tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44018199946159255882024-02-18T22:42:33.390-08:00OpenWallAlderman Ameya Pawar's 47th Ward Office features local artists work. 4243 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60618Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-23434158485534429712014-03-28T05:44:00.004-07:002014-03-28T05:44:53.951-07:00Featured Artists: Candace Wark and Shirley Nannini
Featured Artists: Candace Wark and Shirley Nannini
Inversion by Wark and Nannini
Inversion by Candace Wark and Shirley Nannini
Find out more about the artists at: www.windflowphotography.com
Inquiry is at the heart of our work. Our art looks at an ever
changing dynamic of patterns that evolve and move. The images we
produce are interactions of wind and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-82508959883567496852014-03-20T20:30:00.001-07:002014-03-20T20:30:15.209-07:00Featured Artist: Meredith Dytch
53rd Street – Hyde Park by Meredith Dytch
53rd Street – Hyde Park by Meredith Dytch
I paint the city, choosing scenes that are informed by my belief that
there is beauty to be found in many places that aren’t normally
thought of as having aesthetic value. Abandoned buildings, rusting
viaducts, overgrown vacant lots and trash-filled alleys present their
own authentic Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-34633105829403690302014-03-16T08:00:00.001-07:002014-03-16T08:00:41.595-07:00Featured Artist: Ann Ponce
Montrose Beach, Day of Chicago Air and Water Show 2010 by Ann Ponce
Montrose Beach, Day of Chicago Air and Water Show 2010 by Ann Ponce 8 Feet by 10 Feet
Find out more about the artist and Ponce Studios at www.annponce.com
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-43272674234489675442014-03-15T09:29:00.002-07:002014-03-15T09:29:10.002-07:00Featured Artist: June Nichols
Still Life with Chestnuts by June Nichols
My career as an ocularist, painting and manufacturing plastic
artificial eyes, has prepared me for my career as a painter. My canvas
is much bigger but represents similar challenges, discoveries and
explorations of natureUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-10688368893046924322014-03-07T06:25:00.002-08:002014-03-07T06:25:22.343-08:00Featured Artist: Iku Shimizu
German Clipper Visits Chicago Photograph by Iku Shimizu
German Clipper Visits Chicago Photograph by Iku Shimizu
Member of : Wright Camera Club Renaissance Court - Senior Center SAN Exhibited at Renaissance Court -"Later Impressions" October 2013 Also previously several times at Renaissance Court as welUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-44596758714744145992014-02-26T05:42:00.001-08:002014-02-26T05:43:04.086-08:00Featured Artist: Thomas Gianni
Sailor Steve Costigan by Thomas Gianni
Thomas Gianni
My art education started with comic books and the artists that
created them: Jack Kirby, Frank Frazetta, and Steve Ditko to name a few.
I attended the American Academy of Art where I studied under the
masters, Fred Berger, Irving Shapiro, and Howard Mueller. There I
discovered Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth and J.C.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-61664273263201385442014-02-10T05:03:00.002-08:002014-02-10T05:03:15.438-08:00Common Threads: Senior Artists Network at OpenWall Chicago
Common
Threads: Senior Artists Network at OpenWall Chicago, featuring Artists:
Bonnie Zak, Thomas Gianni, Meredith Dytch, Judith Roth, Iku Shimizu,
Candace Wark, Ann Ponce, Gloria Rigoni, Shirley Nannini, June Nichols,
Kate Tully and Kathy Blankley Roman.
Common Threads: Senior Artists Network at OpenWall Chicago,
featuring Artists: Bonnie Zak, Thomas Gianni, Meredith Dytch, JudithUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-59551335191012923262014-02-05T08:58:00.002-08:002014-02-05T08:58:37.379-08:00Featured Committee Member: Maggie Rife Ponce
Maggie Rife Ponce
Rife Ponce is based out of Chicago, working as a photojournalist, portrait photographer, and
instructor. She has a degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri. Her camera
has taken her to more than a dozen countries throughout Southeast Asia, Central America, and
Europe to capture the cultures and teach my trade. Her current work is a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-10502896527581527662014-01-31T05:46:00.001-08:002014-01-31T05:46:30.349-08:00Featured Artist: Maggie Rife Ponce
Maggie Rife Ponce is based out of Chicago, working as a photojournalist,
portrait photographer, and instructor. She has a degree in
photojournalism from the University of Missouri. Her camera
has
taken her to more than a dozen countries throughout Southeast Asia,
Central America, and Europe to capture the cultures and teach my trade.
