Jun 8, 2010

See work by Jason Messinger & Joey Wozniak

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.

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May 20, 2010

Friday and Saturday - Cornelia Arts Open House

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


Image list - from top
River Scape - Jason Messinger
Humid August - Joey Wozniak
Night Drive - Jason Messinger
Cross Pollination - Joey Wozniak
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May 10, 2010

Joey Wozniak guest artist @ Cornelia Arts May 21 Open House

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
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," 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

Artists Open Friday Night include:

Artists Open Saturday include:
See more of Wozniak's work at:

See more of Messinger's work at

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
 
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Apr 29, 2010

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

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
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Apr 17, 2010

'Old Hills' Edward Master at Las Manos Gallery


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 
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Apr 6, 2010

Jason Messinger Artist Talks at GoggleWorks Center for Arts


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 44th 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

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Mar 18, 2010

Darrell Roberts


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 
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Mar 5, 2010

Cornelia Arts March Open House



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 !
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Feb 25, 2010

Jason Messinger @ GoggleWorks in Reading PA


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 44th 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
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Jan 7, 2010

LUSH LIFE - Joey Wozniak at Eyeporium Gallery



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
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Sep 9, 2009

Alan Emerson Hicks

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

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Aug 25, 2009

Emerson Studio Open House


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
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Jul 30, 2009

Marya Veeck








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"

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