Alan Emerson Hicks Exhibits with NOW Sculpture, featuring 3-D 12
NOW Sculpture, featuring 3-D 12
June 19 - July 26
South Haven Center for the Arts
600 Phoenix St, South Haven, MI 49090
(269)637-1041
"While exhibiting at various venues, the Chicago-based 3-D 12 artists have identified their commonly held environmental interests and concerns. Their personal perceptions on the issue cover as broad a range as their materials of choice. Decomposed lost and found objects, recycled plastic and metal, salvaged scrap wood, earth and water are some materials which are effectively reconfigured to translate their ideas into physical forms. The sculptural works take on subjective and collective meaning to contribute to a genuine meta-landscape."
The 3-D 12 artists are: Shelley Gilchrist, Peter Gray, Alan Emerson Hicks, Ruyell Ho, Beth Kamhi, Jim MacRoberts, Bill Moll, Mimi Peterson, Robert Putnam, Eric H. Steele, and Michelle Stone.
June 19 - July 26
South Haven Center for the Arts
600 Phoenix St, South Haven, MI 49090
(269)637-1041
"While exhibiting at various venues, the Chicago-based 3-D 12 artists have identified their commonly held environmental interests and concerns. Their personal perceptions on the issue cover as broad a range as their materials of choice. Decomposed lost and found objects, recycled plastic and metal, salvaged scrap wood, earth and water are some materials which are effectively reconfigured to translate their ideas into physical forms. The sculptural works take on subjective and collective meaning to contribute to a genuine meta-landscape."
The 3-D 12 artists are: Shelley Gilchrist, Peter Gray, Alan Emerson Hicks, Ruyell Ho, Beth Kamhi, Jim MacRoberts, Bill Moll, Mimi Peterson, Robert Putnam, Eric H. Steele, and Michelle Stone.
Jason Messinger Solo Show in Wicker Park Chicago
"The Travel Blooms"
Solo Show by Jason Messinger
Eyeporium Gallery
(Gallery located behind
'Eyewant' eyewear shop)
1543 N. Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
773.782.1744
Preview reception: Friday, May 8, 7-9 PM
Artist's Reception: Friday May 22, 7 - 10 PM
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Solo Show by Jason Messinger
Eyeporium Gallery
(Gallery located behind
'Eyewant' eyewear shop)
1543 N. Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
773.782.1744
Preview reception: Friday, May 8, 7-9 PM
Artist's Reception: Friday May 22, 7 - 10 PM
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*CRAZY 8 SELLS INTERNATIONALLY!
The Crazy 8 web site now sells artwork internationally!
New artists and artwork to be added soon!
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New artists and artwork to be added soon!
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NEW SHOWS
CRAZY 8 presents: ATTAINABLE ART
Original Works of art for $200 and less!
See work by over sixteen of Chicago's most creative talents
Fri Nov. 14, 6 - 10 pm
Sat & Sun Nov 15 & 16, 12 - 6 pm
Peter Jones Gallery
1806 W Cuyler, at Ravenswood, Chicago
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Original Works of art for $200 and less!
See work by over sixteen of Chicago's most creative talents
Fri Nov. 14, 6 - 10 pm
Sat & Sun Nov 15 & 16, 12 - 6 pm
Peter Jones Gallery
1806 W Cuyler, at Ravenswood, Chicago
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JASON MESSINGER in PEOPLE OF THE MUD 2
See work by Jason Messinger in
People of the Mud 2,
Chicago Cultural Center,
77 East Randolph Street, Chicago, IL
Show Runs through March 9, 2008
"People of the Mud 2: Another Look at Chicago Ceramics", curated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, features work by seven local artists, and offers a glimpse of the wide ranging practice of Chicago artists who work in clay. Ceramic is a medium which offers a broad spectrum of materials and techniques for artists to utilize in exploring their creative concepts.
Long time Chicago resident Jason Messinger unveils several new ceramic tile murals for the show. Jason Messinger's work has been seen in Chicago and across the country in galleries, museums, and corporate settings. His murals "Alice" and "Letterfied" are part of the City of Chicago's Percent for Art Program Permanent Collection, displayed at the Chicago Public Library's Austin-Irving Park Branch, and are featured in the most recent Chicago Public Art Guide (available at the Chicago Office of Tourism Visitor Information Centers at the Chicago Cultural Center and the Chicago Water Works).
