Publications
Publications
As an educational service, current and past exhibition materials are available for free to gallery visitors. Many are on display in the gallery. Electronic versions of several exhibition brochure are available for online viewing below. |
November 6 - December 13, 2009 Art Faculty Exhibition Brochure The College of Lake County’s full-time and adjunct fine art faculty presented their works in this triennial exhibition. The show includes works by instructors David Bolton, Steven Jones, Joseph M. Hronek, Hans Habeger, Scott Ziegler, Roland Miller and more. |
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2009 40th Anniversary Brochure with Art Walk The Robert T.Wright Community Gallery of Art joins in the College of Lake County’s 40th anniversary celebration by highlighting many outstanding works in the college’s permanent art collection. There are over 400 works of art installed on the Grayslake, Lakeshore and Southlake campuses. Each work reflects the aesthetic, cultural, and social concerns of the time in which it was created. The art collection lends beauty and grace to our institutional setting, and the works of art develop the aesthetic sensibilities of the viewer. |
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July 10 - August 21, 2009 YUMIKO IREI-GOKCE: Works on paper: then and now Yumiko Irei-Gokce’s artwork stands as an aesthetic bridge between two disparate cultures. Irei-Gokce, a native of Japan, has resided in the Chicago area for many years. Her prints and mixed media works on paper balance her Japanese sensibilities with a Western approach. |
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February 27 – April 11, 2009 Preston Jackson Julieanne’s Descendants: Images from the Closet Trunk Julieanne’s Descendants: Images from the Closet Trunk is an exhibition featuring 20 recent cast bronze sculptures, which Jackson is currently showing at the Robert T. Wright Gallery of Art at the College of Lake County. Each is a composite creation — partly rooted in family reminiscences of Jackson’s ancestors and partly rooted in the artist’s own historical research into the unsettling times in which they lived. |
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November 7 – December 15, 2008 David Gista: Fictions David Gista’s exhibition Fictions seems to fit like a glove in the College of Lake County’s gallery space. The artist’s paintings and works on paper depict images of library interiors with towering shelves of books. What better venue to exhibit these paintings than in a gallery that resides within a library? There is, however, more to these works than at first meets the eye. |
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August 22 – September 28, 2008 Ted NEAL & Charity DAVIS-WOODARD: CERAMICS This exhibition brings together the works of Ted Neal and Charity Davis-Woodard. In addition to exhibiting, both artists are participants in the CLC Ceramics Visiting Artist Program which is sponsored by the CLC Ceramics Club. The club is supported in part by the colleges’ Student Activities Office. |
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February 29 – April 6, 2008 Carrie Iverson: Survey For Carrie Iverson, making art is a process of distilling experience and movement in ways that, when completed, challenge us to examine our construction of memory: how we remember, what we remember and what meaning lies therein. Her primary medium of printmaking gives her the ideal tools for investigating the concept of memory from a variety of perspectives. |
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November 9-December 14, 2007 Karena Karras and Bert Menco: Daydreams and Nightdreams Leonora Carrington once said, “The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope”. This is a statement that holds a world of meaning when it comes to the work of native Chicagoan surrealist painter Karena Karras. Bert Menco’s Dutch-Jewish background has had an unavoidable personal impact on him. As an artist, he draws, paints, and prints. |
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April 27 - June 8, 2007 Nina Weiss & Yelena Klairmont: Landscapes These two Lake County, Illinois artists approach landscape painting from opposite corners. Nina Weiss paints with thick, expressionistic brush strokes and vivid colors. Yelena Klairmont is a realist painter who depicts aerial views of both Chicago and Illinois farmland. |
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March 23 – April 22, 2007 Sandra Perlow: Connections Sandra Perlow’s boisterous colors and jostling forms invite us into spaces alive with adventure and wonder. They appear to momentarily capture a pulsating world in which patterns and shapes collide and join within layered planes that create their own fantastic architecture. In the midst of it all emerge vaguely human forms—the shape of a head, the length of a limb—that allude to the works’ psychological aspect and imbue them with a sense of childhood memories and subsequent emotional responses. |
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November 10th - December 15th, 2006 College of Lake County Art Faculty Exhibition This exhibit displays works by College of Lake County full-time studio art faculty. The show includes works by instructors David Bolton, Terry Dixon, Hans Habeger, Bob Lossmann, and Roland Miller. |
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May 19– June 23, 2006 Nicholas Sistler & Tom Szewc: Inverse Proportions Chicago painter Sistler paints interiors with figures in gouache. He is interested in the irony of deep space and monumental scale within a minute format. Lake County artist Tom Szewc, on the other hand, paints monumental figures in oil and pastels on a grand scale. |
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March 3 – April 9, 2006 Eleanor Spiess-Ferris: The Magpie Chronicles Chicago artist Eleanor Spiess-Ferris will display recent oil and gouache paintings. Her Surreal compositions portray images of women as a symbol for various gender-based issues. The title, “Magpie Chronicles,” recalls her childhood in New Mexico, and also refers to Native American lore. A catalog of the exhibition is available. |
