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OUR SILENT AUCTION IS NOW LIVE!
Thank you for supporting Arts of Life, we can't wait to see you at the Garfield Park Conservatory on Friday, May 3rd! Be sure to register now to get your bids in!
All Silent Auction Items are broken into two lots which are indicated by either "SL.1" or "SL.2" at the beginning of the item number. Lot one (SL.1) will close at 9:45PM and lot two (SL.2) will close at 10PM on May 3rd.
Freeman's | Hindman Auctions will begin our Live Auction on May 3rd at 8:30PM. Artworks from eight Arts of Life artists (Amanda Gantner, Caroline Chun, Chris Austin, Marcus Kennedy, Maria Vanik, Noel Herrera, Raina 'Tokyo' Carter) are featured.
*Your participation in this annual event directly supports the creative practices and professional development of 70+ talented artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Thank you.
| 2023 / Acrylic on board / 18"x24" Studio Member since 2017 Chris Austin studied mechanics at Ferris State University; a background that is evident in the meticulous art making process. Thoughtfully composed works emerge from methodical planning that manifests through research, sketching, and assembling source materials. Austin alternates between painting on canvas and hand-cut cardboard. This imbues his artwork with a fresh viewpoint and authenticity. Austin’s mechanical interest is further evidenced in 2-dimensional works in which he uses subject matter to break the linear border of the substrate. Austin’s painting practice is grounded in realism with a nod to folk art. He layers elements within his paintings while intentionally overlooking volume and shadow. His primary focus is on “the composition [and] the colors”. This simplicity encourages narratives to emerge that are left open for personal interpretation and musing. “Art is expressing yourself. I know how to make good art.” |
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| 2023 / Acrylic on canvas / 11"x14" Studio Member since 2016 Raina Carter develops narrative themes in her works that revolve around female-centric pop music and Japanese culture. The influence of anime is evidenced in the interplay of geometry, fantasy and character-driven artwork. “My dream is to go to Tokyo, Japan. I want to be a Tokyo artist someday. Like Final Fanstasy artists Yoshitaka Amano and Arina Tanemura. I’m in love with Japan. I have to draw pictures of Tokyo and Shibuya, and Sanrio Puroland. ” Carter invests a high degree of planning into her paintings as she explores concepts through sketching and research. She works with drive and focus, but this intensity is offset with vibrant colors bursting from the light-hearted paintings she zealously creates. “Mariah Carey Tokyo Dome. She arrived in Japan to see her Japanese fans. She went to Tokyo. She wears a beautiful black dress. I want to paint Mariah Carey Daydream 25 anniversary. concert tour in Tokyo Dome. I painted twice Mina. She was a Japanese American. She was born March 24, 1997. I love the Japanese Culture Center.” |
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| 2023 / Acrylic and collage on canvas / 16"x20" Studio Member since 2022 Caroline Chun draws inspiration from a wide range of ideas and subject matter, from landscapes to abstraction to everyday objects. Using a creative approach guided by humor and instinctual experimentation, she playfully works across painting, drawing, collage, and sculpture. Chun explores the boundaries of art-making and the capacity of objects to capture a sense of mystery or surprise, often constructing clever yet sincere reproductions of her favorite objects. Her process of combining both traditional and mundane found materials – fluorescent acrylic, marker, cardboard, glitter, pastels, fabric, paper, ribbons, and bows – lends her practice a whimsical DIY aesthetic. Chun’s work was recently featured in Opening Night, a group exhibition guest curated by Liza Eilers. |
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| 2022 / Acrylic on canvas / 24"x30" Studio Member since 2012 Amanda Gantner possesses a tenacious dedication to expanding her art practice. Experimentation and risk taking in her artwork has paid off in dividends as witnessed by the broad level of success she has attained across mediums. “The Mind. It takes time. When I first came here my voice was down. Now it is better. A lot better because the voice is loud.” The subtle nuances of light and meticulous blending inhabit her impressionistic drawings, while her lively abstract paintings burst with energy through vibrantly contrasting hues. “Get messy. More splatter. I don’t care. I want to do that. It wakes you up.” Gantner is a nationally exhibited artist whose artwork has been included on branding for Middlebrow Brewery, corporate and private collections and agency merchandise. |
