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…

Meredith Dytch: Meredith Dytch takes the tradition of plein air to the streets of Chicago, revealing vignettes of the city through subtle colors and soft lines. In describing her practice, Dytch states, “I am interested in how our built environment co-exists, often uneasily, with the natural world. In my art, I often explore the way Read more…

This article is part of Chicago Art Magazine’s “40 over 40″ series. Though the canon of painting hasn’t been dominated by the representational figurative tradition in oh, I don’t know, at least a hundred years, there are still many artists who choose to pursue that path in their work. A quick flip through recent issues Read more…

Johannah Silva, a Chicago painter and full time faculty member at Wright Community College, is a relative new comer to the artist-run space scene. Portage ARTspace, located in Portage Park, opened its doors in mid-2010 and is purported to be a one year experiment. Exhibited artists include Hui-min Tsen, Tom Burtonwood, Holly Holmes, and Phillip Read more…

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…