozniak

The Return of 'Birds I Have Known' @ August House Studio

2010-04-29T07:57:00.000-07:00

The Return of “Birds I Have Known”

August House Studios

Opening Receptions:

Fri. May 7, 6 - 9 pm

Sat. May 8, 6 – 9 pm

Sun. May 9, 3 – 6 pm

Over 90 artists showcase their unique interpretation of the birdhouse. Join Jason Messinger and over 30 of the other artists Friday night, or come to one of other free reception dates and see the work first hand.

August House Studio

2113 W Roscoe, Chicago

Show runs May 7 – 29, 2010

Gallery hours wed-sun; 12 noon to 5pm

AugustHouseStudio.com

'Old Hills' Edward Master at Las Manos Gallery

2010-04-17T15:20:00.000-07:00

Viewers may remember Edward Master's large-scale paper wall pieces, first introduced at the Crazy 8 show and reviewed here, with their cascading fields of vibrant patterns, exuberantly detailed forms stitched together into landscapes of pattern and huge shield-like shapes. One of the many references one might take from them was a fleeting sense of aerial views.

In "Old Hills", an installation of eight sculptures currently presented at The Evidence Against Us, a group show at the Los Manos Gallery, Master returns to the obsessively detailed while expanding this sense of the landscape from above. The artist creates, in miniature, glacial mountains from arctic landscapes, including a timely lava-flowing volcano. Presented handsomely on a low white pedestal, the work creates a swooning sense of seeing a mountain landscape from high above.

Unlike the brightly colorful paper pieces, these small wool mountains explore an astonishing range of similar muted cool color tones, creating a verisimilitude to the natural world in their color restraint. The use of carefully chosen colored embroidery threads add even more detail to these three-dimensional constructions. This sense of cool ice and ground is visually exploded by the juxtaposition of one larger mountain covered with varying shades of red, and the speckled red 'lava' on others, creating a visual shock to the eye that both subdues and enhances the reference to the real world.

These fabric sculptures are constructed from recycled wool sweaters, cut into small jagged strips, then soaked and hand-dyed with acrylic paints thinned with water. Each small felted-wool strip is painstakingly hand-stitched with embroidery thread into larger plate-like shapes, backed with fabric, then sewn together around hidden interior wire forms, creating beautifully abstracted mountains.

Beside a conceptual irony and humor in presenting hard mountains and earth in soft wool, and conflating the gigantic into the small, the work reveals an aesthetic delight in the real world. As individual pieces, each is a wonder of detail and beauty, as a whole they present a startling prescient sense of the power and majesty in geologic forms.

While beyond the scope of this review, the entire group show is quite interesting and handsomely curated, and should be seen before it ends next Sunday April 25th.

The Evidence Against Us
Edward Master and other artists
Las Manos Gallery
Show ends this April 25th.
5220 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 728-8910
Hours: Sat and Sun 12-5, or by appointment
Las Manos Gallery
Las Manos Gallery BLOG

Edward Master on Crazy 8

Jason Messinger Artist Talks at GoggleWorks Center for Arts

2010-04-06T10:52:00.000-07:00

Chicago Artist Jason Messinger will be giving artist talks throughout the day at the GoggleWorks Second Sunday building-wide open-house event in April.

Come out to hear the artist speak about his work, or stop by anytime for informal Q and A with the artist.

Symbols & Sympathies
GoggleWorks Center for the Arts
201 Washington Street, Reading PA
Sunday, April 11
Artist Talks: 11:30 am and 1:30 pm
Informal Q and A : 11 am 4 pm
Show runs through April 18
GoggleWorks Center for the Arts

Symbols & Sympathies features Jason Messinger's signature ceramic tile murals and unique ceramic sculpture. The artwork explores the boundary between abstraction and representation, with the viewer becoming complicit in the 'meaning' of the work. All artwork at this exhibition are for sale, and for the first time ever, collectors may buy tiles individually - rather than only as sets - to make their own individualized mural.

