Category Archive: figurative painters
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Artists of Uptown Arts Center exhibition March 17-19th – Our 11th artist profile Colette Wright Adams
Colette Wright Adams often uses her observation of a neighborhood to create works of art. Many times nature in the city is represented. “A neighborhood is not a static, physical location nor only… Continue reading
Artists of Uptown Arts Center exhibition March 17-19 Our 10th artist Jessica Stanfill
Jessica Stanfill 2016 MFA in Painting & Drawing, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago 2014 Post-Baccalaureate in Painting & Drawing, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago 2006 BA Studio Art,… Continue reading
Artists of Uptown Arts Center exhibition March 17-19–Our 9th artist profile Sarah Bastress
Sarah Bastress is a painter from West Virginia who now lives in Chicago. Her paintings often quote queer or rural tropes from painting history, pop culture, or her own childhood that stir up… Continue reading
Artists of Uptown Arts Center exhibition–6th & 7th artists profiles
Tongyu “Toni” Zhao 趙彤宇 b. Hubei, China, 1993. Tongyu Zhao is an artist based in her guts, she thinks about material encounters and lived experiences. In an often chaotic expression, Tongyu intends to… Continue reading
Artists of Uptown Arts Center exhibition: 5th artist profile Kateryna Tkachenko
Kateryna is an artist from Ukraine. She has been in Chicago for a little over 3 months. She received a baccalaureate in painting and teaching from Kharkiv Art college in 2002 She also… Continue reading
Artists of Uptown Arts Center exhibition 4th artist profile–Lowell Thompson March 17-19
Lowell Thompson is an artist/writer and creative catalyst who uses media and mediums to provoke thought about issues most Americans would rather not see. He calls himself a “recovering adman” because he spent… Continue reading
Artists of Uptown Arts Center exhibition Elizabeth Hipwell– 3rd artist profile
Our 3rd profile of Artists of Uptown Arts Center: Elizabeth Hipwell
Artists of Uptown Arts Center exhibition March 17-19 2017
The second in our profiles of the artists of Uptown Arts Center: Robert W. Pockmire ” I was born July 31, 1951 and raised in Toledo, Ohio. After a year and a semester… Continue reading
Uptown plein air painter Shinichi Yura
Shinichi Yura, visiting painter from Hokkaido, Japan painted the Aragon Theater in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood