View from the Pier this afternoon.
Some common images running through the fair were skulls, animals and metallic thread. Very interesting - maybe I'll see different patterns when I walk through tomorrow, but these elements were definitely prevalent and actually well-used. Here are a couple of skulls (all seemed to be glass). I won't have all the gallery and artist credits tonight, but will fill them in shortly.
William Morris - skulls, animals - a lot of nice pieces.
To give you a taste of the show, here are some subjectively-chosen works: all artists that work with Cervini Haas Fine Art. Great job all!
Jennifer Falck Linssen showing a nice transition to wall pieces at Del Mano Gallery.
Gorgeous new glass works by Jamie Harris - can't wait to get some of these for CHFA!
J Paul Fennell at Del Mano - delicate, precise, an impressive offering of new pieces.
I love Bennett Bean's wall tiles - this asymmetrical work is brand new and is a strong new step in Bean's work.
Adrian Arleo has a beautiful installation at Jane Sauer Gallery - sensitive honeycomb works of thoughtful female nudes.
GREAT new graphic work by Steven Heinemann. Very pleased to see it on the wall.
Three new glass sculptures by Danny Perkins - they have such a grace and elegance to them, they remind me a bit of seaweed waving underwater.
This evening's opening at Melanee Cooper Gallery on Franklin St. was packed. Julie Karabenick's geometrically abstract, eye-popping acrylic paintings were intense and vibrant:
Kathleen Waterloo paints with encaustic so thick and richly colored they reminded me of quilts from a distance - lots of dimension, texture, definition. Congratulations on a fantastic show! And thank you to Melanee Cooper for a truly enjoyable dinner after - the food and, most of all, the company - at Costa's Greek restaurant on Halsted.
Other events of the day: fiber lecture including Jon Eric Riis was inspiring; the Dale Chihuly opening at Habatat was packed - new botanical work was dramatically displayed, (but my favorite works were the Shayna Liebs in the back); and this year's slightly smaller SOFA Fair is overall a success - maybe all the more so due to its palatable size. More later.... second impressions of SOFA tomorrow! Starting the day with Jan Hopkins' lecture on her mixed media fiber works.
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Hi, Wendy--
ReplyDeleteGreat seeing you in Chicago. Thanks for bringing that warm weather with you from Scottsdale. I, too, loved the Karabenick and Waterloo solos at Melanee Cooper.And I was so pleased that we had a chance to spend some time together.
I spent about an hour at SOFA on Saturday afternoon and saw some of the same work you did, but as it was a huge venue, I must have then gone in a different direction. As a painter who works in encaustic, I always look to see who's using the medium, and how it's being used. I saw the work of several artists: portraits of cast crayons whose viewer-facing points made, well, pointillist images; wax painted-clay sculptures of girls--one with a pair of red wax lips; and the honeycomb women, pictures of which you posted.
OK, so where to we rendezvous next?
If you’re like fine arts and crafts, SOFA expos are a great place.
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