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All Silent Auction Items are broken into two lots which are indicated by either "S.L1" or "S.L2" at the beginning of the item number. Lot one (S.L1) will close at 8:45PM on May 5th and lot two (S.L2) will close at 9PM on May 5th.
Hindman Auctions will begin our Live Auction on May 5th at 9:15PM. Artworks from five of our Arts of Life artists (Guy Conners, Andrew Sloan, Ted Gram-Boarini, Jean Wilson, and Susan Pasowicz) are featured.
*Your participation in this annual event directly supports the creative practices and professional development of 70+ talented artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Thank you.
| 2022 / Pen and colored pencil on paper / 14"x17" / Framed Andrew Sloan is a Detroit native known for his elaborate drawings of muscle cars, urban architecture, and sports icons. Often informed by an extensive knowledge of the auto industry and aspiration to capture the “Motown spirit”, his vision and style remain cohesive across his body of work while referencing disparate interests and subject matter. Sloan’s distinct aesthetic is one of incredible detail and careful execution, with thoughtful compositions often breaking the borders of his substrates. Relationships found in nature or within urban landscapes are depicted with subtleties deduced through contemplative observation. Alongside the dynamism and compelling distortion unique to his work, each drawing evokes a diligent, meditative quality reflecting the patience and attention invested in his creative process. Sloan was recently featured in Hyperallergic. “I did a lot of drawings when I was in elementary school, maybe around 1985 or ’86. I read about cars in magazines, Hot Rod and Petersen’s 4-Wheel and Off-Road. I made art a bit in vocational school, but really didn’t get into it until coming to Chicago. I’ve also been a fan of building model cars since I was a kid. I definitely like General Motors cars. They have a lot of hard torque engines and beautiful looking designs. I look at pictures in magazines, old commercials on YouTube, movies, or TV shows. I don’t work on a drawing real fast, just take my time to get the body design right while looking at the picture. I put ideas and details together from my mind, kind of like a photographic memory.” |
| 2022 / Acrylic on canvas / 20"x16" / Framed Ted Gram-Boarini is at once a visual artist and musician, and his preferred modes of artistic expression are mutually influential. This is witnessed in the mesmerizing rhythm of his brush strokes, and in the artistry of the lyrics he has written for the North Shore studio band, Van Go Go. “I enjoy talking to people and toward becoming my own person. That is, to help people realize who I am. Because if I don’t, then how can I do this and be my own man in terms of art?” Gram-Boarini reimagines music and movie references into acrylic paintings on canvas. Distinctively, his introspective nature and personal connection to the reference always shine through. Gram-Boarini allows us to see him through his work, while leaving space for the viewer’s personal reverie. “This piece is successful because it’s supposed to show people that you can do whatever you put your mind to. Everyone has to make their own way through life. That’s what it’s about.” Gram-Boarini is a singer and percussionist for the studio band Van Go Go. He is also a member of the studio’s curating team. His art has been featured on Arts of Life merchandise, and on our partner site, ArtLifting.com. Gram-Boarini was also interviewed on-camera by WGN news in 2018. |
| 2018 / Acrylic on paper / 20"x24" / Framed Jean was born in 1958 in Chicago. As a child and young adult, she lived in several state operated institutions. In 2000, Jean moved into L’Arche Chicago as one of the founding core members. An accomplished visual artist as well as musician in the Arts of Life Band, Jean’s creative drive seems to have no limits. Jean recently completed a limited edition print run with Summertime Gallery in Brooklyn. Her work has previously been featured in The Beasts at Circle Contemporary, as well of the extension of that show at The Other Art Fair at MANA Contemporary. “Art makes me feel happy, and it makes me feel proud. I make animals in my artwork, I care about animals. Nature inspires me.” Jean’s unique talent lies in determining the emotional core of her subject matter and depicting this as fiercely as she possibly can. Drawn to animals, Jean concentrates on qualities that make her subjects powerful, dangerous, and respected. Before anything else, we notice teeth, claws, and glowing eyes. Her ferocious menagerie acts as protection for Jean, while announcing her artistic identity. “I want to sell my paintings! I want to shock them with my art! I want people to remember me when I am 119 years old up in heaven.” |
| 2018 / Colored pencil and graphite on paper / 11"x17" / Framed Born in Chicago in 1955, Sue Pasowicz is a dreamer and visionary. Fascinated by mystery, color, and organic forms, Pasowicz intuitively uses colored pencil and graphite to create whimsical, dream-like landscapes. Informed by both the fantastical and everyday, hints of her surroundings and memories become tangled in a web of wispy, hair-like marks that build up on the works’ surface. Often incorporating mirrors, portals, windows, or doors, Pasowicz’s work transports the viewer to nebulous and magical environments. “I usually draw tunnels, portals, curly top trees, clouds, the future. As things come into my head, I draw on a piece of paper; sometimes I use both hands and two colors at the same time. I don’t want to do the same thing I did before. You can’t be picking the same titles as the others, because it won’t be an individual thing. It depends how long I work on a drawing. If it’s a major piece of paper, I could work on it quite a long time before it’s proper. I like seeing exhibitions so I can learn from other peoples’ artwork, you can pick up different types of ideas.” |
