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Artist: Jeff Burk

Title: Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Unit, South Dakota, 2004

Medium: Toned Silver Gelatin Print

Artist: Ken Burkhart

Title: The Louvre, Paris, 2003

Medium: Epson Ink Jet Print
Size: 11 x 15

Artist: Ken Burkhart

Title: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2005

Medium: Epson Ink Jet Print

Artist: Akemi Nakano Cohn

Title: New Soil Series / #E, 1997

Medium: Silk, Nassen dye technique, stitching

Size: 11 x 9

Artist Statement: A Japanese transplant in America, (Cohn) finds imagery related to light, soil, and vegetation to be a direct and meaningful reflection of her experiences as a woman straddling two cultures She dyes, stamps, and stencils the cloth with words and designs, in addition to using appliqué to create physical layering to parallel the density of her printed imagery. I print, construct in layers, and may print again over the entire piece, Cohn writes in her artist s statement. I may also use techniques such as screen printing, appliqué, embroidery, and stitching.

--Janice T. Paine, Surface Design Journal, summer 1995

Artist: Jeff Curto

Title: Girasole (Sunflower) Umbra, 1999

Medium: Pigment Ink Print (Photograph)

Size: 16 x 20

Artist Statement: Jeff Curto has photographed extensively in Italy for the last 17 years. He s fascinated with the evidence of the hands of those men and women who have, for centuries, shaped the visual splendor of Italian structures and landscapes. This photograph of sunflowers (in Italian girasole or turn to the sun ) represents the idea that even the most humble agricultural pursuits can represent beauty that informs and enlightens the everyday.

A portfolio of Curto s photographs of Italy was published in LensWork magazine at the Photomedia Center in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Artist: Tom Dieschbourg

Title: Kinzie Street Bridge, 1987

Size: 12 x 32 (framed)

Artist Statement: This is an original print, hand made, fine line copper plate etching printed on handmade printing paper.

Artist: Beverly Ellstrand

Title: In Focus Trumpet Flower, 1999

Medium: Water media and pencil

Size: 20 x 20

Artist Statement: IN FOCUS IN FOCUS IN FOCUS IN FOCUS

As an artist the world of nature appears in constant, yet changing focus. Natural forms are in a swirling flux ebbing and flowing a living, breathing entity that moves in and out like the images before my eyes in the viewer of a camera as I use the focusing ring.
This series of paintings of fruits, vegetables and flowers are shown as if through the viewer of that camera. They are caught in time and frozen in full color. However, as in the continuum of nature, the images persist into the borders and because the focus has changed, the forms become a delicate tracery of perception.

Artist: Bud Erickson

Title: French Villas, 1999

Medium: Watercolor Giclee print

Size: 22 x 13

Artist Statement: Bud Erickson is a retired architect who has lived in the Seattle area his entire life and currently resides in the Seattle suburb of Edmonds. He was born in 1930 and graduated from the University of Washington School of Architecture in1954.
He entered architectural practice in 1964 and co-founded the architectural firm of Callison Erickson Hobble. He joined Nordstrom in 1976 as Corporate Architect and supervised the design and construction of over seventy Nordstrom stores across the United States.
In 1988 Erickson returned to his passion for drawing and painting after an absence of over forty years. The influence of his architectural career is evident in his paintings both in selection of subjects and in attention to structure and detail.

Artist: Glenn Hansen

Title: Pfeiffer Beach, Bid Sur, CA, 1999

Medium: Ultrachrome Ink Print

Artist: Jack Holme

Title: The Challenge, 1986

Medium: Mild Steel

Size: 26 x 36 x 12

Artist Statement: This sculpture was created when I was experimenting with different techniques and materials. Moving away from lost wax bronze sculpture I challenged myself to create a three dimensional design from flat cold rolled steel plate, using simple blacksmithing techniques. This is one of a number of pieces I made using this method of construction.

Artist: Jennifer Jackson

Title: an aspect of herself 2006

Medium: Polaroid Transfer, Color Pencil, and Gold Leaf

Size: 12 x 151/2 (framed)

Artist Statement: The simplest of things are the truest recollection of fact. an aspect of herself , is a part of a larger series that I am currently investigating regarding the human condition. This piece represents an aspect of the human condition known as human spirits. Self image is an inevitable aspect of human spirit due to the effects esteem plays on our existence. One sees themselves in various lights, often multiple visions throughout the hour, day, month or year. We are neither fully impervious nor vulnerable; we encompass the entire spectrum. This piece is just the beginning of esteem, an aspect. The rest is up to your interpretation

Artist: Bill Killean

Title: Let Freedom Sing, 2006

Medium: Giclee Print

Size: 9 x 12 (framed)