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| 2021 / Acrylic on canvas / 24"x24" Studio Member since 2012 Ted Gram-Boarini is at once a visual artist and musician, and his preferred modes of artistic expression are mutually influential. This is witnessed in the mesmerizing rhythm of his brush strokes, and in the artistry of the lyrics he has written for the North Shore studio band, Van Go Go. “I enjoy talking to people and toward becoming my own person. That is, to help people realize who I am. Because if I don’t, then how can I do this and be my own man in terms of art?” Gram-Boarini reimagines music and movie references into acrylic paintings on canvas. Distinctively, his introspective nature and personal connection to the reference always shine through. Gram-Boarini allows us to see him through his work, while leaving space for the viewer’s personal reverie. “This piece is successful because it’s supposed to show people that you can do whatever you put your mind to. Everyone has to make their own way through life. That’s what it’s about.” Gram-Boarini is a singer and percussionist for the studio band Van Go Go. He is also a member of the studio’s educator team. His art has been featured on Arts of Life merchandise, and on our partner site, ArtLifting.com. Gram-Boarini was also interviewed on-camera by WGN news in 2018. |
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| 2022 / Marker and inkjet print on paper / 11"x8.5" Studio Member since 2021 Noel Herrera joined Arts of Life’s Chicago Studio in 2021. Herrera’s amusing marker drawings are direct extensions of his everyday life and interests – playful tributes to favorite foods, restaurants, tv shows, toys, etc. For him, art-making and the process of quickly generating new ideas is instinctual – in the studio he is prolific, focused, and imaginative. |
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| 2021 / Acrylic and oil pastel on paper / 14"x17" Studio Member since 2020 Born in Evanston in 1991, Marcus now lives in Chicago. An avid fan of a wide range of music (especially Brazilian jazz, Reggae, Al Jarreau, Steely Dan, and Anita Baker), he always listens to favorite radio stations while working in the studio. Kennedy often finds inspiration in the work of other artists, sometimes borrowing an initial approach but transforming and reimagining it through his distinct creative vision. His extensive, ongoing series of vibrant pattern-based works on paper has manifested as hundreds of abstract iterations, endless explorations within a certain set of guiding parameters. These velvety acrylic and oil pastel works reflect a sophisticated, intuitive sense of color and form. “I came up with my own beautiful style. I get inspired by other artists’ work. I make it my own and put music into it. I listen to different music, it flows me. I do the outlines all the way around in pastel first. Then I let it come to my mind and add paint – dark colors and bright colors, a little bit of both. I’m pretty good at mixing colors. Painting takes a while, sometimes it takes a day or two. Sometimes it can take weeks. I use paint and pastel at the same time because it looks beautiful that way.” |
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| 2022 / Marker on paper / 14"x17" Studio Member since 2017 Maria is a lifelong Chicagoan. While she has an extensive background in experimenting with fiber and sculpture materials, she’s currently focused on a prolific studio practice based in drawing. Vanik expands on references ranging from found imagery to pop culture to personal memories through the inclusion of patterns and vibrant colors, paired with a distinct approach to symbolism and mark-making. She has been a member of Arts of Life’s Chicago studio since 2017. “I like to make artwork. The colors are very very bright. I like to use markers to draw raindrops, a rainbow, a tree. Next time I will do it different. I like to start with a white blank background. I like to use bright colors with dark colors. I like to use a lot of them, and mix them together.” |
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| 2023 / Chalk pastel on paper / 14"x 11" Studio Member since 2016 Aaron Kleeblatt is a prolific artist whose portfolio is both sharp and vibrant. His work can be identified by his minimalist approach to portraits- many being of American musicians or celebrities. “Musicians and politicians, those are my favorite kind of people to draw. I just like them. They are my favorite personalities—vibrant personalities. Drawing the figures. Painting them.” His artworks are minimal by design and then energized with color palettes reminiscent of pop art. A movie buff, Kleeblatt has been known to say “movies are my life”. This cinematic influence is witnessed through dramatic contrast and the deliberate character building in his works. “It diverts me away from everyday life. Because then I don’t have to worry about racism, politics and all of the other stuff going on in the world.” |
