Louise LeBourgeois – Translating Water & Sky

When an artist connects cerebrally and viscerally with experience and a place beyond the studio, there is a synergy that breaths a freshness into the work produced. There is a visible purity in this form of renewal. This observation can be applied to the oeuvre of Louise LeBourgeois. For ... Read more

Matthew Bandsuch – Isolated Aesthetic Excavations

Working in isolation for roughly 20 years, Matthew Bandsuch has focused his studio practice on translating an understanding of carbon-based materials into visual representations. In this, Bandsuch works with foundations of drawing to create a long form series of works that takes on a physical manifestation through layering of ... Read more

Kelly Reaves – Intuition, Meditation & Exorcising Demons

As a talented painter, musician, and writer, Kelly Reaves has traversed a variety of creative fringe microcosms since arriving in Chicago from Florida in the early 2000s. In her portrayal of moments of intense ecstasy to an intimate embrace there has been a consistent adept fluidity in her ... Read more

Kindred Spirits: Kathie Shaw & Corey Postiglione @ USF

Kathie Shaw & Corey PostiglioneKindred SpiritsOctober 8 - November 30, 2020University of St. Francis Art Gallery25 E. Van Buren, Joliet, Illinois, 60435 Kindred Spirits: Kathie Shaw & Corey Postiglione, exhibition announcement, October 8 - November 30, 2020. On exhibit now through November 30, 2020F Art Gallery welcomes KINDRED SPIRITS, work by ... Read more

Jason Dunda – Examining a Rogue Gallery of Unflattering Portraits

There's still a bit of Canada in Jason Dunda. This can be clearly seen in his current aesthetic investigations. As an expat living in a precarious time where America's divisive ideologies are grossly amplified and nationalistic fervor is at fever pitch, Dunda is now focused upon examining the imbalanced ... Read more

Leslie Baum – Mysterious Depths and Worlds Within

An aesthetic awareness has been a part of Leslie Baum's life experience since her youth. Through consistently researching the art and culture encountered in these early rendezvous and holding an understanding of universal tenets that recur in art, Baum produces subtle meditative works and installations that initially appear aligned ... Read more

Hairy Who? 1966–1969 at AIC: a Reflection

Hairy Who? 1966–1969 September 26, 2018 through January 6, 2019 The Art Institute of Chicago 111 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60603 Galleries 124–27 and 268–73 Late to the show, this writing has been difficult to find fruition. The Hairy Who? 1966–1969 at the Art Institute of Chicago felt a bit dated, possibly due to ... Read more

Michelle Wasson – A Sizable Unencumbered Aesthetic Approach

Without doubt, entering the massive studio of Michelle Wasson one will note a sense of ephemeral thoughts in contemplation. An immediate realization of scale is located due to the size of the space, the large works, and her apparent reflective production. Wasson's practice and conceptual approach is fluid, substantial, ... Read more

Zachary Cahill – Contemplating & In Search of the Divine

With the release of his recent novel, The Black Flame of Paradise, and an invested art practice, Zachary Cahill has located an aesthetic voice that combines thoughtful analysis with an in-studio physicality that clearly reflects the relationary content that defines our current milieu. Though, upon initial encounter with Cahill's ... Read more

Art Kleinman – The Cyclic Nature of a Long Career

For more than four decades Art Kleinman has traversed an array of aesthetic terrain that mirrored the times in which the works were produced. From early abstraction to self-portraiture to political commentary, Kleinman has not hesitated from investigating new ideas and methods in his practice. This week the COMP ... Read more
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