40 Over 40: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – Artists Working with Trash By Chicago Art Magazine on Feb 21, 2011 in Chicago Art News, Featured This article is part of Chicago Art Magazine’s “40 over 40″ series. In this day and age, we are looking at an environment that is undergoing massive man-made and natural changes. Read more…
Famous for a piece known as The Styx Boat, street artist 800 makes our artists over 40 list. The Styx Boat, covered in images of hands symbolizing the souls guiding the boat over the Styx river, was placed in a cave-like tunnel location. As the story goes, 800 was fed up with finding a home Read more…
William Pope L – William Pope.L’s (b.1955) oeuvre exists as a complex contemplation of contemporary issues around race, class, and gender, kaleidoscoped through intense durational performances, installations, and nomadic projects. From his early work on the eRacism series, through the Black Factory Twice Sold project, and to his text and sculptural pieces in Black Is, Read more…
Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger – The imagery of partners and collaborators Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger has been near ubiquitous over the past few years in Chicago. Either you’ve seen them performing, knitting a link between them, or discovered their quaint Victorian profiles with beards intertwined, or stumbled across documentation of their far flung Read more…
Deborah Adams Doering – Deborah Adams Doering works in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, print making and installation. She’s been included herein, however, for her massive outdoor installation Code for the Grand River, Grand Rapids_09, temporally located on the lawn in front of the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids. Working at Read more…
By Chicago Art Magazine on Feb 17, 2011 in Featured Part of our series celebrating artists over 40 years of age As discussed in CAM’s previous article “Performance Art MFA,” performance is a complex and ethereal art form that has found a unique home in Chicago. Likewise, installation, from epic indoor museological pieces to the Read more…
Mary Lou Zelazny: Mary Lou Zelazny (b. 1956) is a native Chicagoian, and her work shares much of the humor often associated with Chicago painters, especially the Imagists. Her own work explores, “improvisations and…where my humor, discomfort, incomprehension, and pleasure can coexist. This indirect method appeals to [Zelazny] because of the unpredictability and technical demands Read more…
Charles Moesch: Chicago-born artist Charles E. Moesch Jr. has been painting nearly his entire life. Though he did a temporary stint as a graphic designer, Moesch now dedicates his full artistic practice toward “hyper-realism,” combining aspects of photo realism, surrealism, fantasy illustration. In describing his own work, Moesch states, “Never being satisfied with the ordinary Read more…
Renee McGinnis: Renee McGinnis’s epic landscapes take the viewer’s breath away, with sweeping vistas and impossible environs: Eden meets Gotham. Her recent works explore the industrial landscape through juxtaposition and decay. Her work is described as, “beautiful warnings to us all, speaking visually about humanity, triumph, and tragedy and how these dualities co-exist.” McGinnis’s robust exhibition history Read more…
Timothy Vermeulen: Timothy Vermeulen’s narrative paintings use the framework of famous pieces of literature to explore deeper issues around the self, the spiritual, and socioeconomic conflicts. Vermeulen’s theatrical vignettes “symbolize internal states, social conflicts, and past traumas…unsettling, disquieting circumstances that speak to the mysterious and contradictory nature of existence.” His most recent exhibition, at Packer Read more…
