Dialogue: Painting & Drawing
There’s a lot of discussion going on regarding The Artist Project wing of Artropolis. Most of it is negative. As a two-time participant, I have something to say about the show. I’ve broken my thoughts down into three areas: what I perceived The Artist Project to be, what it’s become Continue reading »
Three for the show
BY MARY HOULIHAN mhoulihan@suntimes.com
The movers and shakers in the art world never feel the pain. You know, falling in love with a piece of art before looking at the price tag filled with way too many zeros. But even when it’s beyond your means, that insatiable urge to buy doesn’t leave. To buy or not to buy Continue reading »
Neoteric Art: Give us some background history on yourself including why you became a painter.
Daniel Bodner: I went to school at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and studied psychology three years before switching to drawing and painting. I always liked to draw, but when I began painting in oil, around the time I was introduced to the work of San Francisco Bay Continue reading »
William Conger is a Chicago-based artist whose work is exhibited in Chicago and nationally. He is represented in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, other museums and numerous collections in the U.S. and abroad. Continue reading »
Neoteric Art: What made you decide to be a painter?
Sangram Majumdar: It’s quite a few things really. When I was a kid growing up in India, I remember a painting that used to hang in our living room that my dad had painted. It was a mountain peak covered with snow. I remember being mesmerized by the white impasto against Continue reading »
Neoteric Art: Why is painting important to you?
Karen Appleton: Painting makes me consider everything and helps me explore on canvas what is going on around me and within me. It is my internal dialogue, my journal. Even more specifically, painting in a representational manner is important to me because it forces me Continue reading »
Paul Klein is the Art Curator for the 2.5 million square foot expansion of McCormick Place and former owner of the Chicago art gallery Klein Art Works. Paul is also a collector, arts writer and corporate art advisor. He lives and works in Chicago. Continue reading »
Neoteric Art: Tell us a little bit about yourself.
Bruce Thorn: Born and partially raised on the South Side of Chicago. The other part never raised. I earned a four year BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago back when the school was in the basement of the museum. Later, I scraped by an MFA from Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago. Continue reading »
Neoteric Art: Your path on becoming an artist was not typical. Share that with us.
Roland Kulla: I’m on my third career. I spent ten years in the seminary studying to be a priest. I made a lateral transfer to social work, a career that kept me busy for 30 plus years as a practitioner, administrator, teacher and consultant. But throughout it all I have always been Continue reading »
Neoteric Art: Give us some background history on yourself.
Matt Ballou: I grew up in way upstate New York. I’d always been a creative kid – drawing, building elaborate LEGO sets, burning things, running around in the woods, etc. Being raised in the boondocks and beneath the poverty line meant that I had to, in large part, create my own Continue reading »