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| 2018 / Acrylic on canvas / 20"x16" Studio Member since 2009 Alex Scott is a Chicago native. Known for his use of simplified forms and flat, bright colors, Scott’s fresh, direct approach to drawing and painting embodies a sense of nostalgia. His preferred materials are ballpoint pen, colored pencils, and acrylic. Scott’s influences range from cartoons and comics to classic mystery-comedy movies to children’s books, gaining continued inspiration from favorite books once read – The Phantom Tollbooth, Sam and the Firefly, In a People House by Dr. Suess, as well as books found in the studio. Neat arrangements of recurring characters, household objects, numbers, text, and symbols are frequently organized by letters of the alphabet and at times appear reminiscent of hieroglyphics. He often repetitively recreates past drawings or characters from memory with ease and accuracy, which results in slightly shifting iterations over years. This ongoing body of work exists across both individual works on paper and series of drawings in distinct sketchbooks. “My favorite things to draw are the sun, clouds, grass, hippos, dolls, characters, birds, mice, skeletons, woodpeckers, wiener dogs, and spotted dogs. People like that I do different characters. I would rather make art than do anything.” |
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| 2016 / Pen and colored pencil on paper / 20"x24" Studio Member since 2011 Andrew Sloan is a Detroit native known for his elaborate drawings of muscle cars, urban architecture, and sports icons. Often informed by an extensive knowledge of the auto industry and aspiration to capture the “Motown spirit”, his vision and style remain cohesive across his body of work while referencing disparate interests and subject matter. Sloan’s distinct aesthetic is one of incredible detail and careful execution, with thoughtful compositions often breaking the borders of his substrates. Relationships found in nature or within urban landscapes are depicted with subtleties deduced through contemplative observation. Alongside the dynamism and compelling distortion unique to his work, each drawing evokes a diligent, meditative quality reflecting the patience and attention invested in his creative process. Sloan was recently featured in Hyperallergic. “I did a lot of drawings when I was in elementary school, maybe around 1985 or ’86. I read about cars in magazines, Hot Rod and Petersen’s 4-Wheel and Off-Road. I made art a bit in vocational school, but really didn’t get into it until coming to Chicago. I’ve also been a fan of building model cars since I was a kid. I definitely like General Motors cars. They have a lot of hard torque engines and beautiful looking designs. I look at pictures in magazines, old commercials on YouTube, movies, or TV shows. I don’t work on a drawing real fast, just take my time to get the body design right while looking at the picture. I put ideas and details together from my mind, kind of like a photographic memory.” |
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| 2021 / Marker on paper / 14 "x17" Studio Member since 2010 A self-proclaimed “metal-head,” Lilly’s work is very much inspired by the music he listens to. “I’m a metalhead and that’s what my art is about. I draw tornadoes, lightning, skulls… anything rock and roll!” Skulls, flames, tornadoes, cyborgs and a multitude of other subjects of impending doom are common symbols in Lilly’s work. Most fascinating is his ability to combine all of these influences together, into a single, cohesive work. “I love to make art. It keeps me occupied. I want my art on t-shirts, hoodies, posters and album covers. People say my artwork is cool.” Like heavy metal, Lilly’s art is a force of technical dexterity, distortion, aggression, masculinity, and raw, unapologetic loudness. |
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| Glazed Ceramic / 21"x10" Chase Barney graduated with a BFA from the University of Minnesota in 2019 and his MFA at The School of the Art Institute Chicago in 2022. Barney has exhibited across the United States and has received numerous grants and scholarships in support of his work, including a 2020 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant and the New Artist Full Merit Scholarship from SAIC. Barney is originally from Utah, and currently lives and works in Chicago, IL. When asked why Chase wants to support the arts of life, they said “The artists at Arts of Life have a passion for art making that is palpable. Helping to raise money is essential to their continued success and donating for me is contributing to their future as makers.” |
