Dissolution III

Echo II

Soft Echo

Works in Encaustic

The public is invited to a closing reception on Friday April 27, 5-8 p.m

A resident of Chicago, artist Jane Michalski has produced work in oil, pastel and mixed-media constructions.  Since 2005, she has been working in the medium of wax with colored pigments, called encaustic. Her abstract work incorporates geometric structures transformed by layers of wax.

Jane has exhibited in the Chicago area, and in regional and national exhibitions. Her work can also be seen at Park Schreck Gallery, 1747 W. North Avenue, Chicago.

She is active in Chicago’s Logan Square Community  as a  board member of the Logan Square Chamber of Arts, which is launching The Hairpin Arts Center at
2800 N. Milwaukee Ave

To contact this artist:
www.janemichalski.com

American Quotes

You Belong Here

Julia Hürter is an artist from Berlin who works with text and images culled from popular media.  She has lived in Columbus, Ohio for the last year and has collected American quotes that she found in her daily junk mail.  Divorced from their visual cues, the messages are a distillation of American marketing culture: cajoling, demanding, and cheering.  In between these, you can find several quotes from Abraham Lincoln, a very wise president.  They stand in stark contrast to the banality of American marketing.

www.huerter.de

American Quotes detail

Matt's Cheddar Apple Pie Dessert, 2012

Geoffrey Todd Smith's Mac and Cheese (Before Tuna), 2012

Stacy Jane's Family Reunion (Meatloaf), 2012

Modern Groceries: Modern Midwestern Meals

These photographic still lifes by Stephanie Dean closely observe the particularly Midwestern Meals her friends and acquaintances have eaten. Foods such as meatloaf, mac & cheese (with tuna) and apple pie with a “special” topping are treated with the classical lighting and formal compositions usually associated with traditional Dutch still life painting. Each piece is named after the person who regularly eats the meals, and is a natural evolution from Dean’s famous “Modern Groceries” series, also seen at ART ON ARMITAGE in October 2010.

www.stephaniedean.com

Endless Columns detail

Endless Columns

Endless Columns in my studio

Also on view this month at 626 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago in Columbia College Bookstore window

ENDLESS COLUMNS

I am working with trash – stuff that can’t be or isn’t recycled, mostly because it is not financially profitable.  “Endless Columns” (a take-off on Constantin Brancusi’s iconic modernist sculpture) are made of plastic jar lids and bottle caps.  The colors are beautiful, but the trash is ugly – and endless.  I hope to make people aware of just how much garbage we are throwing onto the earth, especially plastics.  Worse, they are made from petroleum, exactly what we are fighting wars for.  People are dying so we can have disposable bottles and bags.

Meanwhile,  I hope to take things that would otherwise go into a garbage dump and make beautiful environments from them.

view more of her work at:

www.maryellencroteau.net