OpenWall Chicago: Chicago Photography Center Opening June 6th 6-8

OpenWall Chicago: Chicago Photography Center Opening June 6th 6-8

Photo Credit: Jenna Braunstein

Poster created by Agustina Diez Sierra

Meet an OpenWall committee member… Petr Poliak

Petr Poliak

Petr Poliak

Petr Poliak is a freelance Master Photographer. He studied art photography at Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), Czech Republic, earning his Master of Arts degree.

Artist Statement:

“My passion for photography began when I was 12 years old.  My early interests were landscapes throughout Europe. I later focused on commercial photography.
I immigrated to the United States four years ago and in 2012 moved to Chicago from Houston. I am enjoying getting to know this fantastic city and photographing it while I learn the lay of the land.”

OpenWall: Chicago Photography Center

OpenWall Chicago: Chicago Photography Center

OpenWall Chicago: Chicago Photography Center

Featured Artist: Beverly Alice Nash

Title:    City Prairie
30 x 30
Dye, acrylic paint, and tread on canvas
$500
Title:     Intersections
33”wide x 31” long
Dye and acrylic paint on canvas
$500
Title:    Forbs
27 x 28
Dye, acrylic paint, and thread on linen fabric
$350

Artist:    Beverly Alice Nash
Bio:    As an artist who has always liked to knit and sew, I apply fiber art techniques to paint and canvas.  Currently I am dyeing canvases and applying to them, variously, acrylic paint and stitching. In the future I will continue to express the tropes of the domestic arts in the context of fine art.

Apart from reflecting crafts, the overriding theme of my work is order. I am fascinated by geometry, especially crossing lines and the way they can suggest the containment or suppression of disorder.

Featured Artist: Petr Poliak

Petr Poliak was born last century in Prague, Czech Republic.  

Petr graduated from Film and TV Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU in Art Photography (Master of Arts Degree).

Currently working as a free lance photographer with more then 25 years of experience in Portrait, Commercial, and Architecture photography.

In 2008, Petr relocated to the United States to continue his career as a Professional Photographer.

Featured Artist: Judith Roth

Judith Roth:  Born: Boston Massachusetts. Graduated: Boston Museum School with BFA from Tufts University.
Attended Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture on scholarship. Numerous awards and
purchase prizes, including Illinois Arts Council Project Completion Grant; resulting in one person
show at the Illinois Arts Council; honored for arts advocacy and community service in the arts,
from such groups as the Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art, and the Ravenswood Community
Council. Founder: Ravenswood ArtWalk (RAW) an annual tour of Arts & Industry along the
Ravenswood Industrial Corridor, Chicago IL.

Featured Artist: Meredith Dytch (solo Show at Chicago Cultural Center)



Wilson Artists’ Group (Kathleen Roman, Kate Tully, Patricia Larkin Green, Meredith Dytch, June Nichols, Margaret Tully, Ann Ponce)

 Meredith Dytch and Tiffany Gholar

 
Hidden City by Meredith Dytch

Artist Statement:  When I paint the city, the scenes that I choose to paint 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 face to the world – we just don’t usually see them as places worth paying much attention to. Our eye skips over them as we flash by in our cars or trains. Sometimes these places are dirty. We don’t want to look too closely.
I come to my art from a background as an architect and as a fan of Japanese design. Having been an architect has left me with certain feelings about the built environment – about the way in which we build it, but it then lives, so to speak, a life of its own, separate from us, but alongside us. At the same time, being a fan of all things Japanese has given me an appreciation of the aesthetic philosophy known as wabi-sabi. Wabi is about the natural, the simple, whatever is closest to nature: a simple clay pot that may even retain the mark of the potter’s thumb. Sabi is about the beauty inherent in the old, the decaying, the weathered: a wooden barn door from which most of the paint has peeled.



Roots of the Community: April 20th 4-7 Opening


The newest installation, Roots of the Community, features the artwork of senior artists living and creating in the 47th ward.

Many of the exhibit’s contributing artists are members of the Senior Artists Network (SAN), a not-for-profit organization committed to promoting and fostering the talents of Chicago-area artists age 50 or older. The installation’s artwork spans the spectrum, from dramatic photographs and urban-inspired oil paintings to mixed media, pastels, mosaic and water color. The array of artwork is both stunning and varied, and it testifies to the talent and diversity of the seasoned artists living in the neighborhood. The public is invited to mingle with the alderman and his staff, the local community and the artists to discuss their works at the opening reception on April 20th from 4:00 to 7:00 pm. The exhibit is co-curated by Sylvia Garcia and Carolyn Bull, and runs through May 15th.