Her current work is a project based on community in theUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-14989028667682642292013-12-11T06:10:00.004-08:002013-12-11T06:10:29.904-08:00Featured Artist: Melisa Oro
by Melissa Oro
Melisa Oro is a translator who lives in Chicago. She is originally
from Posadas – Misiones, a province located in northeast Argentina along
the Iguazu falls. In her free time she paints with different mediums
and techniques.
Agustina Diez Sierra on why she selected Melisa:
“While we were roommates I remember always coming home to find Melisa
painting after a busy day at Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-26798748471092973152013-12-10T07:39:00.001-08:002013-12-10T07:47:35.783-08:00Featured Artist: Carolina I. Reyes
Carolina is a Belizean-Mexican-American painter and mixed-media artist. She grew up in Edgewater, and the neighborhood’s diversity has added cultural depth and vision to her creative experiences. She is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago, where she studied Art & Design and Fine Art. She studied under American-Mexican muralist Mario E.Castillo, who taught her color and glazing techniques.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-10260371685570982312013-12-06T07:41:00.000-08:002013-12-10T07:45:12.844-08:00Featured Artist: Bonnie Zak
Swing Low, Swing High by Bonnie Zak
Bonnie’s body of work will put most viewers into a good mood. Dogs,
cats, family members and complete strangers in their typical habitats
populate many of her pieces. Shape and design are her particular and
extraordinary strengths. Her skills were developed early on, when she
worked as a staff artist for the Chicago Tribune and for various ad
agencies. A Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-66287748124904668532013-11-26T06:12:00.002-08:002013-11-26T06:12:45.353-08:00Featured Artist: Nicole Hollander (of the Sylvia Comic Strip Fame)
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"When
I was 40 I created the cartoon character Sylvia. She was going to hack
her way through the jungle of aging. She would always be ten years older
than I. When I began to age, I found that I was unable to visit those
telltale signs of aging on Sylvia. I had bags under my eyes, lines and
wrinkles. Syl was a smoker, she should have those ugly little lines
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-55557476118597780122013-11-26T06:11:00.002-08:002013-11-26T06:11:43.653-08:00eatured Committee Member: Jayson Lawfer
Jayson Lawfer
Jayson Lawfer is a potter and director of an art gallery and art consulting business entitled The Nevica Project
. After graduating from the University of Montana, Jayson completed an
artist residency at Guldagergard (2002) in Denmark, The Archie Bray
Foundation (2004), A.I.R. Vallauris in Vallauris, France (2006), and
Lillstreet Art Center (2007). His work has been Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-72596088909187562802013-11-18T05:05:00.000-08:002013-11-18T05:13:46.698-08:001+1=Community: Nov 18-Jan 3
1+1 OpenWall Chicago 2013:
Agustina Diez Sierra, Bill Moran, Bonnie Zak, Carolina Reyes, Diane
Ponder, Jayson Lawfer, Kelly Feldmiller, Maggie Rife Ponce, Maria Ponce
Berre, Melisa Oro, Nicole Hollander, Patricia Larkin Green, Petr Poliak,
Rachel Lechocki, SPEstes, Tam Dillman
OpenWall Chicago presents: “1+1=Community November 18th until January 3rd Unknownnoreply@blogger.com04243 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60618, USA41.958996 -87.68175400000001216.4369615 -128.990348 67.4810305 -46.373160000000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-47119228869905313332013-11-12T07:10:00.002-08:002013-11-12T07:13:32.313-08:00Featured Artist: Jim Riggs
Reflected Geometry by Jim Riggs
medium: Storm Window, spray paint, acrylic paint
Recycling is a word that can be used in a few different connotations. First we think of the act of reusing a material over again as in plastic bottles which we now as if trained by society place in those blue bins behind our houses to go somewhere to be broken down washed and created once again into Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-82633161321204436572013-11-07T10:30:00.000-08:002013-11-07T10:30:43.002-08:00Featured Artist: Alan Emerson Hicks
