Past Events at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative Gallery
Body Rhythms
Exhibition Dates: May 28 - July 30, 2022 Gallery Hours: Friday + Saturday 12-5pm and by appointment Closing Reception: Friday, July 29th 5-8pm
Named after a series of pressure prints by the artist, Body Rhythms is a collection of recent works by artist and storyteller Junli Song. Ranging from printmaking to ceramics, the works on display are constantly undulating. Figures move in wave-like motions while translucent colors lay smoothly on top of one another in both ink and glaze.
Inspired by the ancient Chinese cosmography, Shanhaijing, Song reinterprets tradition through a feminist, diasporic lens. With the ongoing construction of an imaginary world, Song explores how liminality can be a space for liberation. Countering the Western use of perspective, Song utilizes flatness as an Eastern artistic convention and negative space as an opening—a threshold to cross over and into. These moments of transformation, of seeing through, of absence embodied, reflect how in-betweenness can be expansive, rather than limiting.
Raised in Oak Park, Illinois, Junli Song is an artist and storyteller with a rather unusual background. In addition to her Master’s in children’s book illustration, Song studied economics at the University of Chicago and international development at the University of Oxford. She is currently pursuing an MFA with a concentration in printmaking at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. To learn more about Junli, visit her website and follow her on Instagram.
This exhibition was organized by Vic Barquin
About the Show
La Danse, 2021, Pochoir (stencil), 22 x 30 inches
Moondance, 2021, Pochoir (stencil), 22 x 30 inches
The Discovery, 2021, Pochoir (stencil), 30 x 42 inches
Staff Picks!
March 11, 2022 through May 14, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday, March 11, 5 - 8pm
Featured Artists:
David Driesbach, Beauvais Lyons, Julie Murphy, Eric Wilson, Tony Fitzpatrick, Ruben Castillo, Catherine Winings, Jaco Putker, Jill Kramer, Eric Von Haynes, Wes Beeler, CHema Skandal, Maddie May, Annie Kielman, Jensen Delius, Annie Shea, Thuong Tran, Jeanine Coupe Ryding, Scott Westgard, Matt Bodett, Christine Gendre-Bergere, Michelle McCoy, Megan Sterling, Sonnenzimmer
About the Show
The Chicago Printmakers Collaborative is excited to present a show which highlights the unique interests and passions of our staff members! Inspired by "staff picks" shelves in bookstores, this is an exhibition of prints and printmakers that our teachers and staff think are worthy of special recommendation for your viewing pleasure. Combining the distinct curatorial visions of six different printmakers resulted in a diverse collection of work, spanning a wide range of styles and mediums. While some staff curators dove deep into CPC's collection to find golden oldies that rarely get to see the light of day, others opted to include new work by contemporary Chicago artists. Old and new, earnest and whimsical, this show has a little something for everyone!
Jack Spector-Bishop's Picks: "Printmaking is a centuries-long conversation through images, constantly turning back upon itself for inspiration and always ending up the brunt of the joke. These pieces exemplify the humor, grotesquerie, and commitment to the poor image that has brought me back to the medium again and again."
Maddie May's Picks: "The works I chose are especially interesting to me as they all place the viewer as a spectator within a variety of domestic scenes and predicaments. Each artist handles illustrations of interiors, exteriors, household objects, and scenes of everyday life in differing ways. I was also drawn to the types of light depicted and how the marks from varying printmaking processes portrayed them. From light pouring in through a window, to a bedside lamp casting heavy shadows up the wall, each print feels like a window into another emotional realm."
Eric Wilson's Picks: "We all have our worlds that we live in, inside of our heads, outside of reality. These artists show us what the world looks like to them, not with beauty and perfection but honesty and humor."
Carl Voss' Picks: "Each of these pieces speaks to me in a different way. Sonnenzimmer’s piece shows an unrivaled ability to completely transform a surface, with exquisite control of texture, color, and clarity of design. Sterling’s etching shows the breakdown of borders and the flattening of the visual space that mirrors the paper itself. Finally, Bodett weaves visual poetry for what can hold, what is empty, what is resaid, and what cannot be said at all."
JJ McLuckie's Picks: "When I see the pieces chosen together they reminisce on the cruelty man exerts trying to solve it’s problems and the comfort nature provides in response solely through existing. Texture is one of the most comforting aspects to me, so the artists’ intense attention to the way textures interact within these all provide me with a melancholy joy being able to visually feel each piece."
