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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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“I focus on the many possibilities of printmaking, combining traditional and digital techniques. Each printmaking method has a unique visual language and communicative power and I often combine techniques and reimagine the possibilities of each method. My work questions political issues focusing on ideas of protest, power, and perception.” – Sarah Sipling
Sarah Sipling is a mixed media artist and printmaker. Sipling received her MFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design and BFA in Printmaking from Purchase College, State University of New York. She lives and works in New York and Kansas City.
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\"My art practice is informed by nonlinear, spirit-filled narratives. I’m inspired by icons, tarot cards, lotería, memoirs, kachina dancers, children’s stories, illuminated manuscripts, and more.
I layer, scrape, draw, paint, sew, reveal, and obscure as an analogy to life's transformative journeys over unfamiliar and unexpected landscapes. Through this process, I grapple with earthy and mystic subjects such as time travel, uncertainty, humor, grief and delight.” – Amy Hanks
Amy Hanks graduated with a BFA from the University of Texas and an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she was a Rackham Fellow. She has been awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the State of Illinois and is a 2024 Fulbright Fellow Alumni.
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Whispers in the Dark is the final exhibition curated by Azul Alberto Nogueron as part of their time as the EAC's COMPASS Resident. Secrecy, hidden agendas, and mental health are the key components of the exhibition, with a celebration of the macabre.
The COMPASS Curator Residency provides an emerging curator with an opportunity to curate three shows in the Evanston Art Center’s Lobby Gallery space. The EAC’s Lobby Gallery is a space dedicated to exhibiting emerging and underrepresented artists/curators and responds to current social events. This dynamic and inclusive space draws in new curators, artists, and audiences.
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to announce our Call for Art for our 24th Annual Winter Arts & Crafts Expo. \t
The Winter Arts & Crafts Expo includes original, handmade works of jewelry, ceramics, fiber, metal, glass, painting, photography, mixed media, and more. All proceeds from the Expo will benefit the ongoing exhibition, education, and outreach programs at the Art Center.
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\r\n\r\nIn partnership with the Evanston History Center, the Art Center will present photographs by Jeanine Michna-Bales, who has spent more than a decade meticulously researching ‘fugitive’ slaves and the ways they escaped to freedom. These dramatic photographs will piece together a narrative of the Underground Railroad, and the escape of an estimated 100,000 slaves between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865.
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\r\n\r\nOpening Reception: Sunday, January 29 from 1-4pm
\r\n\r\nIn partnership with the Evanston History Center, the Art Center will present photographs by Jeanine Michna-Bales, who has spent more than a decade meticulously researching ‘fugitive’ slaves and the ways they escaped to freedom. These dramatic photographs will piece together a narrative of the Underground Railroad, and the escape of an estimated 100,000 slaves between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865.
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\r\n\r\nAnnette Turow’s complex collages and Linda Robinson Gordon’s mixed media sculpture create a dynamic relationship in this exhibition. Working with various materials such as copper wire, mud, and paper, Robinson Gordon’s work speaks to a subtle beauty and delicate craftsmanship. Turow’s collages compliment these organic, natural sculptures referencing the human body and abstracted forms.
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Exhibition on view February 3-March 4
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What if an artist’s body of work could exist and develop somewhere in between the studio and the exhibition space? In order to provide artists a semi-public, hybrid work and exhibition space, the Evanston Art Center launched an inaugural “artwork-in-residence” program. Artists work on projects-in-progress, experiment with the display of their artwork, host studio visits and engage the community of the Evanston Art Center and the broader art community in the development of their work ways that they see fit.
\r\n\r\nAdriana Kuri Alamillo’s research and writing practice explores the U.S. – Mexico Border as a physical and conceptual space for creation. She treads the thin line between art and activism in both her studio and research.
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\r\n\r\nThe Loyola Academy students work together to curate, install, and publicize the event, as well as speak publicly about their artwork and inspirations. The artwork is beautifully executed and offers audiences a window into what is on the minds of our younger artists.
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\r\n\r\nThis group exhibition curated by Younsoo Kim Flynn will aim to redefine the complex relationship between natural and urban landscapes. By using sensory values and powerful graphic practices, each artist will reveal, conceal and create unique perspectives of their own environment.
\r\n\r\nParticipating artists include Everything is Collective (Jason Lukas, Zachary Norma and Aaron Hegert), Jack Flynn, Robin Dluzen, and Sae Jun Kim.
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Opening Reception: Sunday, May 7 from 1-4pm
\r\n\r\nThis group exhibition will explore mental health as a major social issue, empowered by community understanding and involvement. Through a visual dialogue, Matt Bodett, Kandi Jameson and Megan Sterling will seek to give voice to conditions that have evaded concrete descriptions.
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\r\n\r\nThis group exhibition will explore mental health as a major social issue, empowered by community understanding and involvement. Through a visual dialogue, Matt Bodett, Kandi Jameson and Megan Sterling will seek to give voice to conditions that have evaded concrete descriptions.
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\r\n\r\nExperience…The Lives We Touch and the Art We Create
\r\n\r\nJoin us for a night of silent and live auctions, dinner, dancing, and wine!
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\r\n\r\nMain Opening Reception: Friday, June 2, 6-8pm
\r\n\r\nDetails including participating artists and spaces may be found at evanstonmade.com
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\r\nOpening Reception: Friday, July 7, 6-8pm
Exhibition on view: July 5-30, 2017
\r\nOpening Reception: Friday, July 7, 6-8pm
Exhibition on view: July 7-30, 2017
\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Friday, July 7, 6-8pm
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\r\n\r\nFrom the thirty-nine artists exhibiting in 2016, the jurors selected Robin Dluzen, Riva Lehrer, Timothy McMullen, Ryan Thompson and Rafael E. Vera to exhibit in this group show. These artists will exhibit a variety of works that include a sound installation evocative of the artist’s studio, botanical drawings that address industry and labor, paintings inspired by transient wall spaces often covered by graffiti, graphite rubbings that expand our notions of time and mixed media sculpture. Each of these artists’ unique approach to art making will create five compelling and distinct solo shows on display throughout our First and Second Floor Galleries.
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Sunday, August 6, 1-4pm
\r\n\r\nThe 2016 Evanston + Vicinity Biennial Exhibition jurors Lela Hersh, President of the Museum and Fine Arts Consulting and Lecturer in the Graduate Department of Arts Administration and Policy at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Monique Meloche, Owner of Monique Meloche Gallery and Lorelei Stewart, Director of Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago awarded five artists with an exhibition of their work in 2017.
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Friday, September 8, 6-8pm
\r\n\r\nA community of artists who strongly feel that art is personal - that the personal is political, and the political is very personal. Contemporary art exhibition of 22 local artists created works from outside the day-to-day conflict nevertheless remain viscerally connected to that conflict. Artists who are Far From the Front Lines have created an opportunity for artful dialog beyond borders. It allows both the audience and the artists themselves to actively promote meaningful change in our minds, where all borders ultimately reside.
\r\n\r\nThis exhibit is about coexistence, hope, and showing fine art that will influence new ways of thinking. The context of an exhibition expands the space of the artist to encompass not only the individual onlooker, but a community as a whole: diverse, tolerant, contentious, questing after justice at home, and personally invested in conflicts far away. Exhibition include paintings, photography, calligraphy, installation, video, mixed media and new media.
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Friday, September 8, 6-8pm
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition showcases three artists, Amy Chan, Alice George and Amy O. Woodbury, whose unique styles and use of mixed media join together to create a cohesive and vibrant display.
\r\n\r\nAmy Chan, working in a combination of gouache, acrylic, airbrush and screen-printing, creates imitations of nature that have multiplied into bizarre abstraction. Chan works from imagery sources like protozoa, minerals, coral reefs and outer space to find new shapes and patterns.
\r\n\r\nAlice George, working in monoprint, drawing, collage and photography, uses language to enrich and make her artwork more complex. Her series Metaphysical Comics explores the found language of the last words people say, sing or type.
\r\n\r\nAmy O. Woodbury paints and draws figures within dense, detritus-laden terrains and abstract expanses of water and land. Movement, intuition, line and color motivate Woodbury to think outside the canvas and utilize found objects to expand her imagination into everyday life.
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Friday, September 8, 6-8pm
\r\n\r\nA community of artists who strongly feel that art is personal - that the personal is political, and the political is very personal. Contemporary art exhibition of 22 local artists created works from outside the day-to-day conflict nevertheless remain viscerally connected to that conflict. Artists who are Far From the Front Lines have created an opportunity for artful dialog beyond borders. It allows both the audience and the artists themselves to actively promote meaningful change in our minds, where all borders ultimately reside.
\r\n\r\nThis exhibit is about coexistence, hope, and showing fine art that will influence new ways of thinking. The context of an exhibition expands the space of the artist to encompass not only the individual onlooker, but a community as a whole: diverse, tolerant, contentious, questing after justice at home, and personally invested in conflicts far away. Exhibition include paintings, photography, calligraphy, installation, video, mixed media and new media.
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Sunday, October 8, 1-4pm
\r\n\r\nWomen’s health in America is a loaded issue politically and socially. The connection to and control over our bodies is closely intertwined with health and well being. Artists reveal the complexities of concerns, ranging from living with altered bodies after cancer treatments to speaking out about the frustrations of lack of access to equality of care. The relationship to our bodies correlates with our health, so when under attack, whether by literal cancers or metaphorical ones manifested in anti choice laws, the fight is critical for healing. This exhibit reveals how women are not defined by our bodies, our diseases, or our health, but rather when facing our own mortality and vulnerability, we are able transcend stereotypes and judgements, and to choose empowerment and strength.
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Sunday, October 8, 1-4pm
\r\n\r\nKatrin Schnabl is curating the 2017-18 fashion residency SHAPE OF NOW with focus on illuminating five designers, Abigail Glaum-Lathbury, Alex Ulichny, Ayrun Dismuke, Kristin Mariani and Stephen West, and their personal and distinct approach to fashion design. A week-long opening exhibition in October 2017 will introduce the designers, who are subsequently invited to inhabit the 2nd floor studio individually each for up to 4 weeks throughout the 2017-18 season. This can take the form of research, sampling, styling, working with collaborators, and/ or documenting a phase of their unique design processes. A month-long exhibition in the summer of 2018 will feature the work resulting from the residency. Throughout, designers may elect to host classes, workshops, lectures, topical panel conversations, happenings, or presentations as part of their residency. In the fall, and the spring will be an opportunity to shop designer selections for sale at the EAC, so stay tuned!
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Friday, November 17, 6-9pm
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Friday, November 17, 6-9pm
\r\n\r\nThe Evanston Art Center’s Winter Arts & Crafts Expo is one of the largest and most celebrated craft shows in the Chicago area. The 15th annual Expo features original arts and crafts by over 100 selected artisans, featuring works of jewelry, ceramics, fiber, metal, glass, painting, photography, mixed-media, and more.
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Photo courtesy of Evanston Art Center.
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Artist Statement:
\r\n\r\nThe landscape, for the past several years, has been the catalyst for my paintings.
\r\n\r\nAs a process painter, my goal is to create poetically contemporary landscapes that capture an array of subtle overlapping shapes, textures, light, scale and heightened color relationships that are derived from the tradition of abstraction. This exploration begins with photographing nature on walks during travels and around town. In the studio, photocopies of photographs are transferred to the canvas, collaged in layers by acrylic paint. Then I rework the organic forms and representational images by juxtaposing many layers of expressive brushstrokes, adding/removing patches of flat spaces for contemplation, building up light on a water's surface and randomly framing areas by the use of a silhouetted image, e.g. a tree or flora, to compose a unique space. I am also interested in shifting the composition by dividing the picture plane.
\r\n\r\nInfluences for my work come from memories of my home town in Mexico, Japanese prints, Art Nouveau, Claude Monet, Georgia O'Keefe, Gerhard Richter and Robert Kushner just to name a few, as well as the music of Impressionists Ravel, Faure and Debussy, and from daily experiences.
\r\n\r\nMy current work is a series of paintings that reinterpret, reframe and update the landscape with a contrasting contemporary twist.
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\r\n- Dates: January 6 - February 11, 2018
\r\n- Opening Reception: Sunday, January 14 from 1 – 4pm
\r\n- Description: The EAC faculty is comprised of over 70 talented and dynamic teaching artists, working in a variety of artistic disciplines. In this biennial exhibition, we invite each of our faculty members to submit one work to be included in the exhibition. This eclectic, well attended exhibition gives our teaching artists an opportunity to invite curators, collectors, press and friends to view their work. Many of the pieces will be for sale and proceeds benefit both the artists and the Art Center.
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\r\n- Artists: Anne Guitteau and Katrin Schnabl
\r\n- Dates: January 14 – 28, 2018
\r\n- Description: Katrin Schnabl curates the 2017/18 Fashion Residency with SHAPE OF NOW, a multi-disciplinary project focused on illuminating the creative process behind the work of multi-disciplinary fashion designers/artists.
*Photo Courtesy of Anne Guitteau
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\r\n- February 19 – 25, 2018
\r\n- Closing Reception: Sunday, February 25 from 1 – 4pm
\r\n- Description: Janina Monkutė Marks, born in Radviliškis, Lithuania on September 21, 1923, passed away on November 13, 2010. Her work elegantly combines printmaking, painting and textile to create compelling, visual stories of her family and culture.
*Photo Courtesy of Marks Museum Gallery
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\r\n- Artists: Radical Visibility Collective (Sky Cubacub, Compton Quashie and Jake Vogds)
\r\n- Dates: March 5 – 30, 2018
\r\n- Description: Katrin Schnabl curates the 2017/18 Fashion Residency with SHAPE OF NOW, a multi-disciplinary project focused on illuminating the creative process behind the work of multi-disciplinary fashion designers/artists.
The problematic relationship between construction and resources is thematic in the work of Kim Curtis, who acknowledges that artmaking requires some degree of environmentally damaging practices. But as someone preoccupied with environmental concerns from a very young age, Kim incorporates numerous methods for mitigating her artworks’ environmental impact, placing constraints on her treatment of contemporary landscape imagery.
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\r\n\r\nHeather Hancock uses the ancient medium of glass as a conceptual tool to explore contemporary ideas about mind, place and information. A native-born Chicagoan, Jack Nixon specializes in graphite drawings of Chicago landmarks and architectural details.
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\r\n\r\nThe ongoing Studio Exhibition series highlights the variety of exceptional artwork made in our EAC classrooms by featuring student work in our galleries. Each Studio Exhibition is coordinated by the instructor, who curates contemporary and thought provoking exhibitions of their students’ artwork.
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\r\n\r\nRelated Events: Evanston Made Kids! - Sunday, June 10 from 11am - 4pm
\r\n\r\nThe Evanston Art Center will partner with Evanston Made, a month-long celebration of the arts in Evanston designed to create opportunities for artists to engage with the community. The accompanying exhibition will be hosted at the EAC and feature over 100 works from local Evanston artists. In addition to the exhibition, there are many events scheduled throughout the month as part of Evanston Made.
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\r\n\r\nKatrin Schnabl curates the 2017-18 Fashion Residency Series at the Evanston Art Center with SHAPE OF NOW, a multi-disciplinary project focused on illuminating the creative process behind the work of fashion designers/artists Abigail Glaum-Lathbury, Alex Ulichny, Ayrun Dismuke of Misanthrope, Kristin Mariani, a collective composed of Sky Cubacub, Compton Quashie and Jake Vogds, and a collaboration with Anne Guitteau & Katrin Schnabl. This final exhibition will feature the work made during their residency at the Evanston Art Center.
\r\n\r\nImage: Courtesy of Evanston Art Center
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\r\n\r\nChicago Sculpture International (CSI) curates an exhibition of its members’ sculptures at the Evanston Art Center. CSI is devoted to championing sculptors and the creation of sculpture. Its members seek to expand the understanding and appreciation of sculpture through exhibits, workshops, and collaborations.
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\r\n\r\nThe Evanston Art Center Biennial is one of the Midwest's largest and most prestigious juried exhibitions. 2018 curators include Sergio Gomez, Curator and Director of Exhibitions, Zhou B Art Center, Aron Packer, Owner and Director, Aron Packer Projects and Therese Quinn, Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Museum and Exhibition Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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\r\n\r\n“Shootings” take place daily in the US. We seem to accept them as a general public. Certainly we’re outraged when we hear the victims are children and young adults under 21. Then time passes. Can we remember the individual names of those children? Can we recall their faces?
\r\n\r\nI couldn’t. And then I suffered a personal loss to gun violence, A dear friend, Fr. Lorenzo Rosebaugh, OMI, was gunned down. His life had been devoted to the resistance of violence and injustice. He had just officiated at the funerals of two teen victims of gun violence. Over thirty years ago, I had lost my father to suicide by gun. All of my planned art work at that time came to a halt.
\r\n\r\nI began the “Faces Project,” painting the portraits of children, 20 and under, who have died as the result of gun violence. An artist friend, Jane Linders, got us organized as I was becoming overwhelmed by the numbers of local victims. Other passionate artists joined us. We formed a board. And, thanks in part to receiving the 2013 Critical Mass Creative Stimulus grant and the devotion of these artists, we continue to put a Face to the youngest victims of gun violence.
\r\n\r\nBill Burton, a young African American artist, gave us a new logo to go with a new name “Faces Not Forgotten”, which speaks more directly to the wishes of the families: that their children not be forgotten.
\r\n\r\nWe paint a portrait, the “Face” of each child, which is then donated to the family. A jpeg. image of the original portrait is graphically superimposed over an image of a vintage handkerchief and printed on 16x20” canvas panels with grommets in the corners to create the “Faces”. These are tied together with black ribbon in sets of 9, 8 portraits for the 8 children that die each day from gun violence and 1 logo, to create our Faces Not Forgotten quilts.
\r\n\r\nWe work with victims’ support organizations to respectfully contact victims’ families for their permission to create and use these portraits in the fight against gun violence. We have exhibited them at Rutgers Univ. Gallery, N.J. ; Gallery 210, the Univ. of MO-STL ; Blackburn College, IL; Northeastern Univ., The Regional Arts Center, the MO state Capital, Washington DC with the Brady Campaign, The Million Mom march and the MOMs Demand Action and have numerous future exhibits planned throughout the country.
\r\n\r\nJessica Meyers, director of CVA, said that one thing families say over and over is that they are afraid that their child will be forgotten. The Faces Not Forgotten Project attempts to keep their memory alive and to offer some small comfort and support to the families.
\r\n\r\nThese children are not just numbers or statistics. Each one of them was a life ended. Each one has a Face.
\r\n\r\nFor more information or to make a donation, email Christine Ilewski at christine.ilewski@gmail.com
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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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\r\n\r\nFor centuries, cultures have identified and classified the physical world into earth, air, water and fire. Ancient concepts of these four classical elements are connected to current environmental issues that necessitate a renewed, more mindful approach to how our actions impact the Earth and how we envision the future for subsequent generations. These ancient conceptions and current issues combine to provide contemporary artists the means to interpret, respond and react to the physical forces at work within their creative environments.– Michelle Nordtorp-Madson, Art Historian and Professor Emerita – University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
\r\n\r\nIn this exhibition interpretations by four artists consider natural phenomena and ideas of transformation. The four elements are represented by two and three-dimensional artworks that explore the physical world with unique use of materials and insights. Viewers are invited to interpret and respond to these works, resonant with spiritual contemplation as well as environmental concerns.
\r\n\r\nFeatured artists include Bernice Ficek-Swenson, Linda Gammell, Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin and Holly Newton Swift.
\r\n\r\nARTIST BIOS
\r\n\r\nBernice Ficek-Swenson
\r\n\r\nMinneapolis based artist Bernice Ficek-Swenson is known for her work in copper plate photogravures and digital installations that explore the elemental forces of nature using stone, ashes, fire and water. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has had artist residencies in Chicago, Hong Kong, Greece, Newfoundland and Mexico. Ficek-Swenson’s work is in book arts, printmaking and photography collections including the Athens School of Fine Arts - Greece, Carleton College, Frederic Weisman Art Museum, Minnesota Historical Society, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, Scripps College, the Wittliff Collections -San Marcos, TX, University of Vera Cruz - Xalapa, and the Zimmerli Museum. In 2017 and 2012 she received Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants and the 2012 CAS Excellence in Creative Activities at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls, where she is Professor Emeritus.
\r\n\r\nLinda Gammell
\r\n\r\nLinda Gammell’s work has been exhibited nationally in private galleries, non-profit spaces, and museums. Her photographs and artist books are included in the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Walker Art Center, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. She is the recipient of a number of fellowships and artist grants, including the Bush Artist Fellowship, McKnight Fellowship, Jerome Travel Grant, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She was a founding member of WARM, the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota, which was acknowledged for its contribution to women and art in an exhibition and book curated by the Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota. She is co-collaborator of The Farmers’ Daughters Project exploring issues of women and food, agriculture, and rural life.
\r\n\r\nLinda has an MFA from the University of Minnesota and has taught photography for 25 years at various institutions, including the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where she was associate professor of media arts for 18 years, the Colorado College, St. Olaf College, Hamline University, and the College of Visual Arts.
\r\n\r\nAnn Ginsburgh Hofkin
\r\n\r\nAnn Ginsburgh Hofkin studied philosophy, mathematics, and music at Mount Holyoke College and earned a master’s degree from Bryn Mawr College. In 2001, she was among several individuals selected to participate in a cultural exchange to work with artists in Israel. Ginsburgh Hofkin has had eight solo exhibitions of her photography in Israel, as well as one-person shows at other venues such as the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in South Hadley, Massachusetts; A.I.R. Gallery in New York City; Weill Art Gallery at the 92nd Street Y in New York City; Sande Webster Gallery in Philadelphia; Nina Bliese Gallery in Minneapolis; Quarter Gallery, Regis Center at the University of Minnesota; the Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, WI; and the Bloomington Art Center in Bloomington, MN. She was also named a finalist for the Adi Prize for Jewish Expression in Art and Design and was featured in its exhibition at the Israel Museum in 2005. In 2013, she had two one-person shows in Israel: one at the Jerusalem Center for the Performing Arts and the other at Bet Gabriel Cultural Center on the Sea of Galilee. In April, 2014, her work was featured and purchased as part of the Sacred Arts Festival at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. In the summer of 2018, Ginsburgh Hofkin was awarded an artist residency at NES in Skagastrond, Iceland.
\r\n\r\nGinsburgh Hofkin is represented by A.I.R. Gallery in New York., by Wendy Frieze Gallerist in Minneapolis, and by Swan Vision Gallery in Maiden Rock, Wisconsin. Her photographs are part of numerous private and corporate collections, including those of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, University of South Dakota, University of Colorado (Boulder), College of Saint Benedict (MN), St. Mary’s College (MN), Wynnchurch Capital (IL), Hennepin History Museum, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 3M Company, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Woodstock Center for Photography, Medtronic Corporation, University of St. Thomas, Arthur Andersen, Jerusalem Theater (Israel), Poriya Hospital (Israel), Massachusetts General Hospital, Adath Jeshurun Congregation (MN), Park Nicollet Women’s Center (MN), and Fidelity Investments.
\r\n\r\nHolly Newton Swift
\r\n\r\nHolly is a painter whose work represents the search for the interconnections between the natural elements and the experience of place. Relocated several times throughout the U.S., and finally moving to Minnesota with her husband, Bill, she found locations on the Lake Superior’s North Shore that she has returned to for over 20 years. These remote and pristine locations have been the most powerful influence as the subject of her work.
\r\n\r\nA native of Illinois, Holly received her Masters Degree from the Art Institute of Chicago. She has 25 years of teaching experience in Drawing, Painting and Design. Her work is found in both private and public collections which include Minnesota History Center, Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Saint Paul Ramsey Women’s Clinic, Macalester College, Hill Country Arts Foundation, Texas, and Izumi City Hall, Japan. She is a recipient of three artists residencies. Holly is one of four artists featured in the film “Painting the Place Between” directed by Kristin Lowe. She is currently represented by Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Closing Reception: Friday, November 9 from 6 - 8pm, Artist Talk at 7pm
\r\n\r\nPerpetual 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.
\r\n\r\nARTIST STATEMENT
\r\n\r\nMy 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.
\r\n\r\nI 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.
\r\n\r\nFor 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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Preview Party: Friday, November 16, 6-9pm
The Evanston Art Center’s Winter Arts & Crafts Expo is one of the largest and most celebrated craft shows in the Chicago area. The 16th annual Expo will feature original arts and crafts by over 140 selected artisans, featuring works of jewelry, ceramics, fiber, metal, glass, painting, photography, mixed-media, and more.
Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday: 9 am - 9 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 9 am - 4 pm
Galleries are handicapped accessible.
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Saturday, November 17, 2018 - 9:00am to Saturday, December 22, 2018 - 4:00pm
November 17-December 22, 2018
Preview Party: Friday, November 16, 6-9pm
The Evanston Art Center’s Winter Arts & Crafts Expo is one of the largest and most celebrated craft shows in the Chicago area. The 16th annual Expo will feature original arts and crafts by over 140 selected artisans, featuring works of jewelry, ceramics, fiber, metal, glass, painting, photography, mixed-media, and more.
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Monday - Friday: 9 am - 9 pm
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Exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Opening Reception: Sunday, January 13, 1 – 4pm
Daniel Miller integrates robotics, media and electronics, exploring systems and ecologies. Miller is currently Assistant Professor in Dimensional Practice/Sculpture, and a member of the Public Digital Arts faculty cluster at The School of Art & Art History at the University of Iowa. He teaches sculpture courses that integrate robotics, mechanical fabrication and electronics. Miller received his MFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago in Time Arts, and received a BA in Sculpture from Hope College, Holland, MI.
Opening Reception: Sunday, January 13, 1 – 4pm
Evanston Art Center students' artwork will be showcased in a studio exhibition in our First Floor Gallery. Students from all departments will present work in the wide ranges of media and processes created at the Evanston Art Center. Be sure to check out this highly anticipated biennial exhibition!
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Image: Olea Nova, Air
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Image: Doug DeWitt, Primordial Element, 2019.
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Evanston Made is an annual celebration in June that focuses on showcasing Evanston creatives. Throughout the month of June, studios, galleries, museums, workshops and businesses open their doors to showcase works (artistic, artisanal, etc.) and host events by Evanston creatives.
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Desmond Beach(link is external) is a Washington, DC based artist and educator. He earned his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art's Rinehart School of Sculpture as well as his BFA from MICA. He has been a Visiting Lecturer/ Artist at institutions such as Coppin State University and Howard County Community College. Desmond has been a Summer Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, Artist-in-Residence at the Women Housing Correlation in Baltimore, MD, Summer Fellow at Skidmore College, and Artist-in-Residence at Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring, MD. He was MICA’s 2004 Joan Mitchell MFA Award Nominee.
Desmond is an interdisciplinary artist born in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a project artist, meaning that his work takes its point of departure from specific problems or tragedies. Among his most important works so far are his Color Me This, set of mugshot drawings, This Is America, photos of black men, and Portraits of Insurrection, embroideries which fuse images from the Baltimore Uprising with historical images of black men being lynched, and his performance piece Strange Fruit, where hangs himself from a tree that he wears on his head. Desmond finds inspiration for his work from his growing up in Baltimore during the 80s and 90s and his lived experience as a black man.
Desmond Beach’s work is also about honoring his immediate ancestors and those of the African Diaspora. He creates sacred spaces for their spirits to rest in. He is also interested in sharing the introspective moments of everyday life with viewers. Desmond’s work explores the internal dialogue and duality in the relationship that people have with one another, as well as creating work that comments on the social stereotypes surrounding African-American men. Another purpose of his work is to foster a sense of empathy within his audience, create a connection with those previously thought of as \"the other,\" and to build a sense of community between even the most dissimilar human beings. He makes connections with the viewer through a wide range of mediums, including sculpture, mask and headdress, fiber arts, installations, performance, painting, drawing, and mixed media. He believes that his work as an artist is a calling.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The African tradition of storytelling is a common thread that's stitched throughout my work. Honoring my immediate ancestors and those of the African Diaspora is an important focus. Performance art aids me in creating sacred spaces in which the ancestors' spirits may rest. Taking that which is horrific and transforming it into beauty is my highest intention. My work is based on current and historic events surrounding the African-American experience.
Imagery of blacks in the Americas during the middle passage and their portrayal in today's mainstream media is where I gain inspiration. My work also comments on the social stereotypes surrounding black people. In the work, I remix, retell, and reexamine the black experience. The work provides a platform where the stories of the nameless are illuminated.
The work is created from a wide range of media. Performance, sculpture, digital, installation, fiber art, and photography are where the work finds form. My work breaks down the historic barriers between cultural elitism and the common good. The deliberateness of the work is to reclaim and retell the black experience allowing African-American people a more favorable and accurate depiction.
Image: Photograph from Opening Reception
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Artist Talk: Sunday, August 11, 1:30-3pm
Natasha Somerville is a South Carolina based painter and educator originally from Kentucky. In 2007 she earned a B.F.A. in Painting from Savannah College of Art & Design where she graduated with honors. She completed her M.F.A. in Studio Art at the University of Kentucky in 2011. For 4 years she taught at the University of Kentucky, followed by 2 years at Georgia Gwinnett College. She currently teaches at The South Carolina School of the Arts at Anderson University and Wofford College. Natasha has exhibited in 23 group and solo shows across 14 states; some of with include New York, Chicago, South Carolina and California. In 2017, Natasha was included in group exhibitions at the Carnegie Center for Art & History (New Albany, IN) and the Morlan Gallery (Transylvania University, Lexington, KY). She also had solo exhibitions with Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, and the Holy Family Gallery (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is about the exploration of the figure in visually textured and layered surfaces. I create paintings that investigate the combination of representational imagery, abstracted positive and negative space, texture and color. Using shaped or layered panels allows me to create dimensional and sculpted paintings. Outside of clothing, there is no real connection to time in my work; place becomes an abstracted construct.
