Don Bersano – Building Elegant & Striking Forms

Having worked as a professional photographer for more than 35 years, Don Bersano has built a unique career photographing fitness and glamour subjects through the use of imaginative and intuitive lighting strategies. Bersano's portrait work has been widely circulated in numerous publications in the United States and abroad including ...
October 30, 2020
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Andy Warhol – (Distinctly Altering Celebrity) A to B & Beyond

Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back AgainOctober 20, 2019 through January 26, 2020Art Institute of Chicago111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60603 There's a problem with "celebrity" in its current form in America. This, in part, is the fault of the legacy of Andy Warhol. In present day ...
November 12, 2019
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Orkideh Torabi – Revisiting Male Dominated Narratives

In examining historical narrative paintings, Persian culture, and her personal life experience, Iranian artist Orkideh Torabi crafts fascinating sardonic tales that comment on our male dominated world. Recently, Torabi presented a series of these works at the Weinberg/Newton Gallery in River North. This week the COMP Magazine headed up ...
October 20, 2018
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Doug McGoldrick – Juggling Art & Life Challenges

Balancing a career as a professional photographer, teaching part-time, and raising a family is daunting in this day and age. Top those three time-consuming activities with an ongoing aesthetic pursuit has been Doug McGoldrick's life challenge for the past 20 plus years. This week The COMP Magazine caught up ...
February 11, 2018
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