Sparks will Fly in July at Art City and CFAS
As the month of June comes to a close, July is coming in HOT, filled with activities, fun, and fireworks. Both the Chicago Fine Art Salon and Art City have many exciting events to keep up with July’s festivities. Launch into the artworld and explode into a world of creativity like a firework on the 4th of July.
West Fest
The Chicago Fine Art Salon is happy to announce that it will be at this year’s West Fest! CFAS will be presenting a range of eclectic prints and original works by talented artists that have been exhibited at both CFAS and Art City. West Fest is dedicated to celebrating the electric West Town community by hosting exuberating live music, delicious food, and of course a range of local artists and art vendors. West Fest will be on Chicago Avenue between Wood and Damen and will take place starting Friday, July 12th at 5pm and end on Sunday, July 14th at 10pm. Make sure to stop on by!
Art Classes
Art City and CFAS have a variety of engaging classes no matter the skill level. Over 21? Art City has the Happy Painting studio, a BYOB paint n sip class with alternating paintings each week. Have young kids with a creative imagination? Sign them up for Art City’s kids summer art camp. Classes take place up until the start of the school year, so sign up now! For $25 only, every Wednesday Art City is now having open introductory lessons in a variety of mediums. All materials are provided! Need a more advanced course and want to harness new skills with a range of mediums? Come stop in for a 2-hour weekly drawing class at CFAS and get connected with your creative side. More information can be found on the Art City website.
NEW Gallery and MIAR
Art City is proud to present two new artists, Jason Schroeder to the NEW Gallery and Clair Boyle to the MIAR gallery, on Thursday, July 18th.
Jason Schroeder is a Chicago based photographer. He takes much inspiration from films and movies. He explains “I learn from watching them. Sometimes I become so engrossed in the lighting of the movie, or the camera angles, that I lose track of the dialogue and the plot.” By seeing these techniques, he is able to incorporate it into his work, taking the ordinary and transforming it into the extraordinary, creating a truly captivating photo.
Clair Boyle is a painter based in Oakland and Chicago. Her works take inspiration from medieval image-making, before the discovery of perspectival space, where things feel at once wrong and charmingly human. The subject matter of the work depicts moments of social ceremony and celebration and exposing the unsettling, exuberant, and quite unhinged spirit of these gatherings. Within the paintings heads float on mile long necks, lobsters abound, figures gaze with unease, and martinis are always close by. Boyle is interested in flickering between celebration and disquiet, grandiosity and indignity, humor and sadness.
Call for Artists
CFAS will be hosting an exhibition in September titled Chicago Style, A Local Art Exhibition. It will be a group show dedicated to works that are about Chicago, by artists who identify as Chicagoans. Submissions for the show will be open throughout the month. Opening day for the exhibition will be September 1st and will close on October 6th. More information to come!
