Tendrils Series...

New, four from the Tendrils Series, watercolor with iridescence, mark-making on 90# 22"x30" black Stonehenge.

Tendrils Series 1010

Tendrils Series 1011

Tendrils Series 1012

Tendrils Series 1009

Thank you to Jack Kulawik (jrkfoto AT yahoo DOT com) for the images and the professionalism. 

Artist of the Day: Nancy Rosen

Here's my artist of the day Nancy Rosen. We exhibited together at Woman Made Gallery in 2008. Nancy Rosen's work can not only be seen where she exhibits, plus her website, but also BIG-TIME on Grace and Frankie on Netflix. Nancy's work is featured as the artwork of the Lily Tomlin character Frankie. Sweet.

Nancy Rosen, artist...

Artist of the Day: Emily Rapport

My artist of the day is Emily Rapport. She makes paint reflect light. Her work is part of the reason I miss Chicago and my old neighborhood of Ravenswood.

Emily Rapport artist, Addison El Stop.

Emily Rapport artist, After the Storm

Artist of the Day: Ruth Duckworth

Artist of the Day: Joan Mitchell

My artist of the day is Joan Mitchell, fellow Chicagoan. h/t to Hyperallergic. I had the pleasure of seeing her work just about every working day for 10 years while at my job at the big law firm. So many of my co-worker secretaries had no clue what they were looking at.

Joan Mitchell, artist

Joan Mitchell, artist

Joan Mitchell, artist

Artist of the Day: Judith Joseph

My artist of the day is Judith Joseph. We met through overlapping memberships in the ARC Gallery, women's art cooperative in Chicago. Judith Joseph's work is about color, light, joy and simchas. I always look closely at her work because there are always sweet surprises in them. Should I ever marry (what again! nah), she will make my ketubah.

Plumeria Ketubah, 2007, Tucson, Arizona, 18" X 24", Judith Joseph, artist
collection Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Stein

And one more thing, she blogs. Find Judith Joseph's blog here.

Artist of the Day: Kevin Swallow

My artist of the day is Kevin Swallow, a stalwart, devoted, lunch-bucket kind of artist. He shows up every day and works. He works in the historic Cornelia Arts Building, in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago.

Here he is announcing a corporate commission.

Wrigley Building, Kevin Swallow artist, 2014

Artist and Neighbor of the Day: Judith Roth

Here's Judith Roth explaining why she loves to live and work in Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago between the Union Pacific North Commuter line and the Brown Line EL.


Forward Chicago Profile: Judith Roth from 47th Ward on Vimeo.

Nancy Charak Open Studio Friday May 10 from 6 to 10 pm

Cornelia Arts Building, Where Art Works, Open Studios
Friday, May 10 from 6 to 10pm
1800 W. Cornelia, Chicago, that's the corner of Ravenswood and Cornelia, entrance is on Ravenswood, we're a block south of Addison, decent parking and close to the Brown Line.
Free and open to the public.
corneliaartsbuilding.com

Nancy Charak in Chicago Gallery News

Artist of the Day: Joyce Owens

Joyce Owens, artist

Joyce Owens, artist

Joyce Owens, artist

Busy blogging day, nice. Here's my artist of the day, Joyce Owens, the link is to her exhibits throughout the world at the behest of the United States Department of State. The link takes you to her Swaziland exhibition which is now on-line. Below are other links in other embassies where Joyce's work has been shown, Stockholm, Addis Ababa, Monrovia, Nato Headquarters in Brussels.

Nancy Charak Open Studios Fri March 22 6 to 10pm

First of the 2013 Year!

The Cornelia Arts Building, Where Art Works, Open Studios, Friday, March 22, from 6 to 10pm.

Featuring the art of Nancy Charak and the other fine artists of the Cornelia Arts Building!
1800 W. Cornelia
Chicago
1 block south of Addison at Ravenswood

We've got live music and gourmet food trucks and stunning fine art. You don't want to miss this.

Come on by.

The Tamale Spaceship Coming to Cornelia!

Update: These folks will be our food truck, YUM!

The Tamale Spaceship:
http://www.thetamalespaceship.com
https://www.facebook.com/Tamalespace101
@tamalespace101

Nancy Charak paintings and drawings at the Cornelia Arts Building Open Studios
1800 W. Cornelia
Chicago
1 block south of Addison at Ravenswood
Friday March 22 from 6 to 10pm

We've got live music and THE TAMALE SPACESHIP, you should come on by.
www.corneliaartsbuilding.com

Nancy Charak Open Studio 3/22!

Nancy Charak paintings and drawings at the Cornelia Arts Building Open Studios
1800 W. Cornelia
Chicago
1 block south of Addison at Ravenswood

Friday March 22 from 6 to 10pm

We've got live music and gourmet food trucks, you should come on by.

www.corneliaartsbuilding.com

The Dot and the Line

Some Lines_163, Nancy Charak, artist, graphite, prismacolor on sized masonite panel, 24"x30"

Almost all of my art production has drawing in it. I define drawing as making a mark with an instrument that is held directly in the hand that mars, scars, adds or subtracts from a substrate. I see the difference between painting and drawing as a simple one, painting is almost always completely additive. When an artist decides to change something, simple, simply paint over it. This sets up a continuum at one end of which is drawing. It is frequently about interaction with the substrate, as you can see in my drawing above, black sized masonite panel. At the other end of the continuum is the completely covered canvas. In the middle at various positions on the continuum are watercolor and pastel, given their reliance on the substrate and their tendency to get muddy when over applied.

Here's a classic, The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics.