2019 EVENTS
Fayum 21
September 26 - October 26, 2019
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Union Street Gallery
1527 Otto Blvd., Chicago Heights, IL Opening Reception: September 26th 1:00-3:00 PM (CST) Group exhibition by the FUSED Chicago organization. This exhibition features a variety of encaustic styles and techniques by multiple artists.
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HORIZON: Contemporary Landscape
September 13 - November 1, 2019
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Art Center of the Bluegrass
401 W. Main St., Danville, KY Opening Reception: September 13th 5:30-7:00 PM (EST) The Horizon: Contemporary Landscape exhibition, at the Art Center of the Blue Grass, celebrates its 10th year of challenging the conventions of landscape art. Exhibitions Director Brandon Long says "We received entries from all over the United States – 82 artists from 15 states. Our juror, Daniel Graham, no doubt had many difficult choices to make in narrowing over 254 submitted works down to the twenty-one accepted works that best fit the contemporary landscape theme of the exhibition."
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About the Juror:
Daniel Graham was raised in a military family and moved every two years for most of his life. He comes from a family of storytellers who love investigation and creativity. Introduced and encouraged into creative outlets at an early age Daniel has never forgotten the lessons of craft from his mother (a basket maker and calligrapher) and the lessons of engineering and risk from his father.
His training in the Arts comes from an Undergraduate Degree at the University of Florida in Printmaking and a Master’s Degree from the University of Georgia with the same emphasis. Between the two programs of formal education Daniel lived in downtown Washington DC and trained as a furniture maker under woodworker Dennis Sitka. Currently Daniel is a Professor of Art at Georgetown College in Georgetown Kentucky where he teaches a variety of courses including Sculpture, Printmaking, 3D Design, Metal Casting, Book Arts, and Furniture making. He lives in Georgetown with his wife Holly, his daughter Olive, his son Thatcher, and their dogs Clover and Cricket.
Daniel Graham was raised in a military family and moved every two years for most of his life. He comes from a family of storytellers who love investigation and creativity. Introduced and encouraged into creative outlets at an early age Daniel has never forgotten the lessons of craft from his mother (a basket maker and calligrapher) and the lessons of engineering and risk from his father.
His training in the Arts comes from an Undergraduate Degree at the University of Florida in Printmaking and a Master’s Degree from the University of Georgia with the same emphasis. Between the two programs of formal education Daniel lived in downtown Washington DC and trained as a furniture maker under woodworker Dennis Sitka. Currently Daniel is a Professor of Art at Georgetown College in Georgetown Kentucky where he teaches a variety of courses including Sculpture, Printmaking, 3D Design, Metal Casting, Book Arts, and Furniture making. He lives in Georgetown with his wife Holly, his daughter Olive, his son Thatcher, and their dogs Clover and Cricket.
Contemporary Ancients: A Modern Approach to Encaustic
August 24 - September 21, 2019South Haven Center for the Arts
600 Phoenix St., South Haven, MI Opening Reception: August 24th 1:00-4:00 PM (EST) Artwork by members of the FUSED Chicago group have been selected for this exciting exhibition. An opening reception will be held on August 24th from 1-4pm (EST) with an opportunity to hear from the artists in person.
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8th Annual Encaustic Exhibition
August 2 - August 31, 2019
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Morpho Gallery
5216 N. Damen Ave., Chicago, IL Opening Reception and Silent Auction: August 2nd 6:00-10:00 PM (CST) This year's annual exhibition has been juried by Kathy Blankley Roman and Dan Addington (of Addington Gallery in Chicago, IL).
Morpho Gallery prides itself in seeking talented artists who are on the cusp of being discovered by the mainstream art community. We invite local artists to exhibit their work in a creative and non-competitive atmosphere where artistic experimentation and development are encouraged. By creating a blank palette inside the gallery, we offer infinite possibilities for an array of colors, textures and media to come together. |
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Freeport Art Museum
121 N. Harlem Ave., Freeport, IL Opening Reception and Silent Auction: May 31st 5:00-8:00 PM (CST) Mini Masterpieces is a fundraising exhibition where artists create 6 inch by 6 inch artworks for the Freeport Art Museum. This show offers artist a chance to challenge themselves by creating artwork on a small scale which are then displayed in the galleries for museum patrons to enjoy and purchase.
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Zhou B Art Center
2nd Floor Exhibition Space, 1029 W. 35th St., Chicago, IL Opening Reception: January 18th 7:00-10:00 PM (CST) The artists in Painting with Fire explore contemporary content utilizing the ancient technique of painting in encaustic. Encaustic is an ancient medium that combines beeswax, pigment and heat. It is the use of heat that creates the encaustic – burning in – and fuses each layer. From extreme dimensionality to the inclusion of text and other materials, the contemporary artist working in encaustic has taken this antique medium into the twenty-first century expanding upon tradition and pushing the boundaries of the medium in creating contemporary work.
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Beyond Fayum
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59th Mid-State Art Exhibition
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For more than six decades, the Evansville Museum has exhibited and collected contemporary regional art through the presentation of an annual Mid-States competition open to artists residing the six states of Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and Missouri. Some of this region’s most accomplished artists and art educators have been selected to show their work in the Mid-States exhibitions; and the competitions have importantly encouraged the participation of young, emerging artists. The 59TH MID-STATES ART EXHIBITION, on display from December 9, 2018 – March 3, 2019 in the OLD GALLERY, will feature paintings, drawings, prints, collage, sculpture, and mixed media work.
Juror for this year’s competition is Philip R. Jackson, Associate Professor of Art and Painting Area Chair at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Mr. Jackson’s work is included in the Evansville Museum’s permanent collection and his paintings were featured in a solo exhibition here as part of his appointment as the Museum’s Martha & Merritt deJong Artist-in-Residence in 2008.
This exhibition is presented through a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.
Juror for this year’s competition is Philip R. Jackson, Associate Professor of Art and Painting Area Chair at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Mr. Jackson’s work is included in the Evansville Museum’s permanent collection and his paintings were featured in a solo exhibition here as part of his appointment as the Museum’s Martha & Merritt deJong Artist-in-Residence in 2008.
This exhibition is presented through a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.