Featured artists: Meredith Dytch, Mike Barret Kolasinski, Ann Ponce, Judith Roth, Kathleen Beste, Beverly Alice Nash, Petr Poliak, Carolyn Bull, Bill Bartelt and Patricia Larkin Green. The Chicago Mosaic School also has contributed a piece to the show. 

Roots of the Community for OpenWall

ExhibitPR

The Senior Artists Network brings you Roots of the Community for OpenWall at Alderman Ameya Pawar’s 47th Ward Office.

Opening Night on Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 4:00 pm
4243 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60618
Exhibit will be up from March 22-May 15, 2013

Artists: Ann Ponce, Meredith Dytch, Judith Roth, Kathleen Beste, The Chicago Mosaic School, Bill Bartelt, Carolyn Bull, Beverly Alice Nash, Petr Poliak, Patricia Larkin Green, and Mike Barret Kolasinski 

 

 

 

Featured Artist: Artist: Garrett Leo Augustyn

Artist: Garrett Leo Augustyn
Title: Personality Clash
Medium: Sculpture
Size: 12.5″ x 10″ x 9.5″ — at OpenWall.

Garrett Leo Augustyn has been chosen to show his sculpture, Personality clash at the Art Institute of Chicago. Exhibit date(s) to be determined!!!

Young Artists Rising Opens Feb 22 6-8

Opening Night Photo Album

Young Artists Rising: OpenWall Presents LakeView and Lane Tech High Schools

Young Artists Display Their Creations in 47th Ward Office

47th Ward High school Student Show

Taylor Fujisawa – Lake View
Get ready for some visual delights in OpenWall Gallery this quarter. Art teachers from Lane Tech and Lake View High School have assembled a diverse collection of student art from whimsical head figures and sculptures to dramatic photographs, ink drawings and oil paintings. The exhibit is curated by Carolyn Bull and runs through February. OpenWall Gallery head curator Patricia Larkin Green will be announcing a senior art exhibit coming in March; details will be posted on the website soon!

OpenWall: In The News! @Debra Yepa Pappan

OpenWall: In The News! @Debra Yepa Pappan

Hello, friends,

I would like to share some exciting news with you. My 2 most popular pieces “Live Long and Prosper (Spock was a half-breed)” and “Hello Kitti Tipi” along with an interview are featured in the new book “War Baby/Love Child, Mixed Race Asian American Art” which was just released and is now available from the University of Washington Press, http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/KINWAR.html

An art exhibit of work by artists in the book will open this April at the DePaul University Museum of Art here in Chicago, then it will travel to Seattle to the Wing Luke Museum by next year.

I am honored to be featured in this book to represent mixed Asian/Native Americans along with fellow artist, mixed Asian/Native and good friend, Louie Gong. The mixed race experience is an important one to share. I am proud to be both Korean and Jemez Pueblo!

Watch this promotional video for the book, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJp0MDtKqyY

And get yourself a copy! Thanks for your time!

Debra
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Like my Facebook page!

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In The News! @Debra Yepa Pappan


I would like to share some exciting news with you. My 2 most popular pieces “Live Long and Prosper (Spock was a half-breed)” and “Hello Kitti Tipi” along with an interview are featured in the new book “War Baby/Love Child, Mixed Race Asian American Art” which was just released and is now available from the University of Washington Press, http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/KINWAR.html 
An art exhibit of work by artists in the book will open this April at the DePaul University Museum of Art here in Chicago, then it will travel to Seattle to the Wing Luke Museum by next year.
I am honored to be featured in this book to represent mixed Asian/Native Americans along with fellow artist, mixed Asian/Native and good friend, Louie Gong. The mixed race experience is an important one to share. I am proud to be both Korean and Jemez Pueblo!
Watch this promotional video for the book, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJp0MDtKqyY
And get yourself a copy! Thanks for your time!
Debra
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Like my Facebook page! 

Featured Artist: Matteo Randi

MatteoRandioStudy 8
Marble, Stone, gold, smalti
12” x 12”, framed
$900
Matteo Randi
Matteo Randi was born in Ravenna, Italy and began his formal training in mosaic art there at the age of 11. He continued his training at the Istituto d’Arte Gino Severini, then at the National School for the Conservation of Mosaics, both in Ravenna. Mr. Randi creates original mosaic art that continues to win awards in major art exhibitions throughout the United States.

Matteo Randi
In 2011, Matteo and his family relocated to Chicago so he could assume the position of CMS Educational Director. Matteo has been a visiting artist at The Chicago Mosaic School for five years and we are honored to finally have him on site as full time faculty. He brings a knowledge of the traditions and techniques of Mosaic Arts that CMS is proud to offer to our students.

