Your Pending Purchases:Past Exhibitions
Over the years, the Evanston Art Center has presented notable exhibitions by some of the most well-regarded artists and curators of our time, including Gordon Matta-Clark, Arshile Gorky, John Baldessari and Martin Puryear, while more recently we have featured work by Nick Cave, Paul Nudd and Audrey Niffennegar. These exhibitions have garnered support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Arts Alliance, major foundations and generous individuals. We are currently working on compiling a history of our successful exhibition program and as we uncover more stories we will add them here.
Grosse Point Confluence
Intrigued by the tools of the built environment, large scale sculptor Arny Nadler utilizes bundles of rebar to construct a site-specific piece that will sprawl across the landscape and penetrate the earth like a three-dimensional drawing. Inspired to work with rebar as a material normally relegated to a hidden substructure, this installation presents the material out of its usual context in a setting contrasting its intended use. Viewers are encouraged to walk the sculptures meandering path, observing its twists, curves, and voids as it interacts with the front lawn of the Evanston Art Center.
EAC Members Show
January 15 – February 5, 2012
It’s important for artists at every level to take their artwork out of studios and classrooms and consider them in the context of public gallery spaces. This exhibition is free and open to the public.
Dimensional Lines: art + dress
You have until November 6 to view the exhibition TimeOut Chicago has highly recommended, Dimensional Lines: art + dress. A special exhibition publication featuring scholarly essays, participating artists' profiles, and exhibition images will be available for purchase by mid-November. You can purchase this $20 publication from our web site.
Outside In
On view August 19 - 21, 2011
Outside In is a show focusing on the creative process in those who lack traditional art training: more specifically, children and teens with autism spectrum disorder. It explores art as a communicative outlet.
Winter Arts and Crafts EXPO
The Evanston Art Center’s 9th Annual Winter Arts & Crafts Expo features original, handmade arts and crafts by over 100 selected artisans. We feature original, handmade works of jewelry, ceramics, fiber, metal, glass, painting, photography, mixed-media, and more.
CUT
June 5 to August 7, 2011
Curators: Beth Hart and Eleanor Spiess-Ferris. “CUT” is a process driven exhibition. Although the making of paper goes back to at least the 3rd century, the oldest surviving paper cut-out originated in 6th century China and has a long, world-wide tradition in art that dates at least to the Middle Ages in Europe.
Our Winter's Bone
The Evanston Art Center and One Horse Press are proud to present, "Our Winter's Bone", an exhibition of artwork created by the talented students/artists in the Art Center's printmaking department. The exhibition will be on view through June 24, 2011. We hope you'll stop in.
Physio/tasma/gorical
February 20 to April 17, 2011
Exhibiting artists include: Jerry Bleem, Carolynn Desch, Christa Donner, LJ Douglas, Annie Heckman, Paul Nudd, Lindsay Obermeyer, and Susan Smith Trees as well as visiting artists Alison Hiltner, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Barbara F Kendrick, from Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
This exhibition, curated by Susan Sensemann, investigates dream and reality in biology, in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculptural installation, and fiber art. Artists in this exhibition evoke the Enlightenment-era identity of mystical and medical discovery; their works look inside the human body in the hope of reconciling the quickly evolving world of clinical science with the un-mined depths of the psychic, the dreamlike, and the imaginary.
Abstraction
February 20 to March 13, 2011
Twenty members of the Evanston Art Center have their artwork on exhibit in our second-floor Members Gallery. The theme for this show is 'Abstraction'. Various mediums are on display including painting, metalwork, photography and jewelry - all disciplines taught here at the Art Center. This show, which will run through March 13, was juried by EAC faculty member, John Minkoff.
EAC Faculty Exhibition
January 16 to February 6, 2011
Exhibiting Artists: Jerome Acks, Iris Allen, Sandra Blanc, Andrew Breen, Peter Cardone, Akemi Nakano Cohn, Julian Cox, Kathy Cunningham, Paula Danoff, Kevin Foy, Linny Freeman, Aviva Ginzburg, David Gista, Barbara Goldsmith, Lisa Harris, Vincent Hawkins, Katherine Hilden, Ruyell Ho, Bob Horn, Michael Jackson, Margo Jankiewiczj, Christy Karpinski, Bonnie Katz, Jeremiah Ketner, Jill King, Michelle Kogan, Judy Koon, Deborah Kugler, Randee Ladden, Gavin Lupinski, Donna Lurie-Semmerling, Patrick Miceli, Roberta Miles, Ken Minami, John Minkoff, Bruce Noel Mortenson, Didier Nolet, Lindsay Obermeyer, Sheila Oettinger, Les Orenstein, Leslie Perrino, Janis Pozzi-Johnson, VIrgil Robinson, Heidi Ross, Matt Runfola, Christopher Schneberger, Nancy Sickbert-Wheeler Flo Singer, Eleanor Spiess-Ferris, Cheryl Steiger, Sandra Stone, Luke Strosnider, Jill Sutton, Kay Thomas, Jeremy Tinder, David Todd Trost, Tom Walther Maggie Weiss, Nina Weiss, Cathy Westphal, Shencheng Xu, Noël Yovovich