Each painting is created from an image found on social media. These platforms have changed the way we live, interact and share experiences with one another. The photos I use as reference were primarily taken by other individuals. I am drawn to body language and possible narratives of the individuals interacting in the original photographs. What intrigues me is the illusion of time and the unspoken communication of body language; the personality and character that is exuded in a captured moment.
Without a doubt there is an underlying conversation about privacy online, copyrights, ownership and private versus public persona. Social media allows me to have a rare glimpse into communities across the United States and abroad. The work functions across blurred lines of how much privacy do people really have in our digital era.
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Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Sunday, July 14, 1-4pm
CLICK HERE to view images from the opening reception.
Holly Wong(link is external) lives and works in San Francisco, California where she received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in New Genres. Holly creates installations integrating non-traditional approaches with traditional sewing techniques associated with the history of women. She has received grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial fund, the George Sugarman Foundation, and the Puffin Foundation. She is a Presidential Scholar in the Arts and has had over 50 group exhibitions and 10 solo exhibitions at venues such as the Berkeley Art Museum, the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in Vermont and the Visual Art Exchange in North Carolina.
Wong creates sculptural installations and photographs that address the subtle and ephemeral nature of psychological states. Using various materials such as tulle and thread, she strives to reconnect in herself what has been fragmented. Much of Wong’s work is constructed with extremely lightweight, layered materials that are fragments that become a visual whole.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I live and work in San Francisco, California and was educated at the San Francisco Art Institute where I graduated with a Master of Fine Arts with a concentration in New Genres. I create installations integrating non-traditional approaches with more traditional sewing techniques associated with the history of women. Using various materials such as food cellophane, dichroic film, tulle, organza and thread, I strive to reconnect in myself as well as in the external environment what has been fragmented. Much of my work is constructed with ephemeral materials that are components which become a visual whole. My work is a constant process of assembling, deconstructing and then making whole once again.
Recent work has focused on describing the immediacy of needing to be in the present moment in order to avoid further environmental destruction. Living on the West Coast, I have become deeply aware of the destruction of the lands, traditions and cultures of native peoples and how that has translated ultimately to a throwaway culture that is leading to our collective destruction. I believe that the psychic disconnect in modern times has resulted in a tendency to treat the earth as if it was a disposable resource. Through the action of sewing, I build and construct and then by cutting and resewing, structures reemerge again. I often use materials that are commonly thought of as disposable or lacking value; my journey as an artist is ultimately to reclaim and to restore value out of what was previously thought of as worthless. The sewing line becomes a type of river, tributary or blood line in my work that has geographical references as the installations stretch broadly across space to make physical reconnections. In my work, I am trying to physically demonstrate a healing presence that provides a place of refuge for the viewer and ultimately translates towards understanding the need for treating the earth as a sacred refuge in addition to our own bodies.
Image: Photograph from Opening Reception
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For the month of July, the EAC has been chosen as Koi Restaurant’s non-profit organization of the month!
Every little contribution makes a big difference. We make a living of what we get but we make a life of what we give.
Make your reservation now by calling 847/866-6969 and request Table 23.
Guests who request Table 23 will receive 10% off (not valid on holidays) on their total check to support the cause and koi will donate 23% of the total check to the charity of the month. There is limited availability as there is only one table. We typically can seat it twice during the week and three times on Friday and Saturday nights. Guests must indicate that they are requesting Table 23 (charity table) during their initial phone call to Koi to book the reservation. Thank you all the donors and board members. Thank you for supporting us. The small details make the big difference, to succeed, we have to believe in something with such a passion it becomes a reality.
www.KoiEvanston.com | Fine Asian Cuisine and Lounge | 624 Davis Street, Evanston
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Show on display July 6- August 11, 2019
Artist Talk: Sunday, August 11, 1:30-3pm
Natasha Somerville(link is external) is a South Carolina based painter and educator originally from Kentucky. In 2007 she earned a B.F.A. in Painting from Savannah College of Art & Design where she graduated with honors. She completed her M.F.A. in Studio Art at the University of Kentucky in 2011. For 4 years she taught at the University of Kentucky, followed by 2 years at Georgia Gwinnett College. She currently teaches at The South Carolina School of the Arts at Anderson University and Wofford College. Natasha has exhibited in 23 group and solo shows across 14 states; some of with include New York, Chicago, South Carolina and California. In 2017, Natasha was included in group exhibitions at the Carnegie Center for Art & History (New Albany, IN) and the Morlan Gallery (Transylvania University, Lexington, KY). She also had solo exhibitions with Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, and the Holy Family Gallery (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is about the exploration of the figure in visually textured and layered surfaces. I create paintings that investigate the combination of representational imagery, abstracted positive and negative space, texture and color. Using shaped or layered panels allows me to create dimensional and sculpted paintings. Outside of clothing, there is no real connection to time in my work; place becomes an abstracted construct.
Each painting is created from an image found on social media. These platforms have changed the way we live, interact and share experiences with one another. The photos I use as reference were primarily taken by other individuals. I am drawn to body language and possible narratives of the individuals interacting in the original photographs. What intrigues me is the illusion of time and the unspoken communication of body language; the personality and character that is exuded in a captured moment.
Without a doubt there is an underlying conversation about privacy online, copyrights, ownership and private versus public persona. Social media allows me to have a rare glimpse into communities across the United States and abroad. The work functions across blurred lines of how much privacy do people really have in our digital era.
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Opening Reception: Sunday, August 25 from 1 – 4pmOpening Reception: Sunday, August 25 from 1-4pm
Curtis Anthony Bozif was born in 1982 in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute where he earned his BFA in Painting & Drawing and Art History in 2006. In 2008, he graduated from Northwestern University with an MFA in Art Theory & Practice. He currently resides in Chicago, Illinois.
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August 23 - September 29, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, August 23 from 5-8pm
Artist Talk and Lecture: Sunday, August 25 from 1-4pm
The 8th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2018, curated by Kestutis Vasiliunas, is a unique non-commercial cultural project, organized to promote artist’s books, creators of artist’s books from all over the world, and to connect galleries, publishers, editors and printers of fine art & limited editions, the greater general public, collectors and individual artists.
It is an educational art project involving world-renowned artists to familiarize art teachers, students and general public with the interdisciplinary arts with the stunning variety of artistic disciplines in an artist’s book – and especially to stimulate creativity and love for books.
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Jordan Scott (b.1968) is an award winning Chicago based artist and photographer. Represented by art galleries nationwide, he also teaches photography at several prestigious art centers in the Chicago area. His mixed-media artwork pays homage to his beliefs in the interconnectedness of the universe and inspired by theories of the collective unconscious and Scott’s 35 years of martial arts training and teaching.
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Jan Christopher Berkson has an MFA in Painting and Drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Science degree in Occupational Therapy from the University of Illinois. Berkson’s practice is anchored in the image-making process and invested in generating relationships with and between images. Larissa Borteh received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2010, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014. Borteh works to create a series of narratives that teeter on the brink of collapse.
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The Evanston Art Center’s Winter Arts & Crafts Expo is one of the largest and most celebrated craft shows in the Chicago area. The 16th annual Expo features original arts and crafts by over 140 selected artisans, featuring works of jewelry, ceramics, fiber, metal, glass, painting, photography, mixed-media, and more.
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Get into the holiday spirit with festive winter and holiday themed crafts with Samira Taher Kolb of Let's Craft It! Create adorable Nordic themed winter wreaths and cute cookie cutter ornaments, perfect for trimming the tree and decorating your home. Price is for one child and one adult. $15 for each additional child.
Purchase here
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Awaken your creative instincts and collaborate with a group of kindred spirits while working in the EAC studio environment. Learn to access you uncensored voice and free yourself from limiting opinions of what is considered acceptable art-making. In this class, students elevate painting skills by exploring paint application methods and mediums. Develop personal imagery and invent on a 2D surface. Bring acrylics, oils, watercolors or gouache.
Follow Link to enroll today: https://www.evanstonartcenter.org/school/paint-your-heart-out
10 week course
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dis-PLACED is an evolving suite of prints on paper and textiles that balance elements of absence, journey and transformation. Tracy Templeton produces work that refers to the larger implications of global issues and the universality of the human condition using imagery that points to the smaller, more intimate challenges faced by individuals. Influenced by the current refugee crisis the series adds elements of nature to create an obscure world of beauty as well as a gentle disquiet.
dis-PLACED is reflective of Templeton's notion that it is fundamentally necessary for everyone to engage in physical or spiritual journey in seeking their own sanctuary.
The snowy night sky and crumpled sheets imply an unsettled sense of unease found in moments of uncertainty, while the soft sheets and pillows imply the necessary rest and dreams essential to personal journey. Together they are sublimated into poetic expression.
In creating this multi-layered work, Templeton makes full use of a hybrid printmaking techniques that combines textiles, digital photo print, chine collé, and drypoint etching.
This new work captures ambiguous, surreal landscapes where one might take refuge, dream, or rest, creating a sense of haven from which to navigate the next step of one’s passage as guided by the lay of the land, wind, or some distant constellation. The images invite viewers to immerse themselves in a topography of emotion evocative of visceral moments.
Image: Tracy L. Templeton
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Noelle Garcia and José Santiago Pérez present recent work that uses traditional craft processes to transform everyday objects and materials into exuberant works of contemporary art.
Based in the Chicago area, Noelle Garcia is an artist and educator who focuses on themes of identity, family history and recovered narratives in her work. She is an indigenous artist from the Klamath and Paiute tribes from Oregon and Nevada. She has earned degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Her paintings, drawings, and soft sculptures have been exhibited in galleries and institutions across the United States. Garcia has earned awards and fellowships at various institutions such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the Nevada Arts Council, and the American Indian Graduate Center.
José Santiago Pérez is a Chicago based artist from Los Angeles and is a 2019-2020 HATCH resident at the Chicago Artist Coalition. He has participated in group shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston. Solo exhibitions of his craft based sculptures and hangings have been presented at Roman Susan Art Foundation, Ignition Project Space, and Wedge Projects in Chicago. He has been featured in reviews and interviews in Sixty, Newcity, Art Intercepts, and most recently in Other People’s Pixels and the Archives + Futures Podcast. José has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies.
Image: Noelle Garcia
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Curated by Doug Stapleton, Associate Curator of Art at the Illinois State Museum
Eleanor Spiess-Ferris (b. 1941) is an American symbolist painter cited as a significant surrealist, narrative figurative and feminist artist. This exhibition of over 40 years of painting and drawing by Chicago artist Spiess-Ferris traces the development of her distinctive figures across her career and compares studies and sketches with final works. Spiess-Ferris’s figures are narrative bodies, telling stories of personal, spiritual and environmental crises.
Image: Eleanor Spiess
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Join us at the Evanston Art Center for readings by selected Chicago Quarterly Review contributors! Featuring Louise LeBourgeois, Dipika Mukherjee, Natalia Nebel, Signe Ratcliff and Eleanor Spiess-Ferris.
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Eleanor Spiess-Ferris’s works of art pull their inspiration from a variety of sources, including Symbolist and Surrealist artists. Eleanor will give a brief tour of her retrospective discussing her influences, and then will lead two to three Surrealist and Symbolist parlor games, examining how Max Ernst, Salvador Dali and others used these games as a path to creativity, playfulness, and organic expression. Registration is required. Visit our website at www.evanstonartcenter.org or call us at (847) 475-5300! EAC Members: $140 / Non-Members: $160
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Using materials that go through an industrial process such as plastics, rubber and foam, Susan Beiner questions how human creations and technology mold our perceptions of the world. Beiner’s most recent work displays a shift to a more sculptural attitude, concerned with making what is organic into synthetic.
RELATED EVENT
Saturday, March 28 from 9:30am – 3:30pm: Artist-led Workshop, Ceramic Vessel Fusion
Using nature as a source, participants will create decorative vessels by combining various parts utilizing handbuilding and wheelthrowing. Focus on patterning and unifying layers of imagery to create a sculptural depth of surface. Additional decoration techniques will be demonstrated; color and glaze will be discussed. Registration is required. Visit our website at www.evanstonartcenter.org or call us at (847) 475-5300! EAC Members: $140 / Non-Members: $160
Image: Susan Beiner, Hive Expanded (Detail), 2016.
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Susan Smith Trees has exhibited throughout the United States for the past 20 years. She has won numerous awards including the Chicago Artists Program Grant from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and commissions from the Open Lands Association of Lake Forest, IL. Her career has involved working in multiple materials including thermoplastic, polyurethene, bronze, resin and found materials.
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Jelena Berenc’s artwork consists of repetition and endurance drawings that consist of unique repetitions of each hand drawn mark. Using a pencil and paper, she creates each piece to bring an awareness of a social, somatic, or scientific truth or issue to invoke a response from the viewer.
Chris Hyndman, a Chicago based painter, creates his paintings with a focus on color, texture, and structured surfaces. His latest paintings feature incredibly textured and detailed curtains.
Carlos Melian, a Chicago based artist, works with a focus on emphasizing the relationships between the objects he has created. He works with a variety of materials and artistic methods.
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Evanston Made is an annual celebration in June that focuses on showcasing Evanston creatives. Throughout the month of June, studios, galleries, museums, workshops and businesses open their doors to showcase works (artistic, artisanal, etc.) and host events by Evanston creatives.
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Virtual Celebration: Thursday, June 18 from 6-8pm. Sign up via Eventbrite(link is external)!
Rose Cannon of Cannon Fine Art in collaboration with Artist and Curator, Fran Joy, are bringing ‘Soulworks’, a collection of art by artists of color, both renowned and emerging, to the Evanston Art Center. The group show includes Black American, African, Caribbean and Japanese artists, exhibiting an eclectic and exciting array of artwork, which includes original oil and acrylic pieces on canvas and wood, framed giclee prints of watercolor, digital prints, carved wood and banana tree leaves, and functional designer wood screens.
The purpose of the art show is to showcase inclusion, diversity and equity with artists of color in the creative world.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Alpha M. Bruton, Baz Cumberbatch, Michel Delgado, David Anthony Geary, Myah Grinnell, Tadaaki Hatta, Fran Joy, David Johnson Niari, William Kwamena-Poh, Suanne Rayner, Debra Salter and Jevoid Simmons
GALLERY HOURS & VISITOR INFORMATION FOR COVID 19 PHASE 3 GUIDELINES
This exhibition will be held in the First Floor Gallery of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). When arriving at the EAC during our Gallery Hours, please wait outside and call us at (847) 475-5300 for entry. All visitors are required to wear masks and take their temperature upon entry using provided gloves, and share results with an EAC staff member. Please adhere to 6' social distancing requirements when in the gallery space.
Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday: 10 am - 5 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 10 am - 4 pm
Top Image: Michel Delgado, Confused Circus, 2018
Date: Monday, June 15, 2020 - 9:00am to Sunday, July 5, 2020 - 4:00pm
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
A native of Omaha, Nebraska, Scott Mossman earned bachelor’s degrees in Journalism, art history and fine arts at UNO in 1980 and 1982 respectively and moved to Chicago in the peak of the post-modern era where he earned an MFA in painting and sculpture at University of Illinois at Chicago in 1985 under the tutelage of Rod Carswell and Martin Puryear. Mossman’s decidedly post-minimalist sculpture deals with relationships - formal and contextual. His architecturally-influenced forms, flavored by trips to Asia (China, Japan, and Tibet) and Europe as well as a passion for pre-gothic and early modernist forms (among them Corbusier, Loos, and Wright) comment on the creation and purpose of sculpture and its relationship to architectural forms in a space and other objects (security alarms, hand dryers, heating, and cooling units) that inhabit a space. He has exhibited throughout the country since graduation and most recently had one-person shows at the Noyes Center in Evanston, The University Club, Heaven Gallery, and Ignition Project Space.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Mossman's decidedly post-minimalist sculpture deals with relationships - formal and contextual. His architecturally-influenced forms, flavored by trips to Asia (China, Japan, and Tibet) and Europe as well as a passion for pre-gothic and early modernist forms (among them Corbusier, Loos, and Wright) comment on the creation and purpose of sculpture and its relationship to architectural forms in a space and other objects (security alarms, hand dryers, heating, and cooling units) that inhabit a space. They walk a thin line between the utilitarian and the purely abstract.
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Jennifer Mannebach’s work addresses remnants, boundaries and transition. She has exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center, Flatfile Gallery and others, nationally and internationally. In 2006 she was a visiting artist at The American Academy in Rome. Mannebach received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she subsequently taught for 6 years. She is currently an art facilitator at Little City Foundation and an Artist/Researcher with CAPE. Awards include: Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, CAAP grants, IAC grants, and the Governor’s International Arts Exchange Grant. Recent exhibits include STRIKE/SLIP at the Freeark Gallery in Riverside, IL (curator), One or the Other Must Be Blurred at the Jack Olson Gallery at NIU, and participation in the Terrain Biennial as a super host and exhibiting artist. Upcoming events include a residency with PLAYA and an exhibit at Governor’s State University.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work focuses on the borders and edges of where things collect, and the relationships between what happens on either side of these demarcations. I’ve been fascinated by the advent of genetic engineering technologies like CRISPR Cas9 as a cogent parallel to the longstanding themes in my work that examines fragments and boundaries conceptually and physically. I often conflate the architecture of the interior body and the broader views of world maps and constructed barriers, incorporating the vibrant hues and intense chroma of the colored gels used in microscopic visualization. Replacing even a snippet of information to redirect a protein creates a chain of events; likewise, the removal of a community, however small, reverberates into future generations, as does changing the location or character of a boundary between countries or even neighborhoods. Most recent work speaks to aspects of touch and connection, questioning the nature of boundaries and relationships between material identities. Materials find a home with each other, but always with a looming tectonic shift. Lately I’m thinking about how a sense of rupture and disorientation can be an opportunity to be more carefully attentive.
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Sheri Rush is a Chicago based painter whose practice includes photography and collage. Rush holds a BFA from Texas Christian University and a MFA from the University of Chicago. Rush’s work explores the ineradicable nature of memory and recollection, and the contemporary diminishing experience of the sublime.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Contemporary life is a virtual landscape of windows and screens. This new reality comes at some expense—we do not experience the world so much as we view it through layers and interfaces.
My work responds to this world by exploring the relationship of personal history, landscape, the digital image and recollection. By creating large-scale paintings rooted in color, form and process I investigate the changing, contemporary experience of landscape. I use this process for personal reflection, and a means of investigating past trauma, addiction and transformation.
I begin my process by taking cell phone pictures through the windows of moving cars, trains and buses. Using the cell phone photos as source material, I depict space, light, color and form seen through movement. Turning the paintings, I work from two directions. Vertical and horizontal drips give a sense of motion, blur forms and build space. I simplify the reflections of lenses and windows into geometric shapes layering the translucent forms over the mark making of organic forms. Abstracting the journey allows me to create new associations and deepen inward reflection.
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Featuring Morgan Craig
Morgan Craig has exhibited throughout the U.S.A. Canada, Europe, and Australia, including SPACES in Cleveland, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts and the Australian National University. Craig has received numerous awards including, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant (2009, 2019), the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2007, 2011), and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship (2006, 2008). He has also been invited to several residencies including, Cite Internationale des Arts, the Macdowell Colony, UCross, Proekt Fabrika in Moscow, and Red Gate in Beijing. Selections from his oeuvre were recently featured in several solo exhibitions, including Vanderbilt, University of Central Florida, and Colorado State University. Last summer, he participated in residencies at Paul Artspace, St. Louis, MO., the Resident Artist Program in Silver City, NV, and the Munandi Art Space in Lusaka, Zambia. This past fall, he had a solo exhibition at Binghamton University. Later this year, he will have a solo exhibition at both Evanston Arts Center in Evanston, IL, and Western Nevada College in Carson City, NV.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I believe that architectural structures acting as both repositories and as vehicles for memory profoundly influence culture and identity by providing a tangible framework through which facets of a society can be expressed. Consequently, I have been inspired to build a body of work dealing with how identity is influenced by the types of architectural edifices present in a given landscape. My work is not merely a method of documentation, but a sociopolitical/socioeconomic commentary on the effects of hubris, avarice, free trade, outsourcing, deregulation, deterritorialization, neoliberalism, obsolescence, and international-finance-capital upon communities throughout the world. Within the realm of Jacques Derrida’s theory of Hauntology, the paintings speak of the slow disintegration of the future, and the abysmal fragmentation of the past.
Date: Saturday, July 11, 2020 - 9:00am to Sunday, August 16, 2020 - 4:00pm
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Mark Nelson's work was forged by his childhood experiences overseas. Raised as a Colonial American outside of the continental U.S., his international travels culminated in a near twenty-year residence within the Republic of Panama where he developed an interest in visual and performing arts. Nelson returned to the USA to finish his formal education in the 1980’s at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by an MFA at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Nelson’s work can be found in private and public collections that includes a canvas mural in the US Embassy collection in the Republic of Panama. Nelson has also participated in several public projects such as the Cows on Parade and Lighthouses on the Mag Mile. Mark Nelson has been a resident of Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood artist community at his Gringolandia Studio for 22 years where the public may visit annually during the 18th Street Pilsen Open Studios.
ARTIST STATEMENT
If you asked a young child what they thought human traffic was they might tell you it’s being stuck in a crowded room with too many tall legs around you or an adolescent might tell you it means pedestrians, and to many adults it might symbolize the migration of people or on a local scale represent the motion of commuters or festive attendees. What they are less likely to connect with is the flow of hidden and illicit human trafficking that they may not be aware of.
Our government defines trafficking involving the “use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act and is modern-day slavery,” and this also includes forced marriage and human organ extraction. Remember when your parents told you to not talk to strangers? This was the first lesson in being safe from abduction or harm. Although many indigenous Americans were the first to be enslaved in the 1500’s, human slavery can be traced back to ancient times as spoils of war, power and greed. In America, we usually think of the industrialization of slavery regarding the African Diaspora where millions experienced trauma and genocide. Even in modern times, human trafficking still exists as international business. According to the Center for Global Impact, there are four main areas that people fall prey to traffickers; “Leaving a place of poverty to gain wealth, political conditions, war, and social and cultural practices.” This is like a perfect storm such as what is being discussed on the news with the country of Libya where Africans are being sold The United Nations addresses the root causes and believes the following areas are where we can combat human trafficking,
These paintings I created were initially an attempt to have a dialogue about immigration on our southern border where thousands of asylum seekers experienced confinement and human trafficking conducted by our own government as immigrants were shuffled around and confined like prisoners and their children separated from them to seemingly disappear. The more I worked on these paintings, the more I began associating the plight of Central America with that of Native America, Black America and all Americans who have had their rights and dignity challenged over the color of their skin or the accent of their voice.
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Hiromi Tanaka was born and raised in Tokushima, Japan. Her paintings are impacted by the nature of her childhood memories, a wildflower field, cherry blossom, Japanese garden and more. She has been painting since she was a little girl, but her interest in fashion made her open a fashion boutique in her early 20's. Despite her business success, she wanted new challenges so she moved to New York in 1990 and started painting again. She stayed in the city for a few years, moved to San Francisco and then moved to Chicago to study at SAIC (1994 to 1997) where she received her BFA. Since graduating, she has been living and working in Chicago.
ARTIST STATEMENT
on nature and painting - I have always enjoyed observing nature and the world around me. Painting provides me the ideal medium for recording my impressions. My work focuses on the combination of colors and forms that I encounter every day. I begin each painting with simple iconography that I build upon layer by layer. It is this layering that allows my impressions to be presented with balance and subtlety. Each piece has a distinct relationship with the real world surroundings that has inspired it. Whenever I walk outside, I am inspired by small things that I have never appreciated before. It might be a pattern on tree bark or a stone resting in an interesting position next to a flower. I am continually seeking to express such nuances of nature in my work. Through this process my paintings develop their own voice and message. I am always amazed that when I have completed a painting, its voice continues to show me new things each time I view it. From this reciprocal relationship with my previously completed works, my perceptions of the world continue to grow.
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Carlos Melian was born in Havana, Cuba, and currently lives and works in Chicago, IL. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Flordia, a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Master of Science, Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana / Champaign. Melian worked as the Dean of Libraries at Northeastern Illinois University, and although he continued actively making art, he temporarily ceased exhibiting. Since his retirement in June 2017, Melian has been working every day in his studio. He has exhibited at Jack Olson Gallery at Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL), Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago, IL), Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL), Zolla-Lieberman Gallery (Chicago, IL) and more.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work has always had a concise conceptual path with decidedly different materials and methods. A return to painting was my primary concern in 2002 but I could not adopt a formalist approach to picture making. As I began to paint again, I continued to be involved with “object” making (non-standing, non-sculptural) even with all the painterly elements and processes that I adopted. My interest is how one object (painting, drawing, panel) relates to or compares to another. Each work is generated by simple actions (squaring, hanging, leaning, measuring, etc.) to step away from the pictorial. Images are generated based on a random set of rules and limits. I prefer this method of generating images as it relieves me of the subjective pressures of abstraction and composition.
All of the “titles” begin with the word “UNTITLED” which emphasizes the non-literary aspect of abstraction. The rest of each title consists primarily of verbs or simple descriptions to describe how an object or groups of objects are related or created. Visually, there is a strong sense of comparing objects/surfaces or pushing the boundaries of what one sees, completing a rectangle, for example. I prefer that the viewer engages in more than just looking or viewing. The act of comparing is, I believe, more productive, revealing more meaningful connections and conclusions.
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Chris Hyndman makes paintings that focus on color and texture, structured surfaces, and the function of pattern and digital tools in staging contemporary identities. Chris’ work has been featured in New American Paintings, Manifest’s International Painting Annual, and solo exhibitions at Bluffton University, the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, and Susanne Hilberry Gallery. This fall, his paintings will be included in the 2020 Midwestern Biennial at the Rockford Art Museum and Form & Seek: Never Normal at Wasserman Projects in Detroit. Chris is a faculty member in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University where he has been teaching since 2001. He lives and works in Chicago.
ARTIST STATEMENT
For several years my paintings have suggested shallow stagelike spaces, activated by plaid-patterned forms performing in front of curtains. Recently, they have also included depictions of pennant strings and confetti streamers—the stuff of staged celebrations. I consider “staginess” a fundamental condition of painting and hope for a reflexive relationship between the scenes depicted and their mannered construction as paintings. In terms of fit with earlier work, the latest paintings continue my interest in color and texture, structured surfaces, and the function of pattern and digital tools in the shaping, performing, and imaging of contemporary identities.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
There are infinite unknowns around and within us. It is fascinating that throughout our entire human history, the vast majority of us have been concerned with destruction or oblivious ignorance, while only a small number of humanity have been concerned with seeking and understanding the unknown. This disconcerting observation has been the leading force of my cognition from a very beginning.
I am an Information Realist. Seeking the unknown, seeking information, comprehending and recreating it, is what an Information Realist does. As Realists before me, I am representing truthfully the world around. However, instead of focusing on the physical observations from a close proximity, my focus is on global concepts and facts that explain the workings of the Universe. To put it simply, instead of painting an apple my pieces are about what the apple is, the consciousness that is perceiving it, and how and why the apple is to Be. Every art piece has a responsibility to provoke philosophical awareness, or state a fact of a very specific social, somatic, or scientific truth.
Reality is Art if we truly look at it. Discovering the reality, exploring, creating, observing, and comprehending the reality, is our human responsibility. The ultimate reality is the reality of the Universe and all that is in it. We must understand our place in the Universe, no matter whether we are to use the language of Science or Art.
The way the human mind works is by using logic. All that is in reality and matter, how we think, live, and work, all can be reduced to the simple construct of Art. Logic reasoning is Art reasoning. If the world works according to fixed or given laws and the human mind is part of that world than any human can understand the world.
Through my art pieces I try to understand the nature of concepts by reducing them to the most basic Art constructs. Use of materials is reduced to paper and pencil for the majority of the pieces. Marks are used as basic visual units, as bits of information. Minuscule drawing elements become colossal art pieces through a unique repetition of each mark. Most pieces contain tens to hundreds of thousands, and even millions of particularly chosen drawing elements. Repetition of mark bits, through durational, repetitional, excessive, and endurance drawings, creates unpredictable randomness that self organizes into patterns and structures on a large scale. This randomness and determinism is one of the fundamental fibers of the Universe, as physicists know all too well. Mark drawing captures the truthful visual interpretation of the Universe.
My work challenges how it is to be seen; How we observe, perceive, and connote the observed; whether to look in sequence or randomly, whether to look close up or just take it all in at once. The details pull the viewer towards the piece creating a particular visual and cognitive impression. From afar, the collection of marks, however, creates an overall new visual experience that lets one appreciate the severity, seriousness, or immensity of the represented idea. Just like we have one theory that beautifully explains the workings of the micro world of particles and another theory for the macro world of the Cosmos, it fits brilliantly into one picture.
My early explorations were performative in nature, analyzing the somatic states of being. These were process based pieces, durational or endurance drawings, focusing on somatic function. Through drawing, through this state of being oneself, one experiences oneself as the passivity of the self being given to the self. This naturally leads to an observation and analysis of one’s existential experiences. Definite conclusions are not necessarily an objective here. Rather the intention is to consciously experience the experiencing self, thus to document one’s morphological and internal existence. For example; 40 hour long line, drawing every minute for 24 hours, 11,929 self-portraits reflecting the number of days I have been alive, 10,000,000 points, 1km drawing of portraits, 10,000 things around exploring perception through various physical limitations (fasting, sleep depravation, etc.); 55,000 portraits, etc. Each piece was executed with carefully constructed visual elements resulting in technical perfection, yet each piece communicates a very particular discourse.