Featured Artist: Charlene Floriani

Woman with Tambourine
Marble
14.25” x 16.25” x 1”
NFS
@Charlene Floreani
If my mosaic art only had three words to say, they would be action verbs: honor, dance and reach. My process of making a mosaic begins with the intention to honor a person, an experience, nature and/or an idea that I am having trouble grasping. How I plan the images, select materials/colors, and very the thickness/height of the tesserae – has to do with dancing. This composition, capture with smalti and marble, ideally draws attention to the movements of things that are crucial to survival but usually not in our consciousness. I often present figures, visual metaphors and slices of nature in movements and gestures that reach.

Featured Artist: @Andryea Natkin

Embraced
Smalti, Glass, Pebbles, Porcelain, Beads
4.5” x 4.5”, 10”x 10” framed
$400.00
Andryea Natkin

 

Andryea received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. She first began working with mosaics in 2005 at a class at the Chicago Mosaic School.  After volunteering her time at the school on a regular basis she began teaching classes.
She has been involved in many of the projects including a mural titled “Familiar Ground” for the S.C. Johnson Company in Racine Wisconsin. Another mural Andryea participated in was a collaboration of faculty and students of Northeastern Illinois University for the Angelina Pedroso Center for Diversity and Intercultural Affairs.
Previous exhibitions include Mosaic Arts International Exhibition located at the Mexican American Cultural Center in Austin, TX and One Square Foot in Minneapolis, MN. Her “mosaic travels” include a biannual symposium to the Mosaic Association of Australia and New Zealand (MAANZ) in Adelaide where she presented workshops to the attendees.

 

Andryea opened Tiny Pieces Mosaic Tools & Supplies, Chicago’s only retail source for mosaic materials.
Artist Statement:

Understanding and celebrating relationships between things is essential to my artwork. I am intrigued by and experiment with shapes, lines and forms, with light and dark, with texture and surface. How does each interact and relate with one another? I manipulate, juxtapose, intersect, overlap, pierce and slice. I distinguish, describe and delineate.

Working in the limited palette of grey, I am, without the distraction of color free to experiment with the elements of composition. The constraints of this restrained palette fascinate me simply by virtue of its pureness.

Featured Artist: Patricia Larkin Green


Artist Statement:

I create academically informed paintings that are fresh and immediate. I always return to nature, because I am fascinated with the way the vines, stems, leaves, roots and petals unfurl and stretch to the sun and nourishment. I search for how the microcosm relates to the macrocosm.
Sumi-e (East Asian ink wash painting) largely informs my work. Meditation and planning are essential. It is impossible to correct the line once on paper. My hand betrays my inner state, requiring a balance of self-control and spontaneity. Before I begin I distill my subject’s essence in my mind.  Every brush-touch must be full-charged with meaning, with useless detail eliminated. When I paint a flower I am freed from reproduction and inspired to convey its movement and fragrance.
My intent is to let each mark of my brush meet the canvas as an extension of my state of mind. I am working inward as I paint outward.



Featured Artist: Allison Svoboda



The expressive ink paintings of Allison Svoboda are both ethereal and ominous at the same time. Finding this edge of beauty in nature, she lets the hundreds of brush strokes speak for themselves. After several years of working in architecture and as an ethnographic art dealer, Allison has turned to painting to express her love of the geometry in nature. Her work can be found in corporate and private collections throughout the United States, Europe and the Middle East including the Conrad Hilton in Dubai. She has had monumental installations at the Grand Rapids Art Museum and the lobby of Prudential Plaza in Chicago. Upcoming solo shows include Womanmade in Chicago and the Cincinnati Art Center in 2013. Her work is currently on display at City Center, Des Moines, Chicago Art Source and the Lincoln Park Conservatory. Allison teaches at Lillstreet Art Center and gives workshops in Asian Ink Painting. 

 

Featured Artist: Sasse Engel

 

Laura and Sasse Engel

Laura and Sasse Engel

http://openwall-forartists.blogspot.com/2012/10/featured-artist-sasse-engel.html#links

Featured Artist @Maggie Rife

Salt Worker | Uyuni, Bolivia
Matte print,12” x 18” Framed
$199.00

Maggie Rife is a photojournalist, portrait, and wedding photographer based in the Chicago area. Her camera has brought her to Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, Mexico, Panama, France, and–most recently–South America.


