EMERGED: The Fresh Faces of Gallery Guichard
Three Kings by Max Sansing
Event Type:
ExhibitThursday, October 1, 2009 5:00pm - Saturday, October 31, 2009 6:00pm
Thursday, October 1, 2009 5:00pm - 10:00pm
Friday, October 2, 2009 5:00pm - 10:00pm
Gallery Guichard & Occomeia present
EMERGED: The Fresh Faces of Gallery Guichard
Chicago Artists Month Exhibition
Chicago Artists Month Exhibition
3521 S. King Drive, Chicago, IL 60653
(773)373-8000
Collectors' Preview: October 1, 2009, 5pm - 10pm
Opening Reception: October 2, 2009, 5pm - 10pm
With Sunday Salons Every Sunday in October starting Oct. 11 @ 2pm
Annual Art District Trolley Tour Friday, October 16 from 6pm - 9pm
Free Admission
EMERGED will recognize the newest names in Chicago artists at Gallery Guichard.
Featured Chicago Artists:
- Paul Branton - Choosing visual art as his main focus, Branton entered Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, majoring in Commercial Art with a strong emphasis in painting. It was at Millikin where he also discovered a love for poetry and strong desire for painting, eventually putting on a one man art exhibit displaying his works. The art of Paul Branton has been exhibited throughout Illinois, including Millikin University, University of Illinois in Chicago and South Side Community Art Center. His work hangs in the homes of private owners from New York to Los Angeles.
- Jennifer Bridgeforth - A self-taught painter, Jennifer uses life experience as the basis of her abstract work. “I use painting as an outward expression of my inner voice. For me, the stroke of a brush can be as powerful as a tantrum and as peaceful as a meaningful whisper. The end result makes me feel as though I am being heard on a level that my words alone may not express.” This emerging artist received her B.A. from Bradley University, and her work is currently displayed in private collections in Chicago, Pennsylvania and New York.
- Quentin Crockett - 26- year-old award winning artists, Quentin Crockett, is truly talented beyond his means. Crockett, whom is a native of Monster, IN, but was raised in Chicago, IL engaged in developing great art since the early age of six. Following the military he attended South Suburban College for drawing and painting classes. It was there that Crockett received two purchase awards, and one nominee for a purchase award. Crockett was also featured in South Suburban's 2006-2007 25th volume Scriblerian magazine. In 2008, Crockett's art was donated to a gala benefit auction hosted by "Community Economic Development Association of Cook County. The organization that hosted the event, donated the funds from the purchase of his art work to low income families in Cook County.
- Tia Etu - A graduate of Chicago's School of the Art Institute, Tia Jones has been an Artist/Teacher in Chicago and Oak Park since 1982. She has studied art in Paris, France, and served for a time as an Ambassador of the Arts in Brazil. Her lifelong endeavor has been to improve the quality of the human behavior and experience through her art. Tia's product resounds. It captures social inequities in powerful and unique ways. Her life experiences and travels have sat her at the table of many cultures, be it across the sea or across the border lines of Chicago - giving her first hand knowledge of what it’s like to be "the other." The pathos depicted in these pieces reaches across all borders of race, gender orientation, and religion, and grabs the viewer with a very real sense of human longing for acceptance.
- Philippe Gibson - Philippe Gibson was born into a family of artists in Oyster Bay, Long Island and started drawing at the age of two. He studied fashion illustration, graphic design, and art therapy at the School Of Visual Arts and The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. As a fashion illustrator, Gibson’s first commission was with J.C. Penny’s corporate office in Dallas, Texas, creating in-house fashion designs. As a Painter, Gibson has worked as a muralist, set designer, and with interior designers. Since 1997 Gibson has invested time teaching and mentoring aspiring young artists with St. Anthony’s School and Mahogany Dance Theatre in Dallas, Texas. He has also supported various community and charitable causes in Chicago, New York City, and Dallas.
- Christopher Jarred - “My work is about a balance between structure and chaos, much like my life. The compositions that attain this balance are those that come from a frantic emotional state, in which colors and feelings push themselves outward, quickly, yet are tamed by the structure and organization of a pattern, texture or color. The Art became my new magic. It allowed me to document my path of acceptance, understanding and became that closure I needed with dealing with my mother’s death. My Art is infused with Truth & Illusion, Pain & Pleasure, Spirit & Hope."
- Nicole Malcolm - Nicole Malcolm received her BA in fine art at Chicago State University in spring of 2006. Malcolm has participated in various shows such as the Chicago State University Art Exhibition 2006, “Black Creativity” at the Museum of Science and Industry 2006/2007, the premier exhibit “Art Mentors in Our Community” at Neleh’s Artistic Expression 2006, and solo exhibition “Seen and Unseen” at UIC fall 2007. Many of her pieces have also been featured in an independent film “Family Values” in 2007(which has won first place at the Black Harvest Film Festival. in 2008, her work was shown at the “Black Fine Art Show” in Manhattan, New York and “Boule’ Art Show” at Albany Historical art museum in Albany, New York.
- Asten Mosley - Asten Mosley took his first class at Chicago's historic South Side Community Art Center at the tender age of 12 years old. This is when he first tapped into his artistic talents. Since then he has exhibited in various juried shows and exhibits including ones organized by the Beverly Arts Institute, NAACP and Morraine Valley Community College. He has been represented by Gallery Guichard since early 2008.
- Kudzai B. Mutasa - Kudzai B. Mutasa was born in Zimbabwe, Africa and came to United States with her mother in 1987. Ms. Mutasa currently resides in Chicago, Illinois where she graduated from DePaul University with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing. Along with being an artist she is also an Associate Brand Manager for a well known consumer product and very active in her community. Her work has been shown at the National Black Fine Arts Show in New York, the State Farm Agents Training Seminar in San Francisco and most recently at the National Urban League Conference in Chicago.
- Max Sansing - Sansing’s work has been displayed at art galleries and special events in Chicago and in New York. "My works deal mostly with form and aesthetic Stemming from my graphic design, and graffiti art background. Also, I have a deep appreciation for the American Imagist Artists [such as] Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell, Gustav Klimt, Thomas Blackshear, and Ellis Sansing (Father). My background and influences help me create unique visual concepts for my works."
- Naequel Scott - She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art History and an Associate of Science Degree in Graphic Design. In addition to studying art she also enjoys teaching art. For the past eight years she has taught fine art at Misericordia Center, a home for individuals with special needs. It is there she shares her creativity and passion for art with others.
Although she has completed several commissioned works and participated in other group shows, Naequel looks especially forward to being a part of Gallery Guichard’s “Emerged” Exhibition. It is here she hopes to make her debut as one of Chicago’s up and coming artists.
- Darryl Westly - "Hailing from the south side of Chicago 15 minutes outside of the loop, I am the complete and utter definition of a “city kid”, and such is directly reflected in my art, which consist of a mix of influences as ecliptic and diverse as our city’s history. I now reside in Brooklyn New York where I attend Pratt Institute of Art as a full time fine art major in sculpture. Above all I value fluidity, the organic all clarity in my work, which change as I grow older and more experienced."
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