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| 2018 / Chalk pastel on paper / 17"x23.5" Studio Member since 2011 Chris Viau’s work straddles the line between abstract and representational. This is due to his planned, yet dynamic, brush and line work. Upon first glance one sees a blend of colors and textures that reveal themselves as lush landscapes or weathered coastlines. “My favorite thing about being an artist is I can let my wild imagination show. The images that inspire me are landscapes. I feel that making landscapes is the best way to show my talent as an artist. Mostly I use chalk pastel.” Viau approaches art making with a high level of enthusiasm and is eager to experiment with new techniques. In addition to drawing and painting, he is a published poet. He has published four illustrated poetry books: Chicago Seasons, Being in Harmony with Nature, My Own Ways Through This Life, and Autumn in the Northwest. Viau’s art has been featured on studio merchandise, in local galleries and ArtLifting. “In five years, I see myself as a role model for young adults with disabilities. I will most likely still be doing art and writing poems.” |
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| 2022 / Colored pencil on paper / 19"x24" Studio Member since 2008 Always a strong self-advocate, Christianne Msall’s dedicated to both her personal and professional development. Msall’s meticulous graphite and colored pencil drawings are a vibrant marriage of intuitive shapes and symbols, primarily inspired by her spirituality. Using a kaleidoscopic array of colors, she spontaneously articulates the detailed patterns and recurring motifs that appear across her work – crosses, drooping flowers, hearts, wine glasses, and candles. Recent exhibitions include Wake Me Up, Pantheon, and Dance Dance Dance at Circle Contemporary. “When I look at my work, I see how happy I am, my positivity. When others look, they see how wonderful I am, that I have good ideas and good techniques. I’m very proud of myself.” |
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| 2023 / Oil on linen over panel / 12"x16" Cj Shaw (b 1998) is a Chicago based artist. He recently received his BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2023. |
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| 2019 / Powder Coated Steel / 10"x12"x7" Cody Hudson (b. 1971) lives and works in Chicago. Hudson's artistic practice spans across multiple mediums, including painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and public art. He has had solo shows and presented numerous site-specific installations across the globe. Hudson also does commercial design work under the name Struggle Inc. |
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| 2024 / Line spun by one that i love, naturally hand-dyed green with weld and indigo on a cool night in february / 16"x12" Em is a tapestry weaver and fibers artist living in Chicago who uses a hand-picked weaving process to help make better sense of the past and present. Through the intertwining of collected lines, Em works with ideas like pleasure to both create and keep personal records of memory and feeling. Their weaving practice is intimately connected to their collecting practice in the way that yarn, materials, and items are chosen for inclusion. Through intuition and playfulness we see the work come to fruition. Em received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021. |
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| 2020 / Acrylic on canvas / 18"x24" Studio Member since 2013 Guy was born in Tokyo, Japan and moved to Chicago as a child. Outside of his work as a painter, Guy is an avid runner. He takes breaks from his practice to participate in several marathons each year in cities across the US. Guy has a talent for realism and is gifted with a keen sense of visual perception. Where other artists may be intimidated by the detail or scope of a reference image, he has the ability to break his subject down to the key qualities that convey depth, texture, and character. He skillfully layers brush strokes over time – whether in a wet on wet application of acrylic or delicate washes of watercolor – yielding a rich and varied surface. Guy enjoys depicting landscapes and still lifes, as well as working on commissions. “I’m a painter. I like to make art. I look at photographs, get ideas. I look at all the colors.” |
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| 2024 / Black Walnut Ink on Canvas / 40"x30" Jamie Gray is a disciplinary artist in Chicago creating pigments and inks from natural materials in the midwest landscape. |