This solo show of signature ceramic tile murals and ceramic sculpture by Jason Messinger is scheduled to coincide with the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts 44^th Annual Conference held in nearby Philadelphia, PA NCECA 2010, 44TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

March 31-April 3, 2010 • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

This program partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Review and Listings:
Reading Eagle NEW
BCTV.org Listing
ArtSlant Listing

Darrell Roberts

2010-03-18T07:40:00.000-07:00

Darrell Roberts's paintings are visual candy. Lush in color to the point of optical intensity, the works churn and vibrate with tension and release. The surfaces are more sculptural than flat picture plane, with surfaces almost vertiginous in their thickly applied strokes and sharply chiseled irregularities.

Abstract in the purest and most classical sense, they maintain a sense of internal regularity that makes them a visual feast for the eyes. In the tradition of sculpture, their ever-present materiality confronts us. Roberts regulates not only the thickness of the paint, but the granularity of the surface itself. With colors that burn with intensity, and forms that practically beg our fingers to stroke their unbridled surfaces, each piece becomes a micro-landscape of almost hallucinogenic perception. If Darrell Roberts work was a drug, it would be a Schedule I psychedelic. Luckily for us, art is still unregulated by the DEA.

Darrell Roberts studio is in the Cornelia Arts Building, and his work is represented through the McCormick Gallery
Darrell-Roberts.com
ThomasMcCormick.com
CorneliaArtsBuilding.com

Cornelia Arts March Open House

2010-03-05T05:03:00.000-08:00

CORNELIA ARTS MARCH OPEN HOUSE
Friday March 12, 6 - 10 pm
1800 West Cornelia, Chicago
Entrance on Ravenswood

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Join over 30 artists in a fun reception and free event showcasing artwork in a variety of mediums, in the working studios of the Cornelia Arts Building Artists and Artisans.

CorneliaArtsBuilding.com

Cornelia Arts Building participants for this event include:

JASON MESSINGER,
SCOTT SIMONS,
NANCY CHARAK,
DARRELL ROBERTS,
KEVIN SWALLOW,
JOHANNAH SILVA,
TIFFANY STRONSKY,
JEFF BRYNER,
EMILY ROYNESDAL,
TRACY SYPERSKI,
GUILLERMO CARRILLO
ALLEY MARANTO,
BETH KAMHI,
BASIA KROL,
SUSANNE SIEGEL,
KATHERINE DRAKE CHIAL,
DOUG FROHMAN , ,
VANESSA HIRSCHOWITZ,
JODI RAE BROWNSTEIN,
JUDY ZEDDIES,
JAMES PARENTI,
JUDY LICHTENSTEIN,
JUDY SCHUMACHER
Matt Nichols,
Alex "Q",
Joan Minsky

Anthony Bowers

Veronica Bruce

Lauren Harlowe,

AND MORE !

Jason Messinger @ GoggleWorks in Reading PA

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SYMBOLS & SYMPATHIES
solo show of ceramic artwork by Jason Messinger
March 4 – April 18, 2010

GoggleWorks Center for the Arts
201 Washington Street, Reading PA

Free Opening Reception:
Thursday March 4,
5:30 - 7:30 pm

GoggleWorks Center for the Arts

Featuring Jason Messinger's signature ceramic tile murals and unique ceramic sculpture. All artwork at this exhibition are for sale, and for the first time ever, collectors will be allowed to buy tiles individually - rather than only as sets - to make their own individualized mural.

This solo show of signature ceramic tile murals and ceramic sculpture by Jason Messinger is scheduled to coincide with the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts 44^th Annual Conference held in nearby Philadelphia, PA; NCECA 2010, 44TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE March 31-April 3, 2010 • Philadelphia, PA

This program partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency

To preview more artwork for this show see listing: ArtSlant Listing

LUSH LIFE - Joey Wozniak at Eyeporium Gallery

2010-01-07T16:14:00.000-08:00

It has been not quite a year since I started this blog on Artists in Chicago, so it is only fitting that I return to the first artist I reviewed; Joey Wozniak, who has a solo show opening in February at Eyeporium Gallery in Wicker Park. 'Lush Life' continues the artist's exploration of vibrant color and beauty.

