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"Art Exhibition" by Jean Jacques Porret
Location: AMA Bldg. / 515 North State Street..
Temporary Exhibit: March - May, 2012..
Jean Jacques Porret is the conductor of a ballet in bronze. Like the classical dance technique, Porret's surreal sculptures transcend the mere human form they represent, and instead draw the viewer in with their delicate expressionism,...
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Jennifer Webster is a Chicago-based painter and graphic designer. She studied art in Italy and Switzerland and completed two degrees at the University of Illinois at Chicago; a B.F.A in graphic design and a B.F.A. in painting with a minor in art history. Jen now is a freelance graphic designer. She is also the curator and art committee chair for...
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Urban Totems - Solo Exhibition by Eric H. Steele
August 12, 2011 – September 26, 2011
Location: Renaissance Court at Chicago Cultural Center.
My work refers to natural disaster and the liminal space between destruction and hope. Spiritual remnants recombine and regenerate. The environment man builds envelopes him and shapes him as he shapes it. Idiosyncratic organic...
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Avenue of Sculpture at Art Chicago, 2011 [ Merchandise Mart]
Avenue of Sculpture at Art Chicago, 2011.
25 sculptures installed along the merchandise Mart and Wacker Drive.
Avenue of Sculpture was inaugurated at Art Chicago, 2010. It is an alliance between the Chicago Sculpture International [CSI], an affiliate of International Sculpture Center, The Merchandise Mart properties Inc. [MMPI], the Chicago...
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"A Small Sample" - by Derick Malkemus.. At The Cliff Dwellers
A Small Sample - by Derick Malkemus
As a sculptor I'm constantly trying to expand my visual vocabulary.
I'v been casting my own work from Styrofoam patterns from the past 20 odd years. Most of these are cut with hot wire cutters [basically, a resistant wire with electric current running...
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My first professional assignment as a photographer
Cover-page image for a children's magazine:
"Ask: Arts & Sciences for Kids".
Published: February , 2010.
My Very Special Thanks to Karen Kohn, Sr. Art Director for Carus Publishing.
I really owe Karen Kohn a Big Thanks! She contacted me after seeing the photographs on my website and offered me a commission, although, until then, I was...
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