Compulsive obsessiveness of excessive drawing becomes a document of time and the drawing’s creation; it becomes a document of experience itself. When so constructed, the act of drawing allows me to re-experience existence, but in a slower and fully conscious way, so that perceptions become apperceptions.
Through my work I search for the knowledge and fundamental truths of Reality.
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Ethereal Abstractions is an uplifting watercolor series that features work by Barbara L. Sykes. The paintings are lyrical, colorful abstractions reminiscent of organic shapes, ethereal forms and underwater landscapes - evocative impressions of spiritual and elemental worlds. They are created through a meditative, intuitive practice; the unconscious becomes conscious as colors flow across the paper and forms emerge in silence. A sense of stillness and movement are captured as images surface, blend into each other and become redefined. Ethereal Abstractions evokes the spontaneity, themes and underlying presence of the Divine Feminine - reoccurring threads that reflect and continue from Sykes’s previous body of time-based and digital artwork.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My life, career and art are intrinsically intertwined paths on a journey of self-discovery. I was born into a family of artists, designers and inventors. Since childhood, I have always produced art. To me, art is the creative expression of both the personal and collective experience. The process of creating art provides the artist with opportunities to discover the world around and within them, stimulating both personal growth and development. The very essence of art is that of creative birth and transformation. It is through the symbiotic relationship between the artist, their work, and the audience that the transformative nature and creative vision of new ways of understanding is experienced and released.
I challenge myself artistically, personally and professionally and strive to live a life of value and purpose. I aspire to create powerful works of art through interaction, reflection and direct action. My work is intended to be a motivating force that will help to transcend differences and speak simply, in an intimate and personal way, to the essential qualities that we all share and that unites us, while exalting the distinguishing qualities that make us unique.
My work explores themes of spirituality, rituals and indigenous cultures from a feminist perspective – integrating poetry, dance and martial arts performances with traditional mediums as well as experimental electronic tool systems designed for artists, consumer and broadcast technologies. The work revolves around the timeless reoccurring experiences of the collective consciousness and honors the spirituality of indigenous people and their affinity to each other, the natural world and to the divine.
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2020 WINTER ARTS & CRAFTS EXPO
The Evanston Art Center’s Winter Arts & Crafts Expo is one of the largest and most celebrated craft shows in the Chicago area. The annual Winter Expo features original arts and crafts by over 140 selected artisans, featuring works of jewelry, ceramics, fiber, metal, glass, painting, photography, mixed-media, and more.
READ MORE ABOUT 2020 WINTER ARTS & CRAFTS EXPO
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At this virtual artist talk, guests will have the opportunity to hear from Barbara L. Sykes. At the end of the event, we will have a Q&A session.
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Join us for a virtual lecture about The Inside Scoop on How We Experience Art featuring Dan Hill, President of Sensory Logic, Inc.
This lecture is a part of the ongoing EAC series, \"In Focus.\" \"In Focus\" features a variety of talks and presentations by artists, art professionals, historians and more!
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Beiner’s ceramic work has been exhibited at The Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Limogues Foundation, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, The Clayarch Gimhae Museum Korea, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, Princessehof Keramiekmuseum in the Netherlands as well as numerous galleries and museums.
Beiner has participated in many residencies including; the International Ceramics Studio, Hungary, Experimental Pottery Workshop, China, the European Ceramics WorkCentre, Netherlands, The Clay Studio, PA, the International Ceramic Center, Guldagergard, Denmark, The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, and the Kohler Co., Arts/Industry program.
Beiner’s work is included in numerous permanent and private collections including The Long Beach Museum of Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and National Museum of Ceramics in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, and the Yixing Ceramics Museum, China as well as other permanent and private collections.
Since 2006 Beiner has taught at Arizona State University and in 2015 she was named the Joan R. Lincoln Endowed Professor in Ceramics.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My current work displays a shift to ideas about installation, covering an expanse of space. Installation allows me to reassemble shapes, attributes, qualities and quantities on a much larger scale suggesting an essential connection to our physical space. My interest is fueled by elements of layering, fragmentation, multiplication, juxtaposition and complication. Intense brilliant color reveals an obviously artificial man-made reality. Color is swirled together in rhythmic sequences mirroring the activities of a microscopic sample or aerial topography. The encrustation’s are abstracted from real plant life, allowing the viewer to proceed into the interior pattern of a stylized manufactured plastic plant life within our environment. So as a viewer we are challenged by our own perceptions of what is authentic and what is not.
In several works I reference landscape and how I am influenced by various issues within living environments and cultures. Every plant is composed of a colorful symphony of forms playing to its component to create new hybrids. We participate in the growth and development of plants, technologically as well as emotionally as we celebrate their bloom.
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Susan Smith Trees is a sculptor who has exhibited throughout the United States for the past 25 years. She has created installations, wall reliefs and floor works in addition to pen and ink and oil drawings. Manipulation of materials are her touchstone to experimentation and the unknown. Hovering between figuration and abstraction, she weaves a primitive nature of form and shape into a conversation about the inanimate object versus life force. Moving from the tangible to the psychological, her work reveals the duplicity of what is familiar and what is hidden. Trees’s career has involved working in multiple materials including thermoplastic, polyurethane expandable foam, cast bronze and resin. She peels away, stretches and tears materials to create forms of rippled masses. Her molds are wrapped over rocks, marred with crevices and kneaded into organic components.
Trees has won numerous awards including the Artists Program Grant from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and commissions from the Open Lands Association of Lake Forest, IL. She has been represented by Gallery H in Three Oaks, Michigan and her works have appeared in \"Calculated Leap\" by Teresa Devine, \"Sculpture Invasion 2015 published by the Koehnline Museum of Art, and \"Strong Exhibits for a February Spring\" the Paul Klein Art Letter. She is affiliated with the International Sculpture Center, the Chicago Artists Coalition, Arts Alliance Illinois, Dialogue Chicago and Woman Made Gallery. Her sculptures and drawings are included in private collections throughout the Unites States. She currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work concerns the confrontation with the forces of the psyche and the attempt to give physical expression to the influences that stir the interior human terrain.
Materials drive the process. By the fact of manipulating the material, I explore its capabilities and limitations and discover its possibilities. It is through this relationship that direction and form emerge, and I am able to tap into a part of myself that speaks from a distant, foreign place. I put my trust in the materials because they put me in touch with the unknown. I push the boundaries of the material in an attempt to excavate its ability to express the intangible. Letting the material lead allows the unleashing of an inner world in a kind of physical exorcism suggesting the experience of the body as a gateway to transformation.
For me, making art is about plunging into the dark and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche and breaking down the barriers that protect us.
“There is only one journey, going within.” R.M. Rilke
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Virtual Opening Reception: Sunday, January 17 at 1pm via Zoom | Registration is required.
Our Biennial is one of the Midwest’s largest and most prestigious juried exhibitions, offering artists an opportunity to have their work viewed by three talented curators:
Alpha M. Bruton - Artist, Art Consultant & Curator, Phantom Gallery Chicago Network
Dan Devening - Director, Devening Projects
Adjunct Professor, Department of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Kate Pollasch - Director, Corbett vs. Dempsey
Alan Hobscheid, Alice Becker, Ann Blaas, Anne Farley Gaines, Anne Hayden Stevens, Annie Zirin, Ashley Bradley, Barbara Goldsmith, Ben Bates, Boruch Eugene Lev, Brian Divis, Bryan Northup, Catherine Forster, Christopher Cosnowski, Christine Forni, Cindy Bernhard, Darius Airo, Doug Haight, Ellen Holtzblatt, Gordon Wood, James Bowden, Jan Christopher-Berkson, Janis Pozzi-Johnson, Jeni Emery, Jerry Monteith, John Hatlestad, John Terdich, Judith Roston Freilich, Juliane von Kunhardt, Kathy Weaver, Kenneth Avick, Lauren Sullivan, Marian Carow, Michele Thrane, Michelle Wasson, Nicholas Zepeda, Nikki Renee Anderson, Noah Kashiani, Pam Sloan, Sandra Ullmann, Sarah Barnhart Fields, Shelley Gilchrist, Stephen Murphy, Steve Turner, Tanner Woodford, Ted Glasoe, Tracy Ostmann Haschke, Veronica Clements, Victoria Fuller, Yvette Kaiser Smith and Zack Wirsum
GALLERY HOURS & VISITOR INFORMATION FOR COVID-19 GUIDELINES
This exhibition will be held in the First Floor Gallery of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). All visitors are required to wear masks and take their temperature upon entry using provided gloves, and share results with an EAC staff member. Please adhere to 6' social distancing requirements when in the gallery space.
Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday: 1 pm - 6 pm
Saturday: 10 am - 4 pm
Sunday: 12 pm - 4 pm
HOW TO PURCHASE ARTWORK
If you are interested in purchasing artwork on display, please contact Cara Feeney, Director of Exhibitions, at cfeeney@evanstonartcenter.org or (847) 475-5300 x 107.
Artwork shown (L to R, Clockwise): Christopher Cosnowski, Lava Honey, 2020; Ted Glasoe, Racing Tips, 2018; Yvette Kaiser Smith, Oddment Phantom Distinction, 2020; James Bowden, Take-A-Peek, 2019
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Virtual Opening Reception: Sunday, January 17 at 1pm via Zoom | Registration is required.
Our Biennial is one of the Midwest’s largest and most prestigious juried exhibitions, offering artists an opportunity to have their work viewed by three talented curators:
Alpha M. Bruton - Artist, Art Consultant & Curator, Phantom Gallery Chicago Network
Dan Devening - Director, Devening Projects
Adjunct Professor, Department of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Kate Pollasch - Director, Corbett vs. Dempsey
Alan Hobscheid, Alice Becker, Ann Blaas, Anne Farley Gaines, Anne Hayden Stevens, Annie Zirin, Ashley Bradley, Barbara Goldsmith, Ben Bates, Boruch Eugene Lev, Brian Divis, Bryan Northup, Catherine Forster, Christopher Cosnowski, Christine Forni, Cindy Bernhard, Darius Airo, Doug Haight, Ellen Holtzblatt, Gordon Wood, James Bowden, Jan Christopher-Berkson, Janis Pozzi-Johnson, Jeni Emery, Jerry Monteith, John Hatlestad, John Terdich, Judith Roston Freilich, Juliane von Kunhardt, Kathy Weaver, Kenneth Avick, Lauren Sullivan, Marian Carow, Michele Thrane, Michelle Wasson, Nicholas Zepeda, Nikki Renee Anderson, Noah Kashiani, Pam Sloan, Sandra Ullmann, Sarah Barnhart Fields, Shelley Gilchrist, Stephen Murphy, Steve Turner, Tanner Woodford, Ted Glasoe, Tracy Ostmann Haschke, Veronica Clements, Victoria Fuller, Yvette Kaiser Smith and Zack Wirsum
GALLERY HOURS & VISITOR INFORMATION FOR COVID-19 GUIDELINES
This exhibition will be held in the First Floor Gallery of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). All visitors are required to wear masks and take their temperature upon entry using provided gloves, and share results with an EAC staff member. Please adhere to 6' social distancing requirements when in the gallery space.
Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday: 1 pm - 6 pm
Saturday: 10 am - 4 pm
Sunday: 12 pm - 4 pm
HOW TO PURCHASE ARTWORK
If you are interested in purchasing artwork on display, please contact Cara Feeney, Director of Exhibitions, at cfeeney@evanstonartcenter.org or (847) 475-5300 x 107.
Artwork shown (L to R, Clockwise): Christopher Cosnowski, Lava Honey, 2020; Ted Glasoe, Racing Tips, 2018; Yvette Kaiser Smith, Oddment Phantom Distinction, 2020; James Bowden, Take-A-Peek, 2019
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Jiaqi Zhang is an interdisciplinary artist, creative technologist. She was born in China and now based in Chicago. She holds a BA in English Studies and an MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her works have been exhibited at venues including CICA Museum, South Korea; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, San Francisco; ICOSA, Austin; Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock; Yoonarte Gallery, Shanghai, and others.
She actively curates exhibitions and produces media arts festivals as an extension for her practice. She is the space operator of TheNeuLithium and a committee member of Commiserate Chicago. Currently, she is a teaching artist at the Evanston Art Center.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I enjoy creating interactive and gamified experiences that cross the digital and physical realms. With a wide range of curiosities, I seek to investigate in the areas of social cognition and behavior, with a particular focus on sensory perception, emotional experience, and collective intelligence. My practice involves collaborating with social scientists, anthropologists, educational learning specialists and nonhumans through a user-centered, process-oriented methodology. Let the creative, collaborative experience itself be the manifestation of the relationship between my audience, my work, and me.
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Michael K. Paxton is a sixth generation West Virginian and Chicago based artist with awards that include grants from the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc., New York; Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Visual Art Award and two Professional Development Grants; Fellowships with both Air le Parc, Project and Research Center, Pampelonne, France and Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, Wyoming; a Marshall University Alumni Award of Distinction; five Professional Development Grants from Columbia College, Chicago and the documentary film “Work at Hand, Michael K. Paxton” Official Selection of the 17th Annual Great Lakes International Film Festival. He has been a Visiting Artist and Artist in Residence with numerous Universities and Art Centers over is fourty-five- year career.
Selected major one-person exhibitions include the forthcoming exhibition with the Evanston Art Center; the recent Raw Reckoning, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago and Pillars of Dust, Heuser Art Center, Bradley University, Peoria, IL. Others include Miami University Museum of Art, Oxford, Ohio; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Linda Matney Gallery, Williamsburg, VA.; Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL; Laura Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University among many others.
Recent group exhibitions include Current Art Fair, Richmond, VA, Appalachian Futures, WVU Libraries, Locus, Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art, Cornelia, GA; Obsession, Improvisation, Collaboration, Governors State University, University Park, IL.; On Big Drawings, Averill and Bernard Leviton A&D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago; the major retrospective Between Rock and an Art Place, The University of Georgia Lamar School of Art Gallery, Athens, GA. Additional noteworthy group exhibitions were presented by Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plains, IL; and the Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI.
A few of his major commissions are with the 7th District Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago; Christel De Haan Collection, Zionsville, IN; Jensen Metal, Inc. in Racine, WI, and a wall-size drawing installed into the Kirkland and Ellis collection in San Francisco. He has also been published in New American Paintings; featured artist/educator in issue 8 of Line Work; been the subject of both radio and television features on NPR, Chicago and WVPBS and honored to have been selected and published in Art and Soul, that highlighting fifty of the most noted West Virginians in the Arts.
He is an adjunct faculty member of Columbia College, Chicago since 2005 and has BA in Art from Marshall University, 1975 and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from The University of Georgia, 1979.
ARTIST STATEMENT
As both a veteran Chicago artist and a sixth generation West Virginian from the besieged coalfields in the southern counties of the state, the backbone of my work over a forty-five-year career has been looking for the exact point where my bone deep Appalachian heritage smashes up against the academics of contemporary art. Currently I am engaged in a new body of large-scale work where I push for more open space, richer paint application and an enhanced surface presence. Based on new structures developed in sketchbooks and my use of the simplest of media these new paintings and drawings point to a burst of organic growth in my work and the promise of the next step forward.
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MEET THE ARTIST: Saturday, April 10 from 12:30 – 4:00pm | Registration is required.
VIRTUAL ARTIST TALK: Thursday, April 15 from 5:30 – 6:30pm | Registration is required.
Joanna Pinsky is a painter residing in Evanston, Illinois. Working with acrylics, she creates two-dimensional shaped paintings on canvas and gator board as well as rectangular works on paper. She works with shapes to suggest a dynamic presence that gives a greater sense of reality to the objects. Although flat, the objects are painted to give the illusion of depth. The rectangular works enable her to explore a more traditional format along with using the paint to emphasize the unique quality of water color paper. Central to all of her work is color often applied in layers and incised to reveal underlying colors. Formerly abstract, her paintings now include images of architectural fragments and nineteenth century-heroes including Cuban José Martí and Abraham Lincoln.
Pinsky creates installations of the shaped paintings, hanging them so they seem to interact with each other. Nothing is hung parallel or perpendicular to the floor giving the appearance that the objects seem to be floating in space like memories when you fall asleep at night, collapsing time and place into unexpected relationships.
Selected solo shows include Space 900 Gallery in Evanston, Perimeter Gallery and Nancy Lurie Gallery in Chicago, the Koehnline Museum of Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, IL; ArtWorks in Waukegan, IL and A.I.R. Gallery in New York City. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in group shows in Hanover, Germany, Syke, Germany; Osaka, Japan; the State of Illinois Building in Chicago, The Illinois State Museum, Springfield; the Ukrainian Art Institute, Chicago; Rockford College Gallery, Rockford, IL,; Shidoni Gallery, Santa Fe, N.M., and galleries in Minneapolis, MN, and Louisville, Kentucky. She is a member of Space 900, an artists’ collaborative and art gallery in Evanston. Corporate and museum collections include the Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Il, Oakton Community College, Millikin University, Decatur, IL, Honeywell, Inc., Minneapolis, Sandoz Corp, Des Plaines, Il, the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Northwestern University Dept. of Mathematics and the Loyola Medical Center, Maywood, IL. She has received feature articles in the Chicago Tribune, Crains Chicago Business and Pioneer Press, and her work has been reviewed in New City Art, Chicago, The Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-times, The New Art Examiner and Pioneer Press. Her work is included in the book, The Chicago Art Scene, by Ivy Sundell, Crow Woods Press, 1999. Pinsky has a B.F.A. from Cornell University where she majored in painting and studied art history.
Pinsky is a co-founder and Artistic Director of Art Encounter, a 41 year old non-profit education organization dedicated to educating, empowering, and connecting people of diverse ages and backgrounds through interactive encounters with visual art.
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Featuring Jenie Gao, Charity Henderson, Mary Porterfield, Nancy Rosen and Kateryna Tkachenko
MEET THE ARTISTS: Sunday, April 11 from 12:00 – 3:30pm | Registration is required.
VIRTUAL ARTIST TALK: Thursday, April 29 from 5:30 – 6:30pm | Registration is required.
Jenie Gao is a full-time artist, creative director, and entrepreneur. She specializes in social practice and impact projects, using mediums such as murals, public art, printmaking, and storytelling. She consults for organizations on best practices and systems centered on equity.
Prior to founding her business, Jenie worked not only in the arts industry, but also the public school and manufacturing sectors. Through her cross section of experiences, she has become attuned to how the design of organizations—from their hiring practices to programming—determines who has access to creativity, autonomy, leadership, and decision-making. Jenie advocates for fair treatment of labor as a path to equity and diversity in the arts and the greater community that the arts represent. She currently runs a 1,700 square foot production studio in Madison, Wisconsin, and has hosted 22 emerging artists and art students through her apprenticeship program.
Charity Henderson is a figurative artist residing in Queens, NYC. She received her BFA in Painting at SUNY Brockport in 2010, and an MFA from UMass Dartmouth on a Distinguished Artist Fellowship in 2013. Charity has also studied painting in Italy, Sicily, and France. Currently, she exhibits at the Salmagundi Club in Manhattan, and regularly presents her work in solo and group shows throughout the United States. In early 2018, she held her first NYC solo exhibition, Beneath the Surface, through the arts nonprofit Chashama. In October 2019, she presented her first commercial solo exhibition with John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY.
Mary Porterfield has exhibited both nationally and internationally at venues including the Lim Lip Museum in South Korea, the Phoenix Art Museum, the San Diego Art Institute, the Hyde Park Art Center, the Kohler Arts Center, the Dubuque Art Museum, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, the Rockford Art Museum and the Weatherspoon Museum. Solo shows have included the Hofheimer Gallery (Chicago, Il), the Packer-Schopf Gallery (Chicago, Il), Indiana University-NW (Gary, IN), the University of Illinois (Urbana, Il) and the West Valley Art Museum (Surprise, Il). Honors include three Illinois Artist Council Grants, a City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Grant (DCASE), a Puffin Foundation Grant, and three Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program Grants. Porterfield teaches at Northeastern Illinois University and received an MFA from Arizona State University. She is represented by the Hofheimer Gallery in Chicago, Il.
Nancy Rosen was born in Chicago and except for her four years at the Kansas City Art Institute where she earned a BFA in painting and sculpture, Chicago is where she has remained. During that time Nancy has devoted her life to painting exhibiting and teaching. Nancy has shown her work in galleries and exhibits across the country, her paintings have also have been seen in feature films and television series; most notably as the artist who created paintings for Lily Tomlin’s character Frankie in the Netflix hit series Grace and Frankie. Nancy’s painting are difficult to categorize due to the unique use of mixed media and surfaces, but most are figurative. Nancy combines oil bars, china markers, graphite, oil paint on a variety of surfaces including gessoed paper, pieced and hand made exotic papers, linen and rice paper. The pieces feature infinite detail and layers, textures and colors. Nancy has shown in a variety of settings including numerous solo shows, venues include Kansas City Art Coalition, Elmhurst Museum, Milliken University, The Post Family and the Illinois Art Institute. Nancy is a dedicated painter and a gifted teacher and mentor.
Kateryna Tkachenko is an artist born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. She received her MFA at Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts with a specialization in mural art. Tkachenko is also a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine. Her work has been exhibited at Agitator Gallery (Chicago, IL), Uptown Art Center (Chicago, IL), Taras Shevchenko House Museum (Kyiv, Ukraine), University of Shevchenko (Kyiv, Ukraine), M17 Gallery (Kyiv, Ukraine) and more. Tkachenko believes humankind is an integral part of the universe, like all living things that surround it. Her work celebrates the beauty of the universe in all of its manifestations.
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Meet the Artist: Sunday, June 13 from 1:00pm - 2:00pm and 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Registration is required.
Hybrid In-Person and Virtual Artist Talk: Sunday, June 13 from 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Registration is required.
Dorothy Graden is a contemporary artist whose art is inspired by Ancient Visions, prehistoric art of the Americas. Her mission is to bring awareness of these amazing places and to promote preservation and protection of ancestral sites on this continent, most of which are considered sacred to Native Americans. For over 30 years she has been traveling through the American west to photograph and draw prehistoric rock art. These rock art images were incised, pecked, abraded and painted on cave and canyon walls and boulders. Rock Art has been found on every continent except Antarctica. Some sites are 30,000 years old.
As all artists, Dorothy is inspired by personal experiences. She has explored the world of the seas scuba diving with her family. And a recent trip to the Masai Mara in Kenya influences her palette with colors of the savannah. Ms Graden pulls and pigments cotton rag in the paper studio and then applies mixed media to create her art. Often, images emerge from the paper as she works and her technique is a truly creative process. Ms Graden has presented her field work on rock art at the Russian Academy of Science in Moscow at University College Cork, Ireland and at the University of Innsbruck in Austria (2014). Her photographs have been published in the Theosophical Society's journal, Quest. She also presents, lectures and exhibits her drawings and ceramic sculptures at various venues throughout the Midwest and the Chicago area.
She draws with great admiration, respect and humility for the ancients who inspire her work. She is also available for presentations.
Dorothy's art has been inspired by extensive research, hiking and traveling to deserts in Utah, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Colorado. Underwater art inspiration has come from scuba diving in global locations such as Fiji Islands, Hawaii, the southern Caribbean and Mexico.
Ms Graden was represented by the ANN NATHAN GALLERY IN CHICAGO until Ann's retirement in 2016. Thank you Ann for your years of dedication to the Art World.
For more information about the preservation and protection of ancestral sites visit ARARA (American Rock Art Research Association) and Bear Ears National Monument websites.
GALLERY HOURS & VISITOR INFORMATION FOR COVID-19 GUIDELINES
This exhibition will be held in the Second Floor Gallery of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). All visitors are required to wear masks and take their temperature upon entry using provided gloves, and share results with an EAC staff member. Please adhere to 6' social distancing requirements when in the gallery space.
Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday: 1 pm - 6 pm
Saturday & Sunday: 9 am - 4 pm
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Curated by Alpha M. Bruton & Adero Knott
The Evanston Art Center (EAC), an artistic hub on the North Shore for over ninety years, believes that some communities are all too rarely represented in the curatorial world. To address this situation, the EAC has developed a recurrent, project-based position for a curator of color with ties to the Evanston community to develop an exhibition of their choosing. It is the EAC’s intent that such an exhibit will both build new ties to historically underrepresented groups as well as introduce Evanston and the greater Chicago area to new curatorial and artistic perspectives.
Alpha Bruton and Adero Knott’s artistic vision entails an intergenerational curatorial practice that seeks to provide a model for emerging and established curators to innovate in curating inclusive experience, gain practical curating experience and critically reflect on how their curatorial style will imprint on the Evanston community and the world. Exhibiting artists will examine the state of their environment in society through themes of Racism, Spirituality, Documentation and Art as Wellness.
Throughout the exhibition, Bruton and Adero will invite artists and the Evanston Art Center community to participate in a series of public dialogues facilitated by Knott and the exhibiting artists. These dialogues will explore ways artists examine their environment through themes of Racism, Spirituality, Documentation and Art as Wellness, as well as the intersection of art and social justice – how does identity and intersectionality affect our lived experiences, as seen in the practice of an artist? Learn more.
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First time on the North Shore! The Illinois Watercolor Society 22nd Annual Members Show will open at the Evanston Art Center July 17 - August 22 this year. Many of the best of our state’s watercolor artists will be on display, including members of EAC. The awards juror—an Evanston native—is internationally recognized Peter Jablokow. Evanston Art Center has offered watercolor classes for many years, knowing that watercolor can be bright, deep and rich, with an astonishing number of ways to work in the medium.
If you would like to be part of the show, join IWS! Experienced painters are candidates for six Awards of Excellence. In a highly popular innovation last year, three Novice Recognition Certificates will be awarded to beginning painters of promise. A prospectus will soon be posted on the IWS website and in EAC announcements. The 200 members of IWS encourage the practice and appreciation of water-based media, and welcome you to join.
The Society sponsors at least two shows a year: the National Show in spring and the Members Show in summer. IWS is delighted to have our first gathering on the North Shore at the Evanston Art Center.
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Omaha-based paper and installation artist, Susan Knight, is a Michigan native. From 2000 she lived and worked in the summers in New York City for a decade. During that time she devoted exclusive attention to the natural world to distill the structures and systems found in nature into pattern compositions in two and three dimensions, and site-sensitive installations.
Her work was shown twice at Artpize, Grand Rapids, MI, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, The Kaneko, Omaha, NE, The Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE, The Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, NE, The Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA, and The Plains, Art Museum, Fargo, ND.
Her work was twice featured in SciArt Magazine and was reviewed in Sculpture Magazine and in the Smithsonian Magazine. It also appears in the book, Art Inspired by Science: Imagining The Natural World, by Robert Louis Chianese.
Knight is a recipient of a Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. She was awarded art-science residencies at AS IF Center, High Cove, NC, The Colorado Art Ranch and The Nature Conservancy Land/Water residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL, and the International School of Art, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy. She earned a BFA in art from Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN, and attended The University of Notre Dame, The Glassell School of Art, Houston, and The School of the Chicago Art Institute.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I distill the structures and systems found in nature into pattern compositions in two and three dimensions, and site-sensitive installations.
Most of my focus is on water and the land that holds it. Theoretical and existential aspects of water and the role it is continually playing in our planet’s evolution through millenniums become the grist for my visual creations. I look for inspiration in surface water and unseen water deep in the earth. News stories and scientific data about environmental water issues also inspire my work.
My primary tool is an Xacto knife. With it I hand cut, fold, incise, sculpt, stretch, and tie paper, plastic, Mylar and Tyvek. The act of cutting continually fills me with energy and ideas. The physicality of cutting makes me feel like Zorro.
On Sunday, September 26 at 3pm, join us for a virtual lecture, \"Designing a New Museum,\" featuring Tanner Woodford. This lecture is a part of the ongoing EAC series, \"In Focus.\" \"In Focus\" features a variety of talks and presentations by artists, art professionals, historians and more!
ABOUT THE SPEAKER Tanner Woodford is founder and executive director of the Design Museum of Chicago. As an artist, he paints optimistic, typographic, and larger-than-life murals. His work has appeared at the WNDR Museum, Soho House Chicago, and is permanently installed at Weber Shandwick in the John Hancock Building. In 2020, Tanner was appointed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot to the City of Chicago’s Cultural Advisory Council. As a designer, educator, and entrepreneur, he has taught, lectured, and led workshops on design issues, social change, and design history in classrooms and at conferences. Tanner received a Bachelor of Science in Design from Arizona State University in 2009, and returned to teach in 2010. More recently, he teaches Design Thinking For Social Change at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is happy to be scrappy, irrepressibly optimistic, and believes design has the capacity to fundamentally improve the human condition.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Please register online through EventBrite.
This lecture will be virtual only, and available via Zoom. After registering on Eventbrite, a day before the event, we will email you more information on how to log into the event via Zoom with the Meeting ID and password.
This event is free and open to the public.
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In The Resonance of Emptiness, Indira Freitas Johnson explores the concept of emptiness and the interconnectedness of all things offering viewers an aesthetic experience of emptiness and stillness while exploring the shifting distinctions between strength and vulnerability, permanence, and decay, and the extraordinary and mundane.
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In his latest body of work, Dan Oliver explores the theme of fire in all its metaphorical complexity. Passion, rage, chaos, destructive power, transformation, danger, energy, life, hell, protest, wildfires and global warming—fire means so many things and we have a complicated relationship to it. Two of the artist’s most vivid childhood memories are the burning of his family’s parish church and a neighbor’s home. Fire is simultaneously a deeply imprinted symbol and a timely crisis. The exhibition Afire is scheduled to open in October 2021, the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire.