Joey Wozniak's multi-layered paintings might almost be considered sculptural. Thickly applied paints are pushed through hand-drawn and hand-cut stencils to create surfaces that are practically bas-relief in depth. By scraping and removing successive layers of paint, Wozniak leaves a palimpsest of images that float atmospherically behind the heavily applied final layers. In his sure and practiced hand, the final results are paradoxically both fleetingly atmospheric, and supremely compositionally balanced.

Wozniak's subject matter veers from floral blooms that burn with their own radiant light, to wry figures in fantasical costumes or ornate period dress, and human-animal chimeras. A subtle humor invades much of his work, teasing expectations by interspersing colonial dressed figures with those of indigenous costumes, replacing tribal jewelry with Ipods and ray-guns, or placing a pitchforked devil alongside monkeys on leashes. Always a visual treat, this show is not to be missed.

LUSH LIFE
Solo Show of Joey Wozniak
Eyeporium Gallery
1543 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL
Opening Reception:
Friday, Feb 5th, 7 - 10 pm
Show Runs Feb 5 through March 1

Joey Wozniak/Lush Life; Listing on Artslant

All works by Joey Wozniak

Alan Emerson Hicks

2009-09-09T15:07:00.000-07:00

Recently viewed at a open-studio reception, Alan Emerson Hicks' new body of work combines the repetitive process-driven traditions of such fiber-art forms as basketry and weaving, with the 'new materials' movement of contemporary art to use non-traditional material as the art medium. The artist focuses on the plastic left-overs from our endlessly consumptive society. In the Safety Tower series, he takes the most innocuous of items, the 'safety rings' that are now attached to the bottom of bottle caps to deter and detect tampering, and transforms them into elegant towers of sublime shapes, evoking the basketry traditions of many cultures, but also pointing to a uniquely modern convocation of consumer culture.

In "Chipped Vessel", Alan Emerson Hicks takes used potato chip and other snack bags, and, with fishing line and cable ties, transforms them into rings that again create tower-like forms of subtle complexity and beauty. The seeming weakness of the material is turned surprisingly resilient, somewhat like Buckminster Fuller's famous geodesics. The same alchemy is performed with trash bags in the "Baghdad Tower" series, creating droopy stalagmite-like forms.

In "Babel", plastic caps from various products, as well as the odd plastic toy, create a column of dot-like forms that speak to both recycling ethics and the plastic palette of our modern culture. The form mirrors the roundness of the caps and the vessels from they come. Topped with a ring of white caps, much like a bubbling head of froth on a beer, the shape of the work is hollow, creating tension by being both 'full' and 'empty'. The use of occasional toys and bright colors creates a fun atmosphere, in contrast to the artwork's refined aesthetic nature.

Alan Emerson Hicks has focused this new work not just on recycled 'left-overs' but all plastic materials, sometimes pairing a visual vibrancy with actual dynamic movement. A new version of his work "Video Column" takes the outmoded material of video tape and transforms it into a tendril-like ceiling-high column of black reflections that billow softly like a sea creature, due to a cleverly hidden fan. The sculpture "Ice" takes white clothes hangers and turns them into a gigantic diamond shape, which spins continually with a motor, creating a piece that is at once aesthetically commanding and intellectually funny. Always maintaining a sense of both beauty and intellectual rigor, Alan Emerson Hicks's artwork is both satisfying and surprising.