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| Art Collector Bene Nordenstahl, and co-host Vincent Uribe, are inviting you to a private catered dinner and tour of Bene's personal collection. Over the past two decades, Benedicta Badia Nordenstahl has built an art collection that challenges the status quo, and throws into relief the norms of contemporary life. Nordenstahl's worldview has been informed by her native Argentina and her experiences living in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and the United States. PACKAGE INCLUDES: Collection tour and dinner for you and up to 6 friends on a mutually agreed upon date Penthouse is located in the River West neighborhood |
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| Enjoy backstage and side stage access, plus unlimited world renowned barbecue and beverages in the Number Project Lounge at Windy City Smokeout Music Festival at the United Center Parking Lot. PACKAGE INCLUDES: 1 Pair of VIP tickets on Thursday, July 13th, with Zach Bryan as the headlining act. |
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| Treat yourself to a VIP experience at two of Chicago's premiere clubs under the same roof: Metro and Smartbar PACKAGE INCLUDES: 4 tickets and a VIP table at Metro to a show of your choice (exceptions apply) 4 tickets to a Smartbar show of your choice Metro and Smartbar swag bags |
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| Start with dinner at Taureaux Tavern, an elevated French-inspired restaurant and bar in the heart of the Loop. Then take a walk over to theWit, a sleek hotel in the Theater District is 2 blocks from the Chicago River and stay the night. PACKAGE INCLUDES: A $100 gift certificate to Taureaux Tavern 1 night stay at theWit |
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| Be a tourist in your own city! Stay two nights at the 21c Museum Hotel in River North and bring along your specially crafted picnic basket from All Together Now to enjoy at the Riverwalk or Millenium Park (or at the hotel!) PACKAGE INCLUDES: 2 night stay at 21c Museum Hotel and exhibition tour Picnic basket of goodies from All Together Now |
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| 2020 / Watercolor and ink on paper / 14"x12" / Framed Ariée (also known as Aria Carter) has a singular vision for fashion and passion! Her artwork is rife with haute couture references interspersed with youthful, pop culture iconography. Her compositions construct narratives around this unexpected juxtaposition of high and low-brow cultural fixtures. “I want to be professional about fashion illustrator, fashion designer, and fashion model. Selling artwork about this. I just draw all these Scarlet O’Hara dresses which I stole in my vision. I was going to draw Black Lives Matter. I just want story about the middle school racism. All the grades.” Ariée works with complete focus and confidence. She skillfully balances compositions, exercising restraint to preserve and craft thoughtful negative space that accentuates her designs. An undeniable playfulness manifests in vivid colors and functionally counterbalances the seductiveness of her imagery. “Enjoy watching of the fashion videos. I want to learn the Creative Director of Ariée and Fashion Chief Choreographer of Ariée Gabrielle Modeling Company. This why I transform from Paris, New York, Milan and London. I want to teach them about how to walk the runway. I show them how I use a pyramid—top, middle and bottom.” Ariée’s artwork has appeared in public installations in Chicago and she was the North Shore studio’s Artist of the Month in September 2019. She also represented Arts of Life on camera in an interview with WTTW in 2020. |
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| 2023 / Mixed media on panel / 6"x8" Edra Soto is a Puerto-Rican born artist, curator, educator, and co-director of the outdoor project space, The Franklin. Soto instigate meaningful, relevant, and often difficult conversations surrounding socioeconomic and cultural oppression, erasure of history, and loss of cultural knowledge. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and now immersed in her Chicago community, Soto’s work has evolved to raise questions about constructed social orders, diasporic identity, and the legacy of colonialism. Soto has exhibited extensively at venues including El Museo del Barrio (NY), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago (IL), ICA San Diego, (CA) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY). She has been awarded the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, the Illinois Arts Council Agency Fellowship, the inaugural Foundwork Artist Prize, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant and the Bemis Center’s Ree Kaneko Award among others. Soto exhibited and traveled to Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Cuba as part of the MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund. Soto holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico. The artist lives and works in Chicago. |
