Laura M. Lencioni

This November, join us for an opening, a visual conversation and a panel discussion.
Opening Reception, Friday, November 6th from 6-9 pm

Relationships. Cynthia Vaicunas, Chicago’s Bulgarian Children and Laura Lencioni portray their relationships with art and the earth and the language necessary to convey these thoughts during ARC’s November exhibit.

A Panel Discussion including the Bulgarian children artists will be held Sunday, Nov 15 at 3:00.

Exhibition dates: October 28 through November 21, 2015  
Gallery hours: Wed to Sat 12-6 pm, and Sun. 12-4 pm 

In Italian, semenza means “a sown field”, as in a field of wheat or other similar crop. It also refers to the batch of seeds used to sow a field, and, more abstractly, the “cause, reason, subject, spring or root.” *
Lencioni has an avid interest in all things agricultural, as well as all things artistic, and she is always looking for ways to combine her passion for organic gardening with her passion for creating art. Semenza is a fitting title for a body of work devoted to exploring the connection between the creative forces at work in the garden and the creative process of the artist.

*From: “Italiano ed Englese” by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti.

 

 

The Works of Bulgarian Children

This November, join us for an opening, a visual conversation and a panel discussion.
Opening Reception, Friday, November 6th from 6-9 pm

Relationships. Cynthia Vaicunas, Chicago’s Bulgarian Children and Laura Lencioni portray their relationships with art and the earth and the language necessary to convey these thoughts during ARC’s November exhibit.

A Panel Discussion including the Bulgarian children artists will be held Sunday, Nov 15 at 3:00.

Exhibition dates: October 28 through November 21, 2015  
Gallery hours: Wed to Sat 12-6 pm, and Sun. 12-4 pm 

Children’s Voices, curated by Kina Bagovska, is an introduction and a way to make possible the dreams of the children as well as their vision about the safety of our planet. The exhibition presents more than fifty works accompanied by written messages explaining these young artists’ thoughts and concerns about the future of our civilization.

At 3:00 on November 15, there will be a Panel Discussion and Interaction with the artists.

Bulgarian born artist Bagovska, a member of ARC, has lived and worked in Chicago since 2000. Her recent exhibitions include “Lost and Found” at ARC Gallery, “Silk and Stone”, Auzits, France and “Sacred and Erotic”, Sophia, Bulgaria. She has received awards for her collaborative arts from the Illinois Arts Council and from the American Museum of Arts, Miami.

 

Urban Threads A Group Exhibition by the Membership of ARC Gallery

Join us for an exhibit showcasing Members of ARC
Friday, October 2 from 6-9 pm

In conjunction with Chicago Artists Month, ARC is showing a comprehensive exhibit of members past and present. Join us and see what over 40 years of continuous exhibitions have done for women artists in Chicagoland.

Exhibition dates: September 30 through October 24, 2015  
Gallery hours: Wed to Sat 12-6 pm, and Sun. 12-4 pm

For this year’s Chicago Artists Month, the membership of ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation is investigating the theme, The City as Studio. Chicago provides a great backdrop for artistic exploration.  It is a city of innovation and experimental production.  Yet, deeper than that, is the way the city connects to us, through us, and connects us to each other.  These connections can be a literal interpretation of the city amazing landscape but also an internal exploration of the threads the weave their way into us through Chicago’s deep seated culture, sense of home, civic pride (or shame)and family that is unavoidable to escape in a city as proud as Chicago.

Participating members: Granite Amit–Kina Bagovska–Nancy Bechtol–Esther Charbit–Jan Chenoweth–Laura Cloud–Michele Corazzo–Ellen Roth Deutsch–Kathleen Dugan–Meredith Dytch–Linda Sorkin Eisenberg–Nancy Fritz–Ann Farley Gaines–Iris Goldstein–Jessica Gondek–Kristina Gosh–Kerry Hirth–Pamela Hobbs–Carolyne King–Pauline Kochanski–Mary Maughelli–Sari Maxfield–Rosemary Meza-DesPlas–Ruti Modlin–Cheri Reif Naselli–Ann Patrick O’Brien–Jan Parker–Civia Rosenberg–Judith Roth–Charlotte Segal –Jane Stevens–Michele Stutts–Cynthia Vaicunas–Ralitza Vladimirova–Rochelle Weiner–Chiyeko Yuki–Amy Zucker
And in Memorium, Cyrilla Power

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.

Karras Performance Festival at ARC Gallery

Karras Performance Co-op, formerly known as Flak, is dedicated to the creation of new performance works through highly synthesized and reciprocal cross-disciplinary collaborations. Karras engages performance as a compound vision of multiple artists with the objective of understanding the core perspectives of others and how this translates creatively into a unified work. The organization is co-operated by Chicago-based composer/artist Shawn Lucas and clarinetist Emily Beisel, whom work the project as curators, creators, and performers. This core duo represents a strong but permeable creative foundation that is capable of assimilating the artistic expression of others.

Four programs of Visual, Musical and Theatrical Works Developed by:

  • Alejandro Acierto: August 20, 2015
  • Shawn Lucas & Mocrep: August 22, 2015
  • Bethany Younge: August 27, 2015
  • Emily Beisel: August 29, 2015

Find out more about these events by clicking here.

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