Written by Carrie Jackson
There was a winter warmup on Saturday night for the opening exhibition of “Elemental” at Grove Gallery, 619 Grove St. The exhibit featured paintings from over a dozen local artists, and a special wine tasting that showcased Shiraz and Syrah varieties. Owner and artist Sarah Kaiser-Amaral said the exhibit highlights opposing forces of nature around us. “The artists are interpreting fire and ice, water and earth, and that duality speaks to the season.”

This is a review of "Town and Country," a three-person exhibition I organized at the Evanston Art Center in 2024.

Jean Cunningham is an artist and writer who is learning to paint. She wrote an article about her experience in the Evanston Roundtable. She writes a weekly column about art. Check it out!

Photo caption: a figure drawing workshop in my studio. Pictured: Ken Czech, Nettie Spiwack, and Mark Hanson.

“Americana”: an exploration of the visual iconography of contemporary art reflecting the unique perspectives that embody the idea of the “American Dream” as a survey of people, place, concepts, current events and perhaps some nostalgia.

Sponsored by 33 Contemporary/Poets&Artists

This is an online exhibition that was published in the Hashtag Art Magazine in March, 2021. The exhibition was juried by Alessandro Tomasetti. All pieces selected were inspired by a song.

This is a link to an interview done by Joerg Metzner, the creator of the Picturing Evanston Project.

Artists throughout the course of time have pushed the boundaries. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque fragmented subjects in their Cubist works. Marcel Duchamp created the “readymade,” a term he coined in which mass-produced objects were decidedly pieces of art by the choice of the artist. The list goes on. Considering this theme in a different vein, Chicago-based artist and Evanston Art Center instructor Sarah Kaiser-Amaral creates an exhibition about boundaries in her upcoming show at MLG Gallery, aptly titled “Boundaries.”

Amy Rudberg came for a studio visit and wrote an article about my studio practices.

Created by Amy Rudberg.

Written for the annual Chicago Printmakers Small Print Exhibit, December 2008.