From Top: Babel, 2009; Ice, 2009; Safety Tower Sans White, 2009;
Video Column II, 2009; Chipped Vessel, 2009

Alan's work can be seen at Crazy 8 Art

Emerson Studio Open House

2009-08-25T14:30:00.000-07:00

Emerson Studio Open House
(The Studio of Alan Emerson Hicks)
Saturday,
August 29, 2009
6:00pm - 10:00pm

Studio located inside
JK Chicago
1800 W Cuyler
Chicago, IL
(773) 501-7730

Marya Veeck

2009-07-30T07:47:00.000-07:00

Marya Veeck creates elaborate and beautifully detailed tableaus of dollhouse furniture, natural objects, and old toys that reveal elliptic metaphors of submerged feelings. Her skillful renderings of objects forgotten and small, place us in a world as detailed as a novel and as personal as a memory. Her oil paintings create a sense of inner radiance, as scintillating colors emerge from the edges of objects, glinting from behind their surfaces, in a manner that suggests an undeniable vital or life force animating seemingly inanimate objects. The glow of florescent color keys the viewer to the objects' metaphoric strength, and gives the viewer an altered emotional perception.

Veeck's paintings are part autobiographical, but with the names and places changed into wind-up birds and wooden toy clowns, dried seed pods and antique farm implements. Broken winged birds and dollhouses point, perhaps, to emotional losses and childhood environments, tiny cages and chairs to relationships stilted and supportive. Never overt, Veeck's paintings reveal their moods slowly, with everything cloaked in their own hidden significance, creating moods alternately wistful, nostalgic, and ebullient. Marya Veeck recreates the classic still-life into a unique snapshot of memories, as emotionally and densely narrative as her fascinatingly detailed picture plane.

Find Marya Veeck's gallery on line at: MaryaVeeck.com

Images- from top:
"We Had Some Good Machines But They Don't Work No More"
"Calling Up Childhood at Will" &
"deail of Calling Up Childhood at Will"
"Etui Woman"

Other Sites by Jason Messinger

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If you enjoy Artists Of Chicago,
you might also enjoy these sites

JasonMessingerArt.blogspot.com
- news and notes of artist Jason Messinger

JasonMessingerWrites.blogspot.com
- short fantasy fiction, poetry, and biographical essays
by writer and artist Jason Messinger

JasonMessingerArt.com
- the main site for Jason Messinger;
including full gallery of artwork both sold and available,
links to other sites, CV/bio, and more

Crazy8Art.com
- a virtual Gallery of several Chicago area artists

Thanks for following!

Absolute Fantasy @ Mars Gallery, featuring Alan Emerson Hicks

2009-07-14T19:34:00.000-07:00

Absolute Fantasy
Artwork by Alan Emerson Hicks,
Sean Williams, and Sabina Cosic.
Curated by Susan Aurinko of FLATFILE galleries

Opening Reception
Friday, July 24
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Mars Gallery
1139 W. Fulton Ave., Chicago, IL
www.marsgallery.com/
Show runs July 24-August 22, 2009

Shown: ETMMMVII20088K
(Emerson Time Machine) by Alan Emerson Hicks

"Time machines are conceptual sculptures built biannually. They are created in odd numbered years and displayed the following even numbered year. They are a part of the "temporal sculpture" series (sculptures with a time element). Time machines are partially audience participatory. The viewer is given the opportunity to sit on or stand in front of the piece and have a temporal experience with it. A reel of video tape is destroyed during this experience which will eventually get used on the piece."

Kass Copeland

2009-06-30T11:04:00.000-07:00

Kass Copeland's work at first blush may remind one of the seminal artworks of Joseph Cornell; assemblages in a box format with a keen sense of intimacy and nostalgia built into their varied old-time photographs and engravings, subtly moving parts, and motifs of birds and night skies. But Kass Copeland's works are not mere imitations, but are aspects of a richly created world-view that in some ways is more accessible and more nuanced than Joseph Cornell's.

Many motifs run through her work, mournful black and white or subtly tinted daguerreotypes, antique parts from an earlier industrial age, finely crafted wooden boxes and chests with doors that open and hinges that swing, birds and feathers and insects, hands and rings, tattered text and exposed watch parts, and eyes - eyes that look back at the viewer with a vulnerable expressiveness that lies at the core of Copeland's work.

