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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Sculpted Paintings: Works by Joanna Pinsky, Michelle Stone and Jill King
Three artists discuss their different approaches to shaping paint. Joanna develops “flexible installations” of very flat shaped paintings that visually interact and create illusions of depth; Michelle explores the human condition by building up layers of paint which become relief sculpture. Jill investigates the effects of painted light on heavily detailed and carved painted surfaces. After the discussion, we will view Domestic Antecedents, installations by Latino artists. Refreshments will be served.
1957 Sheridan Rd., Highland Park
Advanced registration is preferred. Please call 847.328.9222 or email us at artencounter@yahoo.com
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On this River West tour, discover Chris Dorland, a “hot” young New York artist painting acidic neon-color images of Utopian architecture. Then at Monique Meloche Gallery, see fascinating embroidered paintings incorporating text by Karen Reimer. At Flatfilegalleries, view Michiko Itatani’s large scale paintings, Cosmos II, with a theme of libraries in an extraterrestrial space. The tour ends at Linda Warren Gallery with a Carson Fox wall installation of flowers created with resin, steel pins and glitter.
118 North Peoria, Chicago
Advanced registration is preferred. Please call 847.328.9222 or email us at artencounter@yahoo.com
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See museum-quality works in a gallery owned by the former director of the Milwaukee Museum where you will return to the sixties with works by the Chicago Imagists. Next, delve into art that inspired the Imagists as we view works by “outsider” artists at Judy Saslow Gallery. See works by La Tinaia, a group of artists who were patients in a Parisian mental hospital. Discuss French artist Gerard Cambon’s mixed media assemblages that speak to human struggle. The tour ends with a discussion of art glass at Marx-Saunders and Habitat Galleries.
311 West Superior St., Chicago
Advanced registration is preferred. Please call 847.328.9222 or email us at artencounter@yahoo.com
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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.
Call Elaine Duhl, Program Director at 847.328.9222 or email artencounter@yahoo.com |