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| 2021 / Oil on Panel / 16"x20" / Framed Kate Sable’s paintings of curvilinear and gridded abstract forms are an ongoing investigation between analytical and intuitive use of color, line, gesture, and shape. Her practice directly engages personal metaphor and inquiry, while remaining strongly grounded in the painting process. Sable has recent solo exhibitions at her alma mater at Virginia Tech’s School of Art Armory Gallery (Blacksburg, Virginia) and Pazo Fine Art (Kensington, MD). Recent Group Exhibitions include Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA), Goucher College (Baltimore, MD), Left Field Gallery (Los Osos, CA), Circle Contemporary (Chicago, IL), River House Arts (Toledo, OH), Janice Charach Gallery (Bloomfield, MI), The Silva Gallery (Washington, DC), Art Enables (Washington, DC), and Dutoit Gallery (Dayton, OH). Sable’s work has been published in ArtMaze Magazine and Friend of the Artist (Volume 8), and she has been interviewed for The American Scholar, Inertia Studio Visits, I Like Your Work Podcast, and Baltimore based Podcast Beware the Artist. Recent Curatorial projects include SOFT POWER at Pazo Fine Art (Kensington, MD). Reviews include The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Two Coats of Paint, among others. Sable earned her BFA from Virginia Tech (2005) and MFA from American University (2009) and she currently lives in the DC metro area suburbs with her husband, three children, and countless pets. She is represented by Pazo Fine Art (Kensington, MD). |
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| Ceramic / Approx 11" tall Katie Kimmel is a California based artist who works mainly in ceramic sculpture. After receiving her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015 Katie relocated to a small town in the Mojave Desert and acquired several dogs. As a solution to her remote studio location Katie has gained a strong interest in e-commerce as a way to show work. Katie has been working as a full time artist selling home-goods, apparel and artwork through her website katiekimmel.com since 2017. *this image is an example; your custom pet portrait vase will take 9-11 weeks to complete |
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| 2019 / Mixed Media / 30"× 30" / Framed Mariam Paré is a multidisciplinary artist and self-taught mouth-painter. She became a quadriplegic at age 20 after surviving an act of gun violence. She later re-trained herself to paint by holding brushes in her mouth, pursued a degree in Studio Art, and continued to develop herself as a visual artist and "mouth-painter". Today Mariam Paré is a prolific talent celebrated for her unique painting technique, and thought-provoking multi-media works. In addition to painting by mouth, she makes artwork touching on facets of the disability experience. ​ She is creator of Tres Fridas Project, a highly reviewed exhibition that "re-imagines art through the disability lens". She is a 3Arts Fellow and continues to work in collaboration with UIC (Chicago) Disability Culture Leadership Initiative. She is active in the disability arts community in Chicago, and member of the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Worldwide. ​ Notable commissions and private collectors include Pierce Brosnan, Kathie Lee Gifford, University of Utah Rehabilitation Hospital, Craig H. Nielsen Foundation, Omorose Cosmetics, LifeWTR, Refinery 29. |
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| 2018 / Paracord, Steel Hoops / 6"x6"x10" Noël Morical (American, b. 1989) lives and works in Chicago IL. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Morical is a multidisciplinary artist and collaborator interested in organizing color, coded experience, and craft techniques. She is also the curator of the traveling exhibition series “Pocket Object”, a keychain inspired project. Solo exhibitions include Andrew Rafacz Gallery,Chicago; 57W57 Arts, New York; Fiberspace Gallery,Stockholm. Group and two-person exhibitions include MCA, Chicago; Weinburg-Newton Gallery, Chicago; 99¢ Plus Gallery, Brooklyn; Athen B. Gallery;Oakland, Chicago Artist Coalition;Chicago, LVL3; Chicago, Super House, NYC |
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| 2022 / Acrylic and marker on paper / 23"x41" / Framed The persistence and laser focus Renata Berdes possesses in pursuit of her artistic outcomes is indomitable. She continually pursues her themes, or “obsessions” as she calls them, with voracity and intention. “I really like the art because you can see everything through art.” Her sculptural works viewed collectively suggest the assemblage of a new space that plays with scale and permanence. Individually her sculptures are imbued with the magic of what is possible; first there was nothing, and now by Berdes’ hands and imagination the object exists. Found objects are unified through an intimate connection with the sense of touch that manifests in rich textures. “I got plexiglass for the door because I can see through it. I can see stuff in there. I really like what I made. I was using some string for that water. I like that box that you gave me. It was a good idea, using that box.” Berdes delivers with confidence and honesty, engaging viewers through her own vulnerability. She invites us to see the world from her viewpoint and delights us with her reinterpretation of what is. “I want to do it because I am capable. I want to do art.” Berdes’ artwork has been exhibited at the Chazen Museum of Art in Wisconsin, and is in the permanent collection at the University of Wisconsin” Waisman Foundation. Her artwork is included in Arts of Life’s 20 year anniversary limited edition Platinum Print Collection. |
