Pauline Kochanski

Join us for an engaging new opening:
Friday, September 11 from 6-9 pm 

Exhibition dates: September 2 through September 26, 2015  
Gallery hours: Wed to Sat 12-6 pm, and Sun. 12-4 pm 

The exhibition of new drawings, Elements:  Studies of Nature, by Pauline Kochanski, explores details of the natural world while discovering their inherent beauty and delicacy.  Among Kochanski’s finds for drawings are leaves, twigs, seeds and other detritus of nature.  One major interest of hers is the mark on paper; how many marks can bring new forms to a blank sheet. The details close up and not easily seen or noticed, often overlooked are her focus.  The work in this exhibition is in graphite, charcoal, ink and watercolor.

Bruce Pattie

Join us for an engaging new opening:
Friday, September 11 from 6-9 pm 

Exhibition dates: September 2 through September 26, 2015  
Gallery hours: Wed to Sat 12-6 pm, and Sun. 12-4 pm 

New Friends. By manipulating various painting traditions as if they are abstract pictorial elements Bruce Pattie is able to develop a number of interesting visual figurations within these “portraits”. A variety of formal, illusionistic and narrative painting techniques are made to knot, tangle, and switch roles in, around, and with the face. Although some of the resulting passages remain absolutely fixed, others continue shifting and rearranging themselves against each other like rhythms on the breeze; creating a billowing zone of figuration that exceeds the traditional sense of a picture. The ability of these portraits to spark the old romance between the eyes and the mind makes them pretty good companions.

Muhammad Naqee

Join us for an engaging new opening:
Friday, September 11 from 6-9 pm 

Exhibition dates: September 2 through September 26, 2015  
Gallery hours: Wed to Sat 12-6 pm, and Sun. 12-4 pm 

Contemporary  Modern Technology is a collection of paintings that combine dreams and reality from the streets of Chicago.  Influenced by the city’s Southside Naqee captures the insanity and peace which can only come through in his dreams.  Naqee combines the abstract raw art with the up and coming advances in technology.  Using NFC chips which are implanted into the paintings, the owner can see the journey that was taken to create these incredible pieces. Documented on the chips are video clips which create a short story of how the painting came to be.

Call for entries for the “I Can’t Breathe” exhibition

In November/December 2015, ARC will present “I CAN’T BREATHE”, juried by Mary Patten and Romi Crawford, PhD.

Having endured a year in which video after video has appeared, showing shocking violence by police against unarmed citizens, ARC wants to begin a conversation about these events. The videos have forced all of us to address our ignorance and denial, as well as to ask even bigger questions about the nature of institutionalized racism.

For more information, or to submit an entry:

ARC GALLERY AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION is a non-profit, woman-run cooperative gallery dedicated to providing alternative space exhibition opportunities for innovative artists outside the commercial gallery system. Since 1973, ARC has given exposure and support to both men and women artists, providing an atmosphere for the continued development of artistic potential and experimentation.