Art

Paintings that are responses to life experience with wonder and resolve.

Contemporary abstract art

Print on paper and textiles

A cultural center celebrating madness through visual art, poetry, film, and other forms of cultural production.

Don Yang is a Chicago-based fine artist trained in representational art at the American Academy of Art (BFA, MFA) where he has been teaching oil painting, figure drawing, and artistic anatomy since 2002.

Fiona Wang Arts is the digital home of Fiona Wang, a Chicago-based independent artist whose work focuses on the intersection of emotion, movement, and presence. Through a diverse range of mediums, including pencil sketching, fluid painting, and digital media, Fiona explores playful colors and expressive lines that allow her style to evolve through material-driven experimentation.

Studio of artists Frances Lightbound & Joshua Patterson

franceslightbound@gmail.com / info@joshuapatterson.studio

www.franceslightbound.com / www.joshuapatterson.studio

Gabrielle Marie Stone is a Chicago-based contemporary abstract painter. Drawing inspiration from Post-Impressionist and Abstract Expressionist works, Stone’s pieces play with figures, objects, and masses, playfully combining the medium’s historical attempt to represent pictorial scenes with its authentic material quality. Using paint to sculpt space rather than to depict a system of designs, Stone welcomes the viewer into a three-dimensional space, and then promptly revokes the invitation.

It’s through this retraction that Stone turns the viewer into a bird, of sorts, and the painting into a closed window. This also exposes a series of contradictions — depth vs surface. Illusion vs honesty. Representation vs abstraction. Age vs newness. Are we really seeing what’s there?  Are we trying too hard to make something out of something else?

Working frequently with interior designers and art consultants, Stone either creates custom pieces or identifies existing works that complement the aesthetics of clients’ homes and corporate spaces while still providing the indulgence and boldness of an original artwork.

Stone studied Studio Art at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She went on to work at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and several galleries in Chicago. Her paintings are in private collections across the United States.

Greg Morrissey is a fine artist focusing on Chicago. His paintings paint a picture of living in an urban metropolis. They focus on the architecture, as well as the emotional alienation of living in a big city. He has limited framed prints, drawings, and original paintings for sale.

HARD RETURN is an artist-run gallery dedicated to urgency, risk, and the raw edges of creation. We operate in the space between idea and artifact—where work is still warm from the artist’s hands—and invite the public to witness art in motion. Our mission is to provide a platform where artists can experiment boldly, respond quickly, and take control of the conditions in which their work is shared.

HOOK Space (House Of OK) is a space and platform for art projects and events. Organized by Lili Xie and Zachary Sun

The Studio of J. M. Jung is located at the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, 410 S. Michigan Ave. #918. We are open during select Second Fridays Open Studios.

Jing…Sketchbook creates watercolor and mixed media artworks, offering originals, commissions, and workshops inspired by cities, travel, and daily life.

Studio of artists Frances Lightbound & Joshua Patterson

Karen Tichy is a Chicago abstract mixed media artist known for her encaustic and paper line paintings. She comes from a visual communications design background that is evident in her work. After receiving an MS in Visual Communication from the Institute of Design, IIT, and Chicago, she worked as an interface designer in Boston. There, she also began painting and exploring a variety of media. After returning to her native Chicago in 2008, she established a studio/gallery in the Fine Arts Building where she continues to develop her work through continued experimentation with a variety of media. She has been incorporating encaustic medium with her deconstructed materials since 2009. She has exhibited her work in juried and invited shows in the Boston and now in the Midwest. Karen serves on the leadership committee of the Fine Arts Building Studios Collective and where she established public exhibition spaces and curates art exhibitions. Karen is a member of the Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists, Fused Chicago, a Midwest encaustic artist group, and a studio artist in Studio 701 Gallery in the Fine Arts Building in Chicago.

Welcome to L. H. Selman Ltd., a name that has been synonymous with the finest antique and contemporary paperweights for over 50 years. As the country’s premier dealer in fine art glass paperweights, we maintain an expansive paperweight gallery and museum at the Fine Arts Building, with the largest collection of antique and contemporary paperweights anywhere.

Award-winning landscape painter.

Paintings and Drawings, Portrait Commissions. My artwork explores symbolic, figurative fairytales and portraits in mixed media paintings and drawings.

Matt Bodett’s art disrupts the historical and material connections between Madness, privilege, and confinement.

Fine Art, Antiques, and Curiosities

Oil paintings by Ornella Ihirwe Bayigamba

Drawing, Painting, and Photography

Robin Lachman Lee is a painter, muralist, and apparel designer who practices her passion for art in a variety of mediums.

See Robin’s work at wontree.art and zippity.style

Mixed media art/photography

Suiseki stones and display equipment

Botanic-themed art pieces, originals and prints.

Ceramic Sculpture and Mixed Media

I usually work in two separate modes: contemporary abstract art and traditional Chinese painting. My recent work bridges these abstract and figurative approaches to show their relationship. I hope to create work that is visually interesting and moves people to see the things around them from an abstract point of view.