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| 2022 / Marker and colored pencil on paper / 20"x15" / Framed Saemee is an avid lover of fables and voracious reader who often relates stories and folklore that she heard throughout childhood. This interest seeps into her artwork in the form of characters and scenes she reconstructs to fit her individual artistic voice. “The circle shape and line like this. The triangle. The circle. The shape. Just like comic books. Just like storybook picture.” This is further evidenced in Saemee’s clean, illustrative style. Her representational subject matter is often punctuated with crisp black lines outlining fundamental shapes. She works with diligence and focus while immersed in her internal storylines—always rooting for the good guys to affect a happy ending. “They look so beautiful. Everyone go see. They like it.” |
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| 2022 / Colored pencils on mounting board / 40"x30" Sara Wenokur is a multidisciplinary artist living in Chicago. She is influenced by the diverse forms found in nature. |
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| 2021 / Acrylic and marker on panel / 24"x18" As an artist who is very process oriented, Steve enjoys painting layers of color and creating patterns using motifs such as flowers, leaves, and boats. Through repetition, Stefan has developed his own aesthetic language, rendering these recurring subjects and overarching themes in a manner reminiscent of folk art. One can easily recognize his artwork, through his personal take on archetypal symbols and patterns. “I’m not rushing, I’m just sitting here taking my time trying to figure out what looks good. I like to start somewhere then think about what I’m going to do next. I’m working on figuring out what I want to do.” |
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| 2022 / Oil on mulberry paper on panel / 36"x 24" Taylor Augustine, b. 1998 Northeast Ohio, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in the fall of 2021. Her work stems from a deep affinity with decorative arts through practices in drawing, painting, and floristry. Her recent paintings consider the sensation of layering, through delicate gestures of drawing and staining. The work embraces the way images of the natural world can be formed, deciphered, and translated. Previous exhibitions include, "Into The World There Came A Soul Called Ida" at ADDS DONNA, "Kiss my petals," at Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago and “green belt,” at Jargon Projects, Chicago. |
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| 2020 / Watercolor and graphite on paper / 9"x12" / Framed Tim Stone was born in Park Ridge in 1973, where he grew up living with his family. Over the years, Stone has created an expansive and cohesive body of work across media, including graphite, watercolor, and acrylic. For the past few years he has focused primarily on grayscale drawings of loose grids in graphite, with titles that hint at personal inspirations. Focused and methodical in his practice, he maintains a diligent studio routine and steadfast artistic vision informed by concepts of abstraction. Stone’s process is driven by labor-intensive, repetitive mark-making that burnishes the graphite and slowly wears away the surface of the paper over time. He’s also an active member of the curatorial committee, assisting guest curators with exhibitions at Circle Contemporary featuring studio artists alongside artists from the broader contemporary art community. “I start drawing squares with a B pencil. Then I keep drawing over them until they become glossy and thick. The B pencil helps the graphite become bolder and shinier, then some of it fades away.” |
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| 2022 / Acrylic on canvas / 20"x24" / Framed Born and raised in Chicago, Alysha Kostelny currently lives on the Northwest Side. Kostelny’s approach to art-making is driven by experimentation, curiosity, and an exploration of various surfaces, textures, and applications of paint. She enjoys researching modern and contemporary artists, gleaning inspiration from myriad concepts and processes. Kostelny has a natural inclination toward hard-edge abstraction, though her work often straddles both abstraction and representation. Drawn to simplified organic forms and geometric shapes, she translates source imagery (often referencing art history, architecture, or the natural world) through reductive, bold color fields. “Painting is something that resembles you, it’s something you’ve seen or like.. I get inspiration from other artists. I’m inspired by Richard Diebenkorn and like learning about other abstract painters.” |
