Past Events at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative Gallery
NOWRUZANE: An Exchange & Celebration of the Persian New Year with Iranian, Italian and CPC Artists
April 1 - June 3, 2017
Opening Reception April 1, 2017, 5-8pm
In Iran, the Persian New Year is called Nowruz; now meaning new, and ruz meaning day. Nowruz is about the renewal of nature, and for 3000 years, it has been celebrated at the exact moment of the vernal equinox. Iranians decorate using the seven symbols of life and vitality called Haftsin. These symbols crop up in many of the exhibited prints: Apple, Sumac, Vinegar, Garlic, Dried Oleaster, Samanu (sweet pudding made from wheat germ), and Sabzeh (wheat sprouts). We will have a Haftsin set up at the opening reception on April 1st.
The exhibit features over 130 mini prints by 96 CPC, Italian and Iranian printmakers. Multiples of these works are currently traveling and being exhibited together at the Chav Printmaking Studio in Tehran, as well as in Mashhad, Kermanshah and Kerman in Iran, at Spazio 74/b Milano Gallery in Milan, Italy and at the Sagene Kunstsmie in Oslo, Norway.
This touring exhibition is a collaboration between Chav Printmaking Studio (Iran), Milano Printmakers Associazione Culturale (Milan) and Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
In light of recent political events in the U.S., the CPC thought it fitting to showcase the work of these wonderful Iranian and Italian printmakers and enlighten Chicagoans to their vibrant culture and customs. Art has no barriers nor borders and broadens our idea of what is possible. The great print works of the past 300 years have easily outlived and transcended whoever happened to be king, dictator, or president.
About the Show
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Upper Left: CPC artists Duffy O'Connor, Jeanine Coupe-Ryding, Kim Laurel and Michelle McCoy.
Upper Right: Show poster from Iran, plus photo from opening night at Chav Printmaking Studio in Iran.
Middle: Prints by Iranian artists (L to R, by row): Parvaneh Farmani, Pardis Hosseini, Saeedeh Gohari, Simin Khozaei, Maryam Jahani, Mahdieh Sohrabi, Ehsan Sharif-Far, Mahtab Aliabadi, Farahnaz Rahmati, Negin Mahmoudi, Hedieh Jafari, Shirin Mirjamali, Mahtab Dehravan, Koosha Mousavi, Yasaman Roohi.
Bottom: Sponsors and Venues of the traveling exhibition.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS IRAN:
Ava Afshari, Mahtab Aliabadi, Roya Alipor, Gita Azimzadeh, Sara Baftizadeh, Nahid Baradaran Eskandani, Ehmad Chehghani, Dana Dehghan, Mahtab Dehravan, Ali Asghar Ebrahimi Nikoo, Fereshteh Ferdowsi Khosrowshahi, Parvaneh Farmani, Zahra Ganji, Elham Ghorbanali, Hamideh Gohari, Saeideh Gohari, Mahdi Goudini, Farnaz Haghighat Parast, Behnaz Hooshmand, Pardis Hosseini, Hedieh Jafari, Maryam Jahani, Atefeh Jarandehei, Narges Karimian Mousavi, Shiva Khoshbakht Nezhad, Samira Khoshravan, Simin Khozaie, Soraya Kolbadinezhad, Negin Mahmoudi
Mona Majidifar, Shirin Mirjamali, Elmira Mirmiran, Abbas Mirzaee, Nasim Mirzaei, Maryam Mojtahedi Moghaddam, Darya Mojtahedzadeh Fard, Tahereh Mokhtarpour, Koosha Mousavi, Fereshteh Mottaghi, Zeinab Mousavi, Yasaman Mousavi, Mahya Naiemabadi, Nasrin Najafi, Sara Nikpoor, Afsaneh Oskooei, Aida Pashakhanloo, Farzaneh Radmehr, Farahnaz Rahmati, Mina Rashidi, Yasaman Roohi, Saeideh Sabet Nejad, Samira Sadat Rahmani, Nastaran Sadat Safarabadi, Solmaz Sadeghi, Shaghayegh Sanagoo, Sepideh Sayad Daryabakhsh, Ehsan Sharif Far, Mahdieh Sohrabi, Majid Tabatabaee, Bahareh Taghikhani, Sara Tavangar Ranjbar, Mojgan Toosi, Samira Vali Asadi, Minoo Yalsohrabi, Nazanin Zadmehr
ITALY:
Felice Ardito, Francesco Casolari, Shuhei Matsuyama, Francesca Magro, Samuele Menin, Enzo Maio, Marta Raimondi, Francesco Santosuosso, Salvatore Zappala
CHICAGO:
Victoria Marie Barquin, Matt Bodett, Eric Bremer, Jeanine Coupe-Ryding, Colin Coyle, Megan Hinds, Isabelle Ganayem, Michael Goro, Deborah Maris Lader, Jeff Lassahn, Kim Laurel, Bart Longacre, Michelle McCoy, Maria Mungai, Duffy O’Connor, Robert Rusch, Megan Sterling
