Upcoming Exhibtions
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Upcoming Exhibtions |
Fragments of the Familiar: Nature in Abstraction
JAN 17th – MARCH 17, 2025
Opening Night, January 17, 2025 from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Bridgeport Art Center
3rd Floor Gallery
1200 W. 35th Street
Chicago, IL 60609
Abstract Study (potted plant no.5), oil on canvas, 30x60”
Nature has long served as both inspiration and subject matter in abstract painting, offering artists a rich and symbolic language to explore emotion, form, and structure. The impressionist movement laid the groundwork for modern-day abstraction through its novel attempts to paint the essence of light and color in the natural environment. The 20th century produced artists whose innovations in abstraction found them employing nature's chaotic, energetic, and elemental qualities as metaphors for human emotion and the subconscious mind. This collective legacy continues to inspire the three painters in this exhibition as they use memory and philosophical observation to inform their exploration of nature and abstraction.
Exhibiting Artists:
Alissar Najd Langworthy
Katie Luo
Pamela Staker
Past Exhibitions & Commissions
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Past Exhibitions & Commissions |
9th Annual River North Design District Fall Gallery Walk
Presented by Sherwin-Williams
Opening Night | September 6, 2024 | 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Transforming the Ordinary into the Extraordinary
Pamela Staker in collaboration with Epic Interiors
Friday, September 6th, 5-8pm
SEE OUR WORK AT:
Kohler Signature Store by Studio41
322 W. Hubbard St., Chicago.
All showroom events are free and open to the public. The exhibition runs from September 6 - October 7, 2024. Visit RNDD for exhibition maps and more information.
Artist Statement
Pamela Staker is a Chicago-based abstract painter and sculptor. She uses everyday materials such as wire, cardboard, spray paint, gold leaf, and screen mesh in her sculptural work, recycling them into suspended sculptural forms with surfaces entirely transformed and unrecognizable from their former state. The organic geometry of the shapes, minimal use of soft colors, and highly worked, textural surfaces will create an intriguing counterbalance to the hard materials and shapes in their Kohler Signature Store by Studio41 environment.
Commissioned Artwork—April 2022
It all began with a small 3-d Sketch.
Large-scale, three-dimensional, site-specific painting/construction.
My client requested a commission that would have the feel of the above small construction at an enlarged scale in a horizontal format. They built a niche area specifically to house the artwork. So respectful of the art! I developed several digital renderings before receiving approval. It was time to start building, and I videoed the entire process. Take a look below…
Watch me work.
Installation view of “Abstract Interior (green no.2)” (2022) acrylic, charcoal, wood, and canvas, 41x82 x 4”
Art Curator: Anne-Laure Lemaitre—In Situ Art
COLLECTION OF WEWORK, CHICAGO–COMMISSION INQUIRY
7th Annual River North Design District Fall Gallery Walk
Presented by Daniel Kinkade Fine Art
Opening Night | September 9, 2022 | 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Space Flowers, wall-mounted sculpture made from recycled materials.
EARTH. WIND. FIRE.
In collaboration with Shakoor Interiors. See our work at Prestige Designs - 223 W. Erie Ave. Chicago.
September 1 - October 15, 2022
ART-IN-PLACE
The Conversation
LOCATION: 5638 W. North Avenue, Chicago.
As a response to the violence epidemic in the United States, CNL Projects and Terrain Exhibitions have relaunched ART-IN-PLACE for late summer 2022. Over two years after the first iteration, ART-IN-PLACE continues its efforts to bring people together to call us to action through the experience of public art. We invite artists of any medium and experience level to respond to the current state of our country by exhibiting an original work of art or performance in public. This artwork/performance can be displayed outside a home, on a lawn, from a window visible to the public, or through an artist-formed partnership with a local business between September 1 - October 15, 2022. This collective action provides artists and community members in neighborhoods throughout the country with a sense of hope and connectivity and offers opportunities to impact change fundamental to our human rights.