Addington Gallery Exhibition Schedule
Robin Denevan Eternal River: New Encaustic Paintings
Encaustic Artist Robin Denevan employs layers of beeswax, oil paint, and natural resins to create visions of exotic locations from Asia and Latin America. The paintings glow with an inner light, and transend catagories of "abstraction" and "realism".
Encountering a Robin Denevan painting is a multi-sensory experience. This artist finds his motivation in his memories of trips to various exotic locations. Recent paintings find their origins in journeys down the Amazon, or China’s Yangtze River. But these paintings are not about mere recollection. They are about sensory recall. You don’t just look at a Denevan…you touch it, smell it, nearly taste it. The layers of beeswax, resin, and paint in these works engage our senses, and in doing so, they drop us, not into the location depicted, but into the artist’s own vivid memories of that place.
September 11 – October 14, 2009
In her newest work, Sandra Dawson unites objects from the natural environment with symbolic imagery and text from past and present cultures. Layers of paint are etched, scratched and subtracted to convey depth and to conjure memories. Pattern, movement and form are all essential components, which balance the dynamic of each piece.
The images in this work evolve from an observation of our natural world, our social circles and our internal psyche. Archetypes, Icons and mythological figures share space with childlike scrawls, poetry and graphic images. Interwoven, these elements convey a multilayered content partnered on a scarred yet sensuous surface. Dawson combines techniques and materials including acrylic and oil paint, photographs, sheetrock, objects from nature, glass, gold and silver leaf.
Mixed media on wood panels
Thomas Monaghan takes us to the water's edge, and asks us to just be quiet and see what he sees. If we take the time to do so, we are not only rewarded, but transported -- to a lake, a stream, or some body of water we once spent time on, or wish we had. Monaghan is a true believer in the evocative power of paint to engage our memory, and when we spend time with his paintings, we believe, too. In the end, these are not just paintings of water and trees. They are paintings of light. The water and trees are just there to reveal that light to us.
The Opening Reception for each exhibition is held on the first night of the exhibit between 5
and 8 p.m.
June 5 through August 30, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, June 5, 2009, 5-8pm
Opening Reception: September 11th from 5-8pm
TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY OPENING RECEPTION!
SANDRA DAWSON: New Work
This exhibition marks Sandra Dawson's first one-person show at Addington Gallery. Dawson's work will be familiar to those who have watched the Chicago scene. Her mixed media paintings have consistently shown sensitivity and emotional depth, as well as a playful yet solid formal foundation. Dawson's work is a unique and powerful addition to the gallery.
October 16 – November 19, 2008
Opening Reception: October 16th from 5-8pm
KEVIN SONMOR: New Paintings
Looking at a Kevin Sonmor painting is like listening to opera with ones eyes. Sonmor presents his viewers with a broiling sea of emotion, filtered through the lens of art history. As a result, these paintings are at once wholly contemporary and deeply rooted in the myth and legend of ages past. The two lead actors on the stage of these works are a dramatic expression of light, and the powerful physicality of the brush and substance of paint. Watching the drama play out in each piece is a singular experience.
Also featuring new work by Chicago artists Susan Kraut and Julia Katz, in conjunction with Chicago Artists Month.
November 20 – January 30, 2009
Opening Reception: November 20 from 5-8pm
THOMAS MONAGHAN: New Oil Paintings - The Lake Series.
In these paintings one sees the glint of a low, strong sun bursting through trees and the heavy filter of atmosphere. Light and wind conspire to create bold abstract designs on a lake surface.” Oil on canvas.
April – May, 2010 (exact dates to be announced)
Opening Reception: April TBA from 5-8pm
HOWARD HERSH: New Encaustic Paintings - The Lake Series.
The juxtaposition of precise geometry and organic color and textures alludes to a relationship between architecture and nature in Hersh's work, leaving one to ponder the idea of structure in nature and to question their mutual roles. Hersh intends to heighten one's awareness of nature, to support a balance between it and architecture, and to symbolize through color an organic process taking place in all living things.