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| 2018 / Acrylic on canvas / 36"x24" / Framed Amanda Gantner possesses a tenacious dedication to expanding her art practice. Experimentation and risk taking in her artwork has paid off in dividends as witnessed by the broad level of success she has attained across mediums. “The Mind. It takes time. When I first came here my voice was down. Now it is better. A lot better because the voice is loud.” The subtle nuances of light and meticulous blending inhabit her impressionistic drawings, while her lively abstract paintings burst with energy through vibrantly contrasting hues. “Get messy. More splatter. I don’t care. I want to do that. It wakes you up.” Gantner is a nationally exhibited artist whose artwork has been included on branding for Middlebrow Brewery, corporate and private collections and agency merchandise. She was also selected as the North Shore studio’s 2019 artist of the year! |
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| 2021 / Ink and colored pencil on paper / 8.5"x11" / Framed Ben Sanders is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, as well as commissioned by clients all over the world, including Nike, Louis Vuitton, SSENSE, and The New York Times. |
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| 2022 / Acrylic on canvas / 18"x24" / Framed Brian Reed’s art practice is guided by his inquisitive nature. The contemplative quality of his artwork extends a feeling of intimacy to the viewer, as we observe the result of his exploration of the people who inspire him and the animals that intrigue him. “It makes me happy because I like working with my hands. I like the way I use them. I like being with people while making art. I have so many friends from here.” Reed experiments fearlessly with materials and continually welcomes new challenges. This is most evident in his three-dimensional works constructed with a variety of mediums. The resulting forms are at once brutal and elegant. His affinity for acquiring new skills extends to teaching. Reed is a member of the agency’s educator track, and teaches art skills in a variety of settings. “I enjoy learning because I want to grow. I like being with the kids. They’re so cute! I like working with them and seeing them grow.” Reed’s artwork has also been featured on agency merchandise, including the 2021 calendar. |
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| 2016 / Neon mixed media / 65" x 10" x 3" Jason Pickleman is an artist, designer, collector, and gallerist, known for servicing Chicago's cultural clientele through his design firm, JNL Graphic Design. Pickleman is a partner in the cooperative gallery Paris London Hong Kong, and was previously the proprietor of the critically celebrated collection-based gallery Lawrence & Clark. |
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| 2020 / Dye, acrylic on hand dyed cotton / 20" x 16" Jennifer Sullivan is a painter who lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens. Her paintings are a diary and a form of psychoanalysis, that evolved out of earlier autobiographical work in performance and video. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Original Face, Deli Grocery Gallery, Ridgewood, NY (2022), Sleeper, Turn Gallery, New York, NY (2021), My Pretty Red Heart, HG Gallery, Chicago, IL (2020), Devotional Paintings, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL (2020), Female Sensibility, Emma Gray HQ, Los Angeles, CA (2020), Exiled Parts, No Place Gallery (2019), and the soft animal of your body, Emma Gray HQ, Los Angeles, CA (2018). Sullivan has exhibited widely including group exhibitions at NADA Miami, Marinaro, Brennan and Griffin, Rod Barton, NADA NY, and Klaus Von Nichtsaggend. Awards include fellowships with Paint School at Shandaken Projects (2020) and the Fine Arts Work Center (2012-13), and residencies at the Lighthouse Works, Skowhegan, Ox-Bow, and Yaddo. Her work has been reviewed in the NY Times, Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, and Art Papers. She is represented by Emma Gray HQ in Los Angeles, CA. |
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| 2023 / Glaze on ceramics / 12"x9" Kevin Umaña was born in 1989 and grew up in El Salvador and Los Angeles. He received a BFA from San Francisco State University in 2014 and lives and works in Kansas City. Umaña is the co-founder of The Ekru Project, an artist-run Kansas City gallery focused on contemporary, emerging and underrepresented artists. In 2017, he created a permanent installation at The United Nations Headquarters in New York City. He has completed residencies at The Center for Book Arts, New York City (2019); Plop Residency, London, England (2018); and SIM Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland (2018). His work was featured in “Pattern Recognition,” curated by Amy Lincoln at Sperone Westwater in 2022. Institutions owning his work include The United Nations Art Collection, Fidelity Mutual Funds Collection, Center for Book Arts Library and The Marin Museum of Contemporary |
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| 2022 / Marker, colored pencil, and collage on paper / 19”x24” / Framed Born in 1994, Lawrence joined Arts of Life to begin developing his studio practice. Working primarily in drawing, painting, and collage, he engages with a process and aesthetic reflecting his everyday interests – gathering imagery of animals, watching cartoons, and a spontaneous layering of diverse materials and ideas. Lawrence also enjoys traveling with his family, spending time with friends, and playing basketball, shot put, and a variety of other sports. Among other exhibitions, his work has been included in Duck Feet guest curated by Ricardo Partida, If a Mountain Could Love guest curated by Cody Tumblin, and Dance Dance Dance guest curated by Tyson Reeder. |
