Posts Tagged ‘Chicago Artist’


Behind the Scenes of Filming Episode 3: Tony Fitzpatrick

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

Fear No ART Chicago airs on WTTW on March 31 @ 10 PM, April 3 @ Noon, April 6 @ 10:30 PM and April 23 @ 11:30 PM. It also airs on WTTWPrime on April 1 @ 4 PM, April 7 @ 4:30 PM and April 9 @ 5 PM Due to a tiny budget, Read more…

Fearless Radio Mentions 3rd Episode

Friday, March 25th, 2011
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Discover the Artist Behind the Art on WTTW – Rare Joan Cusack Interview! In this 3rd episode, join host Elysabeth Alfano and go behind the scenes of the Piven Theatre Workshop with veteran actresses Joan Cusack ( in a rare interview) and Joyce Piven, discover the passion of puppeteer Blair Thomas and get homey with Read more…

Blair Thomas

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Blair Thomas has been a practicing puppeteer in Chicago for over 20 years.  The summer of 2010 he performed a 5-week run of his award winning solo shows entitled Hard Headed Heart.  In the fall of 2008 he conceived, designed and directed The Ox-Herder’s Tale, a Buddhist parable at the Museum of Contemporary Art as Read more…

Alan Emerson Hicks

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

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…

Mary Lou Zelazny

Monday, March 7th, 2011

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

Friday, March 4th, 2011

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

Friday, March 4th, 2011

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

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

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…

Laura Shaeffer/Home Gallery

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

Laura Schaeffer has made an artist practice out of running alternative spaces. After many years running a commercial gallery space, Schaeffer decided to experiment with the integration of art exhibitions into the domestic space, and Home Gallery of Hyde Park was born. Since 2007 Schaeffer has been exhibiting the works of painters, sculptors, and printmakers Read more…

Michelle Grabner/The Suburban

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Michelle Grabner/The Suburban Michelle Grabner (b. 1962) runs probably one of the best known artist-run spaces, situated in Oak Park alongside Fraser’s He Said She Said and Tom Burtonwood’s What It Is. Run with her husband Brad Killam, The Suburban has shown many nationally and internationally renowned artists since its establishment in 1999. The Suburban Read more…