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| 2023 / Commercial inkjet print on outdoor vinyl / 44"x18"x1" Jason Pickleman is an artist, gallerist, collector, and designer, known for producing graphic material for a wide-ranging cultural clientele through his studio JNL, for his five-year run as the proprietor of the collection gallery Lawrence & Clark, and for the exhibitions he curates at the art dealers’ cooperative Paris London Hong Kong. |
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| 2021 / Hand woven textile with found objects and dried flowers / 9"x6" Little Pad That I might lay my zinnia down on a bed Of cream and handle this clenched by your wrench screening through glass meant to carry our flame softened and held but not worth the steps kg (b.1980, Poland) makes weavings and writes poetry from their home studio by the lake in Chicago. kg values the small the domestic and the everyday, situating those politics in their studio and curatorial practices. Upcoming shows include Stitch, Woven, Hooked at The Lubeznik art Center and Beyond: Tapestry Expanded at The Peeler Art Center at DePauw University. |
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| 2023 / Watercolor, watercolor pencil on paper / 15"x12" Studio Member since 2013 Laura Greenberg has created a colorful and enchanting body of work. With spirited brush strokes, Greenberg brings vigor and energy to the forefront of every piece. Greenberg draws inspiration from her outside world, nature and urban cityscapes. She enjoys creating with acrylics, watercolors and oil pastels. From her chosen mediums, to tools, to color palette, each piece of art is created through purposeful deliberation. |
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| 2023 / Toner and tape, on paper / 10.5"x7.5" framed Leonardo Kaplan (b.1985, Bogota, Colombia) is a working artist in Chicago. He has exhibited in galleries across the US and Europe, with exhibitions at Specialist Gallery, Seattle; The Graham Foundation, Chicago; New Capital Projects, Chicago; Freies Museum, Berlin; No Place, Columbus, OH; and at NADA Art Fairs, in New York and Miami. He co-directed The Hills Esthetic Center and BOYFRIENDS, and currently directs Special Feature, which founded in 2021, exhibits emerging artists working in all media. Courtesy of Mickey Gallery Chicago |
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| 2022 / Acrylic and gouache on canvas / 18"x15" Liza Jo Eilers elaborates on the ethos of the All-American Girl Next Door and Bimbo. As she is heavily rooted in the failure of our society to see her hybridity as she is already indoctrinated inside our system, can she be a kind of erotic ghost that paradoxically works to undercut mainstream forces? Eilers interrogates a historicized patriarchal gaze, asking questions not of how we necessarily see today, but how modes of seeing become an interwoven cultural and national identity itself, reckoning with American culture's failures and aftermath. |
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| 2023 / Acrylic on canvas / 24"x18"x1" Madeline Gallucci (b. 1990, Greensboro, NC) is an artist and arts administrator living in Chicago, IL. Her work uses painting to explore mirrors as sites of physical and psychological transformation. She received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2012 and her MFA at the University of Chicago in 2020. Madeline is a recipient of the Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award, Chicago DCASE Individual Artist Grant, and has held residencies at LATITUDE (Chicago, IL), ACRE (Steuben, WI), Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco, CA), Grin City Collective (Grinnell, IA), Charlotte Street Foundation and Hotel Phillips (Kansas City, MO). She has exhibited at Goldfinch Gallery, Produce Model Gallery, and LVL3 (Chicago, IL); Below Grand (New York, NY); Rebekah Templeton (Philadelphia, PA); Skylab (Columbus, OH); Terrault Contemporary (Baltimore, MD); Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Plug Projects, and 21c Museum Hotel (Kansas City, MO). Collections include the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS). |
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| 2023 / Sublimation print on chiffon, wood, ink, hardware / 6.5"x15"x4.75" Maeve Coughlin (b. 1996, Boston, Massachusetts) lives and works in Chicago. IL. She received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2020. Much of her work explores the poetic possibilities of the materials she has at hand. Recent exhibitions include Green Belt, Jargon Projects, Chicago, IL; Cinetosis, Rudimento, Quito, Ecuador; Don't Die, No Gallery, New York, NY. |
