These small pieces are ink on paper. They measure a bit over 10 x 10 inches. One of the curious things about these pieces is that, from any distance, they seem abstract. They are not; there are rooms and images with great detail in these pieces and you can see this in the photos.
Anthony Meier Fine Arts (San Francisco) Showed Work By Michael Wetzel At Expo Chicago 201510/5/2015 Anthony Meier Fine Arts (San Francisco) showed work By Michael Wetzel at Expo Chicago 2015. These small pieces are ink on paper. They measure a bit over 10 x 10 inches. One of the curious things about these pieces is that, from any distance, they seem abstract. They are not; there are rooms and images with great detail in these pieces and you can see this in the photos. photos by Boyd Ogle II
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McCormick Gallery/Vincent Vallarino Fine Art Showed Work By Joseph Paul Vorst At Expo Chicago 201510/5/2015 McCormick Gallery/Vincent Vallarino Fine Art showed work by Joseph Paul Vorst at Expo Chicago 2015. Vorst was a German artist and Mormon convert who came to the United States in the 1930s. He settled in St. Louis. He was part of the art movement known as regionalism. The group turned against the cities and instead depicted scenes of rural life. Vorst was apparently fairly well known during his life but he sort of vanished. His work is undergoing a renaissance. These pieces are oil on masonite. photos by Boyd Ogle II
Louis Stern Fine Arts showed work by Arts Helen Lundeberg and June Wayne at Expo Chicago 2015. Lundeberg was born in Chicago and moved to Pasadena in 1912. She was a co-founder of subjective classicism (aka post-surrealism). This was back in the day when everyone seemed to crave a "school of art" to belong to. The idea behind this particular school was that carefully chosen subjects would guide the viewer through a painting to its deeper meaning. Her career spanned over 60 years and her work is included in numerous public collections: Wayne, also born in Chicago, remained in the city. She was one of many great artists to create work for the WPA. She became certified in production illustration while living in Chicago and worked converting blueprints into drawings in the aircraft industry. She also worked as a scriptwriter for WGN in Chicago. The Cavern and Moving Symbols by June Waynephotos by Boyd Ogle II
Inman Gallery (Houston) showed work by Linarejos Morales at Expo Chicago 2015. Moreno creates pieces out of fragments of architecture, of vanishing history. She often works in performance and installation. Her photographs and pieces blend documentary with the unreal. Maxwell Davidson Gallery (New York) showed work by Thomas Witte at Expo Chicago 2015. Witte studied architecture at Rutgers but, while in Argentina, became enamored of the stenciled street graffiti. He crates pieces using the graffiti technique but he has recently moved into the creation of the stencils used in the graffiti--an art form in themselves. See more at thomaswitteart.com. photos by Boyd Ogle II
Hyde Park Art Center showed work by Kevin Blake and someone else whose name I didn't get. Usually I take photos of names and all that but sometimes things get mixed up. In any case Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago is the city's oldest alternative exhibition center. The organization has been around since 1939 and has used its current name since the following year. Their raison d'être is showing the work of emerging and/or under recognized artists from the area. photos by Boyd Ogle II
Richard Gray Gallery (Chicago) showed pieces by Jaume Plensa at Expo Chicago 2015. Chicagoans who frequent Millenium Park have seen Plensa's work in the form of the Crown Fountain (and an installation of large pieces that comes down in December, 2015). Plensa, a Barcelona-born, sculptor is known for his large scale, public pieces. You will recognize these as one of his many signature styles. His sculpture are of made of glass, steel, bronze and aluminum. He does more than sculpt, however. He also creates works on paper--notably a group of portraits created to look like 19th century photos. photos by Boyd Ogle II
Alan Koppel Gallery showed pieces by Edward Lipski at Expo Chicago 2015. Lipski is an English sculptor and painter. His work often features cartoon-like figures. I , for one, am glad these figures are not real. There is always something a little disturbing about them. They look wrong and this "wrongness" is certainly intentional. This otherworldly, almost prehistoric sense of history. Unfortunately the piece below, Mystical Vandalism X, has a pronounced reflection (impossible to avoid). It is plexiglas, mirrored plexi and automotive paint. photos by Boyd Ogle II
Nancy Hoffman Gallery (New York) showed Pink Girl With Dog by Nicholas Africano at Expo Chicago. Africano, from Kankakee, IL and now living in Normal, uses his wife Rebecca as the model for all of his stunning glass work. His cast glass pieces make use of the "lost wax" method. I was going to describe the technique but to do it justice is to take too much space. Essentially a wax model is made, cast and then molten glass is poured into the cast. But it is more involved than that! Go HERE for more info. Africano is also a painter. His work from the 70s was inspired by literature and also included wax reliefs of events from his life. Galerie Forsblom (Helsinki) showed work by Not Vital and A.R. Penck at Expo Chicago 2015. The Not Vital piece is stainless steel with PVD coating. The untitled Penck piece is oil on canvas. Not Vital is a Swiss sculptor, house builder, painter, designer, etc. I am not going to try to explain; you can find out more at notvital.com. Penck is a German painter, sculptor and print maker. He is originally from Dresden. His art, neo-expressionist, and not in line with what the East German authorities, was decidedly nonconformist. He, George Baselitz and others were proponents of "new figuration" as well as free speech (the latter likely causing more problems with the authorities than the former). |
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