Her most recent work, Ascend the Andes, is a collection of images captured while traveling through Salta and Cafajate (Argentina), and La Paz and Uyuni (Bolivia). The photographs are a glimpse of scenes from her daily explorations through a photojournalistic lens. It’s a documentation of everyday routine, where life carries on as it has for hundreds of years: A gaucho surveys his ranch after a day’s work, Aymara Indians barter for fabric and herbs, the market women manage their shops. Living in Chicago, where things move quickly and the spotlight shines on what’s new, Maggie gravitated toward the old–walking instead of driving, goods instead of currency, and traditions, which continue to thrive despite the sprawl of Western influence.
Maggie selected Maria Ponce:  
Maria’s work has inspired me since the first time I visited her site. Her photographs are created from a natural intuition for composition and tone, and a sense of what’s trending. Still, she remains true to her vision, using light the way painters have for centuries, to create timeless frames. Maria is confident, bold, and one-of-a-kind, just like her work. 

Featured Artist: @Maria Ponce

Featured Artist: @Maria Ponce
Amina 1
Digital print on paper
12” x 16” framed
$200.00

Maria Ponce
Maria is a commercial and fashion portrait photographer. She grew up in Wilmette, a suburb of Chicago. After graduating from Indiana University in 2002, she lived and worked in Atlanta, New York, Paris, and LA. She moved back to Chicago to open up a studio in Ravenswood where she is happily clicking away.

As a soon to be mother, Ponce sought to develop a raw and iconic expression of childhood through her lens. It is the romantic innocence of her subjects paired with forward fashion and style that embodies a natural yet whimsical story behind each portrait. The beauty and allure of her imagery is central to the timelessness of her work – virtually unseen in child portraiture before now.
http://www.poncephotography.com/

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1+1=Community

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Featured artist: Darrell Roberts

http://openwall-forartists.blogspot.com/2012/08/featured-artist-darrell-roberts.html?spref=bl

Darrell Roberts_Selections from the Sidewalk Series_Oil on Canvas_8x10_c

Darrell Roberts_Selections from the Sidewalk Series_Oil on Canvas_8x10_c

Darrell Roberts is a Chicago based artist represented by Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago. His artwork is full of intense colors and textures as he draws his influences from the lakefront path of Lake Michigan, the Chicago skyline and construction sites in the city.  Darrell Roberts is a painter’s painter. He is interested in the physical act of painting. Immersed in a life time of art history, Darrell responds, views and reacts to the mammoth wall size paintings of the 1950′s. By creating thick visceral paintings, Darrell squeezes those paintings down to small scale paintings which still have the same amount of power to capture the viewers attention in the same amount of wall space while having a Contemporary painting feel.

Cornelia Arts Building at OpenWall Chicago

Cornelia Arts Building at OpenWall Chicago poster by Agustina Diez Sierra

poster by Agustina Diez Sierra — with Nancy Charak, Reed W Kirst, Judy Schu, Darrell Roberts, Emily Rapport and Jason Messinger at OpenWall

FEATURE ARTIST ~ Megan Sterling

FEATURE ARTIST ~ Megan Sterling

Education: BA, Boise State University / MFA, School of the Art Institute Chicago

Medium: Etching, chine colle / Screen Print / Wood Cut / Monotype

Exhibitions: Chicago Urban Arts Society, Woman Made Gallery, Charnel House Chicago, Burien Arts Gallery, among others

Megan’s Website: http://megansterling.com/

Featured Artist Todd Irwin

Featured Artist Todd Irwin

Featured Artist Todd Irwin

Opening: Chicago Printmakers Collaborative on Friday, June 15th!

Flyer for OpenWall Chicago Chicago printmakers exhibit at the 47th Ward Alderman's Office

“Siren” by Michelle McCoy12” x 9” Etching and aquatint

(poster by Agustina Diez Sierra)

Please join us Friday , June 15th from 6-8:00 pm for a night of great company and extraordinary talent! The show opens at the 47th Ward Alderman Ameya Pawar’s office 4243 N. Lincoln Ave.

Participating Artists include: Sanya Glisic, Misha Goro, Todd Irwin, Deborah Maris Lader, Kim Laurel, Barton Longacre, Maggie Marlin, Michelle McCoy, Dennis O’Malley, Maria Sanchez, Megan Sterling, and Kyra Termini

 

OpenWall: Chicago Printmakers Collaborative opening!

 

OpenWall Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
OpenWall Chicago Printmakers Collaborative Exhibit

 

OpenWall Chicago Printmakers Collaborative

when:  Friday June 15th Opening 6-8 pm

where:  4243 N. Lincoln Ave.
Chicago, IL 60618

Participating Artists:  Sanya Glisic,  Misha Goro,  Todd Irwin,  Deborah Maris Lader,  Kim Laurel,  Barton Longacre,  Maggie Marlin,  Michelle McCoy,  Dennis O’Malley,  Maria Sanchez,  Megan Sterling and Kyra Termini

Frances Hagemann, Ojibwa/Metis

Frances Hagemann, Ojibwa/Metis
Tribe: Ojibwa/Metis
Medium: Photography
Exhibitions: Frances is on the Board of Directors and is a teacher and tour guide at the Mitchell Museum of The American Indian in Evanston, IL.