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| 2023 / Acrylic on paper / 19"x24" Studio Member since 2022 Marcelo Aguilar makes paintings and works on paper that utilize a myriad of references. The things, people, and places he visits in his daily life; become imagined landscapes where scale, pictorial space, and representation are upended by dynamic figure ground relationships and thick passages of brightly colored paint to a surreal effect. |
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| 2024 / Acrylic paint, paper on wood canvas / 24"x24" Mike Gamboa is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist and designer who explores his interests in hybrid forms of abstraction. He draws inspiration from various mediums including photography, typography, collage, the decay and layering of urban architecture, and design. |
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| 2024 / Wood, Burlap, rope / 21"x4.5"x29" Mike Rea was born and raised in the south suburbs of Chicago. Rea received his Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rea currently teaches Sculpture at Northern Illinois University. |
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| 2024 / Mixed media on canvas / 36"x 48"x1.5" Milena is a passionate, disciplined and dedicated artist, always finding new ways to express myself and keep my dynamics high. I’m constantly investigating and taking risks. That's my secret to keeping my inspiration high. Changing techniques and creating with the first object that comes in hand, creating from unknown and not comfortable places. |
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| 2024 / Graphite, ink, and watercolor on paper / 10"x14" Nick Schutzenhofer (American b. 1981, St. Joseph, MO) Lives and works in Chicago, IL where he holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2014). He has exhibited recently with Julius Caesar, Shane Campbell Gallery, Fernwey, Samuel, HG. Mickey and Sulk in Chicago; Left Field Gallery in San Luis Obispo; Shaheen Gallery in Cleveland; Viewing Room and TSA in Los Angeles; Good Weather in Little Rock; and Baader-Meinhof in Omaha. Courtesy of Mickey Gallery Chicago |
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| 2022 / Acrylic on canvas / 11"x 0.59"x 14" Payton Harris-Woodard’s (b. 1996, Chicago) earned her Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College Chicago in 2019, and her Masters of Fine art in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022. Harris-Woodard's work investigates complexities within the autonomy of the black female body through an autobiographical sense. In the viewer's face, she juxtaposes ideas of beauty, while reclaiming a self-consciousness journey of self-examination. |
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| 2022 / Acrylic on canvas / 16"x 16" Pooja Pittie is a self-taught visual artist who lives and works in Chicago. Raised in Mumbai, India, Pittie left a career in finance and entrepreneurship to pursue painting in 2016. Since then, she has completed the HATCH residency at Chicago Artists' Coalition, the Center Program at Hyde Park Art Center, and the 3Arts Bodies of Work Fellowship at University of Illinois at Chicago. Pittie has an incurable and progressive form of muscular dystrophy and her painting process explores the constantly changing relationship between an often slow body and an active mind. Pittie is the recipient of the 2022 3Arts Next Level/ Spare Room Award and has been nominated for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant. Her work is in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois, among others. Pittie is represented by the McCormick Gallery in Chicago. |
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| 2023 / Marker and pen on paper / 8.5"x12" Studio Member since 2023 Rocco’s work centers around the creation of drawings, comic books, and animations where recurring characters interact in various situations. Working in marker and pen on paper, Rocco skillfully renders these characters in a playful style of cartooning that has visual associations with anime. DiCaro cites Jim Henson, Looney Tunes, Phineas & Ferb, and the Amulet series (among others) as influences along with cartoons, graphic novels, and movies. The physical features of each character are exaggerated to a quirky affect which is reinforced by vibrating acidic color combinations and intricate mark making. The drawings that Rocco makes tend to be vignettes of larger narratives that light heartedly explore fantasy, adventure, satire, humor, and friendship. Rocco is the creator of The Secret Beauty, The Magicaland Adventure, and the Wilma & Carl comics. He is active on social media and can be found @thesecretbeautydrawings on Instagram and his Youtube drawing channel Drawing with Monster Boy Roc. |