Artist Statement: Postage Notes is a series of actual and fanciful blocks of worldwide postage stamps I have selected/created for the personal reasons. Let Freedom Sing was the second selection for the series and was completed in April, 2006. It depicts an actual postage stamp from Hungary that I collected in the 1950 s. The item up for auction is the artist s proof and hand signed.
When I composed the picture I was under the assumption the stamp had something to do with the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Unfortunately, I have not been unable to document anything about the stamp or the dove s significance. To my surprise I learned that Hungary, the Magyar Republic, was the second communist state after Russia in 1918, following World War I and the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Artist: Hans Klemmer

Title: Holy Well, Saul, County Down

Medium: Platinum/Palladium Print, Photograph

Artist: Carl Kock (Coke)

Title: Paper Whites (Narcissus), 1990

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 40 x 40

Artist Statement: Paper Whites is one piece of a large body of work painted from the 1990 s to 2000, which include oils, watercolors and drawings. Carl has most recently been doing drawings and watercolors of sunflowers in particular. You can view a variety of Carl s work on the Chicago Artists Collation web site.

Artist: Kathryn Kucera

Title: All of the Sudden, 2006

Size: 8-3/4 x 6-3/4

Artist Statement: This collage, All of the Sudden, relates to my travel experience and is composed of parts of snapshots taken during my recent trip to Asia. My recent work has had to do indirectly with topical themes and impressions related to my frequent travels, the spirit of our times as I experience it both at home and away. Of course, my images reflect their sources: geography, tradition, and the countless circumstances that determine the life styles of people everywhere.

Artist: Alyssa Kulak

Title: Triumphant, 2006

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Paper

Size: 9 x 12

Artist Statement: Art has the tremendous ability to make you think, cry, smile, or question. An image, color, or brushstroke can evoke strong emotional responses from the viewer.
In this body of work my focus is on celebrating and calling to the feelings of joy and exuberance.

Artist: Alyssa Kulak

Title: Floral Whimsy, 2004

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Paper

Size: 8-1/2 x 10-1/2 (framed)

Artist Statement: Art has the tremendous ability to make you think, cry, smile, or question. An image, color, or brushstroke can evoke strong emotional responses from the viewer.
In this body of work my focus is on celebrating and calling to the feelings of joy and exuberance.

Artist: Annie Lee

Title: Untitled, 2003

Medium: Screen Print on Birch

Size: 12 x 12

Artist Statement: Looking simple and straightforward my paintings are actually more than that, they are not a painting in the traditional sense of brush and paint but are layers of printing ink (often 10 or more) squeegeed through a screen onto the surface to create opacity and texture. They, however, are more then just prints in the traditional sense: they are one-of-a-kind, they are realized for the wall, and the thickness and layers of ink are built-up much like a painting.
Through this process, I capture images of mundane objects that can be seen in everyday life. The common, the ordinary, we often forget their presence, we ignore them for more pressing and important items and activities but these forgotten are the essence of our modernity. In my work, each object becomes the (re)focus of the audience s attention. For the moment, something even longer

Artist: Carolyn Lewis

Title: Be Mine (Woman & Man), 2006

Medium: Acrylic on Wood

Size: 9-1/2 x 32

Artist: Carol Luc

Title: Centennial Farm Barn

Medium: Hand-colored, Hand Pulled Lithograph

Size: 20 x 13

Artist Statement: Printmaking continues the themes explored in my paintings: Using realistic renderings of architectural spaces to express quiet and reflective emotional states. These empty, neglected or abandoned spaces were chosen because they evoke a sense of the familiar in the midst of an ever-evolving world. The spaces are in a state of transition, and this serves to remind us of the transitory nature of life, of loss and of change.

These images depict spaces involved in everyday life, but are not literal transcriptions of the scene. My working process involves selection, heightening, subtraction and distillation in order that the work evokes places of feeling or memory.

Artist: Kevin Lyons

Title: Untitled, 2005

Medium: Silver Gelatin Print

Size: 28 x 14 (framed)

Artist Statement: Taken in Oaxaca Mexico in 2005

Artist: Laura Matzen

Title: Pondering Fate, 2006

Medium: Photographic Emulsion Transfer

Size: 8 x 10

Artist Statement: This piece depicts a series of windows flooded with light, symbolic of the many choices in life that await our decision. The figure is pondering the outcome of her fate, allowing her intuition and internal motivation to guide her in making the right choice. Occasionally we make a choice we are unaware of, a choice before arriving at a decision. Choices will unveil themselves at any moment and whether they seem significant or not, they all lead us somewhere.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after truth. - Mahatma Gandhi

Artist: Bobbi Meier

Title: Pony Love, 2006

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 10 x 8

Artist Statement: The search for order and elegance within the chaos, frenetic reaity of daily living id palyed out in my abstracted paintings and drawings. Patterned bed sheets, fragments of monster-like toys, (in this case My Little Pony) and organic forms have evolved into intricate gardens of organic and geometric shapes, patterns, and lines.
The struggle to find balance and harmony is played out with elegant line work, rendered forms, and variations in paint application. This painting was begun in 2003 while participating in an artist s residency at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, Michigan and completed in February 2006 as part of a thematic show on the subject of love.