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| 2022 / Acrylic on canvas / 20"x16" / Framed Lucy Walsh was born in Chicago in 1998. Most inspired by popular culture, her influences span television, fashion, music, fast food, and horror tropes. Particularly drawn to slasher films, she mentions It, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Friday the 13th as favorites. Walsh usually works quickly from memory and imagination, but will also sometimes incorporate elements from reference imagery. Accentuated by meandering lines that form organic shapes and vibrant, whimsical patterns, her paintings and drawings waver between abstraction and representational. Walsh often works in sketchbooks, preferring the portable format, with each representing distinct series of drawings. She also spends time writing fictional mystery/horror stories, citing Stephen King as an inspiration. “I use pencils for drawing. These pencils I’m obsessed with – Ticonderoga. I’m literally obsessed.” “I love Pop Art! Andy Warhol is my favorite.” |
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| 2021 / Oil on panel / 12” x 9” / Framed Marcelo Eli Sarmiento (b. 1989 Chicago) is an American artist whose works aim to connect the contemporary experience and Pre-Columbian symbolism. Pulling from his Mexican and Ecuadorian heritage, he creates new mythologies surrounding gods, warriors, and life and death. Known for his oil paintings, he maintains a diverse studio practice that includes acrylic and watercolor, oil pastel, and ink drawings. His work is often expressive, heavily textured, intuitive, and direct, juxtaposed with the cosmology of the Pre-Columbian culture's visual language. Marcelo works prolifically but also methodically, constantly working in a series. The works promote tradition and identity and question the preservation of the Latinx experience. Marcelo has said that through his practice, he has been able to learn and express an excavation of the self and self histories. |
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| 2022 / Vintage wooden crutch, wired with salvaged lamp parts, constructed using all pieces from its original form / 23" x 8" x 12.5" Noel Mercado is a Chicago-based artist who works across media. He explores the essence, lifecycle, and cultural meaning of found objects, often repurposing them to generate new forms and configurations. Mercado’s artworks, ranging from functional design to immersive environments, frequently employ humor and ironic juxtaposition to transform how we use and relate to everyday things. Believing that “everything is a canvas,” Mercado desires to provide a secure and meaningful future for the objects we discard or leave behind. |
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| 2022 / Oil on panel / 10” x 3/4” x 10” / Framed While unified in simplicity of delivery, Peter Shear's paintings range widely across imagery and manner of execution. The result is a body of work which Shear, borrowing from the languages of abstraction, has evolved into a shorthand vocabulary at once personal and familiar, slangy and poetic. He lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana. |
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| Photo / 23"x29" / Framed Sandro Miller is a photographer and director based in Chicago. Miller received his education primarily by studying books of master photographers, most importantly Irving Penn. He started out his career as a commercial photographer and became one of the top advertising photographers worldwide. His editorial work has been featured in acclaimed magazines as GQ, Esquire, Forbes, The New Yorker and Stern. In his personal projects, Miller focuses mainly on portraiture, with special attention to technical perfection, expression and human connection. His series often address social issues, such as his recent portraits of dying cultures in Papua New Guinea (2019), or his project about black hair styles, entitled My Hair, My Soul, My Freedom (2016-17). Throughout his career, Miller closely worked with his longtime friend John Malkovich, with whom he created among others the film Butterflies (2011) and the series the Malkovich Sessions (2016) and Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich! Homage to Photographic Masters (2014, 2017) |
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| 2020 / Sequins, markers, heatpress dyes on polyester, nailpolish, and graphite / 16"x16" (b. Jinju, South Korea) Yae Jee Min is an interdisciplinary artist. She holds a MFA and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in psychology from Boston University. Using intersected methodologies of painting and craft, she investigates nostalgia through abstraction and materiality. Through whimsy and childish haphazard zones, she create spaces in which memories, nostalgia and identity both engage and entangle with one another. Whether it is dealing with specific moments of domestic spaces, sleep deprivation, mental illness, and femininity; her work confronts these spaces of familiarity with whimsicality to allow viewers into the moment safely, allowing polemic thoughts to be buffered by notions of blanket warmth. Her work has been exhibited internationally and nationally including Seoul Museum of Arts, Torrance Art Museum, and DfbrL8r Gallery |
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