The Evanston Art Center (EAC), founded over 95 years ago in 1929, is an integral part of community life, providing access and experiences in the arts to people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. Through community-based events, classes and exhibitions, EAC helps expand its mission to provide accessible arts education and arts enrichment experiences to the community and the surrounding areas.
The Evanston Art Center’s galleries exhibit contemporary artwork by emerging and established artists, and are free and open to the public seven days a week. Exhibition programming includes publications, artist talks, interviews with curators, opening receptions, In Focus lectures and docent led tours for groups (please call to schedule a tour) at no charge to the public.
The Evanston Art Center’s in-person and online art courses have something for everyone and every schedule. Subjects include: painting, drawing, sculpting, jewelry, bookbinding, and much more! Browse our online adult and youth course schedule at EvanstonArtCenter.org
Opening receptions typically held on first Sunday of exhibition 1–4pm.
Photo credit: Erica McKeehen
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Opening Reception: Thursday, October 11 from 5 - 8pm
Closing Reception: Friday, November 9 from 6 - 8pm, Artist Talk at 7pm
Perpetual Change is an exhibition of recent “en plein air” and studio landscape paintings by John Santoro. Santoro lives and works in Chicago where he obtained his degree at the University of Chicago.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My source of inspiration is the moment when you appreciate the beautiful simplicity of a single flower wobbling in the breeze, and the purest desire to transfer that very moment and sense of being into my practice in the studio.
I build each of my paintings around a landscape, both familiar settings and foreign territories. The surrounding environment serves as a point of departure as I embark on creating a painting. I look for the humorous possibilities that exist in trees, rocks, flowers, and clouds and interpret them through the techniques of the Abstract Expressionists. I push these natural elements to their tangible extremes, using thickly applied paint to render my impression of the surrounding objects. The landscapes I have chosen to capture are not necessarily extraordinary, but I endeavor to paint them in an extraordinary way. I am interested in the lush passages of oil paint, each brushstroke as evidence of an energetic spontaneity, balanced with depicting an image.
For the first time since 2006 Perpetual Change will bring together both aspects of my practice. The “en plein air” landscapes, focused on simplifying the composition to its most essential elements, serve as studies informing the studio paintings. In the studio I look to highlight any animated opportunities and push my impasto technique to its extreme.
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