Dan Oliver grew up in the Southern Illinois cities of East Saint Louis and Belleville. He studied with Lester Goldman at the Kansas City Art Institute for his BFA, then, inspired by the Chicago Imagists, moved to Chicago, and earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Shifting between narrative, abstraction, the personal and the historical, Oliver’s intention is to always capture a psychological reality. His paintings have a dream logic, and are inspired by filmmakers such as Kubrick and Lynch just as much as by 20th and 13th century painting. His Catholic upbringing, his travels in Europe and Asia, his interest in art history and philosophy, as well as current events all merge and reemerge in his work. Dan Oliver currently resides in Chicago, and is married to artist Valerie Beller. He is also a museum exhibit designer, and the director of Glow Exhibitions, a private art gallery in Chicago.
GALLERY HOURS & VISITOR INFORMATION FOR COVID-19 GUIDELINES
This exhibition will be held in the First Floor Gallery of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). All visitors are required to wear masks and take their temperature upon entry using provided gloves, and share results with an EAC staff member. Please adhere to 6' social distancing requirements when in the gallery space.
Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday: 1 pm - 6 pm
Saturday & Sunday: 9 am - 4 pm
HOW TO PURCHASE ARTWORK
If you are interested in purchasing artwork on display, please contact Cara Feeney, Director of Exhibitions, at cfeeney@evanstonartcenter.org or (847) 475-5300 x 107.
This project is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Artwork shown (L to R): Church Fire, 2020, 20\" x 20\", acrylic on canvas; Inferno, 2019, 18\" x 18\", acrylic on canvas
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Preview Party
November 19th from 6:00–9:00pm
Shop before the general public!
Tickets: $40 for early registration and $50 at the door
Silent Auction: November 19 – 21, closes at 4pm
Featuring artwork donated by participating Expo artists
General Shopping: November 20 – December 20
The Winter Expo is free and open to the public from November 20 – December 20.
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EAC Student Expo: December 4 – December 20
Handcrafted items made by our very own Art Center students!
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Preview Party
November 19th from 6:00–9:00 pm
Shop before the general public!
Tickets: $40 for early registration and $50 at the door
Silent Auction: November 19 – 21, closes at 4pm
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Matt Irie received his MFA from Northwestern University, Evanston (2002). Irie completed a permanent commission for the Chicago Public Libraries in 2005. He participated in the Luleá Art Biennial, Luleá, Sweden (2009) and was included in Double Take, a public exhibition of site-specific sculptural works funded by The Public Art Fund at MetroTech, Brooklyn, NY (2010). Irie’s paintings have been included in numerous group exhibitions throughout the US. In 2011 he had solo exhibitions at The Wright Museum of Art in Beloit, WI and Ebersmoore Gallery in Chicago. In 2012 & 2013 Irie was included in two-person exhibitions at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, TX, and Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, IL. Most recently Irie’s work was included in group exhibitions at Alan Koppel Gallery in Chicago, IL and SUPERDUTCHESS (now Below Grand) in New York, NY. There will be a solo exhibition of Irie’s paintings at the Evanston Art Center in November of 2021.
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*The Artist Reception has been rescheduled from its original date of Sunday, January 23 to Sunday, February 13 from 1–4pm.
The Evanston Art Center boasts over 90 accomplished artists as faculty members teaching in ten visual art departments. This January, we spotlight over 50 of our talented instructors in this biennial exhibition displaying the breadth and depth of our faculty's artistic abilities.
This exhibition is a visual testament to the dedication and professionalism of our faculty who both teach and maintain their own artistic practice. Every EAC department is represented including Art Seminars, Artistic Forms, Ceramics, Digital Media & Fabrication, Drawing & Painting, Figure Sculpture, Jewelry, Printmaking, Woodworking, and Youth Fine Art. Through their teaching and hands-on experience as practicing artists, they motivate and educate our youth and adult students to make time and space for creative expression. Join us in celebrating our tremendous EAC Faculty and their own works of art!
FEATURED ARTISTS
Sandra Bacon, Nolan Baumgartner, Bryana Bibbs, Verónica Casado Hernández, Linny Coale Freeman, Deirdre Colgan Jones, Kathy Cunningham, Kar Daughtry, Darlys Ewoldt, Bill First, John Fleck, Stephanie Funke, David Gista, Barbara Goldsmith, Benjamin Good, Lisa Harris, Ellie Hazlett, John Herron, Suzanne Horwitz, Azadeh Hussaini, Yuko Inoue-Darcy, Steve Juras, Sarah Kaiser Amaral, Bonnie Katz, Millicent Kennedy, Michelle Kogan, Pam McGaghie, Mollie Morris, Lyndsay Murphree, Akemi Nakano Cohen, Didier Nolet, Duffy O'Connor, Les Orenstein, Nicole Paulina, Janis Pozzi-Johnson, Brennan Probst, Shonna Pryor, Robin Samiljan, Angela Schlaud, Jill E. Stark, Cheryl Steiger, Jill Sutton, Alicia Thompson, Janet Trierweiler, Nina Weiss, Samantha Younis, Annie Zirin
GALLERY HOURS & VISITOR INFORMATION FOR COVID-19 GUIDELINES
This exhibition will be held in the First Floor Gallery of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). All visitors are required to wear face masks. Please adhere to 6' social distancing requirements when in the gallery space.
Gallery Hours
Monday–Friday: 9am–6pm
Saturday–Sunday: 9am–4pm
Artwork Shown: 2020 Faculty Exhibition, Image by Ashleigh Pastor
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Curated by Cynthia Taboada
Organized by Alina Valle, Linea Contemporary Art
\"Hershey: Affective Memories\" will bring a series of paintings of Luis Enrique Silvestre and his poetic around the theme of the fading memories over the little village of Hershey, a Cuban model town founded by the chocolate American Company of Milton Hershey around a sugar plant where Silvestre was raised by his grandparents. The decaying architectural structures and the City's abandonment after the rise of the Cuban revolutionary government dialogs with his youngest memories, full of lyricism and melancholy. “The house I lived, my grandparents' generation pride, and Cuba, deteriorated through the years. As if it refused to take more, my family centennial house was finally consumed by fire”. Silvestre is the only artist that portrayed Hershey's model town through paintings, playing with real and imaginary places, with studies of shapes and colors that get us into a journey between abstraction and symbolism, and a mixture of feelings of belonging and scaping.
Luis Enrique Silvestre is a contemporary Cuban artist, born in 1966 in Havana, educated at the Escuela Provincial de Artes Plásticas San Alejandro (San Alejandro Provincial Arts School), ISDI Istituto Superior de Diseño (Superior Institute of Design), invited to join the prestigious ISA (Superior Institute of Arts) where he was mentored by artists such as Flavio Garciandía, Eduardo Ponjuán, exponents of the 80’s Generation movement. Silvestre is based in Brazil since 1999, when left Cuba, after a decade of severe effects of the economic crisis sparked by the fall of the Soviet Republics. His works are incorporated in private and museum collections such as the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and the Museum of Contemporary Arts - University of Sao Paulo (MAC USP, Brazil). He had several individuals and collective shows in Brazil, Spain, Ecuador, and at the Red Dot Fair in Miami\".
- Co-curator Cynthia Taboada
Artwork Shown: Luis Enrique Silvestre, Casa de Playa III / Beach House III, 2017
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This online class of EAC painting students has been meeting weekly throughout the Pandemic. Before each class, students upload photos of their work in process to a shared file. Our discussions center around painting, though the conversation is broad. We talk about the technicalities of oil paint, the process, specific ideas, big questions, and all the meandering in between. We critique each other’s work, add insight, and share other artists and ideas inspiring us. This exhibition is a small peek into our weekly sessions, but also offers the huge gift for our class and community to finally view our work in person.
EAC Instructor: Jill Sutton
ABOUT THE STUDIO EXHIBITION SERIES
The ongoing Studio Exhibition series highlights the variety of exceptional artwork made in our EAC classrooms by featuring student work in our galleries. Each Studio Exhibition is coordinated by the instructor, who curates contemporary and thought provoking exhibitions of their students' artwork.
GALLERY HOURS & VISITOR INFORMATION FOR COVID-19 GUIDELINES
This exhibition will be held in the Second Floor Hallway Galleries of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). All visitors are required to wear face masks, and provide proof of vaccination upon entry. Please adhere to 6' social distancing requirements when in the gallery space.
Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday: 9 am - 6 pm
Saturday & Sunday: 9 am - 4 pm
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In Focus Lecture Series
Sunday, February 20, 2022 at 3pm
This free event will be held virtually only.
Join us for a virtual lecture, \"Mural Commissions on the South Side of Chicago – Lessons Learned,\" featuring Nika Levando.
This lecture is a part of the ongoing EAC series, In Focus. In Focus features a variety of talks and presentations by artists, art professionals, historians and more!
Nika Levando shares her experience working with South Side artists on three mural commissions over the last 9 years in the Hyde Park and Woodlawn neighborhoods, against the storied history of public art, the Wall of Respect, and Bronzeville.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nika Levando has been a higher education professional for over 10 years. In her current role at the University of Chicago's Office of Civic Engagement, Nika is responsible for developing and advancing new initiatives and programs that seek to advance OCE’s strategic priorities, by working with leadership both within the office and across the University. A core part of her role is supporting academic partnerships, integrating community engagement strategy as a foundational component. Nika also co-leads the office’s Diversity and Inclusion committee as well as manages OCE’s arts and culture initiatives that seek to catalyze neighborhood reinvestment and strengthen partnerships with University departments and institutes, local community organizations, art institutions, and neighborhood partners. Outside of her day-to-day role, Nika is a cultural advocate, and has contributed to Chicago's arts ecosystem through board service, volunteerism, and community advocacy. Over the last two years, Nika has taught three adult continuing education courses in Art History as an adjunct lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received her Master's Degree in Art History, Theory, and Criticism.
ABOUT THE EVENT
This event was originally a hybrid event, however due to the recent surge in Covid cases, it will be held virtually only.
This lecture will be VIRTUAL ONLY, and available via Zoom. After registering on Eventbrite, a day before the event, we will email you more information on how to log into the event via Zoom with the Meeting ID and password.
This event is free and open to the public.
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Painting, including abstraction, has been around too long to hold surprises, at least in the area of pictorial innovation, which was its hallmark historically. This could be regarded as the current challenge for painting and for abstraction in particular. Whereas painting continues unabated with no signs of disappearing, the question remains how to make it vital, not only in terms of pictorial seduction, but also in the area of content. This is one of the particular dilemmas for abstraction.
The work of Corey Postiglione and Kathie Shaw is not only about itself and the sheer formal optical experience uncomplicated by any outside issues. The use of abstract imagery readily embraces issues such as themes of globalization, not only for the individual, but for the society at large. For these two artists the resultant dynamics of spiritual, societal, cultural, and environmental degradation is represented in the metaphoric language of abstract art.
How does the viewer decode this work? Often meaning is revealed through titles or through some element of the composition. The goal for both of these artists is to create work that is seductive enough to draw the viewer in, and hopefully to inspire the viewer enough to ponder the current complexities of socio-political and environmental realities.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Corey Postiglione
Since the 1970s Corey has exhibited professionally with over twenty solo exhibitions and numerous group shows both nationally and internationally. His critical writing has been published in Artforum, The New Art Examiner, Dialogue, and C-Magazine (Toronto). He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Art and Art History at Columbia College Chicago, where he taught Art History and Critical Theory and studio for over 25 years. The artist is represented by the following galleries: Springboard Arts Chicago; Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado; and Westbrook Modern, Carmel CA. More work can be seen on his website: coreypostiglione.com
Kathie Shaw
Kathie Shaw was born and raised in Pennsylvania. After receiving a BFA in Photography from Pennsylvania State University, she moved to Chicago where she received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Eventually she also received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois Chicago. The impetus for her most recent work comes from current events. In 2020 Covid-19 provided the catalyst for a series of Crayola crayon drawings entitled Chaos. The year 2021 has resulted in a series entitled Sanctuary, a shift in emphasis toward a pure systemic geometry representing a drawing inward.
Artwork Shown (L to R): Corey Postiglione, Kathie Shaw
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Sandra Perlow (B.1939) is based in Chicago. Perlow’s two-dimensional works start from casual observations and ongoing explorations of her surroundings. Sandra Perlow is the recipient of several awards as well as residencies at Yaddo, the American Academy in Rome, the Chicago Artists Coalition, and at The Spertus Institute. In 2013, she was invited to speak about her work in relation to that of Philip Guston at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her works have been exhibited in Dubhe Carreno Gallery, The Rockford Museum, the Brauer Museum in Indiana, and the Linda Warren Residency program for 2016-2017. Her work is included in the permanent Collection at the Rockford Art Museum in Rockford, Illinois. She recently presented a solo exhibition at the South Bend Museum of Art (2018).
Artwork Shown (L to R): Verena Brassel, Archeology; Bob Nonnemacher, The Energy Within; Cole Pierce, 247 (Observatory); Sandra Perlow, Whirl Pool
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The Evanston Art Center is proud to present four solo shows showcasing the work of Verena Brassel, Robert Nonnemacher, Cole Pierce and Sandra Perlow.
Cole Pierce received his MFA from Northwestern University and a BSS in Art and Sociology from Cornell College. He has recently exhibited at Heaven Gallery, Peter Paul Luce Gallery, THE MISSION, PArC Lima, and Roman Susan. He received DCASE (Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events) grants in 2016, 2017 and 2019, and was a SÍM (Association of Icelandic Visual Artists) resident in Reykjavík, Iceland. In 2016, he completed his first major public work, a 60’x11’ mural in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago.
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The Evanston Art Center is proud to present four solo shows showcasing the work of Verena Brassel, Robert Nonnemacher, Cole Pierce and Sandra Perlow.
Bob Nonnemacher’s complex and energized abstract paintings are created by fusing bold lines into geometric shapes and through a painting process using both sides of a single canvas. After using two contrasting painting techniques, one on each side, he cuts the canvas apart, sometimes into 200+ pieces, and then reassembles the pieces to create a final image. The result is an optical energy dominated by a vibrant color palette and intriguing patterns that offers a fresh and exciting perspective on geometric abstraction.
Bob’s unusual process started accidently when he was working on some untreated canvas. While applying large amounts of the paint, it started to seep through to the other side. This prompted new conceptual revelations that lead to new approaches to explore up/down, wet/dry, dark/light, control/surprise, forward/recede and textures in a body of work that explores geometric abstraction with an eye towards modernism.
After earning a Bachelor’s degree in Art at Winona State University, Bob began a thriving career in publishing as a designer, art coordinator, art buyer, and illustrator and project manager spanning 30 years. He currently exhibits his work throughout the Midwest in galleries and juried exhibitions.
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The Evanston Art Center is proud to present four solo shows showcasing the work of Verena Brassel, Robert Nonnemacher, Cole Pierce and Sandra Perlow.
Verena Brassel (B. 1948; Winterthur, Switzerland) has been painting professionally and intensively for over 30 years. She developed her own expressive techniques often with pigments, various mixtures including earth and is not only painting, but also forming statues with special materials. She took interest in different old cultures and history. Many trips have taken her to near and far east and to Africa, Europe and USA. She got especially influenced by Israel through more than a dozen trips.
Brassel’s work has been exhibited in various countries besides her home country of Switzerland like Israel, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Italy and USA (St. Louis and Evanston Art Center). She undertook various workshops/ projects like one at the Anne Frank School in Eschwege, Germany and in Guxhagen, Breitenau Monastery, Germany. For many years she has been working annually with students of the teacher training college St.Gall, Switzerland. A special project she realized in Wilmette, near Chicago USA: A workshop with students, 8th graders enrolled in 2-D and 3-D art classes (Foundation Fine Arts Committee Funds Artist-In Residence for WJHS Workshop).
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arTEA Party | Saturday, April 30, 1–3 pm
A fundraiser for the Evanston Art Center will consist of donated handmade mugs by local artists and EAC students with local refreshments. Each ticket holder will receive their choice of donated mug and refreshments from local businesses.
Tickets are on sale now, visit our website to purchase them today!
To donate mugs please contact Emma Rose Gudewicz egudewicz@evanstonartcenter.org.
All donations must be food safe.
Mark your calendars for the Spring Market!
There will be handmade one-of-a-kind works from over 20 local artists for sale on Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1. Works include paintings, drawings, jewelry, ceramics, and mixed media.
Shopping hours:
If you are an artist and wish to participate, tables are still available!
Artists are required to man their own tables and sales. We are accepting 20-30 artists on a first come, first serve basis.
The Booth Fee is $100 for a full table and $50 for half of a table. The Booth Fee is due at time of application to confirm your spot.
Table Dimensions:
Any interest and questions should be directed to Emma Rose Gudewicz at egudewicz@evanstonartcenter.org.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 8, 2022
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Debra Favre (Nanette Debra Favre) is a printmaker and potter who has been working on her artistic interests at the Evanston Art Center for many years. She began her artistic journey in college, at one time studying to become a medical illustrator. She instead followed her interest in the biological sciences to a professional career in environmental protection and health and safety. Post-college in her free time Debra continued her art studies in drawing, painting and sculpture at the former Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC.
Debra first encountered printmaking in a college art class, but did not explore it further until 2015, nearly 40 years later. She enjoys combining line work with blocks of color through woodcut and linocut relief printing. Her painting experience is helpful in her use of color and composition. She often uses past paintings as an inspiration for her current print work. Her prints are a reflection on her personal experiences and relationships, interests in the natural world and her devotion to the journey of the process.
ABOUT THE PRINTMAKING GALLERY
The Printmaking Gallery serves to showcase the exceptional artwork made by EAC printmaking students.
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Youth Fine Art (YFA) Instructors: Angela Schlaud, Bonnie Katz, Cheryl Steiger, Janet Trierweiler, Kathy Cunningham, Lauren Koo, Rui Sha, Samantha Younis, Stephanie Brohman & Vivian Zapata
Curated by Ashleigh Pastor, Youth Fine Arts Coordinator
ABOUT THE STUDIO EXHIBITION SERIES
The ongoing Studio Exhibition series highlights the variety of exceptional artwork made in our EAC classrooms by featuring student work in our galleries.
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Curated by Artist and Community Activist Fran Joy, this exhibit highlights the work of people in the community who identify at Black, Indegenous or People of Color.
Special events include:
Contemporary Needlepoint Created at The Needle’s Excellency
The evolution of a traditional craft into an art form.
People who needlepoint enjoy its meditative nature and its challenge to their artistic abilities.
Traditionally, needlepoint embroidery was used for upholstery due to the sturdy nature of the canvas and wool. In the 1970s, a variety of fibers came on the scene and a number of designers started painting patterns for needlepoint. There was a resurgence and excitement over this new hobby.
Its popularity has continued to the present, as the possibilities have expanded immeasurably.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Amrita Goldberg has been a needlepoint instructor and advisor at The Needle’s Excellency in Evanston for many years. Her background in the Fine Arts has been her motivation to approach the craft of needlepoint through a creative lens. Her students are skilled and inventive stitchers whose talent, enthusiasm, and perseverance have produced remarkable and unique works of art on canvas using a variety of stitches and fibers. Amrita holds a BFA from Sir J.J. School of Art in Bombay, India, and an MFA from The Art Institute of Chicago.
ABOUT THE NEEDLE'S EXCELLENCY
The Needle’s Excellency was established in the early seventies. It was a time of growing popularity for needle arts and they decided to join the trade that promised personal satisfaction in working on a project of your own choice and, if you chose, participating in group workshops and classes.
In time our classes became the most popular part of our business, with substantial numbers of participants enrolling in our workshops on a continuous basis throughout the years. If you are interested in our schedule of workshops and classes please call.
Needless to say, we carry a wide range of designs, fibers and accessories and provide expert needlepoint finishing and framing.
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Layered Meanings features the work of Sherry Karver, Robert McCann, and Lilach Schrag. Though vastly different in their artistic expressions, each presents the viewer with complex explorations of personal and societal alienation, contradiction and conflict found in modern life. The works invite the viewer to look deeply and thoroughly to find metaphors, examine the stories told and find the meanings.
Karver evolves photography into mixed media panels of crowds and people in busy urban settings interlaced with narratives of disaffection. McCann‘s large paintings mesh smoothly rendered action figures, settings from banal Americana, and abstract impasto into complex and disturbing scenes. Schrag works in various media in which process and exploration invite the viewer to contemplate physical and spiritual aspects of human existence.
Sherry Karver was born and raised in Chicago, and is currently living in California with her husband, poet and novelist Jerry Ratch. She has been an artist since childhood, attending Saturday kid's classes at the Art Institute, and later received a B.A. from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.
After graduating she opened a pottery shop/studio under the Morse Ave. EL before going on to get an M.F.A. in ceramics from Tulane University in New Orleans. Sherry taught college level ceramics for many years, while her own work evolved into photography and photo-based mixed media oil painting.
Karver is currently working on two related series: Identity and Perception, and Missing Pieces of the Puzzle, both originating from photographs she takes in public places. These mixed media photo-based works deal with issues many people experience in today's fast-paced impersonal society - alienation, loneliness, memory, loss of identity, what's missing in our lives and how we view others.
Born and raised in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri, Robert A. McCann developed his studio practice through studies at Missouri State University, Indiana University, and as a Fulbright scholar based in Berlin, Germany. He has exhibited his artwork extensively around the United States, including solo exhibitions at prominent public venues such as Grand Rapids Art Museum, South Bend Museum of Art, the University of Kansas Art & Design Gallery and the University of Arkansas Galleries at Little Rock. McCann is currently based in Lansing, Michigan, where he teaches in Painting and Foundations at Michigan State University.
McCann’s paintings are concerned with big themes like desire and loss, history and progress, entropy and entertainment. He develops visual ideas through an accumulation process—propping autobiography up against current events and fantasy, collaging parts together digitally and physically and painting one thing next to and onto another. The seeming contradictions of painting spark it to life. His paintings are a fictional storytelling space, butyou can’t read an image in order like you read a book. A painting is physical and sensual, but the viewer is meant to keep a distance and not touch.
Lilach Schrag Lilach Schrag studies literal and visual texts that feature transformative encounters and magic. Referencing nature and the human body, she fuses a wide range of methods and materials common in domestic or farm work with those found in traditional art to highlight physical activity as a metaphor for psychological process.
Schrag graduated from Hamidrasha Art School in Israel, and holds a Master of Arts from Spertus Institute, Chicago. She has exhibited widely, including at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art and 33 Contemporary Gallery in Chicago, as well as the Janco Dada Museum and the Jerusalem Biennale in Israel.
The human body, its movement and proportions are central to Schrag’s work as she meditates on stories, spirituality, nature and human existence. This body of work interweaves hybrid beings and plants in transformative encounters. Schrag studies literal and visual texts that feature transformative encounters and magic. Referencing nature and the human body, she fuses a wide range of methods and materials common in domestic or farm work with those found in traditional art to highlight physical activity as a metaphor for psychological process.
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The closing reception for WHISPER OF A WORLD WITHOUT WORDS (Abbreviated) will take place on Saturday, October 1, from 3:30-6:00pm. RSVP today.
As a visual historian critical issues such as racial strife and societal divide guide my work. Through clay, paint and wood I convey stories of serenity, faith, and hope, interpreting mood, feeling and emotion. Through the elements of form and movement I create a spiritually aesthetic connection with clay and wood. In my paintings, as well as with clay and wood the female figure, in its various modalities is my focus. Through these, I create various interpretative expressions of stylized realism.
I want to stir the conscience, change thinking and start conversations towards a more understanding and accepting world. My work is my voice, to impact and emotionally move an audience, not only for now, but for perpetuity.
\"Be the change you want to see in the world.\" - Gandhi
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Malika Jackson's works have been exhibited in galleries, festivals, in group and solo shows.
Received SPARK Award-2020, a six-month residency at Hyde Park Art Center ‘THE CENTER PROGRAM’. Recently completed solo show at the Hyde Park Art Center, presently showing with Sapphire and Crystals at Bridgeport Art Gallery, and the Addington Gallery. Received commissions for the Ronald McDonald Houses’ - the Ryder Cup Tournament; exhibited at the Howard Brown Center, Black Clay at Chicago State, Fast Forward, Rewind: Play, HPAC, ‘From the Earth-Woman Made Gallery, Gallery D’Estees, Noyes Gallery, Museum of Science and Industry, Artopolis at the Merchandise Mart, Cliff Dwellers, and numerous other venues.
Curator for Women’s Made Gallery and curator and coordinated ‘Cultural Connections African Art Bazaar for 22 years.
Featured in ‘Curators of Dixon’; ‘Producing Local Color’ – Art Network in Ethnic Chicago’, by Diane Grams; ‘South Shore Current’.
MFA & BFA from the School of the Art Institute, and studied at Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois. Artist tour of France and Italy completed ceramic workshop in Tuscany, Italy.
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Coffee and Creativity - Free Workshop
The Evanston Art Center and Arts of Life have partnered for a free workshop for artists to meet and discuss their art and processes!
Our FREE \"Coffee and Creativity\" series is designed to spark dialogue and connections among local artists.
Taking place on the third Thursday of each month, participants can work on a project or share their artwork for feedback in a relaxed welcoming setting. This is an opportunity to meet artists in the community from various backgrounds, and to set aside time to focus on your own art practice.
Grief is an ocean of tears formed over millennia -- a cumulative repository of our collective sorrow. This exhibition, we are built in water, is an immersion into mourning research.
Early in 2016, my husband and father died within days of each other- a teardrop of sorrow compared to the worldwide grief that followed. Since then, millions of people have lost someone through pandemic-related illness, war, violence, climate crises, and even divisions of opinion. We are mourning globally, collectively. My work became a salve for the daily ruptures, and a meditation on what is lost or waning.
During these six years, a specific phrase, \"In the end, all that's left is love–\" would surface at odd moments. I instinctively knew this was true. Through a deep dive into grief's chaotic rhythms, I found that grief is a sacred art, and it is impossible to grieve what we cannot praise or love. If the last six years have cemented one point, it is this; we are all intimately connected to the earth and our collective spirit. Love and praise of humanity with all its warts and problems is the ballast of peace. This mourning cry, this instinctive symphony of praise, is the sound of deep life-affirming love.
Connie Noyes, a multidisciplinary artist, received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA in Psychology and Art Therapy from Notre Dame de Namur University. Among Noyes' many notable solo exhibitions and residencies in the US, she has also gained international recognition with exhibitions in Germany, France, Austria, and the UAE, where she represented Salwa Zeidan Gallery at Art Abu Dhabi. She participated in residencies at Arteles, Finland; CAMP, France; the TransArt summer program in Berlin, Germany; Thupelo International Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa. Noyes' work is in the collections of The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois; The Ekstrom Library of Photographic Archives Special Collections, Louisville, Kentucky; and the Greenville County Museum, Greenville, South Carolina. She currently lives and works in Chicago, where her work and life seamlessly intertwine.
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I invite the community to engage with me in a communal mending ritual in the Atrium Gallery.
Out of necessity, I created a symbolic shroud as a healing ritual and meditation on grief after significant losses. Over time, the original black linen fabric, degraded with bleach, became more fragile and challenging to sew.
I invite the community to support this mending project by adding their own symbolic or storied fabric to the shroud to enrich and strengthen the cloth. We will use simple meditation and writing exercises as ritual contemplation of the act we are building together, knowing that the fabric may never be fully mended but can be better fortified with the attention of many loving hands.
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Tricia Van Eck, the Artistic Director and Founder of 6018North, will engage with me in a provocative conversation about my research and the exhibition we are built in water. All are welcome to join in! This event will take place in the Atrium Gallery on the 2nd floor.
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David Anthony Geary is a transdisciplinary artist working in a variety of mediums. His visual training took place in New Orleans, LA at Xavier University. He remained in this uniquely attractive city to absorb as much of its great culture and heritage as he could. Inspired by beauty. Culture and life experiences fill his work along with the discovery of newness. Constantly pushing, searching and discovering the new while at the same time holding on to the old. It's not just an aspect of David's art but an aspect of his character that finds its way into the art. Communicating his perspective of the world around him through a visual language, he became fluent in many dialects of visual art. Building a career as an artist, an educator, as well as a family in New Orleans, has greatly influenced his work both visually and conceptually. His work incorporates painting, printmaking, collage, assemblage, sculpture or photography. The nuance of the human experience, both the introspective and observed are an integral part of his process.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Inspired by culture, beauty, science, mythology and experience. My work is simultaneously engaged in the now, then and still to come. Consistently pushing, searching and discovering the new while at the same time holding on to the old. It's not just an aspect of my work but an aspect of me that finds its way into the things I create. The nuance of the creative experience, both the introspective and observed are an integral part of my process. Each piece is a dance between intention and intuition, a process of exchange, discovery and experimentation informed as much by the moments of their creation as the research that proceeds them. The portrait specifically serves to explore the nuance of identity.
GALLERY HOURS & VISITOR INFORMATION FOR COVID-19 GUIDELINES
This exhibition will be held in the Main Second Floor Gallery of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). Masks are optional but strongly recommended for students, visitors, and staff.
Gallery Hours
Monday–Thursday: 9am–6pm
Friday: 9am–5pm
Saturday–Sunday: 9am–4pm
HOW TO PURCHASE ARTWORK
Artwork sale proceeds benefit both the artist and the Evanston Art Center. If you are interested in purchasing artwork on display, please contact Audrey Avril, Manager of Exhibitions, at aavril@evanstonartcenter.org or (847) 475-5300 x 107.
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\"Better Angels\" is a phrase in Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural speech calling us to be our most moral selves. With bold, flat color and convoluted forms, the sculptural installation Better Angels hovers overhead, drawing our attention upwards to a higher plane. The pieces float, suspended above our heads, intertwining like vines or Renaissance winged babies, eliciting mirth and joy.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Adria Arch is a multi-media artist living in the Boston area.
