a large painting recently completed

The 20th Annual International Small Print Show and Holiday Sale:
Dec 5-6, 11am-7pm
Preview the show: November 21st and 28th, 12 - 5pm
Special Extended holiday hours: Tuesdays thru Sundays, 12-5, Dec 8 - 20

The Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
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Chicago IL 60625
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group exhibition coming up

For Immediate Release

Tom Robinson Studio/Gallery Exhibition
“Ethereal Fauna: The Artist’s Muse”
Opens on Friday, October 2, 2009.

Chicago, Illinois – Sept. 21, 2009 – Tom Robinson Studio/Gallery presents “Ethereal Fauna: The Artist’s Muse.” This art exhibition is an investigation by Chicago area artists of the inner animal muse within each of us. Artists have created unique metaphorical portraits of his/her animal spirit, or that of another person, place, thing, or even society as a whole.

Participating Artists:
Ruby Barnes, Sharon Bladholm, George C. Clark, Laura Coyle, Frank Crowley, Deirdre Fox, Anne Farley Gaines, Kathryn Gauthier, Ken Gold, Steve Grant, Susan Hall, Fletcher Hayes, Shawn Hazen, Jeanine Hill-Soldner, Tim Hurley, Virginia Hurley, Janet Jaffke, Eve Jensen, Robert Kameczura, Karena Karras, Donna Katz, Pauline Kochanski, John Kurtz, Carol Lader, Deborah Maris Lader, Kim Laurel, Richard Laurent, Beth Laurin, Diane Levesque, Gregory Mejia, BettyAnn Mocek, Geoffrey Novelli, Christine O’Connor, Mary O’Shaughnessy, Tom Robinson, Steve Sherrell, Beth Shadur, Evan Silver, Ginny Sykes, Charlie B. Thorne, Saren Thorne-Hauser, Anatole Upart, Charlie Van Gilder, Kathy Weaver, Marzena Legawiec Ziejka, and Jill Zylke.

The exhibition is held in conjunction with Chicago Artists Month. This event is free, family-friendly and open to the public.

When:
Exhibition Dates: October 2 – November 14, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, October 2, 2009, 5-9 pm

Where:
Program Venue: Tom Robinson Studio/Gallery
Street Address: 2416 W. North Ave., Chicago, IL 60647
Phone: 773-477-7913
Venue Website Address: www.tomrobinsonartist.com
Program Website Address: http://etherealfauna.blogspot.com

About the gallery:
Tom Robinson is a master fine art painter and wood sculptor. As the name suggests, the gallery is also his studio where creates art and offers figure drawing workshops.

About the curators:
When Chicago-based visual artists Fletcher Hayes and Kim Laurel were offered an exhibition at Tom Robinson Studio/Gallery, they broadened the opportunity to include 44 other artists to participate in a group exhibition. They put forth a challenge to the artists to create one or more new works on the theme of Ethereal Fauna: The Artist’s Muse, and using a specific art material Yupo, a synthetic paper. The artwork becomes an installation piece for a unified effect. A previous curatorial collaboration of Hayes and Laurel in 2006 produced the group exhibition “Wild Things and Beyond” at Mars Gallery.

Contact:
Tom Robinson
Owner, Tom Robinson Studio/Gallery
Phone: 773.477.7913
Email: tom@tomrobinsonartist.com
Web: www.tomrobinsonartist.com

Contact:
Fletcher Hayes and Kim Laurel
Curators, Ethereal Fauna: The Artist’s Muse
Phone: 773-275-3951 (FH); 773-588-3181 (KL)
Email: fh@fletcherhayes.com; zuma2@earthlink.net
Web: http://etherealfauna.blogspot.com

Before I hit the bed, soon after the laundry was sorted out, after the day full of accessory design, reluctant movements under the penetrating sun, my adorable kids playing, packing for Kentucky, the thought of my love waiting for me over there prompted me to scribble a love note of sorts. It is only proper to look at such drawings as letters written by artists, similar to the sonets of Michelangelo.

Oil Painting Returns

Magnolias Among Papers, oil on canvas, 20" x 20", (c) Anatole Upart, 2009

Documenting The Unseen.

Mind Sprocket has published the first printed book with mine and Lacey Anderson's illustrations! Get it!

Plant drawings continue