Featured Artist: Alan Emerson Hicks with "Ice"
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Artist Statement
My artwork is influenced by
our society and magic. My sculptures use
plastic discarded objects and American detritus to create objects that
comment on what Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-64876321196192769522013-11-03T05:41:00.001-08:002013-11-03T05:41:33.718-08:00Featured Artist: Mary Ellen Croteau
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The function of the visual in consumer culture is to
overwhelm and imprint, rendering us passive vessels for received wisdom. Vast
databases of disconnected facts, driven by arcane mathematical formulae rather
than by a creative or logical progression of thought, do more to confuse and
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-61609150635518993102013-10-31T13:37:00.003-07:002013-10-31T14:07:17.985-07:00Artfully Aware gets reviewed on Hyperallergic by Philip Hartiganhttp://hyperallergic.com/86254/a-chicago-alderman-opens-his-office-to-art/
Artfully Aware gets reviewed on Hyperallergic by Philip HartiganUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-23014923568670703622013-10-28T05:58:00.001-07:002013-10-28T05:58:41.215-07:00Featured Artist: Tam Dillman
Every author knows the old adage, “Write about what you know.” I believe the same applies to visual art. I paint what I know and cherish: the Chicago flag, that simple yet symbol-rich emblem of the city I adore; flowers of all kinds, drawing inspiration from my garden and nature in general; and the family ties that lead to a rich and well-lived life.I’m not sure what thrills me more about Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-89551610259054149032013-10-20T07:22:00.001-07:002013-10-20T07:22:02.392-07:00Featured Artist: Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall-- Biography
A
native of Central Florida and US Navy veteran, Stuart came to Chicago
to participate in the text book publishing industry as a production
artist. With the impending doom of being outsourced and automated, he
set out on a course to reinvent himself in the vibrant world of Chicago
art. Hall is a mid-career curator that is nearing completion of his
first body of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-8331740666204609392013-10-14T06:36:00.000-07:002013-10-14T06:36:30.451-07:00Featured Artist: Rachel LechockiMeet Catalyst of change Rachel Lechocki
Amies by Rachel Lechocki
Rachel Lechocki
I see everything around us as beauty and potential means for art
making. Subconsciously, we construct and become our environments.
Therefore, I feel our surroundings strongly have a prominent home in my
art, as an agent of social/environmental change and often, most
significantly, of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-3652105727053192442013-10-10T04:55:00.000-07:002013-10-10T04:55:08.560-07:00Featured Artist: Tiffany Gholar
Title: Adaptive Reuse by Tiffany GholarMedium: oil and acrylic with found objects on canvasSize: 40” x 30”
Title: Adaptive Reuse
Medium: oil and acrylic with found objects on canvas
Size: 40” x 30”
Tiffany Gholar is a Chicago based artist working in a variety of media.
“I have three primary bodies of work: The Doll Project, Post-Consumerism, and Recessionism.
I studied art as an Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-69009551568500032722013-10-08T05:07:00.000-07:002013-10-08T05:07:12.092-07:00Featured Committee Member: Agustina Diez Sierra<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4401819994615925588.post-23013617236700381702013-09-27T07:06:00.000-07:002013-09-27T07:06:03.716-07:00Reciprocity: Artfully Aware Opening Night
Reciprocity: Artfully Aware Opening Night
Thank you everyone for coming out to the opening for Reciprocity: Artfully Aware at OpenWall
last night. We were packed-energy was stoked and Artful exchanges were
plentiful! Congratulations to co-curators Jim Riggs and Rachel
Lechocki. Tatjana shared her spontaneous land art project during her art
talk about Random Acts of Doodleness A big Thank Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0