For information on Chicago Cultural Center exhibitions, contact the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs at (312)744-6630
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People of the Mud 2,
Chicago Cultural Center,
77 East Randolph Street, Chicago, IL
Show Runs through March 9, 2008
"People of the Mud 2: Another Look at Chicago Ceramics", curated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, features work by seven local artists, and offers a glimpse of the wide ranging practice of Chicago artists who work in clay. Ceramic is a medium which offers a broad spectrum of materials and techniques for artists to utilize in exploring their creative concepts.
Long time Chicago resident Jason Messinger unveils several new ceramic tile murals for the show. Jason Messinger's work has been seen in Chicago and across the country in galleries, museums, and corporate settings. His murals "Alice" and "Letterfied" are part of the City of Chicago's Percent for Art Program Permanent Collection, displayed at the Chicago Public Library's Austin-Irving Park Branch, and are featured in the most recent Chicago Public Art Guide (available at the Chicago Office of Tourism Visitor Information Centers at the Chicago Cultural Center and the Chicago Water Works).
For information on Chicago Cultural Center exhibitions, contact the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs at (312)744-6630
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Crazy 8 2007 Press Release
11/2007
CRAZY 8 showcases eight of Chicago's wildest artists
Chicago, IL
"Carve - Cut - Layer - Drip, Splash - Scrape - Stencil - Stitch, Brush - Tie - Press - Twist, Blend - Create - Emotional State - Crazy Eight," reads the tag line for the Crazy 8 show, summing up the wide range of physical approaches to art featured at this event. Crazy 8 brings together eight of Chicago's wildest artist working in surprising ways with both traditional and non-traditional art mediums. Curated by artists and participants Jason Messinger and Alan Emerson Hicks, the artwork showcased is "Crazy in the wild sense, not totally insane!" says Messinger. "These artists are the bomb," says Hicks, "They are nuclear."
Crazy 8 takes place at the Peter Jones Gallery, located on the second floor of 1806 W. Cuyler, by Ravenswood. Gallery is located one block north of Irving Park and two blocks east of Damen, and two blocks from the Irving Park Brown Line train stop.
The show runs from November 3 through December 2, 2007. Regular gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday, from 3 to 6 PM, or by appointment (773)501-7730. A closing party will be held on Sunday Dec 2 from 4 - 8 PM. www.Crazy8Art.com
Joey Wozniak, Frank Fruzyna, and Bruce Noel Mortenson use the traditional medium of paint, but Wozniak uses hand-cut stencils and then scrapes, layers, and builds up thickly rendered and complicated compositions of representational imagery in abstracted fields of bright colors. Fruzyna positions dark bold brush strokes against atmospheric washes to create tensions of emotional resonance in beautiful works both small and monumental in scale. Mortenson's surrealistic and post-contemporary paintings, seen recently in a solo show of larger works at the Chicago Cultural Center gallery, are peopled with both abstract organic blobs and carefully rendered silhouettes in colorful vistas of the imagination.
James Kuhn, Izzo, and Edward Master reinvent the painting. Master creates intricate and complicated decorative patterns of paint on paper, then cuts and stitches them together with embroidery thread into complex and massive wall hangings that link our collective cultural pasts of traditional art forms with a vibrant and total now. Izzo takes printed-pattern fabric, then uses paint to alternately embellish or obscure the patterns, bridging background and foreground and the flat plane with spatial depth. He layers dots and spirals of bright color into visual explosions of energy and light. Kuhn creates painted mosaics, cutting painted paper into small squares, then gluing them into a larger composition, almost quilt like in its layering. The scenes depicted reference Biblical stories, and the artist's talent turns ideas of energy, faith, and the supernatural into visual and visceral experiences.