Most recently, Arch’s installations have been exhibited at Boston Sculptors Gallery, Brattleboro Art Museum in Vermont and at the Danforth Museum in Framingham, MA. In 2019 her work was featured at the Fitchburg Art Museum, and in 2020 at the Cahoon Museum of American Art. She has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi. Her work is included in many private and public collections including the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Fidelity Corporation, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
GALLERY HOURS & VISITOR INFORMATION FOR COVID-19 GUIDELINES
This exhibition will be held in the Second Floor Atrium Gallery of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). Masks are optional but strongly recommended for students, visitors and staff.
Gallery Hours
Monday–Thursday: 9am–6pm
Friday: 9am–5pm
Saturday–Sunday: 9am–4pm
HOW TO PURCHASE ARTWORK
Artwork sale proceeds benefit both the artist and the Evanston Art Center. If you are interested in purchasing artwork on display, please contact Audrey Avril, Manager of Exhibitions, at aavril@evanstonartcenter.org or (847) 475-5300 x 107.
This project is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency and EAC's general membership.
Artwork Pictured: Adria Arch, Interference (detail), 2019.
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This exhibition highlights over 70 works of student art created in 2022 EAC classes in a wide variety of departments. Help us congratulate the talent, creativity, and dedication of the EAC community!
The EAC Studio Exhibition will be on display in the Evanston Art Center's First Floor Gallery from January 14 – February 19, 2023. The exhibition and opening reception are free and open to the public.
Learn more about the exhibition here.
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ON VIEW: January 19 – March 10, 2023
Opening Reception: Sunday, February 5, 2-4pm. RSVP.
Eli Williamson is a photo essayist born and bred on the talented streets of Chicago’s South Side. His street photography captures the intimate moments of people of African descent in the Americas and their influence on popular culture worldwide. His focus on capturing the narratives of Black Men and Boys through images is vital in addressing the stereotypes that have been detrimental to their wellness and continue to damage the cohesiveness of the communities in which they live. By combining his images with written exposition, Eli provides his audience with his unique perspective as a Black father and nonprofit leader in the community in which he lives. His images focus on the dimensions of color and texture, reciprocal relationships, interdependence, and community grit. This focus underpins his ability to capture authentic imagery of the African diaspora that is emulated worldwide. His current project, The Four Virtues, is a four-part monograph that explores and cements the virtue of Black Men and Boys as they navigate a society where the expectation of virtue is absent. The first virtue of this project is FatherHood.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Eli Williamson is a nonprofit and philanthropy executive with over a decade of experience working to solve complex problems in distressed communities. His goal as a photo essayist is to use street photography to challenge false narratives of the Afro-American Diaspora. Eli is also the co-founder of Leave No Veteran Behind, an Illinois-based non-profit that invests in veterans to build more resilient communities. He was the former Director of Veterans Programs for the Robert R. McCormick Foundation. Eli served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a non-commissioned officer in the US Army, as a member of Psychological Operations (PSYOP), and as an Arabic linguist supporting special operations forces. Eli is a dedicated father and enjoys taking summer wilderness adventures in his camper with his standard poodle Starla.
To see more of his work, you can visit him at his website: Ghetto Efflorescence
GALLERY HOURS & VISITOR INFORMATION FOR COVID-19 GUIDELINES
This exhibition will be held in the First Floor Lobby Gallery of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). Masks are optional but strongly recommended for students, visitors and staff.
Gallery Hours
Monday–Thursday: 9am–6pm
Friday: 9am–5pm
Saturday–Sunday: 9am–4pm
HOW TO PURCHASE ARTWORK
Artwork sale proceeds benefit both the artist and the Evanston Art Center. If you are interested in purchasing artwork on display, please contact Audrey Avril, Manager of Exhibitions, at aavril@evanstonartcenter.org or (847) 475-5300 x 107.
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Dancing for Our Tribe: Potawatomi Tradition in the New Millennium
January 29, 2023 at 3pm
Hybrid Lecture
A member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and professional photographer, Sharon Hoogstraten has spent a decade creating formal portraits of fellow Potawatomis. Join Hoogstraten as she details her creative and personal journey and insights gained through her monumental project, Dancing for Our Tribe: Potawatomi Tradition in the New Millennium.
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The reception will also feature \"In conversation with Shonna Pryor and Matt Morris\" beginning at 3pm.
Shonna Pryor is a conceptual artist, art programs producer, and an educator at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her interdisciplinary art practice is inspired by references to food theory and its peripheral objects and concepts as a lens through which to critically engage the politics of identity, memory, power, and play. Afrofuturist aesthetic underscores the visual language of these expressions via reclaimed objects, installation, painting and public programming. Pryor's work has been exhibited in major cities such as Chicago, Detroit and New York, with esteemed artist residencies at Hyde Park Art Center; High Concept Labs; and Chicago Council on Science and Technology, respectively. Her visual art and community-based collaborations with nationally recognized organizations and institutions have been instrumental in employing art to encourage young people towards S.T.E.A.M. futures, as applied to a just and equitable society.
ARTIST STATEMENT I think of my found objects as reclaimed testimonials with previous lives. In their studio re-awakenings, these object griots become story catalysts, fundamentally engaging food-referencing concepts as a way-to-the-heart-through-the-belly of identity, memory, power and play…the food brings you to the meeting but the agency makes you stay. My creative practice aspires toward nourishing pathways that generate questions, broaden perspectives, and inspire action-to-positive-change both personally, as well as within broader social frameworks. It imagines the spirit of sentient webs of underground railroads linking the past/present/future of my ancestral collective conscious. These ideas, as serviced by select multidisciplinary media and making become conduits that toggle between the immediacy of the actual and the possibilities of the speculative…with a dash of Oshunna’s cayenne;)
The exhibition aligns with Black History Month, including a nod to the city of Evanston as the first to advance reparations to qualified descendants of enslaved black Americans.
GALLERY HOURS & VISITOR INFORMATION
This exhibition will be held in the Main Second Floor + Atrium Gallery of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). Masks are optional but strongly recommended for students, visitors and staff.
Gallery Hours
Monday–Thursday: 9am–6pm
Friday: 9am–5pm
Saturday–Sunday: 9am–4pm
HOW TO PURCHASE ARTWORK
Artwork sale proceeds benefit both the artist and the Evanston Art Center. If you are interested in purchasing artwork on display, please contact Audrey Avril, Manager of Exhibitions, at aavril@evanstonartcenter.org or (847) 475-5300 x 107.
All The Water That Ever Was, Now Is features the works of scholar, artist and writer Rebecca Keller.
Comprised of large paintings, a sculptural installation, research into agencies that care for our water, and demographic data of the communities that share Lake Michigan water accessible via QR codes, All The Water That Ever Was, Now Is engages the idea of water as a commons, a contended resource and a mutual responsibility. The dialogue touches on livelihoods, access, pollution, wealth, ownership, usage, climate change and fears and obligations for the future.
All The Water That Ever Was, Now Is will be on view in the Evanston Art Center's Second Floor Atrium Gallery from April 1 - May 7, 2023 with an opening reception on Sunday, April 16, from 1-4pm. RSVP.
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Matthew Dicks: \"23\"
Rebecca Keller: All The Water That Ever Was, Now Is
The Evanston Art Center is excited to announce the opening of two new exhibitions this Saturday, April 1.
\"23\" features the bold and energetic paintings of artist Matthew Dicks.
Dicks writes, \"I am rushed with connotations of importance for \"23\", one of them being the number of chromosomes directing the complexity of my identity. Information from African, European, Native American, and Asian generations carries through my work. Tales of love, triumph, conflict and the plethora of human experiences find me as an active participant to translate onto canvas. Contemporarily, the two digits have been synthesized as an equalizing figure of speech to convey intrinsic value in high fashion. The same is accomplished in fine art. The visual captivation of “23” is an iconic reminder for reaching beyond greatness in the African American community, specifically Chicago, where I now reside. In surrendering to an immediate recognition of the present moment, the identifying marker is \"23\".\"
\"23\" will be on view in the Evanston Art Center's Main Second Floor Gallery from April 1 - May 7, 2023 with an opening reception on Sunday, April 2, from 1-4pm.
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Studio Exhibition: Tangled | April 2, 1-4pm
The Evanston Art Center is excited to present Studio Exhibition: Tangled, featuring works by EAC students of Stephanie Funke.
The Zentangle© art method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. These patterns, referred to as tangles, are made with combinations of elemental strokes including lines, dots, simple curves and orbs. Often the patterns are drawn on small pieces of paper known as “tiles.”
The Zentangle© art method’s use of gentle boundaries, structured patterns and one-stroke-at-a-time focus enhances creativity and self-expression and allows for the creation of something beautiful in a relatively short period of time.
For over two years the EAC has offered Zentangle© art method classes with instructor Stephanie Funke, and this exhibit celebrates the work of students who have put pen to paper and created beautiful and unique works of art.
Studio Exhibition: Tangled will be on display in the EAC's Second Floor Hallway Galleries April 1 - April 30, with an opening reception on Sunday, April 2, from 1-4pm. The exhibition and opening reception are free and open to the public. Learn more.
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Comprised of large paintings, a sculptural installation, research into agencies that care for our water, and demographic data of the communities that share Lake Michigan water accessible via QR codes, All The Water That Ever Was, Now Is engages the idea of water as a commons, a contended resource and a mutual responsibility. The dialogue touches on livelihoods, access, pollution, wealth, ownership, usage, climate change and fears and obligations for the future.
All The Water That Ever Was, Now Is will be on view in the Evanston Art Center's Second Floor Atrium Gallery from April 1 - May 7, 2023 with an opening reception on Sunday, April 16, from 1-4pm. RSVP.
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Artist Anne Hayden Stevens was selected for a juror’s award and solo exhibition at the Art Center by juror Kate Pollasch in the 2021 Evanston + Vicinity Biennial. This exhibition, The Philosopher Walks, includes expansive oil paintings and sculpture in which tiny figures make their way through a mountainous world. Stevens’ textured, high chroma landscapes employ simple forms of trees, bodies, refuges, and water to create space for travelers through the paintings. Stevens, a painter and printmaker, has made large scale installations in Evanston in two pop-up exhibitions curated by Lisa Degliantoni and EvanstonMade, and curates outdoor installations and screenings at the Evanston Art Center as Side/Lot with artist Mat Rappaport. Stevens participated in the Center Program and Bridge at the Hyde Park Art Center, and the Field/Work program at the Chicago Artists Coalition.
A series of nine paintings on paper, Accountability, will be on display in the exhibition. These paintings were made in response to assignments given to a group of artists, centered around a class of incarcerated artists, by multidisciplinary artist Damon Locks, the director of the Black Monument Ensemble. Locks works as a teaching artist for the Prison+Neighborhood Arts Project, or PNAP, with incarcerated artists at Stateville Prison.
Locks’ assignments are speculative and forward-looking. He asks the artists to have a conversation with themselves about Accountability, and to ponder a Lost Place, and to make a story about a Transformation. The assignments urge us to envision a liberated world while living in the real world.
The Philosopher Walks will be on display in the Evanston Art Center's Second Floor Gallery from June 17 – July 23, 2023. Stevens will be present in the galleries for an Exhibition Preview on June 16, 2023, from 3-5pm. The opening reception will take place on Sunday, June 25th, from 1-4pm, and there will be a closing reception on Sunday, July 23rd from 1-4pm with an artist’s Gallery Talk at 2pm. The exhibition and accompanying events are free and open to the public.
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The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is proud to present a new exhibition, The Philosopher Walks, featuring works by Anne Hayden Stevens.
Artist Anne Hayden Stevens was selected for a juror’s award and solo exhibition at the Art Center by juror Kate Pollasch in the 2021 Evanston + Vicinity Biennial. This exhibition, The Philosopher Walks, includes expansive oil paintings and sculpture in which tiny figures make their way through a mountainous world. Stevens’ textured, high chroma landscapes employ simple forms of trees, bodies, refuges, and water to create space for travelers through the paintings. Stevens, a painter and printmaker, has made large scale installations in Evanston in two pop-up exhibitions curated by Lisa Degliantoni and EvanstonMade, and curates outdoor installations and screenings at the Evanston Art Center as Side/Lot with artist Mat Rappaport. Stevens participated in the Center Program and Bridge at the Hyde Park Art Center, and the Field/Work program at the Chicago Artists Coalition.
A series of nine paintings on paper, Accountability, will be on display in the exhibition. These paintings were made in response to assignments given to a group of artists, centered around a class of incarcerated artists, by multidisciplinary artist Damon Locks, the director of the Black Monument Ensemble. Locks works as a teaching artist for the Prison+Neighborhood Arts Project, or PNAP, with incarcerated artists at Stateville Prison.
Locks’ assignments are speculative and forward-looking. He asks the artists to have a conversation with themselves about Accountability, and to ponder a Lost Place, and to make a story about a Transformation. The assignments urge us to envision a liberated world while living in the real world.
The Philosopher Walks will be on display in the Evanston Art Center's Second Floor Gallery from June 17 – July 23, 2023. Stevens will be present in the galleries for an Exhibition Preview on June 16, 2023, from 3-5pm. The opening reception will take place on Sunday, June 25th, from 1-4pm, and there will be a closing reception on Sunday, July 23rd from 1-4pm with an artist’s Gallery Talk at 2pm. The exhibition and accompanying events are free and open to the public.
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ABOUT THE STUDIO EXHIBITION SERIES
The ongoing Studio Exhibition series highlights the variety of exceptional artwork made in our EAC classrooms by featuring student work in our galleries. Each Studio Exhibition is coordinated by the instructor, who curates contemporary and thought provoking exhibitions of their students' artwork.
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Opening Reception: Sunday, July 9, from 1-4pm. RSVP.
Curatorial Walkthrough: Sunday, July 23, 1-4pm. RSVP.
Artist Panel and Discussion 1-2:30pm and Closing Events 2:30-4pm: August 13 RSVP
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to present a new exhibition, Partition in the Modern World: Transdiasporic Art Perspectives, curated by 2022 / 2023 Curatorial Fellow, Pritika Chowdhry.
A partition is a change of political borders cutting through at least one territory, often dividing a homeland and fracturing communities along religious, ethnic, or other political lines. The 20th century saw over 25 countries partitioned worldwide, causing bloodshed, ethnic violence, and forced migrations of large segments of populations across the globe.
Partition in the Modern World: Transdiasporic Art Perspectives engages eleven different geopolitical partitions: the partitions of Palestine (1947, 1967, ongoing), Bosnia (1992), Cyprus (1974), Ireland (1921), Germany (1945), Mexico (1848), Native North America (1830-1850), India (1947), Pakistan/Bangladesh (1971), and Kashmir (1947, 1962, 1965).
The artists in this exhibition poetically probe the geopolitical phenomenon of partitioning a country and its aftermath through the dual lenses of cultural memories and multiple diasporic locations, laying bare the reverberations of partitions individually, locally, and globally. Examining, questioning, and protesting these partitions in the registers of human rights, political actors, and gendered fallout, the works engage partition as a political tool and its relevance now, in post-9/11 America and globally.
This exhibition also makes transdiasporic connections between different historical partitions. The Transdiaspora Art Project, founded by Pritika Chowdhry, has created a curatorial framework that brings artists together from disparate diasporic locations, around common overarching themes.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Aida Hasanovic
Anagh Banerjee
Ansab Jehan
Doerte Weber
Gail Ritchie
Jafra Abu Zoulouf
Kara Cobb Johnson
Lana Cmajcanin
Lia Lapithi
Madhurima Ganguly
Manal Deeb
Mariyeh Mushtaq
Meena Matai
Nadine Nashef
Nitasha Jaini
Raisa S Kabir
Roman Robroek
Sabine Senft
Salma Arastu
Shameera Din Wiest
Sonia Ahmad
Tulika Ladsariya
Ursula Burke
After the physical exhibition at EAC comes to an end, the exhibition will transition to a virtual exhibition in the Online Partition Museum.
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Pritika Chowdhry is an artist and curator, whose artworks are in public and private collections. Chowdhry’s Partition Anti-Memorial Project was exhibited in the South Asia Institute of Chicago as a solo retrospective, from August 6 to December 10, 2022. It is currently on view at the Online Partition Museum as a virtual exhibition.
Chowdhry has exhibited her works nationally and internationally in group and solo exhibitions in the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Queens Museum in New York, the Hunterdon Museum in New Jersey, the Islip Art Museum in Long Island, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, the DoVA Temporary in the University of Chicago, the Brodsky Center in Rutgers University, and the Cambridge Art Gallery in Massachusetts. Chowdhry is the recipient of a Vilas International Travel Fellowship, an Edith and Sinaiko Frank Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts, a Wisconsin Arts Board grant, and a Minnesota State Arts Board grant.
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The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is proud to present a new exhibition, The Philosopher Walks, featuring works by Anne Hayden Stevens.
Artist Anne Hayden Stevens was selected for a juror’s award and solo exhibition at the Art Center by juror Kate Pollasch in the 2021 Evanston + Vicinity Biennial. This exhibition, The Philosopher Walks, includes expansive oil paintings and sculpture in which tiny figures make their way through a mountainous world. Stevens’ textured, high chroma landscapes employ simple forms of trees, bodies, refuges, and water to create space for travelers through the paintings. Stevens, a painter and printmaker, has made large scale installations in Evanston in two pop-up exhibitions curated by Lisa Degliantoni and EvanstonMade, and curates outdoor installations and screenings at the Evanston Art Center as Side/Lot with artist Mat Rappaport. Stevens participated in the Center Program and Bridge at the Hyde Park Art Center, and the Field/Work program at the Chicago Artists Coalition.
A series of nine paintings on paper, Accountability, will be on display in the exhibition. These paintings were made in response to assignments given to a group of artists, centered around a class of incarcerated artists, by multidisciplinary artist Damon Locks, the director of the Black Monument Ensemble. Locks works as a teaching artist for the Prison+Neighborhood Arts Project, or PNAP, with incarcerated artists at Stateville Prison.
Locks’ assignments are speculative and forward-looking. He asks the artists to have a conversation with themselves about Accountability, and to ponder a Lost Place, and to make a story about a Transformation. The assignments urge us to envision a liberated world while living in the real world.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
I see my work as both a critique and a celebration of modern culture. My work deals with the theme of vanitas, which is a 17th century Dutch genre of painting that uses symbols of transience and impending death to warn against earthly vanity and pleasure. I see my paintings as curiosity cabinets of pop culture and girlhood, and I focus on brevity of life as a symbol of childhood. I don’t want to warn anyone against earthly pleasures in exchange for piety, I see it more as a true reflection of what it means to be an artist. The trivial pursuits of man become the plight of the artist as they strive to make a name for themselves. Just like everyone is constantly trying to relive their childhood, I am attempting to collapse my past into my future. I modernize 17th-century icons using plastic butterfly clips instead of real butterflies and a piggy bank skull instead of a real one. Glass objects that symbolized an artist’s ability to capture light have transformed into glittering bongs in my paintings. This new set of symbolism combines references from childhood with pop culture references. Through this process, I am collapsing and reclaiming these histories so they exist simultaneously although briefly, providing viewers with a different set of pop-imagery that is centered around girlhood and the power that can come from that. Displaying my female identity through investigative collections, I reveal and critique the notions and expectations that gender biases have perpetuated throughout history. Serving my audience with researched concepts and ideas on a hot pink platter, I deal with the theme of validity through violent femininity. I see my work as an expression of a justified autonomy, it’s an illustration of coming of age with the notion of agency.
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Jacqueline Moses employed road trip research for her new series Southern Towns USA, and uses photography and painting to explore the environs, history and energy that makes southern towns a home, of leaves a home behind in history. Murals found in the towns are effectively collaged into the oil paintings using photo transfer to express her interpretation of the current state of each location.
For example, in the painting “Nashville TN”, the poignantly contemporary “I am a Man” mural highlights previous and current race conflicts in smoothly rendered high-rises alongside comfortable middle-class homes. “Cairo III” depicts the formerly prosperous port town at the southern end of the state, now nearly a ghost town experienced in haunting decay.
Moses depicts her interpretation of southern towns devoid of actual humans but resounding in humanity – apparent through its environment and artifacts. Please enjoy this preview of her work.
– Margaret Lanterman
ARTIST STATEMENT
For many years I have been traveling visiting cities, parks and villages throughout the United States, Europe and South America. I started noticing the sharp increase in street art. I became more aware of differences in style and content that was mirroring the area in which they were created. I began to question if the art is reflecting the neighborhood or if the neighborhood is reflecting the art or if are they are interactive developing scenes that are reflective of both. I looked back at photo images taken of art works in public places I viewed in Finland, Denmark, Spain, Portugal and the Islands. I was struck by the strong colors and blending of nature and man made constructions.
Now I have started taking more notice of the many colorful works I see on structures around this area; Chicago and suburbs. I decided to visit Southern towns in the USA documenting the local street art in different cities. I was surprised to discover that many did not allow public art.
I started my trip south from Chicago toward the Mississippi Delta region. I went through many towns, though I was unable to visit some because of flooding. I took street art images when available and made documenting their present existence in 2020 my goal. Uppermost in my mind was their adaptability to our current environmental problems. increased racial unrest and technological developments.
The imagery presented in my paintings is reflective of our times as is the technique used. All paintings in this series are a combination of photographic transfers and oil on canvas. All images are derived from my photography and are juxtaposed to create the desired image.
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Our Biennial is one of the Midwest’s largest and most prestigious juried exhibitions, offering artists an opportunity to have their work viewed by three talented curators:
Chantal Healey, Executive Director, Chicago Public Art Group
Denny Mwaura, Assistant Director, Gallery 400, UIC
Erica Warren, PhD, Art Historian, Curator, Editor, Craft Quarterly
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Her paintings are a surreal world of uncommon alliances converging into unexpected unions. The collapsing perspectives, deteriorating images revealing hidden layers underneath are to reflect the fragility of our physical world and complexity of our memories. Integrating traditional oil painting with phototransfers, 3-D materials and new media, she achieves a seamless image of altered reality to provoke a thought or an emotional impulse in a viewer.
The materiality of textures make her paintings to be truly appreciated in physical viewing vs digital – it has to be a personal experience face-to-face. Most titles are simplified to remove her ego and to allow the viewer freedom to interpret the image according to one’s senses. Experiencing and interpreting the complexity of our synapses through art is one of the most precious human experiences.
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Mardy Sears is an Evanston artist and a member of the Evanston Made art community. She is a printmaker, ceramicist, and artist book maker. After graduating with a Masters in Fine Arts from The Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago in 2006, she began working as a Conservation Technician with a focus on paper at The Art Institute of Chicago.
Mardy’s visual language includes images of animals, primarily birds and sea creatures. Her animals tell stories of humanity and connect our everyday lives to the environment we live in. She incorporates text and poetry into her image making, that is often presented in book format. Her visual texture is influenced by the objects she works with at her job at the Art Institute of Chicago. Worn and aged surfaces such as joined sheets of paper and early book structures, which may be sewn, mended, and stained, are evident in her objects.
At the Art Institute of Chicago, she spends her days framing works on paper for exhibitions and loans - which may play a part in her preference for making objects. Her ceramics are utilitarian and her prints and drawings are made to be handled. Sketches can be pulled from envelopes, books perused, and boxes opened to see what they contain.
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The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to John Wangendo and Yancey Hughes.
These two exhibitions present the works of John Wangendo and Yancey Hughes as an intimate portrait of African youth and culture. Drawing inspiration from their cultural origins and surrounding environment, their distinctive mediums and perspectives offer a dynamic view of contemporary youth in Africa. This exhibition was curated by Fran Joy, independent curator.
John Wangendo:
John Wangendo is a self-taught portrait artist hailing from Kenya, and now based in Skokie, IL. He works primarily in pencil and charcoal, using the human face and figure to represent cultural narratives from various African countries. He was recently featured in this year’s BIPOC and NAACP exhibits held at the Evanston Art Center.
“Being from Kenya, I found it natural to tell the story of my people through portraits that portrayed their culture. I also decided to tell the story about the millions of African kids whose lives are scarred by war, hunger, and disease but go on to better their lives through education mostly funded by well-wishers. It is a story of overcoming the odds. Most of my stories are told through the eyes of the subject.” – John Wangendo
Yancey Hughes:
Yancey Hughes is a world-traveled photographer now based in Chicago, working out of a studio at the Noyes Cultural Art Center. This series of photographs highlights the day-to-day experiences of people, primarily children, in Ethiopia.
“He believes in a small dose of experience but inspiration and curiosity will see you through. He shares with us a wealth of enthusiasm as well as an abundance of knowledge of photography. His deep love and appreciation of the happy accident speaks volumes, for which he declares can only take place with patience and practice; by putting yourself in a position of opportunity. The key is to be flexible and think creatively no matter what reality throws you.”
“An inspired photographer always makes the most of what is given.” – Yancey Hughes
John Wangendo and Yancey Hughes will be exhibited in the Lobby Gallery of the Art Center. The Meet the Artist event and Virtual Artist Talk are free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: 1pm – 6pm, Monday – Friday; 9am – 5pm, Saturday; 9am – 4pm, Sunday. First and second floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
For more information, please visit us online at www.evanstonartcenter.org or contact Emma Rose Gudewicz, Director of Development & Exhibition Manager, at (847) 475-5300 or egudewicz@evanstonartcenter.org.
Visit the Evanston Art Center on Facebook: www.facebook.com/EvanstonArtCenter/, follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/#!/evartcenter, or on Instagram: @EvanstonArtCenter.
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Annie Briard (BFA, MFA) is a Canadian artist known for her practice in expanded photography and digital media. Her work challenges how we make sense of the world through visual perception. Creating lens-based and light-focused works, she explores the intersections between perception paradigms in psychology, neuroscience and existentialism.
Her moving images, media installations, expanded and print photography have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions, including “Staring at the Sun” at La Bande vidéo for the Quebec Biennale (Québec, 2022), “Within the Eclipse” at the Burrard Arts Foundation (Vancouver, 2021), \"Second Sight” at AC Institute (New York, 2019), \"Sight Shifting\" at Joyce Yahouda Gallery (Montréal, 2014), as well as group shows, festivals and fairs internationally at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Mûr (Montréal), Three Shadows Photography Centre (Beijing), the Lincoln Film Centre New York, Matadero Madrid, the Switzerland Architecture Museum, among many others. Recently, she presented monumental scale photographic and moving-image public art projects for a number of commissions in Canada. She has been artist-in-residence at SIM in Reykjavik, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Eastside Los Angeles and others. Annie Briard’s work has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and is found in the collections of the Art Bank of Canada, Microsoft, Scotiabank, Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec and others.
Briard is a Lecturer in photography and media arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and is represented in Vancouver by Monica Reyes Gallery.
ABOUT MARY FARMILANT
Natura Consonat is a project that I began after the death of my mother-in-law who lived on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. This is the home to the Ojibwe Indian tribe, her people. I returned to the Northwoods to process my thoughts and feelings about her life, our relationship and her sudden death.
What I found while walking among the trees was a feeling of deep quietness and serenity. Each time I am in the forest there is a palpable dismantling of the cares and the worries brought with me. These concerns have no place in the woods. The whispers of the trees have its own dialect; the plants native to the area create their own mossy scent.
Photographing in the forest produces in me a sense of wonder and completeness. I have come to learn this sensation has a name: shinrin-yoku or forest bathing, the act of rejuvenating the spirit and body by taking in the forest through our senses. This project shares that feeling of well-being.
Research studies show that even a virtual experience of nature has beneficial effects on the mind and body. This installation invites viewers to feel the deep connection to these old forests and contemplate the wonder of the Northwoods, and to feel the same sense of balance and peace that occur in the woods themselves. Organic material, such as cedar, sweetgrass and sage and an audio recording of the natural sounds round out the ‘virtual forest bathing’ experience by stimulating all the senses.
Urban dwellers rarely have the opportunity to bathe in thick forest. This exhibit brings a virtual experience to the city. The official motto for my hometown, Chicago, is “Urbs in Horto” -- City in a Garden. These panels are designed to create “Horto in Urbs” – a portable garden that travels to communities lacking access to green environments.
Mary Farmilant is a visual artist whose work looks at the ephemeral qualities of space and memory by examining objects and the spaces they occupy. She uses photography, video, textiles and sound to spark conversation about current social issues.
Her projects are longitudinal studies of space and place as they change over time. She studies “found still-life” and photographs these objects in their habitat. Her images have a forensic quality to them, as though the scene ultimately contains enough evidence to allow the viewer to reconstruct, or re-member, the fullness of what occurred when people left their social thumbprints on the space, and predict what comes next if the course is not altered.
Farmilant’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and internationally, including Turning Point: Diffusion 2021 in Cardiff, Wales, Galería Buenos Aires Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Indianapolis Art Center, the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Georgia, and the Griffin Museum of Photography, Massachusetts. Awards include the Puffin Grant, Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award in Photography, the Illinois Arts Council Special Assistance Grant, the Community Arts Assistance Program Grant (CAAP), and artist residencies at the Ragdale Foundation.
Farmilant received her nursing degree from the University of Brighton, Sussex, England, and worked in neurosurgery before turning to photography. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree, with Honors, and her Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Columbia College Chicago, where she now teaches as an adjunct professor. She lives and works in Chicago, IL.
ABOUT KELLIE KLEIN
A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable. ~ William Wordsworth
Meditations on Water is a visual study about the universal temperament of water. The photographs investigate the visceral and meditative facets of water, by examining the serene, turbulent, and dynamic characteristics of lakes, rivers, and seas, with much of the work focused on Lake Michigan. Whether a lake, an ocean, or the clouds in the sky, I see water as a natural metaphor for human disposition. I believe water can be as yielding, mighty, or as peaceful as the human mind, and to emphasize these emotional qualities, I often use long exposures and minimalist points of view.