While Cornell's assemblages were often so specific to be coolly abstract in their meanings, Copeland never fails to create an emotional resonance with her viewer. Longing, loneliness, joy, sorrow, nostalgia, melancholy, wistfulness, hopefulness all find their voice in her astounding body of work. Kass Copeland's color palette tends toward a restrained range of earth tones, subtle tints, gold and silver, dark rich reds and ambers, and beautiful woods. But her emotional palette is complex and complete, drawing the viewer immediately into her cleverly devised constructions, then lingering far more in one's memory, like a wistful old song that keeps playing in your head, long after one has heard it.

Image titles, from top, all works by Kass Copeland;
The Bird Watcher, 2008,
The Peace Machine, 2008,
Leon's Gold, 2008,
Inter-Dimensional Peepholes, 2009

Find Kass Copeland's gallery on line at:
KassCopeland.com

3-D 12 Artists Exhibit at South Haven Center for the Arts

2009-06-10T14:02:00.000-07:00

NOW Sculpture Exhibit: June 19 - July 26

"While exhibiting at various venues, the Chicago-based 3-D 12 artists have identified their commonly held environmental interests and concerns. Their personal perceptions on the issue cover as broad a range as their materials of choice. Decomposed lost and found objects, recycled plastic and metal, salvaged scrap wood, earth and water are some materials which are effectively reconfigured to translate their ideas into physical forms. The sculptural works take on subjective and collective meaning to contribute to a genuine meta-landscape."

The 3-D 12 artists are: Shelley Gilchrist, Peter Gray, Alan Emerson Hicks, Ruyell Ho, Beth Kamhi, Jim MacRoberts, Bill Moll, Mimi Peterson, Robert Putnam, Eric H. Steele, and Michelle Stone.

Photos:
top: new work by Alan Emerson Hicks, plastic, 2009
bottom: new work by Beth Khami, ceramic, metal, 2009

NOW Sculpture, featuring 3-D 12
June 19 - July 26
South Haven Center for the Arts
600 Phoenix St, South Haven, MI 49090
(269)637-1041

NOW Sculpture @ South Haven Arts

South Haven Center for the Arts
http://SouthHavenArts.org/

Alan Emerson Hicks
http://Crazy8Art.com/

Beth Khami
http://bethkamhi.com/

Nancy Pirri

2009-05-06T09:46:00.000-07:00

Artist Nancy Pirri sculpts women from clay that evoke lost histories and mythic pasts. Focusing on traditional classical female forms, Pirri brings the curvaceous nature of the female body forward, creating works that are both sensual and enticing. The artist uses a variety of thickly applied glazes with rough and uneven textures. The forms are sometimes truncated and given torn edges and distressed surfaces to create a sense of rawness and antiquity. Her newest work transfers these classical images into painterly applications on classic vessel-forms.

Pirri references the sculptural and vessel-form vernaculars of many disparate cultures in her worldly women. Evoking the past through the uses of fragmented forms and rich surfaces, the women are vaulted into archtypes of noble strength and timeless beauty, like the venerated icons of a goddess cult, or portrayals of a long-lost empress-queen. Ceramic is a medium paradoxically having both seeming fragility as well as a lasting durability that can outlive the cultures that produce it. By harkening to the forms of the past, Nancy Pirri gives her own work the durable strength and the regal power of the best examples of classical sculptures and vessels.

You can see Nancy's work at her website:
NPGraphx.com

and at an upcoming exhibit this month:

'Serene La Femme' ~ Celebrating the Female Form

This collection of work is a contemporary twist on the timeless beauty of the female form as a muse, featuring innovative techniques in platinum photography by Ted Preuss, ceramic methods and figurative sculpture by Audry Cramblit and Nancy Pirri, and paintings by Mary Qian.

Show will exhibit for 10 days.

A percentage of sales will be donated to Chicago’s Union League Civic & Arts Foundation.

Where: The Palette & Chisel ~ 1012 North Dearborn • Chicago, IL 60610 (map it)

Opening Reception: Friday, May 29, 2009 • 6 to 10pm

Open House: Saturday, May 30, 2009 • 1 to 6pm

Closing Reception: Sunday, June 7, 2009 • 2 to 6pm

UnTwelve Concert: Saturday, June 6, 2009 - 8:00pm ~ UnTwelve ensemble featuring special guest guitarist Dante Rosati.

