Tour Chicago area galleries to discover new ideas and a variety of media through discussions led by Joanna Pinsky and other artists. Feel free to join Joanna and other participants afterwards for lunch.
Tours meet on Saturday mornings from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (unless otherwise stated). Advanced registration preferred.
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Discover the artist as magician at JUDY SASLOW GALLERY with a three person exhibit based on “Magical Thinking.” When speaking to strangers on the phone, Frank Paluch, Director of Perimeter Gallery imagines the person at the other end through small drawings. Later he converts the drawings into ceramic sculptures. Japanese born painter Bernadette Jiyong Frank creates magic in large colorful oils that gently vibrate with optical illusions. Jordan Scott uses a labor intensive process of transforming simple materials such as postage stamps into large scale works that look like fiber. At CATHERINE EDELMAN GALLERY, we’ll view “Seen and Unseen”, evocative photographs by Keith Carter. Next at PERIMETER GALLERY, we’ll view sculptural wall pieces by Nathan Slate Joseph who creates magic by putting pure pigment on steel and exposing it to weather.
MEET at Judy Saslow Gallery, 300 West Superior St., Chicago
Explore several galleries on West Fulton Market today beginning with playful installations by Carson Fox at LINDA WARREN GALLERY. Comprised of colorful imaginative flowers cast in plastic, and suspended on heavy pins, the artworks evoke varying emotions. Next at EC GALLERY, we’ll view paintings by Seattle artist Junko Yamamoto who combines images from her childhood in Japan with abstract meditative layers of paint. We’ll conclude with the unique PETER MARS GALLERY. An art pioneer in the neighborhood, Peter has shown his own and other artists’ work since 1988. After discussing the focus of the gallery, we’ll visit Mars’ studio to see how the artist “fuses and confuses the traditional distinctions between high culture and low art.” Participants may want to stay for lunch at Jupiter Coffee Shop in the same building.
MEET at Linda Warren Gallery, 1052 West Fulton Market, Chicago
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Whether you need a program for a day or a week, Art Encounter will design an art event to fit the needs of your organization, art association or business. Options include visits to artists’ studios, collections, museums, and sculpture parks in Chicago and its suburbs. We can plan day-by day itineraries for out of town groups, arrange busses and catered events. Programs are led by Artistic Director Joanna Pinsky and Art Encounter’s excellent staff of artist facilitators.
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