Megan Sterling's Picks: "This collection of pieces by young women or non-binary Chicago artists showcases a dynamic range of conceptually engaging and technically sound printmaking work. Each print presents a transient relationship to the figure— fleeting traces of holding space, losing space; holding self, losing self; holding memory, losing memory. They are all a potential means to contemplate the body and its relationship to space, time, others, and ourselves."
32nd Annual International Small Print Show & Holiday Sale
December 4-5, 2021 through January 31, 2022
Special Preview Showing: Friday, December 3rd, 12 - 5pm
Grand Opening Party: Saturday & Sunday, December 4th & 5th, 11am - 7pm
Extended Gallery Hours: Tuesdays - Sundays, December 7 - 19, 12 - 5pm
Regular Gallery Hours: Friday & Saturday, 12-5 or by appointment
Over 85 artists! What?!!!! Yes, you read that right. After a long, pandemic-incited small print show drought, bite sized prints from across the known universe have winged their way to Chicago, clothing the CPC walls in a visual celebration not seen since 2020. Featuring the finest new work being done internationally and locally by CPC gallery artists and newly invited printmakers. You know the drill people. You show up in your well fitting mask, do a bit of sanitizing, and start collecting gorgeous, affordable prints from the walls while we attempt to keep up with the mass buying frenzy. Prepare to be inspired. Bring your parents, children, friends, teachers, and favorite sea creatures. It's basically the hottest spot on Western Avenue just north of the Lincoln/Western split in Lincoln Square. Looking forward to seeing you at our oasis of originality...! For those of you who prefer a quieter experience, skip the opening and visit us during our special extended gallery hours, or make a private appointment. For those who would rather shop in your pj's while petting the dog, visit our online store, which we are now updating weekly with brand new work!
About the Show
Top row, L-R: Jeanine Coupe-Ryding, Jaco Putker, Sarah Smelser, Starshaped Press. Middle row: Karen Kunc, Carrie Lingscheit, Deborah Maris Lader, Cleo Wilkinson. Botton Row: Kouki Tsuritani, Octavia Thorns, Kumi Obata, Michael Goro, Tony Fitzpatrick.
Featured Artists:
Grazvyda Andrijauskaite (Lithuania), Joanna Anos, Hiroshi Ariyama, Colleen Aufderheide, John Bergmeier, Coco Berkman, George Bodmer, Eric Bremer, BRIGHTSIDE (Thailand), Margaret Buchen, Karen Butler, Corinna Button (UK), Ruben Castillo, Sanchai Chaiyanan (Thailand), Jill Chittenden, Temjai Cholsiri (Thailand), Jeanine Coupe-Ryding, Cathie Crawford, Alberto Cruz (Mexico), Melanie Dorson, L J Douglas, Tony Fitzpatrick, Christine Gendre-Bergere (France), Bryn Gleason, Sanya Glisic, Dan Grzeca, Susan Hall, Eric Hoffman, Mirka Hokkanen, Carrie Iverson, Teresa James, Eric Johnson, Kathleen Judge, Srijai Kantawang (Thailand), Raeleen Kao, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., Scott Kiefer, Mel Kolstad, Damon Kowarsky (Australia), Shin Koyama (Japan), Jill Kramer, Tyler Krasowski, Karen Kunc, Ammarin Kuntawong (Thailand), Deborah Maris Lader, Kim Laurel, Andrea Lauren, Carrie Lingscheit, Amornthep Mahamaet (Thailand), Dave Martin, Michelle McCoy, JJ McLuckie, Bert Menco, Andrew Mullally, Maria Mungai, Ali Norman, Kumi Obata (Japan), Duffy O’Connor, Dennis O’Malley, Mary O'Shaughnessy, Painted Tongue Press, Sage Perrott, Puridon Pimsan (Thailand), Steve Prince, Nicole Purdie (UK), Jaco Putker (Netherlands), Artemio Rodriguez (Mexico), Ian Ruppenthal, Jay Ryan, Justin Santora, Jeff Sippel, Yuttana Sittikan (Thailand), Junli Song, Meghann Sottile, Jack Spector-Bishop, Sarah Smelser, Starshaped Press, Raychel Steinbach, Megan Sterling, Jerawit Surtsit (Thailand), Tia Swenson, Narit Tananon (Thailand), Sanon Tempiem (Thailand), Octavia Thorns, Kitikong Tilokwattanotai (Thailand), Stephanie Toral, Kouki Tsuritani (Japan), Nicola Villa (Italy), Suttipong Vongson (Thailand), Carl Voss, Art Werger, Scott Westgard, Stephen Wiggins, Cleo Wilkinson (Australia), Eric Wilson, Catherine Winings, Nele Zirnite (Latvia) and others.