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November 11 - December 16, 2005 Reginald Coleman: A Retrospective Reginald Coleman is a Lake County artist who makes abstract, geometric compositions with subtle nuances of color. This retrospective exhibition covers the years from 1975-2005 and features his painting and works on paper. Coleman will retire in May of 2006 as art professor at the College of Lake County after 30 years. A catalog of the exhibition will be available. |
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August 12 – September 25, 2005 Wunderkammer: Early 20th Century Central European Ceramics Early 20th century Central European production ceramics are noted for their highly ornate and expressive figures and animal designs. The pieces in this exhibition, on loan from a local collector, explore this highly idiosyncratic and short-lived period of art. |
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May 20– June 24, 2005 Doug Smithenry & Chad William Wooters: Small Format Paintings Lake County, IL artist Doug Smithenry morphs his predominately male figures into kaleidoscopic distortions. Chad Wooters, of Elmhurst, IL, displays works from his The “Manly" Still Life Series. Each piece is an assemblage of hand tools with masculine associations. |
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March 4 – April 10, 2005 John Himmelfarb: Recent Paintings & Prints Chicago abstract painter, John Himmelfarb describes his recent work as "references to the Midwestern landscape, as well as, to the urban imagery." Himmelfarb’s work is included in numerous museum collections including: Art Institute of Chicago, The British Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. A catalog will accompany this exhibit. |
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November 12 - December 17, 2004 Yale Factor, Renee McGinnis & Jacqueline Moses: World View Yale Factor, an art professor at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, paints whimsical realist still lifes with a satirical edge. Renee McGinnis, of Chicago, employs social commentary in her figurative paintings. Jacqueline Moses, of Skokie, paints surreal images that explore contemporary issues. |
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August 16 – September 26, 2004 Bonnie Stone: Women’s Work Is Never Done Bonnie Stone, who resides in Saratoga, California, presents watercolors dealing with domestic issues. Her vibrant works explore women’s roles in traditional Judaic and African cultures. |
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May 21 – August 6, 2004 Tramp Art: A Folk Art Sensation Tramp Art is a type of folk art that was produced in America from the end of the civil war through the 1930s. Tramp Art is noted for its highly ornate and idiosyncratic utilitarian objects. Carved from cigar box wood with pocketknives, it roots are German and Scandinavian. The exhibition will be curated by Amy Ortiz, Ph.D., Art History and Material Culture. The show will include examples of Tramp Art boxes, frames, furniture and whimsical objects. |
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February 27-April 10, 2004 Didier Nolet: Spirit of the Land A maker of pictures, no matter his or her medium, is a conflator of moments. While an object-maker creates a thing that obdurately occupies the present tense-no matter how it might command time, the time it commands is real time- the depicter of things and the renderer of views create images that transport us through time and space to somewhere, something else at some other time. |
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November 7-December 14, 2003
Eleanor Himmelfarb: Gates, Letters, Fans Her work has been included in many group shows throughout the Chicagoland area, as well as in many corporate and private collections. Himmelfarb’s work is also part of many private and public collections. |
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August 15th - September 28th, 2003
Joe Price: Serigraphs in Light & Tone Joe Price developed a unique approach to serigraphy that requires up to 106 separate screenings of transparent color. This exhibit will display thirty-five of these stunning prints by the Los Angeles, CA artist. Price has works in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Library of Congress. He chaired the Art Department of the College of San Mateo until retiring. A two-fold brochure will be printed. |
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February 28th – April 6th, 2003
Tim Lowly: To Do Tim Lowly describes his latest works as visual meditations on the intent to various kinds of actions. His thoughtfully composed realist paintings depict people in unusual settings. Beyond appearance, Lowly seems to make visible the invisible places that people create within themselves. |
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November 8-December 15, 2002
Linda Kardoff and Kreg Yingst The paintings of Linda Kardoff offer up multiple associations, but are never definitive. Her figures are caught in bizarre and inexplicable situations that belie the artist’s wry sense of humor regarding the human condition. Kreg Yingst wants the viewer to find an association through the real and tangible images in his work. However, it’s the improbable situations that bring interest and give meaning to a deeper reality that doesn’t appear on the surface. |
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August 16, 2002 - September 29, 2002
Rose Piper & Winfred Rembert: A Pair of Opposites The Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art will exhibit the works of two important African-American artists from August 16 through September 29, 2002. |
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March 1-April 7, 2002
Paul Sierra: Symbols and Myths Exile and remembrance have haunted the art of Paul Sierra for most of the four decades he has spent as a painter. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1944, he set sail, along with his parents and older brother, for Miami in 1961, leaving behind an “island paradise” ravaged by revolution. For the 17 year old, relocation was quick, dramatic, and irrevocable. Although he always intended to return to Cuba that likelihood ceased to be an option as the years passed. Home, for Sierra, became less an actual place with physical boundaries than a symbol made from memories altered by distance and time, an ideal which today exists only in dream and paint. |
On View
February 26 -- April 11, 2010
Beyond Pixeltorialism:
Digital Imaging in the 21st Century
Reception: Friday, February 26, 7-9 pm
