This week’s adventure begins at the …
Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.
Both exhibitions featured below share a common thread where bodies of work are informed by family culture. Regardless of medium, I am always drawn to artist’s visual biography and how they present these ideas.
Carlos Rolon/Dzine exhibits, I Tell you This Sincerely, where installations, sculpture, and paintings reference memories with family and pay homage to the hopes and dreams of immigrants, in particular his parents, who come to the US for a better life.
Phyllis Bramson’s, Under the Pleasure Dome, displays assemblages and paintings layering family memories and it’s cultural influences then and now.
Adam and Eve (The Perfumed Garden and The Loss of Happiness) , mixed media, 2016
Rapunzel’s Scenario, mixed media, collage and oil on canvas
3 Dilettante Artists (The Love of Outsiders), mixed media, collage and oil on canvas
Serial Longing, mixed media, collage and oil on canvas
The Good Keeper of the Animals and Birds, mixed media, 2016
Thanks to the Chicago Cultural Center for presenting these personal stories where art connects us all.
Ok explorers, we’re off on our next adventure and inviting you to do the same. Along the way, look for art and artistic expression EVERYWHERE! Post your experience here and SHOW ME WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW!
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