Candace Jordan is on the May 6th Dinner Party! A completely new and different kind of show, host Elysabeth Alfano invites three Chicago and/or national Celebs and a known chef to a dinner party.  Over food, wine, chocolate, Twitter and a few impromptu performances, the conversations flow!  Filmed live and streaming live on-line, buy your 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…

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…