Materiality and Mark-making in Abstraction was curated from a class taught by Jeff Hirst and Lisa Pressman in July of 2020.
The 5-day workshop featured three live days and two days of individual feedback where we focused on each individual participant’s work, fine-tuning content, intention and technique.
The goal of the class was to have a transformation happen in the studio..The workshop included:
One conference call individual work with both artists
Five days of creating with three directed study days with Lisa and Jeff
A critique with Chicago gallery owner, Dan Addington
Individual and group discussions
We are planning another workshop in September. Limited Seating
Please email for information.
This exhibition covers a wide cross section of work including gestural abstraction, reductive minimalism, abstract figurative painting and sculptural installations. The art in the exhibition includes paintings using complex color structure along side monochromatic palettes that work together well as a whole. Delicate passages contrast robust physical surfaces playing together to create a dialogue much like a musical ensemble works with contrasting musicians. Each artist in the exhibition has created work reflective of their involvement with process and materials.
Barbara Nohinek, Cairn, 24×18 in, acrylic, 2020
Barbara Nohinek, Chromatic Code, 30×24 in, acrylic, 2020
Caroline Young, Navigating, 21″x32″, oil and cold wax, 2020
Caroline Young, Tethered, 18″x24″, oil and cold wax, 2020
Carrie Belk, Marionettes, 16″ x 16″, oil and cold wax on panel, 2020
Carrie Belk, Scream, 12″ x 12″, oil and cold wax on panel, 2020
Cindy Lesperance, Strata 8362, 12×12, encaustic on panel, 2019
Cindy Lesperance, Strata 8368, 12×12, encaustic on panel, 2019
Cindy Walton, Construct 14, 17×18, oil, cold wax, corrugated cardboard,
arches oil paper, linen thread, 2020
Cindy Walton, Favela 1, 11×10, oil, cold wax, arches oil paper, linen thread, 2020
Clare Kennedy Jorgensen, Il Sogno (the Dream), 36 x 24 x 2 inches,
encaustic, graphite, infrastructure canvas panel, 2020
Clare Kennedy Jorgensen, Dancing in the Bog, 36 x 36 x 1.5, oil,
cold wax, burnt peat, Infrastructure canvas panel, 2020
Dana Killion, Do You See Me, 18 x 18, oil on panel, 2019
Dana Killion, Fenced In, 24 x 24, acrylic on canvas, 2020
Deborah Sayre, Bounce, 12” x 16”, encaustic/silkscreen, 2020
Deborah Sayre, Brainloop, 8” x 8”, encaustic/silkscreen, 2020
Deborah Peltz, Let it Fly, 22” x 30″, plaster, acrylic, 2020
Deborah Peltz, Stand Up, 30” x 44”, plaster, acrylic, crayon, india ink, 2020
Woolley, MoreThanYouBargainedFor, 36×36, encaustic,2020
WoolleyS, Swept Away, 36×36, encaustic, 2020
Donna M Horn, Blues for JR 24 x 24, oil & cold wax on panel, 2020
Donna M Horn, Pink in Peril 22 x 30; oil & cold wax on paper, 2020
Joan Stuart Ross, Aggregation, 22.25″x30″, ink, collage, acrylic on rag paper, 2020
Joan Stuart Ross, Wrack My Mind, 22.25″x30″, ink, collage, pastel on rag paper, 2020
Karen Buttwinick, The Race Relations Puzzle, 10″x10″, encaustic, 2020
Karen Buttwinick, Turbulence, 22″ x 37″, encaustic monotype, 2020
Kathy Elliott, Untethered, 24×24, acrylic, 2020
Kathy Elliott, Out of the Darkness, 22×18, mixedmedia, 2020
Laura Seligman, Between Two Worlds, 7“ x 5”, oil and mixed media on paper, 2020
Laura Seligman, Above and Below, 7” x 5”, oil and mixed media on paper, 2020
Lisa McGavock, DevelopThe In, 10”x14”, oil and wax on paper, 2020
Lisa McGavock, Forty Dimension, 21”x29”, oil and wax on paper, 2020
Lori Niland Rounds, Emergence, 32×20”, layered encaustic monotypes, 2020
Lori Niland Rounds, The Shape of Things to Come, 12×12”, encaustic with pigment stick print, 2020
Lynne Gillan, Jelly Roll M, 10″ x 8″ x 1.5″, encaustic and wood on panel, 2020
Lynne Gillan, Moanin, 10″ x 8″ x 1.5″, encaustic and wood on panel, 2020
Mara Manning, Lessons on setting the table,32 x 40,
oil and cold wax mixed media, r&f pigment stick, art graf and dye stain on i infrastructure canvas, 2020
Mara Manning, Let go now or fall, 32 x 32, oil and cold wax, mixed media and r&f pigment stick on Infrastructure canvas, 2020
Mary Meuwissen , Blue, 30 x 30, oil/cold wax, 2020
Mary Meuwissen, Bedrock, 19 x 30, oil/cold wax, 2020
Marybeth Rothman, Quarantine Portrait One, 18x18x2, encaustic, 2020
Marybeth Rothman, Quarantine Portrait Two, 18x18x2, encaustic, 2020
Meg Walling, Endless Swells, 36” x 36”, acrylic, 2020
Meg Walling, Listening, 30” x 30”, oil cold wax on panel, 2020
Melissa Rian, Distance 1, 60” x 36” x 36”, encaustic, rebar, wire, wood, paper, 2020
Melissa Rian, Red thread that Binds 1, 60” x 24” x 6”, encaustic, rebar, wire, wood, paper, 2020
Michele Thrane, Form and Void., 24″x24″, encaustic monotype on panel, 2020
MicheleThrane, Singularity and Companion, 24″x28″, cut encaustic monotypes, staples, screws, wood, 2020
Susan Byrnes, Mo dearth`ir II, 28”X 20” oil, cold wax and Ink, 2019
Susan Byrnes, Philia, 26”X20” oil, cold wax and ink, 2019
Susan Paladino, Moon Trip, 10.5 x 10.5, encaustic with mixed media on paper, 2020
Susan Paladino, Objectivity, 10 x 14, cold wax and mixed media on paper, 2020
Terri Yacovelli, Choice and Chance, 24×30, encaustic on panel, 2020
Terri Yacovelli, For It’s Own Sake, 12 x 12, Encaustic on panel, 2019
