Past Events at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative Gallery
Beyond Boundaries: 35 Artists Connect
October 1 through November 4, 2006.
For the past 11 years, Chicago's artists have looked forward to Chicago Artists Month, the city wide celebration of the visual arts during the month of October. This past year's celebration was themed "Beyond Boundaries".
About the Show
Boundaries-physical or imagined, global or personal-can constrain our lives if we let them. In "Beyond Boundaries - 35 Chicago Artists Connect", members of the Collaborative and invited guests created 12" x 12" unique works of art using materials of their choice: paper, glass, wood, paint, fabric etc. Each work of art contained a line or visual element that crossed the center, connecting one artist to the next, moving outside the borders of an individual space and into a new boundless one. The modular format of the project allows the exhibition to travel, be reconfigured and find new connections along the way. A collection of postcards of the original art was created to celebrate this project. This allowed the public to purchase a form of the art while actively participating in the idea of going beyond boundaries, i.e. the "sending off" of the art as mail, disseminating the images all over the world. In this way the theme comes full circle. The postcards have also been displayed, arranged in frames, laminated, and used to build houses of "cards". Participating Artists: Hiroshi Ariyama, Stephanie Barenz, Margaret Buchen, Lia Conklin, Laura M. Coyle, Sue Demel, Sam Falbo, Susan Hall, Fletcher Hayes, Carrie Iverson, Catherine Jacobi, Janet Jaffke, Cynthia King, Kathleen King, Jill Kramer, Deborah Maris Lader, Kim Laurel, Thomas Lucas, John McGlinn, Kate McQuillen, Bert Menco, Michael Miller, BettyAnn Mocek, Steve Mueller, Sarah Nishiura, Duffy O'Connor, Dennis B. O'Malley, Mary K. O'Shaughnessy, Heather Page, Tom Robinson, Robert Sabo, Megan Sterling, Kyra Termini, Kim Vanderheiden, Charlie Van Gilder. This program is part of Chicago Artists Month, which is supported and coordinated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. For more information, please visit www.chicagoartistsmonth.org.
The Chicago Show: Tracks, Cable, Sky and Lake
March 18th, 2006
A four-person show featuring new prints by:
Hiroshi Ariyama
Michael Goro
Dennis O'Malley
Jerry Svoboda
and others...About the Show
Opening Reception and Book Signing event: Saturday, March 18th, 2006 1-5pm. Meet the artists and guest Chicago authors Richard Cahan and Jeff Libman. Bring your friends, countrymen, neighbors, and kids! This event is free to the public. Cubs AND Sox fans welcome! celebrate Chicago and shop local! Meet the artists and guest Chicago authors Richard Cahan and Jeff Libman. Refreshments will be served. "Other" artists include Jeff Atkins, Ruth Moscovitch, Joel Rendon, Anatole Upart, Miles Votek, and prints from the CPC collection. The show will run through June 3, 2006.
On The Mark: Chicago Printmakers Collaborative 1989-2005
September 16, 2005
THANKS TO ALL who participated in, curated, publicized, and viewed our beautiful exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center. Our show, On The Mark: Chicago Printmakers Collaborative 1989-2005 was an enormous success, seen by thousands of people and written up in Chicago Social, Time Out Chicago, and Chicago Artists News, among other publications. It was truly something to be proud of! Special thanks go out to Lanny Silverman and Jill Hurwitz and Cynthia Quick from the Dept. Of Cultural Affairs, and to Carrie Iverson, who did such a spectacular job with the original proposal. I had a great time yakking it up with Tony Fitzpatrick at the Gallery talk on October 6th, and I just finished the eeny weeny etching we worked on together during our presentation. Catch it at the Small Print Show...
About the Show
CPC Resident Artists
CPC members Margaret Buchen (left) and Maggie Tate (right) looking at a screenprint by Maggie Tate.
CPC Resident Artists:
- Hiroshi Ariyama
- Catherine Jacobi
- Deborah Maris Lader
- Dennis O'Malley, Bobby Sutton
- Charlie Van Gilder
About the Show
The gallery also features work by:
Jeff Atkins, Margaret Buchen, Christine Gendre-Bergere, Sanya Glisic, Michael Goro, Dan Grzeca, Susan Hall, Steven Hazard, John Himmelfarb, Carrie Iverson, Phineas X Jones, Kathleen Judge, Elise Hughes, Scott Keifer, Jill Kramer, Kim Laurel, Jeremy Lundquist, Ray Maseman, Nichole Maury, Robin McCloskey, Duffy O'Connor, Mary O'Shaughnessy, Starshaped Press, Joel Rendon, Debra Riffe, Artemio Rodriguez, Justin Santora, Shawn Stucky, Jeff Sippel, Bobby Sutton, Jerry Svoboda, Michael Thompson, Diana Tutton, Anatole Upart, Scott Westgard, and many others.
Facade Project
Each window on the upper three floors of the CPC contains the faces
of 9 of the soldiers who have died in Iraq. Altogether, the piece shows the faces of 648 of the troops who have died in Iraq as a tribute and reminder.