DANNY MANSMITH "SCRAP"

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Scrap artist Danny Mansmith combines disparate elements in fabric, paper, photography, and thread into structural forms and tableaux. Danny Mansmith connects the unrelated

into a new conglomerate whole, building figures and structures with a visual syntax uniquely his own. Utilizing scrap papers and fabrics, Mansmith stitches pieces together into elaborate patchwork surfaces. The works are embellished with scrolling stitching in contrasting threads, which veer from frenzied embellishments into map tracery into loose landscapes into elongated-forms. Creating both recognizable shapes and obscured patterns, Mansmith constructs flat and three-dimensional forms both figurative and abstract. He also creates clothing and wearable art, unique accessories, and everyday objects that are anything but everyday. His looping gestural figures curl out of their silhouettes; while the pendulous abstract forms erupt in threaded exclamations. His sculptural objects subvert our expectations in their impossible materials and crazy patchwork surfaces. Mansmith brings exuberant joy to the everyday by rearranging the old into new and the common into the extraordinary. One of my personal artistic heroes.

Find his gallery on line at:
Danny Mansmith

and purchase work directly through his Etsy store at:
Danny Mansmith on Etsy

Julie Wishmeyer

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Julie Wishmeyer follows individual pursuits in her expressive work while keeping a universal sense of beauty at her creative core. Wishmeyer melds the pop imagery of modern life with the traditions of ancient cultures into portraits of womanhood and beauty. Using beads, plastic doo-daws, and other seemingly 'cheap' materials, she creates tension between the viewer's expectations and the Barouqe beauty of each piece. Her sequin paintings combine the vernacular of feminine dress with themes of high-art history and emotional expression. Her tribal-like masks and sculptures encrust their forms with baubles of our time and her mirror series takes the female gaze into the idealized forms of childhood. Inspired by Pop art and consumer culture, Julie Wishmeyer shares a vision that is singular and inspired.

Find locations for her work at her website:
Julie Wishmeyer

ANNE LEUCK FELDHAUS

2009-02-22T13:58:00.000-08:00

Anne Leuck Feldhaus paints vibrant scenes bursting with energetic colors and unrestrained exuberance. Dogs, cats, cars, flowers, kites, birds, planes, trees, homes, roads, and starry skies jump and dance with their own innate animation. Using crisp bold colors and a signature graphic style, Anne conjures a world of joy and whimsy with every subject she touches. She captures the contemporary urban world with a folk style of representation and an eye-popping sensibility.

While at first glance Anne's work appears almost cartoon-like, her art reveals a true sophistication in composition, color palettes, and narrative skill. Simple strokes and flat color applications stand in poised tension to her ability to create incredibly detailed spatial structures and indelibly immediate feelings of bliss. Viewers are universal in their acclaim for her ability to transform simple shapes into resonant emotions.

Her work can be see at her website: Annes Art

Or follow her Blog: Annes Art Blog

IZZO

2009-02-15T12:19:00.001-08:00

Izzo paints fantastic images on printed-pattern fabric. The pre-existing patterns become the departure point for wild paintings that bridge foreground with background, abstraction with representation, and the flat plane with spatial depth. He alternately embellishes and obscures the existing patterns, pulling some elements forward, hiding others under his layered paint. Building up small dots and spirals of bright fabric paints against larger planes and shafts of twisting color, Izzo creates visual explosions of pattern and light. Izzo embraces the accidental and organic into his process. Energy - connections - transformation - emotion; these are the concerns that the artist expresses in joyful exuberance. In the same way that a child pulls pictures out of the clouds, artist Izzo pulls new images out of the matrix of pattern on found fabrics, and brings wonder into our eyes.