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| 2022 / Acrylic on Gallery-Wrapped Canvas / 16"x 20 "x 1.5" Ruby Bradford (b. 1984) draws and paints in a relaxed, bold style with unrepressed focus on her personal interests: Superman, Prince Charles, and cats. Bold characters and fantastical narrative seem to drive her, though the interest in Superman evidently runs deep. A deeply private person, Bradford uses these icons – and her favorite animal – as symbols for caring and belonging. She thus combines her favorite celebrities or close friends with cats and/or superhero apparel, morphing the whole into a new reality. This is the highest honor a patron could receive from the artist, and Bradford’s one-of-a-kind whimsy is irresistible to her many followers. |
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| 2019 / Oil paint and charcoal on canvas / 20 "x 24"x 1" Siena is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is made up of various media including paintings, charcoal drawings, and performance work. Her work is an ongoing study of the personal battle of one's internal and external self and is a way for her to document the bodily space that we inhibit and emotional depth hidden within. She often uses her body as a tool or template–intuitively tracing her form into different postures, creating a framework, she leaves behind ambiguous forms that are empty vessels for further exploration into the hidden discomfort of her physical and emotional space. Siena received her BFA from The University of Illinois at Chicago in Interdisciplinary Education within the Arts and a minor in Fine Arts. |
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| 2020 / Pencil on paper / 11"x14" Studio Member since 2013 Born in Chicago, Sue Pasowicz is a dreamer and visionary. Fascinated by mystery, color, and organic forms, Pasowicz intuitively uses colored pencil and graphite to create whimsical, dream-like landscapes. Informed by both the fantastical and everyday, hints of her surroundings and memories become tangled in a web of wispy, hair-like marks that build up on the works’ surface. Often incorporating mirrors, portals, windows, or doors, Pasowicz’s work transports the viewer to nebulous and magical environments. “I usually draw tunnels, portals, curly top trees, clouds, the future. As things come into my head, I draw on a piece of paper; sometimes I use both hands and two colors at the same time. I don’t want to do the same thing I did before. You can’t be picking the same titles as the others, because it won’t be an individual thing. It depends how long I work on a drawing. If it’s a major piece of paper, I could work on it quite a long time before it’s proper. I like seeing exhibitions so I can learn from other peoples’ artwork, you can pick up different types of ideas.” |
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| 2022 / Graphite and acrylic on paper / 18"x24" Studio Member since 2010 Tim Stone was born in Park Ridge, where he grew up living with his family. Over the years, Stone has created an expansive and cohesive body of work across media, including graphite, watercolor, and acrylic. For the past few years he has focused primarily on grayscale drawings of loose grids in graphite, with titles that hint at personal inspirations. Focused and methodical in his practice, he maintains a diligent studio routine and steadfast artistic vision informed by concepts of abstraction. Stone’s process is driven by labor-intensive, repetitive mark-making that burnishes the graphite and slowly wears away the surface of the paper over time. He’s also an active member of the curatorial committee, assisting guest curators with exhibitions at Circle Contemporary featuring studio artists alongside artists from the broader contemporary art community. “I start drawing squares with a B pencil. Then I keep drawing over them until they become glossy and thick. The B pencil helps the graphite become bolder and shinier, then some of it fades away.” |
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| 2023 / Pen and marker on paper / 16"x13.5" Vontrell’s pen and marker drawings capture a nostalgia for 90s cartoons, family gatherings, and friendship. His color placement is purposeful as is the composition of his chosen subject matter. Nunn creates an opportunity for us to reflect on what things leave lasting impressions and shape our views on life. “I gotta visualize what to make in my thoughts. My thoughts tell me how to make this and make that. The most proud moment is I’ve got more to create. I’m smiling from the heart. The mind is trying to control over the heart. The heart controls your mind. The heart beats and beats and as long as it beats and beats you’ve got to protect it. You show your thoughts-sometimes bad thoughts can attack the mind. Don’t do it for other people, do it for yourself. Your ability comes from your mind. If you’re going to put that right thought in your mind. It’s there. You created it.” |