27th Annual International Small Print Exhibition and Holiday Sale
December 3, 2016 - February 15, 2017
Preview the show (shop early!): Friday Dec 2, 12-8pm
Grand Opening Party: Saturday & Sunday December 3 & 4, 11-7pm both daysExtended gallery hours: Tuesdays - Sundays 12-5pm Dec 6-18
Over 60 artists!You know the drill people. You show up, pour yourself some hot spiced cider, grab an artist-made snack and start collecting gorgeous, affordable prints from the walls while we attempt to keep up with the mass buying frenzy. We have new work by your favorite CPC gallery printmakers and have added 23 new artists, so prepare to be inspired. Bring your parents and children and friends. 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...!About the Show
Featured Artists:
Grazvyda Andrijauskaite (Lithuania), Hiroshi Ariyama, Colleen Aufderheide, Michael Barnes, Victoria Marie Barquin, Matt Bodett, George Bodmer, Eric Bremer, Margaret Buchen, Corinna Button (UK), Jeanine Coupe-Ryding, David Driesbach, John Driesbach, Joe D’Uva, Tony Fitzpatrick, Kirsten Flaherty, Christine Gendre-Bergere (France), Karinna Gomez, Racheal Gressley, Dan Grzeca, John Hart (Australia), Anna Hasseltine, Megan Hinds, Eric Hoffman, Mirka Hokkanen, Teresa James, Raeleen Kao, Ryan Kapp, Kent Kapplinger, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., Scott Kiefer, Damon Kowarsky (Australia), Jill Kramer, Deborah Maris Lader, Kim Laurel, Carrie Lingscheit, Emmy Lingscheit, Barton Longacre, Carol Luc, Michelle McCoy, Bert Menco, Jillian Nickell, Ali Norman, Dennis O’Malley, Painted Tongue Press, Sage Perrott, Kathryn Polk, Morgan Price, Jaco Putker, Artemio Rodriguez (Mexico), Robert Rusch, Jay Ryan, Sarah Sciba, Jeff Sippel, Sarah Smelser, Olivia Smith, Starshaped Press, Janie Stamm, Megan Sterling, Nicola Villa (Milan, Italy), Pamela Wesolek, Scott Westgard, Cleo Wilkinson (Australia), Catherine Winings, Nele Zirnite (Latvia).
Image Above, L-R: Tony Fitzpatrick, Jeff Sippel, Teresa James, Corinna Button, Bert Menco, Sarah Smelser
A Well Trodden Path
September 16 - November 5, 2016
About the Show
A Contemporary Exhibition Curated by Erik Beehn This exhibition brings together artists that combine process as a form of content to create work that deconstructs collective understandings of landscape, and its relationship to location. A Well-Trodden Path presents landscape as a platform to explore beauty, representation, affect, and perspective while reinterpreting one of arts most treasured categories. Artists include:- Erik Beehn www.erikbeehn.com
- Kate Conlon www.kateconlon.com
- Lauren Edwards www.lauren-edwards.com
- Kevin Goodrich www.kevingoodrich.org
- Ilan Gutin www.ilangutin.com
- Boyang Hou www.boyanghou.com
- George Liebert
- Shaurya Kumar www.shauryakumar.com
- Grace Makuch www.gracemakuch.com
- Esau McGhee
- Grace Schwartz www.graceschwartzart.gq
- Sonnenzimmer www.sonnenzimmer.com
- Writer Lolita Hernandez www.lolitahernandez.com
CUTS: An Exhibition of Relief Printmaking
July 15 - September 3, 2016
Featuring the work of Peeter Allik, Carlos Barberena, Liz Born, Sam Cikauskas, Susanna Crum, Joel Dugan, Holly Greenberg, Eric Hoffman, Jill Kramer, Karen Kunc, Duffy O'Connor, Debra Riffe, Artemio Rodriguez, Nicolette Ross, and Rafael E. Vera.
About the Show
Flight Patterns: An Avian Exhibition
March 5 - May 14, 2016 Opening Reception March 5, 5-8pm
Exhibiting Artists:Matt Bodett, Jill Chittenden, Jeanine Coupe-Ryding, Tony Fitzpatrick, Sanya Glisic, Rachael Gressley, Dan Grzeca, Rachelle Hill, Teresa James, Jon Keown, Damon Kowarsky, Deborah Maris Lader, Kim Laurel, Carrie Lingscheit, Bart Longacre, Betsy Ochoa, Meghan O'Connor, Megan SterlingAbout the Show
L: Kim Laurel, Winter Chickadee House 1, Monoprint and Mixed Media
R: Tony Fitzpatrick, I, 5-color etching