Curators Alan Emerson Hicks and Jason Messinger similarly reinvent their mediums. Messinger shows ceramic tiles that are more painting than pottery. Framed to float off the wall, the artist takes the graphic forms of letters, the simplistic shape of circles, or the pragmatic construction of utility poles, and turns them into startling objects of aesthetic beauty. Hicks uses found objects and heat-manipulated plastic to create compelling sculptures and wall pieces. The flotsam and jetsam of the modern world are twisted into objects of singular vision; plastic bottles stretched into soldiers, bottle caps woven into vases, a man made of clear plastic sheeting and buckled plastic coat hangers, a time machine from free-flowing video tape.
If you can't visit the gallery, the art work of Crazy 8 can be previewed or purchased on the web site; www.Crazy8Art.com. The curators can be contacted directly for more information by calling Jason Messinger (773)255-0993.
For digital prints, this release as digital attachment, additional press materials, or more information, please contact curator Jason Messinger at (773)255-0993
CRAZY 8 showcases eight of Chicago's wildest artists
Chicago, IL
"Carve - Cut - Layer - Drip, Splash - Scrape - Stencil - Stitch, Brush - Tie - Press - Twist, Blend - Create - Emotional State - Crazy Eight," reads the tag line for the Crazy 8 show, summing up the wide range of physical approaches to art featured at this event. Crazy 8 brings together eight of Chicago's wildest artist working in surprising ways with both traditional and non-traditional art mediums. Curated by artists and participants Jason Messinger and Alan Emerson Hicks, the artwork showcased is "Crazy in the wild sense, not totally insane!" says Messinger. "These artists are the bomb," says Hicks, "They are nuclear."
Crazy 8 takes place at the Peter Jones Gallery, located on the second floor of 1806 W. Cuyler, by Ravenswood. Gallery is located one block north of Irving Park and two blocks east of Damen, and two blocks from the Irving Park Brown Line train stop.
The show runs from November 3 through December 2, 2007. Regular gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday, from 3 to 6 PM, or by appointment (773)501-7730. A closing party will be held on Sunday Dec 2 from 4 - 8 PM. www.Crazy8Art.com
Joey Wozniak, Frank Fruzyna, and Bruce Noel Mortenson use the traditional medium of paint, but Wozniak uses hand-cut stencils and then scrapes, layers, and builds up thickly rendered and complicated compositions of representational imagery in abstracted fields of bright colors. Fruzyna positions dark bold brush strokes against atmospheric washes to create tensions of emotional resonance in beautiful works both small and monumental in scale. Mortenson's surrealistic and post-contemporary paintings, seen recently in a solo show of larger works at the Chicago Cultural Center gallery, are peopled with both abstract organic blobs and carefully rendered silhouettes in colorful vistas of the imagination.
James Kuhn, Izzo, and Edward Master reinvent the painting. Master creates intricate and complicated decorative patterns of paint on paper, then cuts and stitches them together with embroidery thread into complex and massive wall hangings that link our collective cultural pasts of traditional art forms with a vibrant and total now. Izzo takes printed-pattern fabric, then uses paint to alternately embellish or obscure the patterns, bridging background and foreground and the flat plane with spatial depth. He layers dots and spirals of bright color into visual explosions of energy and light. Kuhn creates painted mosaics, cutting painted paper into small squares, then gluing them into a larger composition, almost quilt like in its layering. The scenes depicted reference Biblical stories, and the artist's talent turns ideas of energy, faith, and the supernatural into visual and visceral experiences.
Curators Alan Emerson Hicks and Jason Messinger similarly reinvent their mediums. Messinger shows ceramic tiles that are more painting than pottery. Framed to float off the wall, the artist takes the graphic forms of letters, the simplistic shape of circles, or the pragmatic construction of utility poles, and turns them into startling objects of aesthetic beauty. Hicks uses found objects and heat-manipulated plastic to create compelling sculptures and wall pieces. The flotsam and jetsam of the modern world are twisted into objects of singular vision; plastic bottles stretched into soldiers, bottle caps woven into vases, a man made of clear plastic sheeting and buckled plastic coat hangers, a time machine from free-flowing video tape.
If you can't visit the gallery, the art work of Crazy 8 can be previewed or purchased on the web site; www.Crazy8Art.com. The curators can be contacted directly for more information by calling Jason Messinger (773)255-0993.
For digital prints, this release as digital attachment, additional press materials, or more information, please contact curator Jason Messinger at (773)255-0993