Artist: Mary Lee Moore

Title: The Vatican Detail, 2004

Medium: Mixed Media, Gold Leaf

Size: 12 x 16 (framed)

Artist: Russell Phillips

Title: Great Lakes Naval Academy, Building No. 5, 2006

Medium: Ultrachrome Ink Print

Artist: Joanna Pinsky

Title: Study for Construction Site II, 2000

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Artist Statement: This is a study for a large two dimensional shaped canvas. Most of my work features structures that are in a state of transformation, either decaying or developing or both. Construction Site II began with photos I took of the underground structure of a huge Chicago high rise building. I imagined water running through the underground system. The painting is not a literal representation. I intended to reflect the visual juggling of shapes, colors and textures.
Because my shaped paintings are large and complicated to build, I make several studies. I begin with pencil drawings to find the exact shape. Next, I may make some quick color sketches. Finally, I create small works on paper so that I can get an idea of the colors and textures. This piece is the study I worked from to create the final painting.

Fine Art Poster for David Plowden Show at Brickton Art Center, 2006

Title: Sandusky, Ohio, 1969
Medium: Ultrachrome Ink Print

Size: 24 x 30

Artist Statement: This poster, hand signed by David Plowden in November, 2006, was used as a promotional piece for a show at Brickton Art Center. The show was a selection of original images from Plowden s latest book, A Handful of Dust: Photographs of Disappearing America.

Fine Art Poster for David Plowden Show at Brickton Art Center, 2006

Title: Abandoned Church, Fort Atkinson, Iowa, 2003
Medium: Ultrachrome Ink Print

Artist: Robert Putnam

Title: Imitation, 2005

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 12 x 16

Artist Statement: Imitation is painted as a small window or opening into the ground of being a presence that may be used for meditation. Think of Wordsworth s Imitation of Immortality. Think of Malevich s black square hung in a room corner replacing the religious icon. When hanging, take care to light the painting softly perhaps you can see through the surface to an older time.

Artist: Darrell Roberts

Title: Construction Site Circles, 2006

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 12 x 12

Artist Statement: My painting process is not dissimilar to the central push and pull on the growing metropolis; as crews raze a structure so others are building new projects. In the way a mark is applied, color is laid down and scraped up and moved away, only to let another layer build-up the painting.

Artist: Stephen J. Serio

Title: Lake Street EL , Chicago, 2003

Medium: Archival Ink Jet Print

Size: 16 x 20

Artist Statement: The interaction of the late afternoon sun with glass, metal, and concrete is reflected in this group of photographs that were made from the top levels of parking garages throughout downtown Chicago.
      The structures pictured play with the light - obscuring, reflecting and refracting it - creating an altered state of illumination as if the light was emanating from within the city itself. The resulting image has a cinematic quality, dreamy and mysterious. A city waiting to be rediscovered.
      In addition, the vantage points chosen allowed me to deconstruct the cityscape, focusing on details, some uniquely Chicago, others exhibiting a universal 'urban-ness'. I have left behind the familiar views of street and skyline for the 'mid-section' of the city, inviting the viewer to discover the world between penthouse and pothole.
      Finally, as a city with a reputation for being home to some of the finest examples of urban architecture, the images reveal the places Chicagoans live and work, disparate styles and time periods existing side by side.

Artist: Stephen J. Serio

Title: Canyon, Chicago, 2003

Medium: Archival Ink Jet Print
Size: 16 x 20

Artist Statement: See above

Artist: Stephen J. Serio

Title: Building Buildings, Chicago, 2003

Medium: Archival Ink Jet Print

Artist Statement: See above

Artist: Sophia Pichinos

Title: Fragments, 2006

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 6 x 8

Artist Statement: Sophia Pichinos has long worked in a variety of media, including charcoal, gouache and acrylic, moving freely between the disciplines of drawing and painting while maintaining a remarkable continuity of vision. In her past work, Pichinos has sought to discover and communicate central concepts about who we are and what is relevant to our becoming. This piece is part of a larger body of work in which her purpose-as materialized through concepts and imagery-is to explore the reinvention of self, moving from the general to the particular. The result is a highly personal exploration through time and space, as realized through fragments rendered in powerful linear patterns.