Meredith Dytch: Orland Park Library Solo Show

Spirited Daughters

Every year, the Spirited Daughters hold an art exhibit showcasing art by Native American women ages 10-30 years old, led by Kitty Alfonso, who started the group in response to decreasing numbers in young women applying for the yearlong ambassador position “Miss Indian Chicago”. She thought that through art, young women could harvest their creativity and get some practice being in the spotlight through the 3-month long exhibit. It is a way to provide young women a place to express themselves through art, poetry, music and photographs. Participants also learn and develop basic skills such as recruiting, marketing, fundraising, and developing their own leadership skills by planning the annual event. Funds raised throughout the year go toward providing materials for them to create their exhibit that goes on display for 3 months at Trickster Gallery, an extension of the American Indian Center of Chicago.

Featured AIC artist: Nora Moore Lloyd, Ojibwe

Nora Moore Lloyd, Ojibwe Nora’s photographs have been shown at dozens of galleries throughout the world including the American Indian Center, Chicago History Museum, and the Field Museum in Chicago and internationally at Museo Nacional de Etnografia y Folklore – La Paz, Bolivia and Museo Nacional de Arqueologia y Ethnologia de Guatemala – Guatemala City, Guatemala. Her images have been published in several books including Chicago’s 50 Years of Powwow by Arcadia Publishing and Native Chicago, Volumes I and II by McNaughton & Gunn, Inc. She is a regular contributor to Whisper N Thunder, an online magazine on Native American topics.

Featured AIC artist: Nora Moore Lloyd, Ojibwe

Nora Moore Lloyd, Ojibwe Nora’s photographs have been shown at dozens of galleries throughout the world including the American Indian Center, Chicago History Museum, and the Field Museum in Chicago and internationally at Museo Nacional de Etnografia y Folklore – La Paz, Bolivia and Museo Nacional de Arqueologia y Ethnologia de Guatemala – Guatemala City, Guatemala. Her images have been published in several books including Chicago’s 50 Years of Powwow by Arcadia Publishing and Native Chicago, Volumes I and II by McNaughton & Gunn, Inc. She is a regular contributor to Whisper N Thunder, an online magazine on Native American topics.

ART*eology Workshop Photos… click link for more

8 ART*eology Workshops
Eight Workshops!

ART*eology Workshop Photos… click link for more

8 ART*eology Workshops

What is ART*eology?


In an effort to build a relationship between Blaine Elementary and Lakeview High School and to expose Lakeview High School to future potential students, Maria Guasso approached the art teachers at Lakeview High School with a project in mind: create a public art collaboration done by kids and mentored by high school students. 

In the summer of 2011, 8 free workshops were held at Lakeview High School led by art teachers Sharon Finley, Kate Garcia, Erica Bessagio, Shana Ryback and Maria Guasso. Each workshop focused on a right /left-brain function and art was created around those keywords. Wanting to keep the project as green as possible, recycled materials were used from Lakeview High School’s cafeteria, reused paper, yarn, and tree branches collected after a storm.  Over 60 students participated ranging in grades from pre kindergarten to seniors in high school. The result is an amazing public art display! 

ART*eology 

Opening Reception for OpenWall: ART*eology


OpenWall spreads to the ceiling and spills onto the floor. 
Opening on Jan 18th: 5:30-8:00 PM 4243 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60618.    
January 18th Opening for OpenWall: ART*eology. Art Installation at Alderman Pawar’s office. Local high-school art students have transformed the 47th Ward office into a Right-Brain: Left-Brain experience!The students learn about compromise and problem solving within a collaborative project. They also learn painting techniques such as mixing and blending.

Click here for the Donors Choose fundraiser opportunity to contribute your support.

ARTeology :  ART*eology’s goal is to create installation art made by students for public display.  This is done through volunteer efforts to provide an exciting art experience connecting students with the greater community.
The students learn about compromise and problem solving within a collaborative project. They also learn painting techniques such as mixing and blending.
 

OpenWall: Lillstreet and ArtReach

Artist Reception Thursday November 10th 7-9

Featured Artists: Christopher Schneberger , Robin Power, Neha Vedpathak,Guy Nicol , Carisa Mitchell, Cathy Bouzide, David Gillanders, Fabiana Glazer, Melanie P Brown and David Todd Trost

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