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| Take a date or your bff to any TWO concerts at Sleeping Villlage, located in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood. Then check out Avondale Bowl, a vintage 8 lane bowling alley & bar featuring manual scoring, retro vibes and frozen White Russians! Your $25 Gift Cards can be used for beverages and shoe rental/bowling. Contents: Pair of tickets to two concerts to be determined, plus a $30 gift card for the bar! (some restrictions may apply) All attendees at Sleeping Village must be 21+ years of age. Choose from: May 22nd: Dead Sun May 25th: Beats y Bateria June 1st: Precocious Neophyte June 4th: Ghostly Kisses June12th: Tosser $25 Gift Certicate to Avondale Bowl 21 and over unless accompanied by a parent |
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| Get away for three nights to the gorgeous bluffs of Sheboygan's Lake Michigan waterfront! This lakefront home is perfect for a romantic getaway, girls weekend, golf trip, or fun family vacation year round. Close to town, shops, bars & restaurants! Details: Available: May 14th to June 28th or after September 15th 8 guests, 2 bedrooms, 4 beds, 1 bathroom |
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| Choose a pair of tickets to EITHER: Khruangbin (known for blending global music influences, such as classic soul, dub, rock and psychedelia), Dilinger Escape Plan (metalcore/progressive metal) , or Bikini Kill (the original Riot Grrrls) at the Salt Shed!! The Salt Shed is an indoor and outdoor music venue/entertainment hub that was previously owned by Morton Salt before they relocated their facility. The outdoor section adjacent to the Chicago River and Goose Island, named "The Fairgrounds," Choose from ONE of the following: Sun - June 9th - Khruangbin (outside at the Fairgrounds) Sat - August 24th - Dilinger Escape Plan (outside at the Fairgrounds) Fri - August 30th - Bikini Kill (inside the Shed) |
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| Treat yourself to a chef-curated family-style dinner for 4 guests with wine pairings at Avec, Executive Chef Paul Kahan, restauranteur ​Donnie Madia and wine steward Eduard Seitan's award winning collaboration with Chef Perry Hendrix. Find some artistic inspiration on a Private Tour with Executive Director of Programming at the Design Museum of Chicago. Comes with 1 year Preferred Tier membership to RM Preferred Reservations Contents: Family-style dinner for 4 guests with wine pairings for each course at Avec Private tour for up to 15 people at the Design Museum of Chicago. Available Monday through Friday 10am-5pm at mutually available time. 1 year Preferred Tier membership to RM Preferred Reservations |
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| Do-do-do, do-do-do-do you wanna see Third Eye Blind?? They play the Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island on Friday June 28th. Here's your chance to win 4 Premium Seat tickets located the VIP Club. Contains: 4 Premium Seats to see Third Eye Blind on June 28th premium parking pass exclusive premium venue entrance with early access access to exclusive vip club dedicated in seat service |
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| Win a PAIR of 3-day General Admission Passes to Riot Fest September 20-22 at Douglass Park!! Featuring SLAYER and many more to be announced! |
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| Enjoy a dinner at any of Four Corners restaurants then head up to the Magic Lounge in Andersonville. Step inside and leave the ordinary behind as you enter through their secret laundry entrance into a luxurious retro-inspired "speakeasy." Indulge in handcrafted cocktails while enjoying awe-inspiring acts performed by the finest magicians in the industry. It's an experience like no other—a remarkable opportunity to witness the art of magic up close and personal. Contents: $100 gift certificate to any Four Corners Restaurant $100 gift certicate to the Magic Lounge |
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| You and 9 friends are invited to a private tour of Sandro’s studio in the West Town neighborhood of Chicago. Multi-award winning photographer, Sandro, is one of today's most respected commercial and fine art photographers. He has 14 published books, including Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters which accompanies one of his most well known projects in which he recreated some of the most famous images in photographic history with Malkovich as the main subject. Contents: Two Hour Tour led by Sandro of his photography studio Wine and Cheese for 10 Purchaser of package recieves 3 signed Sandro Photography books of their choosing Mutually agreed upon date in 2024 |
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