Meditations on Water is an ongoing body of work motivated by my personal belief that water can portray a depth of emotions we might not have known existed. The images are intended to convey the restorative power of water, while reminding viewers that water is a natural phenomenon that is as vast, mysterious, and fragile, as life itself.
Kellie Klein is a photographic artist living in Northwest Indiana. She received her BA in Photography from Southern Illinois University and her MFA from Columbia College. For the past 30 years, Klein has been creating photographs that blur reality and question perception. She works in digital photography, as well as 19th century alternative processes.
Often looking outward to reveal inner sensibilities, Klein’s current work portrays timeless moments of inner reflection. Her series Meditations on Water is a collection of digital color photographs that investigate bodies of water as a metaphor for human emotions. Her imagery examines the visceral and meditative aspects of water, while focusing on the serene, turbulent, and dynamic characteristics of lakes, rivers, and seas.
Klein’s work has been shown in numerous, galleries, museums, and universities including the Louvre, the Chicago Cultural Center, Viewpoint Sacramento, and the Indianapolis Art Center. Her work is included in many private and public collections and she has received grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Agfa Corporation, and Columbia College. Klein has been a nominee and exhibitor at the International Color Awards, Lucie Awards, the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, and the Exposure Awards. In addition to working in commercial photography as a printer and a stylist, she taught at the College of DuPage, and has instructed workshops in 19th century photographic techniques in colleges and communities throughout the Midwest.
ABOUT RENEE ROBBINS
I create detailed visual environments that consider the complex relationships between humans, nature, and the cosmos. Through painting, I explore the dynamic world as I travel between tiny and gigantic scales in the unseen universe. Moving between the real and imagined, my work brings together microscopic and telescopic views. I position hybrid flora/fauna within a space that simultaneously evokes the deep sea and the night sky. That includes cells, flowering botanicals, aquatic species, and celestial bodies. By creating associations between things that are seemingly disparate in scale and form, my work brings questions or sparks a curiosity about the universe. This abstract space is luminously populated with dots, circles, and hieroglyphic-like marks. In this way, my images reflect biodiversity and suggest a sense of our place within the natural world by creating wonder.
Renee Robbins is a Chicago-based visual artist who layers biomorphic forms to create detailed otherworldly environments. She has large-scale public mural commissions in Chicago on Lake Michigan in Lincoln Park and in the South Loop’s Wabash Arts Corridor. She has exhibited widely, including exhibitions at Lois Lambert Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, IL; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL; and the Alden B Dow Museum of Science and Art, Midland, MI. Press includes TV interviews on PBS, print features in Chicago Gallery News, Inside/Within, NewCity Art, and a podcast interview with Ahtcast. The forms in her paintings have been classified by a diatom taxonomist in an artist feature on the US Diatoms database at the University of Colorado. Her paintings came to life as a performance when she collaborated with Still Inspired Dance. Honors include four grants from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs as well as a grant from the Illinois Arts Council. Robbins received her MFA from Michigan State University and has been here since 2007.
ABOUT NINA WEISS
My paintings delve into the layers; colors; shapes and textures created by the natural landscape.
I concentrate on the gestural physicality of painting (line; gesture; color) with less emphasis on the traditional subject matter of landscape painting.
The Landscapes I document often represent patchworks of preserved nature.
They are small oasis of incredible beauty and natural diversity. I travel throughout the Midwest and beyond to document these landscapes; then complete the paintings in my studio.
My large oil on canvas landscape paintings draw the viewer into a heightened vision of gesture and hue, depicting nature with colors that are intense, lush, and dramatic. I strive to push the work beyond ideas of traditional landscape. Teasing out the complex colors of nature, creating layers of contrast, line, and form; I hope to present the viewer with an emotive interpretation of our everyday landscape.
Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over 40 years. She holds a BFA from the Tyler School of Art and graduate study at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Further study includes pre-college instruction at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Art Students’ League of New York. She taught a combined thirty-six years at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. Current classes include the Evanston Art Center, the North Shore Art League, and the Chicago Botanic Gardens. Nina teaches workshops throughout the United States; and travels with students every summer to teach her European Landscape Painting & Drawing Workshops.
Her work is held in private and corporate collections throughout the United States including United Airlines, Aetna Insurance, McDonald's, Eli Lilly, Avon, and United States Customs. Artist’s residencies include the Ragdale Foundation, Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park, and the Vermont Studio Center.
Weiss has exhibited widely; including exhibitions at the Mary Bell Gallery, New York Art Expo, Great River Road Museum of Contemporary Art, Union League Club, J.Petter Gallery and more. Instructional videos include painting videos on the Craftsy learning platform and a Landscape Drawing DVD for Prismacolor.
Her paintings and drawings can be seen in two Hollywood films and in the television series “Chicago Fire”. Nina is currently represented by the J. Petter Gallery, and SaatchArt.com. Nina’s home and studio are in Evanston, IL.
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He received an MFA in fine art photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and had shows in LA, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Toronto, Azerbaijan, China and Korea. He was awarded fellowships and prizes from Nippon Steel, the Vermont Studio Center (full scholarship), Beverly Art Center, South Shore Art Center, Northern National Art Competition (Award of Excellence) and Ahl foundation. He also received fully funded scholarship artist residencies in Nebraska (Kimmel Harding Nelson center), New York (Catwalk residency) and Vermont (Vermont Studio Center). Kim is working artist in Glenview, Illinois.
ARTIST STATEMENT
With these monochromatic photographs of forests, I'd like to add some thoughts on relationships with nature, or define myself not just an observer but a single life form eventually destined to be included within the landscape.
I try to concentrate on paths and barriers consisting of the natural structures that are sometimes friendly and clearly visible, sometimes harsh and hidden. Without color, the roughness of textures were revealed more clearly and closely within my selected subjects, which depict the intimate distances occurring in hikes in Midwest forests where the absence of grandiose sceneries reveal instead many small ice age moraines and dunes.
Sometimes when I thought to leave the trail and walk through grass or loose bushes, I found animal steps, graves, and resting places. I began to realize that I was also lead to these places the same way the animal did. That was the moment I found that I am also one of the constituents of nature.
When I'm hiking in the forest, with multiple trails crossing, I worry about going back home, thinking about transportation, approaching dusk, finding an open field without knowing how large it is, how much more my body can take on a hike, do I have an appointment, did I miss a shot,…etc and then I need to decide a direction to proceed purely with my own will. In that moment, I feel freedom and confinement at the same time. Obstacles everywhere but I can decide what I want. Of course, I can wait for a while but we all know that the time will come when we need to make decisions. It's a life time duty for all living animals consuming life, time and choices.
The darkness; which is a basic barrier element of nature, is also the background for the textures of nature of my photographic works. Unlike human recognition, darkness means rest, sleep, safety and hiding which is very essential to nature but is perceived very differently by people.
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Evanston Art Center is pleased to announce the release of a 76-page publication on the stone carving process entitled “Hammer & Stone” by Jyl Bonaguro.
Book signing: Sunday, November 12, 2023 during the opening reception.
Jyl Bonaguro: Tabula Rasa Inflight will be exhibited in the Second Floor Atrium of the Evanston Art Center. The Opening Reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday – Thursday 9am – 6pm, Friday; 9am – 5pm, Saturday- Sunday; 9am – 4pm. First and second floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
For more information, please visit us online at www.evanstonartcenter.org or contact Emma Rose Gudewicz, Director of Development & Exhibition Manager, at (847) 475-5300 or egudewicz@evanstonartcenter.org.
Visit the Evanston Art Center on Facebook: www.facebook.com/EvanstonArtCenter/, follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/#!/evartcenter, or on Instagram: @EvanstonArtCenter.
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Evanston Art Center is pleased to announce the release of a 76-page publication on the stone carving process entitled “Hammer & Stone” by Jyl Bonaguro.
Book signing: Sunday, November 12, 2023 during the opening reception.
Jyl Bonaguro: Tabula Rasa Inflight will be exhibited in the Second Floor Atrium of the Evanston Art Center. The Opening Reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday – Thursday 9am – 6pm, Friday; 9am – 5pm, Saturday- Sunday; 9am – 4pm. First and second floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
For more information, please visit us online at www.evanstonartcenter.org or contact Emma Rose Gudewicz, Director of Development & Exhibition Manager, at (847) 475-5300 or egudewicz@evanstonartcenter.org.
Visit the Evanston Art Center on Facebook: www.facebook.com/EvanstonArtCenter/, follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/#!/evartcenter, or on Instagram: @EvanstonArtCenter.
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All proceeds from the Expo will benefit the ongoing exhibition, education, and outreach programs at the Art Center. The Winter Expo is also the perfect opportunity for families to shop for everyone on their holiday gift list.
General Shopping- November 18th – December 20th, 2023, 9 am-6pm Monday – Thursday, 9am- 5pm Friday, 9am-4pm Saturdays – Sundays (closed Thanksgiving)
Preview Party - November 17th from 6:00–9:00 pm Shop before the general public!
Tickets: $40 for early registration and $50 at the door
Preview Party Tickets
Silent Auction – November 17th to 19th, closes at 4:00 pm Featuring artworks donated by participating Expo artists
EAC Student Expo – December 2nd – December 20th Handcrafted items made by our very own Art Center students!
Special Events - November 25th
Join for special treats to celebrate small business Saturday.
Late-er on Central - November 30th
Enjoy shopping on Central Street after 6pm.
The Winter Expo is free and open to the general public from November 18th – December 20th, 2023
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: 9am – 6pm, Monday – Friday; 9am – 4pm, Saturday & Sunday. First and second floor gallery spaces are handicapped accessible. Limited free parking is available.
For more information please visit us online at www.evanstonartcenter.org or contact Emma Rose Gudewicz, Director of Development & Exhibition Manager, at (847) 475-5300. Visit the Evanston Art Center on Facebook: www.facebook.com/evanston.art, follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/#!/evartcenter, or on Instagram: @EvanstonArtCenter.
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In “JOMO: The Joy of Missing Out”, at the Evanston Art Center, Kathy Halper celebrates her anti-social life through her humorous multimedia paintings and sculptures. As Halper says, “You know, I love my friends dearly. I just hate having to see them”. Using craft materials, warped perspectives and sculptured surfaces, she explores the daily boredom of 30 years of marriage, dogs in our personal space and our addiction to screens. With honesty, affection, and tongue-in-cheek awareness, Halper invites everyone to her party of one.
To create her narrative paintings, Halper warps and forces perspectives, creating a sense of instability and chaos that somehow makes sense. She sources cardboard from Amazon orders, glitter, embroidery thread, and various clays to build up her base surface, making objects literally pop out. Objects often defy the panel’s edge, running onto the frame. The artist also embellishes bisque vases that appear to have escaped her canvases, more concerned for their challenge to her storytelling goals than functional origins.
Halper first made a name for herself a decade ago creating embroideries that explored issues of privacy using found photos of teenagers in Facebook’s nascent days. As Hyperallergic’s Alicia Eler said at the time, “Halper offers a look into a world normally closed off from adults, especially from her parents.” Halper has since increasingly turned her lens on herself, employing the same critical yet loving eye. Her new work is her most personal yet, exploring life as it happens and turning each day, no matter how uneventful, into the potential for art.
More images can be found on Kathy Halper’s website here.
JOMO: The Joy of Missing Out will be exhibited in the Main Second Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday – Thursday 9am – 6pm; Friday 9am – 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 9am – 4pm. First and second floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
Visit the Evanston Art Center on Facebook: www.facebook.com/EvanstonArtCenter/, follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/#!/evartcenter, or on Instagram: @EvanstonArtCenter.
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About the works of Paul Verburg:
“The work in this show came about during and after my relocation from Arizona to Michigan. In 2019, with my studio packed up and in transit, oil painting became impractical. I had to find new ways to work, so I began working with pen and ink on acrylic mono prints. This opened new avenues of thinking and got me back into drawing. Then COVID happened, and lockdowns ensued. Isolation and introspection became my norm. This work is contemplative. I constantly questioned myself and the way things were. My challenge was not to merely combine images and ideas but to work within the intersections of disparate themes, breaking down the figure, the landscape, and natural elements into abstracted patterns and shapes thereby redefining and developing my own personal narrative.”
About the works of Jack Demuth:
“This series of self-portraits is dedicated to all the birds I shot while living on my grandparents’ Iowa farm. The shooting began when I was old enough to cock and load a BB gun and continued until we moved into town and I began high school. Shooting birds was just something I did. My grandmother told me that birds made a lovely sound so why did I shoot them? My grandfather kept buying me boxes of bbs. This collection of self portrait drawings integrated with bird illustrations represent my exploration and reflection on that particular passage of time.”
For more information, please visit us online at www.evanstonartcenter.org
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The focus of this exhibition is on architectural forms found both in urban and natural landscapes. Three artists explore the landscape genre through their own unique perspectives. Some scenes are local, of the gritty sides of the Chicagoland area. Other compositions are from memories of trips to the ocean and abroad. Viewed together, their work captures common subjects others might gloss over: the fleeting play of light as it breaks over an edge, subtle colors in weathered textures, and pedestrians rushing by. Joe Taylor has a direct and painterly style, while Mark’s more traditional underpainting and glazing techniques are reminiscent of stained glass. Sarah’s focus is on weathered textures and beams of light that triumphantly break over architectural forms. In all of their work, light floods colorful walls and textures composed of geometric shapes. They invite viewers to slow down, pause, and reflect—to take a second glance and embrace everyday scenes in urban and natural landscapes.
Town and Country will be exhibited in the First Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
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Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday –Thursday 9am – 6pm; Friday 9am – 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 9am – 4pm. First and second floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
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Perceptions of Flow: “Formation” is one component of a two-part exhibition that looks into the conceptualization process of a creative idea. In this exhibit, artists explore their individual expression through an interdisciplinary approach that blends various forms of visual arts, ceramics, and poetry. The exhibit visually and auditorily represents the tension a creative has internally with their flow of expression, which is then shared with the audience.
The exhibition, presented in partnership with Arts of Life, features works by the following artists: Marcelo Añón, Billy Borgerd, Cole Fox, Amanda Gantner, Phil Gazzolo, Ted Hamel, Nikki Huesman, and Vontrell Nunn. Arts of Life is a 501(c)3 non-profit founded in January 2000 with a shared vision: to create a working, person-centric, artistic community while providing a work environment of equality in Chicago. Arts of Life advances the creative arts community by providing artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities a collective space to expand their practice and strengthen their leadership.
Perceptions of Flow: “Formation” will be exhibited in the Lobby Gallery of the Art Center. The closing reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Closing Reception: March 17, 1–4 pm *Registration is required. Visit www.EvanstonArtCenter.org for more information.
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Nina Irwin (b.1965) was surrounded by classical music, art and literature growing up. This richly creative setting provided the ideal ground for her to develop her own interests in a wide range of artistic disciplines. Her favorite painting subject is the natural world. She paints vast skies and textured, craggy grounds. Sometimes architectural ruins appear amidst an imaginative landscape, but never assert themselves as anything more than a peaceful partner to the natural beauty of the surrounding vista. Nina’s works suggest the subjects of spirituality and the search for truth and beauty.
Thank You Notes comes from her deep sense of gratitude and connection. “I have started almost every day in my studio writing and painting thank you notes for over thirty years. I am thankful for the funny, smart, generous and inspiring human beings who help me better my life. These paintings are a culmination of visual and conceptual gratitude from as far back as childhood. Life is hard! It presents us with many obstacles. Even though problems are useful as points of growth in our lives, we appreciate help. These artworks are dedicated to the human beings who have helped me to keep going, inspired me to overcome, and ignited my God-given creativity. They are nothing more than that, and nothing less.”
Nina Irwin works from her painting and ceramics studio in the historic stockyards of Kansas City. She received her B.A. in Studio Art from University of Missouri – Kansas City. In addition to her studio work, Nina teaches art and art history classes from her Kansas City studio as well as at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. She is represented in private and corporate art collections globally.
Thank You Notes will be exhibited in the Main Second Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday –Thursday 9am – 6pm; Friday 9am – 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 9am – 4pm. First and second floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
For more information, please visit us online at www.evanstonartcenter.org or contact Emma Rose Gudewicz, Director of Development & Exhibition Manager, at (847) 475-5300 or egudewicz@evanstonartcenter.org.
Visit the Evanston Art Center on Facebook: www.facebook.com/EvanstonArtCenter/, follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/#!/evartcenter, or on Instagram: @EvanstonArtCenter..
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The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to Swimmers.
The exhibition is of water as an immediate sensation, with people working through its surface and depths: light refracting far and near, people living and defining themselves within this buoyant relationship. Curtis has made attempts at abstraction, helped along by the bending and moving water surface embracing the human form. This remains a statement dedicated to the independence and survival of the human being.
Barbara Curtis, of Urbana, Illinois, has engaged in and studied art all her life, earning a master's degree in art from Eastern Illinois University in 2021. She has lived in New Mexico, San Francisco, Aix-En-Provence France, and has studied and shown in those areas.
In her own words, “I have chosen to be a figurative artist and to paint subjects from real life because I was always surrounded by figurative art. Life has taught me to translate my visual experience into a subjective one. I express myself through reading the natural elements around me and then understanding how to translate my sensibilities to my viewers. My wish is that people who view my paintings will come to see what I am, what I feel, and relate to me, and perhaps be inspired or transported.”
Swimmers will be exhibited in the Second Floor Atrium Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday –Thursday 9am – 6pm; Friday 9am – 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 9am – 4pm. First and second floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
For more information, please visit us online at www.evanstonartcenter.org or contact Emma Rose Gudewicz, Director of Development & Exhibition Manager, at (847) 475-5300 or egudewicz@evanstonartcenter.org.
Visit the Evanston Art Center on Facebook: www.facebook.com/EvanstonArtCenter/, follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/#!/evartcenter, or on Instagram: @EvanstonArtCenter.
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The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to You’re Not Really Seeing This.
Textile artist Kelsey Merreck Wagner and sculptor and installation artist Bryan Northup exhibit artworks made of post-consumer plastics to spur social change. Approaching disposable, single-use plastics as a legitimate resource, rather than unusable “trash,” they see the potential to bring attention to the problem of plastic as a toxic pollutant in the environment, as well as the value plastic has as a creative medium for social change-making.
The artists believe that with attention focused on plastic’s materiality and its origins comes the power to challenge complacency and change minds and actions. The works they create carry a familiarity: the thin films of shopping bags, shrink wrap, packaging, as well as computer cables, styrofoam, and all manner of ubiquitous plastic waste from our daily lives are recognizable but reimagined. The artists extend their work beyond the wall so interactions are forced, viewers are standing on the work, enveloped in the pieces.
The long-term global effects of single-use plastic production and pollution are still barely understood and are already devastating. Wagner and Northup’s exhibition is a response to this impasse in values, an encounter with an unavoidable dilemma, and asks why it is we see the problem, recognize the “elephant in the room,” and continue to ignore her at our peril.
You’re Not Really Seeing This will be exhibited in the First Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
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Perceptions of Flow: “Movement” is one component of a two-part exhibition that examines how an artist physically interacts with the conceptualization process of a creative idea. In Perceptions of Flow: “Movement,” artists from Arts of Life are photographed in black and white, expressing their individualities through gesture and pose. The exhibition is dedicated to Olivia Terry who has worked in the Chicagoland area for over 20 years assisting youth and senior communities, those with impairments or conditions, and everyone in between through various service organizations like AmeriCorps. We thank Olivia for her steadfast commitment to community service and for living out her mission, helping others feel connected to each other despite circumstance or ability.
“Photography and people have always been my main focuses. In this fast-paced world, we pass each other by and never think twice or take a second look. I find that the eyes are the pathways to the soul, so I intentionally choose to shoot portraits with black/white film as a way of slowing down and telling that story.
In my opinion, social documentation is a crucial and most-needed detail in our world. It provides viewers with a visual or eye into the world they live in and the people around them. Without it, we are only left with spoken and written words. These two forms of communication alone cannot provide us with the knowledge we need. The ability to capture a moment in a single image can be life-changing and everlasting.” – Genesis Falls
Perceptions of Flow “Movement” will be exhibited in the Lobby Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
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Exhibiting her work nationwide since the early 1980s, Rotblatt Amrany’s vision centers on the fusion of spiritual and physical elements within realms of physics and astronomy. Bridging art and science, her work reflects a deep interest in mind-body connection, higher consciousness, and medical and spiritual healing through various mediums like drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, video, multimedia, and installation. She holds a BA from the University of Colorado, an MFA from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, and a Certificate in Art Education from the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Process of Discovery will be exhibited in the Second Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday –Thursday 9 am–6 pm; Friday 9 am–5 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9 am–4 pm. First and second floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
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“Photography and people have always been my main focuses. In this fast-paced world, we pass each other by and never think twice or take a second look. I find that the eyes are the pathways to the soul, so I intentionally choose to shoot portraits with black/white film as a way of slowing down and telling that story.
In my opinion, social documentation is a crucial and most-needed detail in our world. It provides viewers with a visual or eye into the world they live in and the people around them. Without it, we are only left with spoken and written words. These two forms of communication alone cannot provide us with the knowledge we need. The ability to capture a moment in a single image can be life-changing and everlasting.” – Genesis Falls
Perceptions of Flow “Movement” will be exhibited in the Lobby Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
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\"Sinag - Ray Of Light” is a show featuring works of the Sinag Art Group, an art collective of 40 Filipino-American artists based in greater Chicago. The art exhibit celebrates Filipino heritage and honors Filipino healthcare workers, especially against the backdrop of the pandemic and rise in Asian Hate Crimes. The exhibit participants are an exciting mix of established and emerging Filipino-American visual artists and writers showcasing traditional and modern art styles, using various media from acrylic on canvas to photographs on tarpaulin.
“Sinag, meaning a ray of light, was born out of curiosity and a need to connect. During the pandemic, I saw a couple of calls for an art exhibit for Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) to push for diversity. Filipinos back in the Philippines mostly grew up living with limited resources, which is why it is inculcated in us to grab opportunities.
Filipino visual artists are a conundrum. Being an artist, visual or otherwise, was never encouraged. Most Filipinos, including some of our artists, are bi-vocational. They work in the medical fields and other professional jobs. It wasn’t too surprising to me that when I searched for Filipino artist groups in Chicago three years ago, I couldn’t find any.”- Geraldine Martinez-Benz Founder, Sinag Art Collective - Chicago
Sinag - Ray Of Light will be exhibited in the first-floor gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday –Thursday 9 am – 6 pm; Friday 9 am – 5 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9 am – 4 pm. First and second-floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
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The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to A Day in the Life of Puppets Sat, 05/04/2024 - 09:30 AM - 03:00 PM
WITH AWARD-WINNING EVANSTON PUPPETEER/STORYTELLER AND NEIGHBOR! MARILYN PRICE
9:30 - 10:15 am
BE AN AUDIENCE! Free Admission!
WE OPEN WITH STORIES!
THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PUPPETS - 45 minutes of stories with handcrafted puppets, and show-and-tell puppets from around the world. Classic stories, and original ones told with audience interaction, humor and wisdom!
RSVP Here
10:30 - 12:00
BE A PUPPET ARTIST: FAMILY PUPPET MAKING! AGES 5+
PUPPETS to make and take and how to use them. Ample time and material supplied to create and use in a story!!! Using found objects and prefabricated characters that are all good to go and tell!
$10 suggested donation per family.
Register Here
1:00 TO 3:00.
BE A PUPPETEER: PUPPET MAKING INTENSIVE! Ages 16+
Learn the ancient art of puppetry for teaching, telling, parenting, or just for fun! High School and up. By the end of the session, you will walk away with a skill usable in more ways than you can imagine. And imagination will be required for entry!
$25 per person.
Register Here
MARILYN PRICE weaves a finely crafted performance filled with storytelling, puppetry, and wisdom. From traditional folktales to original works, Marilyn captivates audiences of all ages. As a teacher, historian, craftsman, or entertainer, the result is always the same, she moves her hands, tells the story and the audience comes to life! www.tribraining.org
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday –Thursday 9am – 6pm; Friday 9am – 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 9am – 4pm. First and second floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
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For over 94 years, EAC has provided public outreach programs, exhibitions, and resources for art education. The Art Party is integral to the Evanston Art Center’s success. This yearly tradition includes silent and live auctions to raise money in support of EAC's mission: fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. Last year, over 230 attendees from Chicago and North Shore areas raised over $100,000 for outreach, scholarship, and exhibition programs.
To purchase tickets, visit https://one.bidpal.net/artparty24/ticketing. Individual tickets cost $250. The price for all tickets includes a wonderful dinner by Food for Thought and the opportunity to bid on a selection of items in our silent and live auctions. Items include a vibrant range of artworks, hotel stays, restaurant certificates, weekend getaways, jewelry and accessories, sporting game tickets, and more!
This event is not only a lovely evening out but also an opportunity to support EAC’s important mission. Even if you can’t attend, you can still participate in the online auction by visiting: https://one.bidpal.net/artparty24/welcome.
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Evanston Made’s Annual All Members Group Show is a non-juried, open call, exhibit of our members’ art created in the last calendar year. This exhibit and our arts organization are inclusive, welcome to artists of all levels and rooted in our organization’s values to open doors and clear paths for artists.
The exhibit features works by 150+ members of Evanston Made and is a multi-disciplinary display of art to include 2D and 3D works, sculpture, art installations, audio/video/film, jewelry, art installations and more.
Evanston Made’s Annual All Members Group Show will be exhibited in all of the Art Center Galleries. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
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Across Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, the ancient Maya civilization engineered an extraordinary network of raised, white-plastered paved roads known as sacbe. Far more than a thoroughfare, a sacbe served as a vital artery, linking major ceremonial centers and cities across the dense jungle landscape. SACBE: Pathways of Connection presents parallels between the contemporary Mayan community of the Yucatan Peninsula and our local communities. Showcasing traditional Mayan weaving alongside contemporary fiber art, the exhibition delves into the intricate ways communities harness the power to address and highlight pressing societal and environmental issues.
Originally a photography project, SACBE: Pathways of Connection was conceived with the vision of creating a space that bridges communities, much like the ancient sacbe that connected disparate corners of the Mayan kingdom. Embodying that ethos, this exhibition brings together two distinct countries and cultures, providing a lens into the similar ways they confront and address societal and environmental issues. More than just a Mayan road, a sacbe is a symbol of communication, of a spiritual journey, of trading cultures, and of pathways to possibilities. Celebrating the richness of cultural diversity and the enduring spirit of the Mayan people, SACBE: Pathways of Connection links us to the past and to each other. It seeks to inspire new ways to build stronger, more connected communities that recognize the beauty of our shared human experience.
SACBE: Pathways of Connection | 2023/2024 BIPOC Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition will be exhibited in the First Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central St., Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday–Thursday, 9 am–6 pm; Friday, 9 am–5 pm; Saturday & Sunday, 9 am–4 pm. First and second floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
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Tinker Toys appear prominently throughout the works and sparked Liweski’s initial inspiration, as he started playing with them to troubleshoot a piece in another series. The smell and feel of familiar wooden wheels and colored sticks brought back a flood of childhood memories which ultimately compelled Liweski’s use of the toys in future projects, adding a layer of nuance to their affect.
Finding Space & Other Stories presents the universal experience of moving forward while looking back, and of unpacking and re-examining once at a new destination; moreover, the exhibition reminds us that, despite adversity, “finding space” is often possible.
Finding Space & Other Stories will be exhibited in the Second Atrium Floor Gallery of the Art Center. Opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership. Opening reception is free and open to the public! This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central St., Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday–Thursday, 9 am–6 pm; Friday, 9 am–5 pm; Saturday & Sunday, 9 am–4 pm. First and second floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
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Artist Dean Habegger works with a wide variety of materials and processes, including painting, drawing, and mixed media collage and assemblage, often incorporating dried organic materials in his works. Along with creating new works on paper, canvas, and wood, Habegger also upcycles materials and reworks older, incomplete pieces. Material Matters: Uncommon Approaches to Mixed Media is an exhibition employing some or all of his processes.
“My work usually comes about through a cyclical process I have been using for 40+ years. Usually, pieces of art develop in a linear process, working with similar ideas or processes for a time. After a while, I cycle back to my previous ways of working. Whatever is achieved in the more linear way of working then becomes infused into a future iteration of the cyclical process. I often have dozens of unfinished works sitting around in the studio, waiting for my working process to evolve in a manner that suits them and brings them to completion.” – Dean Habegger
The mixed media pieces have evolved over periods of concentration, as Habegger’s use of dried organic materials first started in the late 1980s. The current phase of his work which incorporates organic materials started in earnest around 2013 and has become one of his longest-running processes since. Thematically, Habegger’s newer works reflect on aspects of older works, and much of the pieces rely on traditional processes in still life and landscape painting and drawing. By process of reflection, he establishes a visual vocabulary that demonstrates his personal symbolism and iconography, with repetitive use of imagery and conceptual motifs.
Material Matters: Uncommon Approaches to Mixed Media will be exhibited in the Second Floor Gallery of Evanston Art Center. Opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences.
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*Registration is required. Visit www.EvanstonArtCenter.org for more information.
Sarah Smelser has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center; Franz Masereel Center, Artica Bilbao, Kala Art Institute, Jentel Artist Residency, Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Anchor Graphics, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Remarque, Contemporary Print Media Research Center, and Tamarind Institute. Her monotypes have been featured in a variety of solo, invitational, and juried exhibitions. She further serves as a professor in the Wonsook Kim School of Art at Illinois State University in Normal, IL.
In Defying the Laws, Smelser attempts to defy the laws of logic, reason, and gravity through her artwork, which delves into the solitude and isolation experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Born from the unwieldy, off-kilter sense of reality the world faced during the pandemic, Smelser’s collection serves as the manifestation of her coping process. Amidst overwhelming confusion and horror, Smelser found that the concentration and flow of her work gave her something to control, rules she could make and break within the confines of a makeshift mental space.
