The newest addition to The Design Center at The Merchandise Mart is the unique concept that is the Chicago Artists Coalition. Located on the 15th floor six artists use Suite 1562 as a workroom/outstanding gallery while creating one of a kind and custom pieces of art.
To kick off a great season of work, the Chicago Artists Coalition invites you to an open house this Thursday, April 29th and Friday, April 30, in their space, Suite 1562 from 6pm-9pm.
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Inara Cedrins is an artist, writer and translator. Having worked on a series of Chicago Facades linoleum block prints, she began a Dolce Vita series, centered in Italy Inara went to the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing to study traditional Chinese ink painting on silk, remaining five years to teach at universities including Tsinghua University and Peking University, as well as to the People’s Liberation Army and students at the Central Academy of Fine Art. In 2003 she went to Nepal to study the technique of thangka painting; after the king’s coup d’etat in 2005, she relocated to Riga, Latvia, making prints of the ornate facades and teaching Creative Writing at the University of Latvia.
Lisa Goesling began taking weekend classes at the Art Institute of Chicago at twelve years old, creating sculptures, drawings and paintings. She is 100% invested in being a fine artist after a varied career as a Public Relations Director, Art Director, Graphic Designer and Illustrator. Lisa was juried into the Corporate Gallery Program with the Northwest Cultural Council in 2008 and has presented her work in galleries throughout the Northwest Suburbs, Wisconsin, Los Angeles and now, the Merchandise Mart
Jaime Lynn Henderson received her Master of Fine Arts degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Painting and Drawing in 2009 and her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art from the University of Oklahoma in 2007. Her large-scale, vivid, playful, and fantastical works on paper have been exhibited in numerous galleries and institutions across the Midwest and have won her several awards such as the title of ”Best New Artist Working on Paper” in 2009. In addition to exhibiting with Concertina Gallery in the Goffo Section of NEXT Fair starting April 29 at Art Chicago, Henderson will be featured as a contestant on Bravo TV’s “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist” premiering June 9, 2010 at 11pm EST. For more information, please visit www.jaimelynnhenderson.com or http://www.bravotv.com/work-of-art.
Alexandra Lee (ATYL) was born in Hong Kong, is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is a multi-disciplinary artist. Her concept driven work incorporates themes of childhood, femininity, and the delicate interplay between human connection, their interaction with each other, their environment, and nature.
Mark Moleski holds a BFA degree in Fine Art from Columbia College Chicago. He looks beyond the obvious, searching for an alternate guise. Works on paper; Read, Sit, and Stand are visually manipulated images which take on a new purpose.
Zachary Mory is an artist who focuses on the process of drawing. By utilizing systems of working, simple tools (pencil on paper), and repetitive marks, he creates intricately woven, non-objective drawings that bring the viewer’s focus to the micro and macro simultaneously.
The six designers come from all over the world and take the uniqueness and creativity Chicago has to offer to make stunning, one-of-a-kind pieces of art.
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