Summer Visions 2024

When: Wednesdays, 1:00–2:30 pm, July 17 and 24, 2024
Where: Galleries throughout River North and West Town; see details below for starting locations
Member Price: $35 per session
Non-Member Price: $40 per session

Flexible pricing is available for anyone who inquires. Please email sarah@artencounter.org for our “pay what you can” registration form.

River North Galleries, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Rosenthal Fine Art, Inc., and Gallery Victor
July 17, 2024

Beginning at Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, discover paintings by the late Vera Klement, one of Chicago’s most original and remarkable artists. Combining heavy brushstrokes and thin washes, Klement juxtaposes images that initially seem unrelated but, upon inspection, suggest multiple connections both personal and universal. From there, we’ll continue investigating representational images at Rosenthal Fine Art, Inc., featuring The New Realism: works by famous twentieth century artists using different approaches to portraying actuality, including work by Jerry Ott, Jack Beal, Raphael Soyer and Claes Oldenburg. We will conclude at Gallery Victor with incredible graphite drawings of nature by Don Pollack, as well as selected works by other artists in the gallery’s recently expanded space.

Meet at Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, 325 W Huron Street #1E, Chicago.

West Town Galleries, Povos Gallery and Patron Gallery
July 24, 2024

Starting at Povos Gallery’s Chicago Avenue space, we’ll see Fights, a solo exhibit by William Schaeuble. Discover why this young artist’s entire exhibit sold out at the opening and why he has been picked up by a New York gallery. Through images that are surrealist and abstracted, Schaeuble questions the absurdity of conflicts in a variety of sorts and magnitudes with a sense of humor. He draws on his own personal experiences as an outdoorsman and bird watcher for his subject matter. Then, at Patron Gallery, we’ll view Las raíces conversan por debajo de la tierra by indigenous Mexican artist Noé Martínez. Inspired by his ancestral Huastecan texts, visual culture, and collective oral narratives, the artist creates paintings and sculptures speaking to the trauma of indigenous cultures through colonization. We’ll also discuss Amidst Relations, beautifully rendered intimate graphite images by Scottish artist Richard Maguire, who explores the history of race and sexuality in Britain and India.

Meet at Povos Gallery, 1541 W Chicago Avenue, Chicago.