Izzo's art can be seen at Crazy 8 Art

JAMES KUHN

2009-02-10T11:58:00.000-08:00

"Judas Kiss" by James Kuhn

James Kuhn is a multi-faceted artist who works in many mediums. While no longer living in Chicago, his work has long been seen and collected in this city. Currently he is creating a series of painted face portraits, where his head and face literally become the canvas for inventive and whimsical paintings. Reviewed here are the artist's "Paint Mosiacs". These works bridge the spiritual truths of the artist's faith with the physical reality of those same traditions. Using the stories from the Old and New Testament Bibles, Kuhn creates cunning narratives that transform the viewer with their ecstatic vision of the teaming energy and spirit infusing all life. The artist's method begins by making a richly painted scene on canvas. Then he covers sheets of thick watercolor paper with paint and cuts them into hundreds of pieces which are layered onto the original painting, glued down into a vision of vibrating colors and pulsating forces. These mosaic compositions evolve with organic abandon, and show a fierce intensity of passion and energetic expression. Kuhn renders immediate and visual what is ultimately eternal and immaterial.

James Kuhn's biblical works can be seen at Crazy 8 Art

EDWARD MASTER

2009-02-04T07:22:00.000-08:00

Edward Master
paints and draws intricately ornamented designs and shapes with a wide variety of mediums on an array of differing papers, then cuts and assembles them into complex tapestries of pattern and structure. With embroidery thread stitched joints, and organically and complexly shaped edges, these very large-scaled two-dimensional pieces convey an astounding multidimensional surface. The work switches rapidly from seeming vast vistas and aerial views to depictions of the tiniest decorative fringe. Developing themes from his continuing series of oil paintings, these works reference architectural and natural motifs, along with the traditional and decorative arts of many cultures, and point to the pictorial graphic renditions of preliterate societies. Astounding in their complexity and extremely stimulating to the eye, Master's work is at once beautiful and rich, and is both vast and intimate.

Edward's work can be seen at Crazy 8 Art

ALAN EMERSON HICKS

2009-02-01T10:12:00.000-08:00

Alan Emerson Hicks
uses found objects and plastic detritus to create compelling vignettes. In his hands the flotsam and jetsam of the modern world are woven into strange flowers and tribal emblems, iconic people and creative abstractions. Ephemeral materials are laced into tightly corseted structures of wild complexity. Lightboxes under sculptural works show the translucent glowing qualities of these transformed materials, creating an spiritual quality to the works. Heating and stretching plastic clothes hangers and bottles turns the most common items into new vibrant forms; a naked man, an army of soldiers, an emotive face. The artist voices his unique perspective with a fearless use of materials that transforms the modern world's everyday objects of dull invisibility into bright bouquets of startling singularity.

Alan's work can be seen at Crazy 8 Art

JOEY WOZNIAK

2009-02-01T10:11:00.000-08:00

Joey Wozniak
unleashes spiritual energy, layering color and shape against compositional agitation and pulsating forces. Using thickly applied oil paints, Wozniak pulls, scrapes and layers vibrant colors to create densely rendered tapestries that expose an underlying energy bursting below the surface. Flowers strewn through his work evoke Dionysian rites of fecundity and fertility, while also serving as the purest signifiers of beauty. Forgotten gods, gigantic flowers, misty cities, and costumed characters misplaced in time populate his paintings. Rich with references to both classical art and tribal imagery from a wide sampling of cultures from ancient to modern, Wozniak constructs his own unique post-modern vernacular. Bridging a physical approach to the material of paint with a masterful understanding of the stimulus of color, Wozniak creates singular visions of beauty and emotion.

Joey's work can be seen at Crazy 8 Art

JEFF BRYNER	James Parenti
Nancy Charak	Emily Rapport
Dan Hale	JUDY SCHUMACHER
Lauren Harlowe	Susanne Siegal
Beth Kamhi	Scott Simons
Jeremiah Ketner	TIFFANY STRONSKY
REED KIRST	Tracy Syperski
ALLEY MARANTO	ERIC WEINSTEIN
Jason Messinger	Joey Wozniak
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