Since 2020, she has continued to return to and experiment with this body of work, infusing elements of drawing, collage, and print techniques. Smelser emphasizes her work’s distinct approaches to place, landscape, and cityscape and her use of repetition, balance, unitization, and chunking juxtaposed with solid, heavy, emphatic gestures. This experimental collection expresses the coexistence of certainty and uncertainty, planning and happenstance.
Defying Laws will be exhibited in the Second Floor Atrium Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central St., Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday–Thursday, 9 am–6 pm; Friday, 9 am–5 pm; Saturday & Sunday, 9 am–4 pm. First and second floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
For more information, please visit us online at www.evanstonartcenter.org
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*Registration is required. Visit www.EvanstonArtCenter.org for more information.
Sarah Smelser has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center; Franz Masereel Center, Artica Bilbao, Kala Art Institute, Jentel Artist Residency, Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Anchor Graphics, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Remarque, Contemporary Print Media Research Center, and Tamarind Institute. Her monotypes have been featured in a variety of solo, invitational, and juried exhibitions. She further serves as a professor in the Wonsook Kim School of Art at Illinois State University in Normal, IL.
In Defying the Laws, Smelser attempts to defy the laws of logic, reason, and gravity through her artwork, which delves into the solitude and isolation experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Born from the unwieldy, off-kilter sense of reality the world faced during the pandemic, Smelser’s collection serves as the manifestation of her coping process. Amidst overwhelming confusion and horror, Smelser found that the concentration and flow of her work gave her something to control, rules she could make and break within the confines of a makeshift mental space.
Since 2020, she has continued to return to and experiment with this body of work, infusing elements of drawing, collage, and print techniques. Smelser emphasizes her work’s distinct approaches to place, landscape, and cityscape and her use of repetition, balance, unitization, and chunking juxtaposed with solid, heavy, emphatic gestures. This experimental collection expresses the coexistence of certainty and uncertainty, planning and happenstance.
Defying Laws will be exhibited in the Second Floor Atrium Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central St., Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday–Thursday, 9 am–6 pm; Friday, 9 am–5 pm; Saturday & Sunday, 9 am–4 pm. First and second floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
For more information, please visit us online at www.evanstonartcenter.org
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Amy Sobin is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Northern Suburbs of Chicago, whose portfolio spans pencil drawings, mixed media, and vibrant abstract paintings. Born in sunny Texas in 1968, Amy has always been captivated by the world around her, translating her observations into art from a young age. This unwavering focus on the beauty she sees through her artist’s eye guided her through high school and into college, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Graphic Design from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Amy has exhibited and sold her work in Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco while also working in the film industry for the past 27 years. Her enduring ability to view the world with pure wonder is a cherished skill and joy that infuses all her creations.
The Amy Sobin Show will be exhibited in the Main Second Floor Gallery of the Art Center. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central St., Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday–Thursday, 9 am–6 pm; Friday, 9 am–5 pm; Saturday & Sunday, 9 am–4 pm. First and second-floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
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Opening Reception Sunday, September 15th, 1-4pm RSVP
ABOUT TROTTER ALEXANDER
Chicago-based artist/muralist/designer; Trotter Alexander creates bodies of work representing his state of mind, racial identity, and his personal inspirations - inciting a fresher-artistic perspective on for an audience to consume. Trotter consistently utilizes his artistic influences and twists them for his own narrative-driven pieces. Throughout his portfolio, there are consistent doodle and spray motifs within every piece produced. Trotter uses a plethora of different mediums; Acrylics, Spray Paint, Oils, Oil pastels, Marker & Paint Markers as tools to help further advance his artistic narrative. Trotter’s works constantly challenge an established idea or understanding of something by recontextualizing the subject for the world to see.
Growing up , Chicago-based artist Trotter Alexander turned to drawing and doodling as his main form of catharsis; Art gave Alexander the power to create worlds outside of the one he was living in. As he further honed his craft, his habit of drawing soon turned into his passion; As he further directs his artistic visions to the world. Empowered by his experiences of being unseen, Alexander creates works motivated to shift the existing paradigm of artworks & art-consumerism. Making works not only to beautify spaces, but also to have positive real-life influence. His works address topics such as culture, infatuation, self-hate/love, racial identity, and existentialism.
The Pink Series is an explorative exposé on artist - Trotter Alexander’s emotional/romantic internalizations, presented through abstract expression. Referencing Alexander’s profound sense of hurt, love, and self-actualization.
Inspired by Tyler the Creator’s “IGOR”, Trotter utilizes the auricular experience of the album to influence his use of texture, composition, & overall storytelling.
The color palettes are made to convey a feel of contrasting presences; a sense of soft beauty (pink) next to a stern and aggressive black and white- emphasizing the melancholy of the subjects of the piece. The show creates a unique display of the artist’s personal grievances with emotional concepts - creating a cast of predominantly male figures to explore the male experience of love. It delves into the toxic aspects of the artist’s psyche while, through the broader context of the pieces, simulating a journey of growth and transformation.
ABOUT MICHELE THRANE
I am primarily a printmaker and mixed media artist. I practice a form of “asemic writing” which is a kind of invented calligraphy. My work features seeming-symbols that evoke real letters, musical notations and sometimes, scientific equations. These seeming-symbols are gestural abstractions that invite the viewer to project a variety of meanings into the work.
In my current work, I use pigmented beeswax on a specialized heated aluminum plate to create my encaustic monotypes. The monotypes are sometimes cut, reconfigured, and “stitched” together with staples to create wall sculptures. Some of my monotypes are mounted on panels or framed for display.
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The EAC will host 8 colleges on September 21st in our second annual Portfolio Day.
All events are free and open to the public. Registration Required.
Students have the opportunity to sign up for one-on-one meetings with representatives from these art programs and portfolio reviews.
Come to the EAC to meet with art college admissions teams, get information, and/or have your art portfolio reviewed before applying to colleges and universities.
Need help photographing your artwork for your portfolio? Take an Art Documentation Workshop to learn how to properly photograph your artwork.
Art Documentation Open Studio provides the space and equipment for you to properly photograph your artwork. We suggest taking the free workshop before signing up for open studio time, as instruction is not provided. Signup for 30-minute photography time slots.
Visit our site for more information!
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RURAL v. URBAN, Perception.
Rural - adjective - in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town
Urban - adjective - in, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city
Perception - noun - a way of regarding, understanding, or interpreting something;
a mental impression
RURAL v. URBAN, Perception is a collection of pieces that create otherworldly landscapes and patterns born from natural and unnatural spaces. The images are intricate in their geometry while simple in their mirrored repetition. These images and videos were filmed and edited from a single image or a single piece of video to create a landscape that neither begins nor ends. Inspired by the natural occurrence of patterns such as fractals and the mind-bending visual cues of too many science fiction films, RURAL v. URBAN, Perception grew out of the simplicity of repeating a single image to create an impossible landscape.
No images have been digitally altered since capture, just mirrored, rotated, flipped, masked, and repeated. None of the video footage has been digitally altered either and all camera moves are practical, not digital.
Music for the videos was kindly provided by the band Helms, from Boston, MA., ©2024 all rights reserved.
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DIALOGUE CHICAGO has developed into a unique artist community for those seeking a lively, informative discussion.
Founding Director Sarah Krepp
Featured Artists: Nelson Armour, Kina Bagovska, Jane Feit, Beverly Feldmann, Robert Fields, Sarah Barnhart Feilds, Judith Roston Freilich, Ellen Granman, Kathy Halper, Barbara Heaton, Melissa Heintzelman, Alan Hobscheid, Elle Holzblatt ,Bonnie Katz, Meredith Kopelman-Aponte, Sarah Krepp, Michael Litewski, Dan Lobraco, Elyse Martin, Ruti Modlin, Katherine Nemanich, Jennifer Rapp Peterson, Olivia Petrides, Jonathan Pruc, Lilach Schrag, Casey Sills, Pamela Sloan, Michelle Stone, Susan Trees, Annette Turow, Kathy Weaver, and Toby Zallman.
Dialogue Outloud will be exhibited in the First Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central St., Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday–Thursday, 9 am–6 pm; Friday, 9 am–5 pm; Saturday & Sunday, 9 am–4 pm. First and second-floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
For more information, please visit us online at www.evanstonartcenter.org or contact Emma Rose Gudewicz, Director of Development & Exhibitions, at (847) 475-5300 or egudewicz@evanstonartcenter.org.
Visit the Evanston Art Center on Facebook: www.facebook.com/EvanstonArtCenter, follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/#!/evartcenter, or on Instagram: @EvanstonArtCenter.
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The Northshore Black Artist Group (NBAG) is dedicated to connecting, promoting, and supporting artists. The organization includes visual, performing, literary and media arts. Our mission is to create platforms for artists to showcase their work, encourage creative expression and innovation. NBAG will serve as a community hub, bringing people together for shared experiences and fostering a sense of belonging.
The 2024 Northshore Black Artist Group show is our first exhibition featuring the work of multiple artists, showcasing a diverse range of styles, mediums, and themes. This premier exhibition, generously hosted by the Evanston Arts Center, provides NBAG an opportunity to introduce the group to the Evanston, Chicagoland and North Shore communities. We are excited to exhibit this group of artists and look forward to creating a stepping stone for emerging and established artists to gain visibility. We believe that the arts offer something for everyone. The Northshore Black Artist Group hopes to spark conversation, offer diverse artistic expressions, support cultural heritage, and enrich lives.
Northshore Black Artist Group Show will be exhibited in the Hallway Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
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By translating music into textiles, weaving into sound, and the city's skin into animation, this exhibition invites audiences to engage with familiar mediums in new ways. Whether through the repetitive musical pattern of woven fabric, the pictorial texture of a symphony, or the geometric rhythm of city's skin animated in motion, each piece underscores the interconnectedness of these art forms, Yu hopes to make these art forms accessible to diverse audiences, including those with sensory impairments.
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International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius is more than an exhibition or a set of lectures or creative workshops. It is an international movement dedicated to the artist's book, bringing together a wide range of artists, curators, museums and gallerists from Lithuania and abroad into one artist's book family. Vilnius is the centre of this artistic movement.
The theme of the 10th Anniversary Artist’s Book Triennial is \"To Be\", born out of a reflection on the current state of the world, with its conflicts between states, crises, and pandemics that affect each of us personally, leaving us all with various existential questions.
Questions that can be unexpected and uncomfortable. Questions that, for a long time, only seemed relevant to inhabitants of some other, \"distant\" countries but not to us. To be or not? And how to be? How to exist at all, when sometimes there is more evil than good? Is it still possible to be human in the context of our times? These are questions that we have to answer for ourselves and not for anyone else, but the answers are not always forthcoming.
An artist's book is not only a conceptual book, but also an art object with a clearly expressed idea, realised through employing various book forms and structures from the past centuries. An artist's book combines words and images, and traditional book design principles with interdisciplinary art.
To create a contemporary artist's book, the artist uses a variety of materials, such as paper, wood, stone, glass, metal, etc., which are more typical of other art forms, such as sculpture. The aim here is not to illustrate the text (often, artist's book do not feature text at all), but to convey an idea through the relationship between different materials. An artist's book is a unique one-off or limited-edition work, numbered and signed by the author.
The artist's books on the theme \"To Be\" were submitted by 197 artists from 41 countries. An international jury selected 77 artist's books for the exhibition from 29 countries. The Main Prize was awarded to the artist Jeong-Eun Lee from South Korea. Honorary prizes were awarded to five artists: Barbara Beisinghoff (Germany), Carmelo Cacciato (Italy), Eeva Louhio (Finland), Ema Shin (Australia), and Yuko Wada (Japan).
Exhibition Artist:
Roma Aukškalnytė, Silvana Blasbalg, Irene Boisaubert, Loretta Cappanera, Mara Caruso, Synnove Dickhoff, Krassimira Drenska, Timothy Frerichs, Roberto Gianinetti, Vinka Grbic, Nancy Hart, Živilė Jasutytė, Lis Rejnert Jensen, Carole Kunstadt, Lorraine Kwan, Odine Lang, Jo Ann Lanneville, Gloria Lapena Gallego, Dalia Lopez Madrona, Leo Morrissey, Lois Palframan, Ana Maria Rodriguez, Hilla Rost, Joyce Ryckman, Anna Snaedis Sigmarsdottir, Motoko Tachikawa, James Thurman, Anu Tuominen, Roberta Vaigeltaitė, Yuko Wada, and Dadi Wirz, Stephen Murphy*.
*Evanston Artist
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The Four Virtues is a four-part monograph that explores and cements the virtue of Black Men and boys through images. The Four Virtues: Fatherhood, Work, Wonder, and Fellowship provide witness to the complexity of Black Men and boys as they navigate narratives hostile to their identities, wellness, and the communities in which they live. Mirroring the cardinal virtues, these captured images and written exposition explore how these Four Virtues provide the lens through which Black men and boys should be supported, loved, and honored in our society.
Chicagoland has a rich tradition and history of being an anchor for Black excellence: showcasing these virtues in action creates a beacon of light for Black men and boys while disrupting false narratives that negatively impact their wellness. This light is needed more than ever as “Black Male Suicides are Rising Faster Than Any Other Racial Group.” The images and writing for the first virtue, FatherHood, were featured at the Evanston Art Center (EAC) in 2023. The second virtue, Work, was featured at the EAC in 2024. The third virtue, Wonder which will be featured at the EAC in 2025 will explore the relationship of Black men as they navigate their communities in a state of wonder. This virtue directly runs counter to the forced need for hyper-vigilance which is required from a young age to mitigate environmental threats that they face as Black men and boys. It also runs counter to the expectation that they, as Black men and boys, are inherently threatening to the communities in which they belong.
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to its 2025 Studio Biennial Exhibition.
This January, Evanston Art Center spotlights its talented students in a biennial exhibition displaying the breadth and depth of EAC students’ artistic abilities. The Evanston Art Center Studio Biennial Exhibition features works by students of all ages and from all departments enrolled in EAC classes in the last year – a visual testament to the skill and creativity of the Evanston Art Center student community.
The works on display are made by students enrolled in Ceramics, Digital Arts, Painting and Drawing, Figure Sculpture, Jewelry and Metalsmithing, Photography, Printmaking, and Woodworking classes.
Makers of all skill levels, from beginning to professional, present work in a wide range of media and processes, so join us in celebrating our tremendous students and their works of art!
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to our upcoming exhibition, Picturing Community: Stories in Photographs | with the Evanston History Center. The exhibition will be on display from February 22 - March 23, 2025, and will be free and open to the public.
The EAC has partnered with the Evanston History Center to present Picturing Community: Stories in Photographs, exploring the communal and historic significance of photographs. Photographs from the Evanston History Center archives tell a story of Evanston’s growth as a community. The Evanston Art Center issued a call for artists to submit contemporary images of our city inspired by these photographs. Exhibiting artists include Todd Anderson, Richard Cahan, Marilyn Crocker, Mike Ennis, Ian Finley, Janice Kazmier, and Jordan Scott.
The exhibition, located in the Second Floor Galleries at the Evanston Art Center, showcases the historic and contemporary photographs together to illustrate the commonalities we share, as well as the changes. In addition to the exhibition, a small exhibit of vintage cameras will run concurrently at the Evanston History Center and will be available for viewing during their public hours, Thursday – Sunday, 1:00 – 4:00pm. Admission is $10.
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*Registration is required. Visit www.EvanstonArtCenter.org for more information.
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to Jack Austin | Spiritual Journey
Jack Austin is a multi-disciplinary creative who explores humanity, consciousness, and natural beauty through photography, poetry, and music. His work reflects on loss, what it means to be alive, and the search for purpose. In the series Spiritual Journey, Austin employs photography, layering multiple exposures and varied tone and color saturations to show a single, pivotal moment through multiple perspectives.
In all of the images, a hand reaches forward, searching for something; perhaps nourishment of the soul, human touch, or the horizon... For some, the path is more clear, and for others, more foggy. For Austin, reaching into the unknown is an act of courage, an act of faith, and a wellspring of achievement.
Jack Austin | Spiritual Journey will be exhibited in the Lobby Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to Victoria Yau Retrospective.
On April 5th, the Evanston Art Center will open an exhibition celebrating the works of the late Victoria Yau, a long-time resident of Evanston and one of the earliest Asian-American contemporary abstract artists. Born in Shanghai in 1939, Yau worked across a variety of media, including ink, watercolor, and multimedia collages. This exhibition will showcase a broad range of her works, highlighting her dedication to her craft.
The exhibition will also coincide with the dedication of the Maker Lab for Digital Media room in her honor. In addition to being a prolific artist, Yau volunteered at the Evanston Art Center in the 1970s, contributing her time and talents to help further the center’s mission.
Victoria Yau Retrospective will be exhibited in the Second Floor Main and Atrium Galleries of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central St., Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday–Thursday, 9 am–6 pm; Friday, 9 am–5 pm; Saturday & Sunday, 9 am–4 pm. First and second-floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
Visit the Evanston Art Center on Facebook: www.facebook.com/EvanstonArtCenter, follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/#!/evartcenter, or on Instagram: @EvanstonArtCenter.
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Featured Artists: Jay Reed, Nancy Van Kanegan, Robert Anderson, J. Erlandson, Dorothy Graden, Jacqueline Ropski, Marco Bendin, and Emily Friel
CAVA | 2025 Later Impressions will be exhibited in the First Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
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We can’t wait to see you there and share an evening of creativity and fun!
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Tickets are on Sale now!
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The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to our upcoming exhibition, Friends of Dorothy’s, curated by Emma Rose Gudewicz. The exhibition will be on display from May 24 - June 29, 2025, and will be free and open to the public. Friends of Dorothy’s examines what it is to be queer today, underscoring the artists’ individual experience with queerness. This exhibition seeks to uplift and highlight LGBTQIA+ voices in an uncertain world.
The exhibition title Friends of Dorothy’s derives from queer slang in the mid-20th century. At a time when homosexuality was criminalized, many queer individuals used coded language to identify one another safely in public. \"Are you a friend of Dorothy?\" was a discreet inquiry from one queer individual to another that didn’t risk revealing a queer person’s identity to potentially dangerous people.
Amid the regression of societal acceptance and understanding, we reflect on historical queer communities—their unity and resilience—and how their experiences shape the spaces we create today.
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\"The Evanston Art Center is very honored to be partnering with Evanston Made. This annual exhibit offers a unique view of Evanston’s Creative Community. I also love that this annual event lands on Lisa D’s bday week!\"
-Paula Danoff, President & CEO of Evanston Art Center.
The Evanston Made All Members Group Show will be exhibited in the First Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership. Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
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On July 8th, the Evanston Art Center will open an exhibition showcasing the works of Karen Perl, an Evanston based artist.
At around the age of 13, I inherited a box of paints and some brushes. I knew absolutely nothing about oil paints. But I had an image in my head of a thick wooded area with a path running through the center. A person was walking down the path. This coincidence of the acquisition of the painting materials and the presence of the inner vision ignited my desire to paint. Here was a means of describing something that I could not express in words.
I spent several years attending various colleges, intermittently studying physics and psychology, before getting a degree in drawing and painting, with an emphasis on the figure, from the School of the Art Institute in 1985. During my third year of art school, I attended the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland, where I worked primarily from dreams and imagination. I also spent several years in the South of France cultivating a practice of setting up my easel outside and painting the landscape.
I currently work out of my studio located in my home in Evanston Illinois.
Try to Remember | Karen Perl will be exhibited in the Second Floor Atrium Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central St., Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: Monday–Thursday, 9 am–6 pm; Friday, 9 am–5 pm; Saturday & Sunday, 9 am–4 pm. First and second-floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to our upcoming exhibition, Leopold Segedin | A Habit of Art: Paintings from 2015 to the Present. The exhibition will be on display from
July 8 - August 10, 2025, and will be free and open to the public.
Leopold Segedin is a Chicago-born painter (b. 1927) who has been exhibiting his work since 1944. His works have been shown at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Milwaukee Art Institute. At 97, Segedin currently lives and works in Evanston from his home studio. After retiring after 32 years of teaching in 1987, Segedin’s major retrospective I Remember was held in the Renaissance Court of the Chicago Cultural Center. He has since exhibited with a group called the ‘5’ at the Belzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture, the Loyola University Art Gallery, the Ukrainian Institute of Fine Art, and Suburban Fine Art Center in Highland Park.
Segedin has had nearly two dozen solo exhibitions in the Chicagoland area and his work has been recognized by several arts institutions including the Art Institute. Three books have been published about Segedin’s life and work: Leopold Segedin: A Habit of Art (2018), Segedin x Segedin: Self Portraits and Cameos: 1944-2020 (2020), and The Holocaust Series: Paintings & Drawings: 1967-1979 (2023).
Leopold Segedin | A Habit of Art: Paintings from 2015 to the Present will be held in the Second Floor Gallery of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central St., Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours:
Monday–Thursday, 9 am–6 pm; Friday, 9 am–5 pm; Saturday & Sunday, 9 am–4 pm. First and second floor gallery spaces are accessible. Limited free parking is available.
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Women give life; women build foundations; women offer love; women provide strength. Women deserve to take up space.
My name, Sholo, by definition, means “fire” in Sanskrit. I am a believer in the healing powers of nature and tie my appreciation for nature with my joy of being a woman. The power of nature is vast in my life: for healing, learning, creating art, and building community. I wanted to share my personal and artistic experiences with other creative women to hear and see their stories. This show is specially juried with women whose art practice and lives are strongly connected to nature and their femininity. The art will be displayed on a large scale to immerse the viewer in a curated environment.
Women and nature are intrinsically linked. Both uphold the foundation of the human race. This show, Women In Nature: Taking Up Space, is meant to touch the audience with all of these traits and emotions, while at the same time creating a community to experience and reflect. Through the eyes of women in nature, you will gain witness to the beauty and secrets of memories, ancestors, connection, and the stories of strength related to the beauty of the natural world.
This show will reflect all the earthly elements we seek for peace of mind, especially in this unpredictable time in the world. The senses will be enticed by color, texture, and sound from the perspective of an all-female art show.
Curatorial Statement
This exhibition was a very personal curation when seeking artists.
The selected artists are dedicated to their artistic practices for human rights, nature, and the ability to make change in the world through their art, while enduring the complexity of being a woman in today’s world.
This show will explore the concept of female artists from different cultures, diverse backgrounds, and artistic skills in painting. Through the lens of large-scale paintings, we will become witness to the stories these women want to share. By displaying the paintings on a large scale, the viewer will become part of the story. These pieces will highlight both the beauty and mystery of nature in all its vastness of expression through the eyes of a woman. This exhibition invites viewers to contemplate their own relationship with nature and all humans.
Exhibition Statement
The foundation of this show is to be immersed in nature with art. Art specifically created by women with visions and strengths from nature, which reflect wildly in their creations.
The gallery will, for one night, embark on a journey in nature to commune with art and create a community to share with. Give credit to women for their divine connection, creating the foundations for nurturing, nature, and the human race.
See and feel the energy from shadows that will be created, bringing the outside IN.
Quiet your mind to the sensations that will be offered for your experience. Wind, water, nature, and earth. There will be something for everyone to experience during this show.
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The Northshore Black Artist Group (NBAG) is dedicated to connecting, promoting, and supporting artists. The organization includes visual, performing, literary, and media arts. Their mission is to create platforms for artists to showcase their work, encouraging creative expression and innovation. NBAG serves as a community hub, bringing people together for shared experiences and fostering a sense of belonging.
This Moment in Time | NorthShore Black Artist Group Exhibition will be exhibited in the Second Floor Hallway Galleries of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to The Muses | Dan Simoneau. This exhibition is on display from August 16 - September 14, 2025, and will be free and open to the public. The Muses | Dan Simoneau features acrylic and watercolor portraits of Simoneau’s models–whom he considers his muses and with whom he has worked with for over 15 years: John, Anthony, Jacob, and Mykoal.
Dan Simoneau has been painting professionally for over 45 years and is considered a contemporary realist. His work has been exhibited in over 150 regional, national, and international exhibitions, and he has received over 70 awards for his work, including several Best in Show recognitions. Simoneau’s work has also been published in 20 national and international publications and lives in many private, corporate, and museum collections.
The Muses | Dan Simoneau will be exhibited in the Second Floor Atrium Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership. Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to Abdoulaye Conde. This exhibition is on display from August 16 - September 21, 2025 and will be free and open to the public. Abdoulaye Conde is a self-taught visual artist and muralist from Conakry, Guinea, now based on the North Side of Chicago. Conde is known for his vibrant and culturally rich artwork, which blends traditional and contemporary influences and is inspired by his Malinke heritage and experiences across cultures. He is also a skilled multi-instrumentalist, most notably playing the kora. Through his art and music, Abdoulaye Conde celebrates resilience, hope, joy, and unity, while reimagining contrasts, finding beauty in their connections.
Abdoulaye Conde will be exhibited in the Lobby Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and
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Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
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David Lozano blends American pop art and modernist abstraction with modern cultural references and personal memories to create forms where craft and cultural hierarchy exist in the same plane. Lozano’s mixed media wall pieces interrupt perceptions of value and of cultural aesthetics, featuring reconstructed or altered familiar forms such as papel picado (cut paper) banners or milagros (votives). His work employs a variety of techniques and references to ultimately challenge tropes of ethnicity, queerness, desire, and masculinity.
Now and Then | David Lozano will be exhibited in the Second Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Our Biennial is one of the Midwest’s largest and most prestigious juried exhibitions, offering artists an opportunity to have their work viewed by three talented curators: Chanelle Lacy, Director of Art Initiatives at Gertie, Joe Lanasa, Director/Founder of Fulton Street Collective, and Cortney Lederer, Public Art Consultant and Educator. Our Biennial will be promoted and viewed by hundreds of visitors, including gallerists, curators, and collectors.
Cash awards and cash equivalents will be presented at the artists’ reception. Awards, which may include Best of Show and Juror’s Merit categories, are given at the jurors’ discretion. From the final pool of selected applicants, the jurors will also award 3 artists, who have not exhibited at the Evanston Art Center in the past 5 years, with the opportunity to be included in an exhibition in our galleries.
Chanelle Lacy is a curator, cultural producer, and Reiki Master. She is also the Director of Art Initiatives at Gertie and the fearless leader of EarlyWork! Passionate about bringing ambitious, rigorous, and challenging projects to life, Chanelle works closely with artists both emerging and established to expand not only their creative practices but the art historical canon at large. Her passion for art and her commitment to amplifying underrepresented and marginalized voices make her a true champion of the arts. Most recently she produced SKIN + MASKS, a blockbuster exhibition crafted in collaboration with musician and activist Vic Mensa, centering works by contemporary artists exploring the elusive essence of identity. Originally presented in a classic gallery setting, SKIN + MASKS traveled to Chicago’s famed Magnificent Mile for a six-month pop-up exhibition presented in partnership with EXPO Chicago and the City of Chicago. In 2021 she curated Realms of Refuge, a group exhibition focused on the alchemical processes that enable us to transcend our earthly entanglements to reach higher states of consciousness, embodiment, and expression. Chanelle forged her path in the arts working at a contemporary gallery where she lent her vision to the program for six years. During three years of her tenure, she held the position of Director. Chanelle continues to be a force, serving as a trusted advisor.
Cortney Lederer is a public art consultant and educator with over twenty years of experience managing artistic programming for foundations and organizations. Cortney has curated installations by notable artists such as Jacob Hashimoto (2019) and Olafur Eliasson (2021) at th Willis Tower and Luftwerk at the landmark Chicago Board of Trade Building (2024). She served as the art advisor for E(art)H Chicago, (2023) an initiative supported by the Illinois Science and Energy Innovation Foundation (ISEIF), providing $700,000 in grants to artists to inspire new ways of thinking about environmental responsibility in neighborhoods across Chicago. This summer, she launched a new public art initiative for the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (2024) connecting people to nature through 30 art installations across the city. Cortney is currently serving as the public art consultant for the Chicago Park District to design and manage an RFP for artist responses to contested monuments on parkland through installations, onsite programming, and activations. She is also the Public Art Consultant for the City of Wichita, managing three, new public artworks for the Arkansas River Improvement Project. Most recently, she worked with a team of planning consultants hired by Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) and the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) to develop a community-engaged, pilot cultural and historical marker program. This pilot program celebrates the city’s cultural heritage by sharing untold stories and events through artist-designed markers. Cortney is an Associate Professor, Adj., in the Arts Administration and Policy department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and serves on the board of Arts of Life and Every House Has a Door.
Joe Lanasa is one of the founding members and the current director of the Fulton Street Collective. He created FSC in late 2002, along with his amazingly talented friend, Anna Fermin. Their original vision still holds true today, which is to host a community of creative, talented people, and give them the resources they need to support and cultivate their art so that they can enrich the lives of others and become part of the greater community. Joe is also a street poet, songwriter, rock musician singer, and guitarist, performing in mostly Chicago-area clubs for over ten years now. His musical influences include a crazy blend of brilliant performers, including Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan, Scott Momenthy, Iggy Pop, early Springsteen, Marty Robbins, Elvis, Van Morrison, and Bob Marley.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives. Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours: 9am – 6pm, Monday – Thursday; 9am – 5pm, Friday; 9am – 4pm, Saturday & Sunday. First and second-floor gallery spaces are handicapped accessible. Limited free parking is available.
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The coat was too expensive and designed for Paris weather. I visited “my” coat several times. Kimono cut, loose woven wool, perfect fit. Hard to leave it behind… So, I drew it. Another form of ownership.
I tailored the coat to my wish with colors, prints, words, more prints. I customized each piece of clothing in the show, to be my own and all about me. With time, as I worked on the many designs and screens, I discovered that they didn’t happen by chance. Many unexpected memories found their way between layers.
