PINSKY’S WORKS ARE WINDOWS TO OTHER WORLDS
The images in Joanna Pinsky's large, shaped canvases were inspired by deteriorating urban and rural structures that she began photographing about seven years ago. But don't expect to see the...
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A SWEET WAY TO BREAK RESOLUTIONS
If New Year's resolutions are meant to be broken, a good place to start is a new chocolate shop in the DePaul neighborhood. Last month Christen Alley and Michelle Cole...
MIX MASTERS
Buying a piece of furniture or finding the right place for it in a room may be a challenge. But so is adding accessories to make a room come to...
TEXTILES SPEAK A LANGUAGE ALL THEIR OWN
Textiles as artwork often go beyond visually pleasing combinations of fabrics, threads and objects, as some artists stitch or weave in stories or messages inspired by economic, social, political or...
A MODERN UPDATE HAS THIS GRANDFATHER SINGING DIFFERENT TUNES
A grandfather clock that electronically plays tunes may seem sacrilegious to some. But to clock retailer Andy Matthiesen, president of Chicago Clock Co. of Clarendon Hills, it's simply a matter...
MYERS’ GLASS FORMS ASPIRE TO OTHER MEDIA
Joel Philip Myers has never painted, but the glass artist, a professor of art at Illinois State University in Normal who helped found the Studio Glass Art movement in the...
SHOW EXPLORES A DECADE OF SPECTOR
Buzz Spector's work offers a complex visual and cerebral journey, and the Roy Boyd Gallery has mounted a show that is a road map of where he's been (figuratively speaking)...
LAMANTIA MELDS EROTIC AND MACABRE
Paul LaMantia's big, explosively colored and arresting paintings, filled end-to-end with menacing stylized figures outlined crisply in black and with geometric forms, grab the viewer the way a billboard does....
IT’S YOUR TABLE’S TURN TO GET A MAKEOVER
For 20 years, Winnetka shop owner Madeleine Plonsker has dressed women on the North Shore. This past Bastille Day, she opened Madeleine/At Home in Glencoe to help dress their tables...
LOBDELL MAKES THE MOST OF LESS
Abstract Expressionist Frank Lobdell's repertoire has long included a complex arrangement of lines, swirls and biomorphic shapes. In his latest show, they are manipulated into fanciful, Rube Goldberg-like gears and...