Tongue In Cheek: Irreverence in Print
September 18 - November 6, 2021
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 18, 5pm-8pm
Featured Artists: Eric Wilson, Beauvais Lyons, Kyle Peets, Daniel Luedtke, Lya Finston, Emily Harter, Chris Williford, Oli Watt, Morgan Price, Jolynn Reigeluth , Rosabel Rosalind, Breanne Trammell, Tyler Krasowski, Brandon Oswalt, Emilien Maricot, Jack Spector-Bishop, Carl Voss, Ian Ruppenthal
About the Show
The Chicago Printmakers Collaborative is pleased to present an exhibition dedicated to work which revels in irreverence, featuring printed matter which indulges in crass humor, vulgarity, and all things lowbrow. Due to its penchant for mass production, affordability, and wide dissemination, printmaking presents artists an opportunity to engage the masses in a unique way. Historically, this has given printmakers tremendous freedom to depict subject matters outside the stuffy confines of “high art”, employing humor, lewdness, profanity, and shock-value to entice viewers and illustrate issues unpalatable to polite society. This exhibition explores the ways contemporary printmakers continue this tradition-- rejecting the “serious” in favor of the bawdy, the flippant, the obscene, and the absurd. Through resolutely refusing to respect that which is generally taken seriously, irreverence holds an untapped potential for critique, reclamation of power, and celebration of self and community. Curated by Jack Spector-Bishop, Ian Ruppenthal, and Carl Voss
Eric Wilson Beauvais Lyons
Kyle Peets Lya Finston
Emily Harter
Oli Watt
Chris Williford Jolynn Reigeluth
Morgan Price
Rosabel Rosalind
Brandon Oswalt Emilien Maricot
Breanne Trammell
Tyler Krasowski
Daniel Luedtke
PORTFOLIO: 30/2020
July 10 - August 31, 2021
Opening Reception: Sat, July 10, 12-5pmOnce upon a time, the CPC embarked on an exchange portfolio with 30 international artists affiliated with the studio, to celebrate its 30th year. As artists began their editions, a worldwide pandemic shut down their community and university presses, leaving printmakers a bit stranded and distressed. But they persevered, and created poignant work that reflects this challenging moment in our shared history with a wide range of raw honest images. More than a year late for its originally scheduled launch, we finally reveal the full collection… an artistic time capsule of what printmakers created during the time of Covid.All prints in the boxed set are 15 x 11 inchesThere are only 4 boxed sets available for sale that includes all 30 prints: $6500 eachProofs of these prints are available for sale separately by some of the artists. Please inquire if you have an interest in a particular print.About the Show
Featured Artists: Hiroshi Ariyama, Victoria Marie Barquin, Matt Bodett, Deirdre Britt, Charlie Cohan, Aaron Coleman, Chris Flynn, Christine Gendre-Bergère, Bryn Gleason, Misha Goro, Holly Greenberg, Susan Hall, Megan Hinds, Carrie Iverson, Catherine Jacobi, Teresa James, Raeleen Kao, Deborah Maris Lader, Kim Laurel, Carrie Lingscheit, Michelle McCoy, Maria Mungai, Kumi Obata, Duffy O’Connor, Jeff Sippel, Sarah Smelser, Megan Sterling, Melody Vaughan, Eric Wilson, Catherine Winings.
Hiroshi Ariyama Victoria Marie Barquin
Aaron Coleman Michael Goro
Susan Hall Deborah Maris Lader
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Carrie Lingscheit Bryn Gleason
Kim Laurel Jeff Sippel
Megan Sterling Michelle McCoy
Megan Hinds Sarah Smelser
Charles Cohan Maria Mungai
Melody Vaughan Matt Bodett
Duffy O'Connor Raeleen Kao
Teresa James Holly Greenberg
Catherine Jacobi Catherine Winings
Deirdre Britt Chris Flynn
Eric Wilson Carrie Iverson
Christine Gendre-Bergère Kumi Obata
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