Anne attended the École Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques Penninghen in Paris. She received her Master’s Degree in Art History from the Sorbonne and her PhD from Northwestern University. She works at her home and in local studios. Anne draws inspiration from her encounters with people, books, objects, landscapes, events, and passing thoughts.
I treasure overlooked details. They carry big worlds and make them almost manageable.
They show loss through the beauty of what is left and joyful. The immeasurable abundance of life, and my ignorance of most things in it, alarms and dazzles me; with infinite layers, lines, and colors.
Printmaking has allowed me to create a library of designs that can transfer across a variety of media. In my case, ceramics and textile. Designs can be mixed, reused and altered. They are friends, markers and narratives in time. The designs transfer between media seamlessly.
For me, printmaking is fast and exuberant, or slow and contained just as writing is. I see no difference.
These art forms share paper and ink. They delight me with the slight but indelible transformation created when ink presses on the white surface of the paper.
Throughout my cheerful, blind walk across artwork, printmaking gives me an illusion of perennity.
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Sometimes we find ourselves lost. Or maybe we get lost on purpose. In the past five years or so I’ve had the feeling that I was lost. In various aspects of my life, I felt very unsure of my choices, perhaps doubtful of the map I felt I had been following. I worried about whether I was too far astray of a path I had previously been following to ever find it again. It scared me. I recalled that when I was young, I would set out into the woods, with no map at all, looking for new pathways, new adventures. I had the confidence that I would find my way – to return or go onward. My friends and I would occasionally plan expeditions, maybe “camping out” for the night. This would include packing of gear as if we were exploring a frontier. That frontier might only be a nearby forest, but to us it was wilderness to be traversed and conquered. Were we searching for adventure, or just to be independent? We wanted to be scouts, like Lewis and Clark. We wanted to venture out from the parentally minded homes, and enter a land with less guarantee of safety and more chance of discovery. We wanted to prove to ourselves we could survive it. Maybe we would find a new home in the wilds and never return to civilization.
This new series of semi-narrative tableaus imagines a band of young explorers traversing the land. These young women portray both the fantasy of those childhood expeditions and serve to illustrate the idea of getting lost, being lost, and finding one’s way. This is not a specific story being told with a point-by-point plot, but a series of scenarios with repeating characters and tropes. The land they roam is a non-specific midwestern farmscape, both wild and cultivated, seen in a half-light of evening or gathering storms. The relationships between these wanderers shifts with the landscape and is often deliberately ambiguous. I intend to depict them just on the edge of reality, verging slightly into the cinematic, in hopes the viewer will indulge in the same idealistic vision and suspend disbelief.
Solnit goes on to say, “Getting lost like that seems like the beginning of finding your way or finding another way, though there are other ways of being lost.” This series is in some ways my own processing of being lost and finding my way, and gaining an appreciation of getting lost as a deliberate act.
Christopher Schneberger is a Chicago-based photographer, educator, and curator. Exhibitions of his photography include: Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles; Dorsky Projects in New York City; Geocarto International in Hong Kong; and Blank Wall Gallery in Athens. His work is in the collections of: The Art Institute of Chicago; the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Virginia; and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum in Evanston, Illinois. He is Assistant Professor of photography and Gallery Director at Vincennes University. He has taught at The School of the Art Institute, and Columbia College Chicago. He has curated numerous exhibitions of photography at the Shircliff Gallery of Art, the Giertz Gallery, and Perspective Gallery, including Heirloom, Bending the Truth, Realms, This Particular Patch, and Re:Place. He has been a presenter at the Society for Photographic Education’s Midwest and Southeast conferences, and has been a visiting artist at Iowa State University, Indiana University, Kendall College of Art, and Western Michigan University. He received his BFA in Creative Photography from the University of Florida, and received his MFA in Photography at Indiana University.
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The magic of the obfuscated image in the developing tray coming to life from a latent capture was the moment. My formal education in photography began at the Center for Photographic Studies where my first teacher was CJ. Pressma, himself a protégé of Henry Holmes Smith and Minor White. It was profound and lasting experience. After that my professional development led to a Masters in Fine Art | Photography. What came next was a 40 Year career in graphic design, with the final role of as Design Director for my own company. Filmmaking took over during this period where my visual skills were honed and applied as a Director of both film and photography. Looking through the lens at the flow of motion was mesmerizing. I have spent the better part of the last decade traveling the globe to documenting NGO humanitarian projects, from Education for Children with Disabilities in Andong, South Korea to Women Weavers in Maheshwar, India. With 50+ years of Photography I remain committed to explore, to learn and to help others find their path to self-expression and documentation via photography. This new body of work presented here is entitled REMNANTS.
I have always collected found images. I have always looked at these objects as viewfinders into the past, some mine and some others. During COVID and the inability to travel I found myself going through a box of vintage color postcards looking at the images as if through a viewfinder. Within those frames I would begin to select a portion that would make an interesting image or print, sort of an “image within an image”. The enlarged lithography dot pattern added and abstract edge to the images and allowed me to present a unique vision. Of course there are numerous historic connections here for me, the Taos Church is a photographic icon, captured by the likes of Paul trand and Ansel Adams. One of my photographic heroes is Alfred Stieglitz, my cloud images connect to his Equivalents Series. There is also a graphic design or “painterly” quality to some of these images, the dot pattern of Roy Lichtenstein and to Andy Warhol as well. Many of these choices were intuitive, with others connecting only during the process when other connections revealed themselves. This body of work is at times more personal than some of my previous work and it has become important for me to show and to share this work within a gallery. I have been practicing fine art photography since the mid 1970s. I have watched it grow and I have developed my vision and my skills during this same period, this body of work presents the culmination of those efforts and presents a sense of my personal vision.
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Juried by Debra Favre, CSI | Materiality in Sculpture: A Dialogue Between Substance and Form explores the interplay of materials in the realm of sculpture, showcasing works that challenge, celebrate, and redefine our understanding of material substance through freestanding and wall-hung sculptures as well as installation and video. Forty members of Chicago Sculpture International have been selected for this exhibition.
CSI | Materiality in Sculpture: A Dialogue Between Substance and Form will be exhibited in the First Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
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“I’m a digital collage artist and photographer and a collector of early portrait photography—daguerreotypes, tintypes, and cabinet cards from the 1800s. I’m fascinated and sometimes saddened by these mysterious and haunting photographs of long-forgotten people, and I’m driven not only to preserve their memory, but to awaken it. My work intertwines 19th century photographs with whimsical objects and animals, creating playful, surreal, and haunting worlds. Titled The Forgotten Lives Project, these reimagined images aim to bring life to long-lost souls and tell a new story.”
-David Bender
The Forgotten Lives Project will be exhibited in the Lobby Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to A Tragedy of Religious Fanaticism.
Her paintings narrate the stories of the contemporary situation of the systematic persecution of the Iranian Baha’i community after the 1979 Iranian revolution. Safajoo's paintings narrate these stories which are a result of her conversations and interviews with the people who were near or in these actual events. Many of the incidents she depicts only exist in the memory of those who experienced them and have no pictorial existence. In many cases if visual records did exist, they have been confiscated by the Iranian authorities in raids of homes. Her depictions are often the first time these events have taken visual form. She records the details of this history. For example, the shoes, clothes, artifacts, and environments seen in her paintings are very close to those that were there in the event.
A Tragedy of Religious Fanaticism will be exhibited in the Second Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
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“The work in this show explores the need to rise up and escape from the troubles below. Following the impulse to hide away. The sculptures imply the ability to move away as needed for protection. Branches, gestural and twisted, rise up the woven vessels of safe enclosure. The vessel form represents a refuge for the human consciousness. The state of this refuge speaks to the condition and needs of the consciousness within. I have been creating sculptural works exploring our relationship with Nature since the early ’90s. I have attempted to share my ideas about our need to create a better relationship with Nature as a way to find peace within ourselves and with each other.”
Outta Here will be exhibited in the Second Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to our 23nd Annual Winter Arts & Crafts Expo. The Winter Arts & Crafts Expo will be held in our Main Floor Gallery from November 21 – December 20, 2025.
The Winter Arts & Crafts Expo includes original, handmade works of jewelry, ceramics, fiber, metal, glass, painting, photography, mixed media, and more. All proceeds from the Expo will benefit the ongoing exhibition, education, and outreach programs at the Art Center. The Winter Expo is also the perfect opportunity for families to shop for everyone on their holiday gift list.
General Shopping – November 22nd – December 20th, 2025, 9am-6pm Monday – Thursday, 9am-5pm
Friday, 9am-4pm Saturdays & Sundays (closed Thanksgiving)
Preview Party – November 21st, 6-9pm Shop before the general public!
Tickets are $40 for early registration and $50 at the door
Silent Auction – November 21st – November 23rd, closes at 4pm
Featuring artworks donated by participating Expo artists
EAC Student Expo – December 7th – December 20th
Handcrafted items made by our very own Art Center students!
The Winter Expo is free and open to the general public from November 22nd – December 20th, 2025.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL. Evanston Art Center Gallery Hours:
9am–6pm, Monday – Thursday; 9am–5pm Friday; and 9am–4pm, Saturday & Sunday. First and Second
Floor Gallery spaces are handicapped accessible. Limited free parking is available.
For more information please visit us online at www.evanstonartcenter.org or contact Emma Rose Gudewicz, Director of Development & Exhibitions, at (847) 475-5300.
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The Evanston Art Center boasts over 90 accomplished artists as faculty members teaching in ten visual art departments. This January, we spotlight our talented instructors in this biennial exhibition, displaying the breadth and depth of our faculty's artistic abilities. The biennial EAC Faculty Exhibition is a visual testament to the dedication and professionalism of our faculty who both teach and maintain their own artistic practice.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
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In Fellowship, South Side Chicago native and photo essayist Williamson visually explores the sacred spaces where Black men and boys learn, grow, and heal in each other’s presence. Through imagery, the exhibition asks: Where are the rituals that teach manhood? Fellowship is an installment of Williamson's ongoing series, The Four Virtues, a four-part monograph that cements the virtue of Black men and boys through images and writing.
Fellowship will be exhibited in the Lobby Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to Ruth Poor: Beatrice. The exhibition will be on display from February 21 to March 18, 2026, in our Second Floor Atrium Gallery and will be free and open to the public.
Beatrice is the culmination of a nearly year-long study and performative execution of \"grief-work\" as a means to ground oneself amidst the shared loss of environmental sanctity, bodily autonomy, and community from rising authoritarianism, Christo-fascism, and consumerism.
Ruth L. Poor, an interdisciplinary artist, embraces an evolving process of creation rooted in research and journaling/sketching as observation. Often implementing or commenting on spiritual/religious practice and ritual as it intersects with the macrocosm of American history and politics, alongside the parallelism of the personal.
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to our upcoming exhibition, In Paper & Shadow. The exhibition will be on display from February 21 - March 15, 2026, and will be free and open to the public.
Sarah Nguyen is a mixed media artist, working primarily with paper. Storytelling is central to her hand-cut fiber panels and paintings. Her work has appeared in numerous national and international solo and group exhibitions and publications. Her work has been part of exhibitions in museums and festivals, including (but not limited to) Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum of Asian Pacific Experience, the Daum Museum, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Grounds and Museum, the Truman Museum, Cheekwood Estates & Gardens, and Kansas City’s 2018 Open Spaces. She has taken part in a number of artist residencies from around the world as a visiting artist and teacher, including Serbia, Bulgaria, Japan, and France, as well as the United States.
The title of the exhibition is Her Story. The \"her\" of the title is our daughter, Temma Day Lowly. The title is also a bit of a feminist twist on \"history.\" The Her Story project consists of vertical format black & white paintings, each of which will be accompanied by a text (title + essay, poem, dictionary entry, etc.) written by my partner (and Temma's mother) Sherrie Lowly.
Concurrently with paintings of the Her Story project I will be showing a current collaborative project, the Trio Mandorla. This large drawing also depicts Temma, but with her mother Sherrie and caregiver Ellen Herbert). Begun 3 years ago, this project involves a collaborative component wherein people who are interested can draw onto the 2 parts of the drawing that depict quilts. I have exhibited this project previously, and numerous people have joined in the participatory compontent of the piece.
Choreographic Place is an exhibition program presented by Bridge, premiering at the Evanston Art Center, that explores the evolving relationships between dance, sculpture, movement, written choreography, and civic space through the framework of William Forsythe’s notion of “choreographic objects”. Bridge collective members Michelle Kranicke, David Sundry, and Michael Workman seek to expand the definition to architectural or sculptural forms designed not simply to occupy space, but to shape how bodies move, and behaviors may be regulated within it, how choreography is written and read, and how movement is negotiated collectively in shared environments.
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to our upcoming exhibition, La Jaula De Oro | Azul Alberto Nogueron. The exhibition will be on display from March 14 – April 19, 2026, with an opening reception on Sunday, March 29, and will be free and open to the public. Inspired by Los Tigres Del Norte song and curated by Azul Alberto Nogueron, La Jaula De Oro asks artists to respond to the illusion of the American Dream from the perspective of marginalized artists, using personal narratives about immigration, assimilation, and acceptance of identity. Artists Taly Inkz, Lily Guillen, and Gnat Rosa Madrid respond to the question: “What does it mean to be disillusioned?”
La Jaula De Oro is the first of three exhibitions for our COMPASS Curator Residency, which provides an emerging curator with the opportunity to curate three shows in the Evanston Art Center’s Lobby Gallery space. The EAC’s Lobby Gallery is dedicated to exhibiting emerging and underrepresented artists and curators and responds to current and social events. EAC’s 2026 COMPASS Resident Azul Alberto Nogueron is a queer non-binary multidisciplinary artist from Chicago, IL, whose practice reflects on their personal beliefs and experiences as a trans person to create stories of acceptance, fear, and curiosity. La Jaula De Oro will be exhibited in the Lobby Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
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The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to our upcoming exhibition, Joan Ruppert | Making the Cut. The exhibition will be on display from March 28 - April 26, 2026, with an opening reception on Sunday, March 29 from 1–4pm that will be free and open to the public. Joan Tortorici Ruppert is a television producer and media content creator based in Glenview, IL. Her exhibition Making the Cut showcases live-action collages that combine characters from her late father’s vintage negatives together with contemporary environments. Each new collage is organic, unpredictable, and unrepeatable, disrupting time and space to write new chapters in her family’s story.
Joan Ruppert | Making the Cut will be exhibited in the Second Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to our upcoming exhibition, Sandra Hansen | Our Exquisite Pollution Series: Under the Sea. The exhibition will be on display from March 28 - April 26, 2026, with an opening reception on Sunday, March 29, from 1-4pm that will be free and open to the public.
In Our Exquisite Pollution Series: Under the Sea, environmental artist Sandra Hansen creates water scenes with pure, sustainable handmade paper and repurposed plastics found decaying on the beaches. As the environmental crisis grows larger, so does Hansen’s art. Hansen’s work has evolved into installation with lighting, sound, and movement, where viewers are engulfed in an underwater-like space with sea creatures.
Our Exquisite Pollution Series: Under the Sea will be exhibited in the Atrium Gallery on the Second Floor of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
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All four artists, Michael Roqué Collins, Sherry Owens, Carlos Canul, and Sharon Kopriva presented in TEXAS ART NOW: Rhythms and Myths explore and create their complementary subjects showing views with essential senses of mystery, memory, and dreams within natural and human horizons. Their creative efforts exploring the natural world are filled with interpretations of the inherent mysteries and rhythms that amplify the subconscious realm making these combinations of art a most powerful exhibition.
TEXAS ART NOW: Rhythms and Myths will be exhibited in the First Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
The exhibition Walldrawings at Evanston Art Center creates immersive spatial experiences for the viewer through digital wall works made on inkjet-printed paper and pasted vinyl, suggesting dynamic crystalline and hyperbolic abstract repeat forms that invite contemplation and a multiplicity of views and readings.
Maria Burundarena was invited to create a dialogue with these works through reflective and mirrored spaces, LED light intervention, and pillar wrappings throughout the gallery. Both artists also show a selection of 'panel paintings' that accompany the site-specific installation works.
RCA, trained, the German/American artist Friedhard Kiekeben is currently based in Indianapolis. A minimalist aesthetic manifests in site-specific installations and series of paintings and overpaintings, and has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums since the late 1980s.
The Chicago-based Argentinian artist Maria Burundarena makes site-specific installations using large-scale printed images, light projection, and reflective materials. Her work has been exhibited at ZAZ 10, Times Square, New York, SITE Gallery, Mayfield, MdW Mana Contemporary, Chicago Athletic Association, The Franklin, Heaven Gallery, and Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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This yearly tradition includes silent and live auctions that raise money to support EAC’s mission: fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. Last year, over 230 attendees from the Chicago and North Shore areas helped to raise $100,000 for outreach, scholarship, and exhibition programs.
For almost 100 years, EAC has provided public outreach programs, exhibitions, and resources for art education. The Spring Benefit is an integral part of the Evanston Art Center’s success.
To purchase tickets, go to our One Cause page. Individual tickets cost $275. The price for all tickets includes a wonderful dinner by J & L Catering and the opportunity to bid on a selection of items in our silent and live auctions. Items include a vibrant range of artwork, hotel stays, restaurant certificates, weekend getaways, jewelry and accessories, and more.
This event will be a lovely evening out and an opportunity to support EAC’s important mission. Even if you can’t attend, you can still participate in the online auction.
The Evanston Art Center is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences by offering extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach.
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“The idea for this exhibition stems from the sentiment that as individuals, we all carry ideas within our core memories. I wanted to share visual anecdotes—specifically from our studio—for attendees to walk into a space to get a glimpse into ambience that the team and I are surrounded by each and every day. Each piece carries over a story, a memory, and a notch in the timeline from where it all started, where it’s been, and where it’ll all ultimately lead.”
This exhibition will be held in the Second Floor Gallery of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). Masks are optional but strongly recommended for students, visitors and staff.
Gallery Hours
Monday–Thursday: 9am–6pm
Friday: 9am–5pm
Saturday–Sunday: 9am–4pm
Artwork sale proceeds benefit both the artist and the Evanston Art Center. If you are interested in purchasing artwork on display, please contact Emma Rose Gudewicz, Director of Development and Exhibition Manager, at egudewicz@evanstonartcenter.org or (847) 475-5300 x 102.
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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I have included a variety of sizes of panels in this exhibition to not only show my range, but also because I like the rhythmical play created by the juxtaposition of works. Viewers may also notice a cohesive thread of color between all the paintings. This was achieved by working on several works at the same time – carrying over colors from one panel to the next.
-Denise Presnell
My current work contains two series: “Unrestrained Ambiguity” and “Extreme Makeovers – Painting Edition. Both series share some common threads, such as color palette, biomorphic forms, gestural lines, and a strong sense of motion. The subject matter is up for grabs – it’s all in the eye of the beholder. I’ve learned that what I see as a ‘horse’ is a ‘kitty’ to others. I am okay with the open interpretation. I like offering an open invitation for the viewer to explore the work from their imagination.
Using a limited palette ties one work to another. I’ve developed a deeper relationship with color as a powerful vehicle of emotion. I’ve taken cues from the masters of color- Rothko, Matisse, Bonnard, and many more. Equally powerful in my method is the use of automatic, gestural line. Compositions are found through the automatic lines without a preconceived image or plan. Working from this standpoint has been extremely freeing for me.
I enjoy working on panels that have many older paintings under them, leaving something from the older work in the newest iteration. It’s a family of paintings. I like using oil and cold wax on panel because of the ability to dig down through the painted surfaces. My love for tactile surfaces harkens back to my years of intaglio printmaking.
Denise is a painter originally from Nebraska, currently living in Sheboygan, WI. She earned a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Nebraska and an MFA in Painting from the Pennsylvania State University. Graduate school was followed by a career of teaching art on the college level. Denise’s artwork has been exhibited in over 300 exhibitions, which include solo, invitational, group, and juried exhibitions in the United States, Tokyo, Botswana, Kenya, and Shanghai. Her work is in numerous private collections in the United States and abroad.
GALLERY HOURS & VISITOR INFORMATION
This exhibition will be held in the Second Floor Gallery of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). Masks are optional but strongly recommended for students, visitors, and staff.
Gallery Hours
Monday–Thursday: 9am–6pm
Friday: 9am–5pm
Saturday–Sunday: 9am–4pm
HOW TO PURCHASE ARTWORK
Artwork sale proceeds benefit both the artist and the Evanston Art Center. If you are interested in purchasing artwork on display, please contact Emma Rose Gudewicz, Director of Development and Exhibitions, at egudewicz@evanstonartcenter.org or (847) 475-5300 x 102.
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Image Credits: Denise Presnell, \"Sparks Are Flying,\" oil and cold wax on panel
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The jurors of the exhibition are Emily Silver and Erin M. Riley.
Emily Silver lives and works in Los Angeles and is on the faculty at Santa Monica College in the Sculpture Department and the Director/Curator of the Pete and Susan Barrett Gallery. She is also the co-founder of L.A. Tactile Lab, along with Svetlana Shigroff and Liv Aanrud.
Erin M. Riley is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work focuses on women and women’s issues primarily in hand-woven, hand-dyed wool tapestries. Riley’s work challenges society’s comfort level by displaying shocking images, including nudity, drugs, violence, self-harm, sexuality, and menstruation.
A catalog accompanies the exhibition and is available for purchase on the American Tapestry Alliance’s website.
Juried Artists:
Laura Burcin, Barbara Burns, Emily Cabaniss, Ching-Ting Chiu, Jasmine Claros, Molly Cleator, Deborah Corsini, Nancy Crampton, Sharon Crary, Liliana Crespi, Sam Dienst, Alex Friedman, Rama Ganesan, Tricia Goldberg, Anne Heide, Barbara Heller, Sally Heller, Sofia Herr, Connie Lynn Higgs, Christine Holtz, Rebecca Hooper, Cameron Kashani, Judit Eszter Kárpáti, Kristin Kelley-Munoz, Brendan Kenny, Riley Klein, Robbie LaFleur, Mary Lane, Fannie Lee, Monique Lehman, Connie Lippert, Kyle McKeown Mansfield, Ann Marie Miller, Pip Milton, Janet Moore, Annabelle O’Reilly, Tea Okropiridze, Anna Olsson, Libby Raab, Ellen Ramsey, Helena Richardson, Minna Rothman, Wendy Saam, Kristin Tinsa Saeterdal, Jennifer Sargent, Rowen Schussheim-Anderson, Mary-Ann Sievert, Kyla Sjogren, Rebecca Smith, Linda Soranno, Karmen Steigenga, Vicki Stone, Adrienn Szabo, Kathe Todd-Hooker, Trang Tran, Alta Turner, David van Buskirk, Stevie Van Housen, Ginny Wallace, Sue Weil, and Xingyi Zhao.
GALLERY HOURS & VISITOR INFORMATION:
This exhibition will be held in the First Floor Gallery of the Evanston Art Center (EAC). Masks are optional but strongly recommended for students, visitors, and staff.
Gallery Hours
Monday–Thursday: 9am–6pm
Friday: 9am–5pm
Saturday–Sunday: 9am–4pm
HOW TO PURCHASE ARTWORK
Artwork sale proceeds benefit both the artist and the Evanston Art Center. If you are interested in purchasing artwork on display, please contact Emma Rose Gudewicz, Director of Development and Exhibitions, at egudewicz@evanstonartcenter.org or (847) 475-5300 x 102.
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Image Credits (L to R): Sam Dienst, Tea Okropiridze, and Libby Raab
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The exhibition will be on view from June 27 through July 29, 2026, with an opening reception on Sunday, June 28, from 1–4 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.
Born in Nicaragua, Moritz Kellerman is both a 21st-century artist and an art historian whose work is informed by the art of both the past and present. During his graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Kellerman became inspired by the work of Willem de Kooning and Richard Diebenkorn. He also draws inspiration from the Old Renaissance Masters in his painting practice. His use of wood panels recalls the techniques of Leonardo da Vinci, while his method of mixing paint directly on the surface of the work echoes that of Claude Monet.
Since 1981, Kellerman has exhibited extensively at colleges, museums, and galleries. He is a tenured professor at Oakton College, where he teaches Studio Art and Art History.
Moritz Kellerman | Recent Paintings will be exhibited in the Second Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
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Chicago-based, Indian-born artist Rina Akowala translates her global travels into vibrant abstract landscapes. Working across oils, inks, mixed media, and acrylics, she captures the essence of diverse locales—from European countrysides to South American waterfalls, from the farmlands of Iowa to the Indian subcontinent—emphasizing the interplay of light on land and water. Her recent work uniquely blends spiritual iconography with natural scenery, depicting ethereal representations of Lord Ganesha, the Hindu deity of wisdom and new beginnings. These pieces incorporate landscape elements, reflecting Ganesha’s invocation at the start of new ventures.
Rina Akowala | Ode to Color will be exhibited in the Second Floor Atrium Gallery at the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
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The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to our upcoming exhibition, Presence and Absence: The Space Between | Curated by Indira Freitas Johnson. The exhibition will be on display from July 6 – August 2, 2026 with an opening reception on Sunday, July 12, 1–4 pm that will be free and open to the public.
Curated by Indira Freitas Johnson, Presence and Absence: The Space Between is the culminating exhibition for the EAC’s Curatorial Fellowship. Johnson’s fellowship explores the dual reality of death—the physical disappearance of those we love and the enduring emotional, spiritual, and cultural traces they leave behind. Through sculpture, painting, performance, and participatory installations, the exhibition brings together fragile and enduring materials to reflect on memory, loss, and the tension between impermanence and our human desire to hold on. Rather than viewing death as an ending, the exhibition considers it as a connective force between past, present, and future, inviting visitors to reflect on legacy, remembrance, and the ways we remain present even in our absence. Indira Freitas Johnson is a sculptor, cultural worker, peace activist, and educator whose work explores the intersection of art, community, and social change.
Presence and Absence: The Space Between will be exhibited in the First Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
Evanston Art Center is located at 1717 Central St., Evanston, IL.
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*Registration is required. Visit www.EvanstonArtCenter.org for more information.
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to our upcoming exhibition, John Wangendo | Stories from Africa. The exhibition will be on display from August 8 - September 13, 2026 with an opening reception on Sunday, August 9, 1-4pm that will be free and open to the public.
Through his colorful and detailed portraits, artist John Wangendo gives viewers a glimpse into stories from the continent of Africa, from its civil wars to its deep cultures and traditions. Wangendo was nominated for the Mayor's Award for the Arts by the City of Evanston, Illinois in 2023. John Wangendo | Stories from Africa will be exhibited in the Second Floor Gallery of the Art Center.
The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
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Place and Passing is a two-person exhibition that approaches landscape as shifting fields of memory, sensation, and emotion. Both artists draw from the transformative nature of their materials in constructed and deconstructed layers, revealing how the experience of place is carried within us and evolves through the act of creation.
Ellen Holtzblatt and Paula Menchen | Place and Passing will be exhibited in the First Floor Gallery of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
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Glass Castles is a whimsical, surrealist exhibition of works about spirituality and religious trauma curated through the queer perspective. Glass Castles is the second of three exhibitions curated by Azul Alberto Nogueron as part of their time as the EAC's COMPASS Resident.
The COMPASS Curator Residency provides an emerging curator with an opportunity to curate three shows in the Evanston Art Center’s Lobby Gallery space. The EAC’s Lobby Gallery is a space dedicated to exhibiting emerging and underrepresented artists/curators and responds to current social events. This dynamic and inclusive space draws in new curators, artists, and audiences. Glass Castles | Curated by Azul Alberto Nogueron will be exhibited in the Lobby Gallery on the First
Floor of the Art Center. The opening reception is free and open to the public. This exhibition is partially funded by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the EAC’s general membership.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to welcome the public to our upcoming exhibition, Voytek Glinkowski | Pages From My Notebook. The exhibition will be on display from August 8 - September 13, 2026 with an opening reception on Sunday, August 9, 1-3pm that will be free and open to the public.
\"Every day, most of the time we are processing and transferring messages, news, pictures and feelings into the notebooks of our minds. The fabrics of those thoughts and images become Pages From My Notebook. I don't want to lose them. One never knows.\"
– Voytek Glinkowski
Glinkowski received a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from the Strzeminski Fine Art Academy in Poland. His work has been exhibited in over 30 individual and group shows in the USA and Europe including at Stricoff Fine Art Gallery in New York, Discovery Galleries in Bethesda, Atlas Galleries in Chicago, Vail Fine Art Gallery in Vail, Triada Gallery in Gdansk, and Newborough Avenue Gallery in Boston.
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Mostly known for mural-sized, physically-interactive/immersive conceptual abstracts, Las Vegas artist Nancy Good's practice is rooted in an unwavering passion to create strong contemporary art that invites dialogue and human connection. Layl McDill grew up in Gillette, Wyoming, where her early works were dollhouses, marionettes, and even an entire “Smurf Village.” Polymer clay has been her medium of choice, using the millefiori technique and mixed media materials. Jemsy Pradunn is a Chicago born and based artist currently attending the School of the Art Institute. Pradunn uses markers, crayons, and paint markers on paper to inspire others to open their perspective and imagination.
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To get started, register for Portfolio Day, reserve your limited spot for meetings with representatives from art & design colleges, and review the online guides to “What should I bring?” “Who will be there?” and “Where is the EAC?” Portfolio Day will be in the First Floor Gallery of the Art Center. This event is free and open to the public; registration is required. This exhibition is partially funded by the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.
Evanston Art Center, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, is dedicated to fostering the appreciation and expression of the arts among diverse audiences. The Art Center offers extensive and innovative instruction in broad areas of artistic endeavor through classes, exhibitions, interactive arts activities, and community outreach initiatives.
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