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Burtonwood & Holmes paintings
are a meditation on materiel culture. These images are both beautiful
and terrifying, connecting the home front to the avant-garde. Drawn
from everyday sources this zeitgeist of military means is both
succor and sucker-punch. Recent solo exhibitions include Gescheidle
Gallery and the Union League
Club in Chicago.
Michael John
Hofer is a sculptor and installation artist living and
working in Chicago. His installations have been shown in Glasgow,
Edinburgh and Arbroath, Scotland as well as closer to home in Kansas
and Missouri. When he’s not installing artwork somewhere
on the north shore he is out on his surf board waiting for the
next big wave.
Jeremiah
Ketner is a Chicago-based Visual Artist. Ketner draws
inspiration from Japanese aesthetics, packaging design, magazine
ads and urban graffiti. He has exhibited in group shows in Los
Angeles, New York, Seattle, Houston, Detroit and all over the Midwest,
in addition to a recent solo stint at Milwaukee’s Hotcakes
Gallery. He shares a sunny, cozy apartment with his wife, baby
boy and two lovely kitties, where they enjoy listening to records
among other activities.
Alain Douglas Park’s work
is loaded with literary devices, references, and techniques. It
is charged with fiction. He makes engrossing pieces that are heartfelt
and honest, little intellectual puffs that in the end become almost
a strange combination of absorbing objects and written stories.
In Chicago he has shown at such venues as Judith Racht Gallery
on Lake (Schopf Gallery), Evanston
Art Center, Dupreau Gallery,
the Stray Show, and, of course, GardenFresh.
Andrew Rigsby’s most
recent body of work relates to travel, security and a sense of
home. Inspiration is drawn from the vernacular of advertising and
the sense of self-promotion through brand identity. Through a personalization
and softening of minimalist aesthetics with an eye to the lens
of contemporary graphics the work becomes an amalgam of experience
and memory. He started GARDENfresh in his basement
a few years back and is really excited about working with this
group of people. Rigsby has shown nationally and internationally,
most notably in New York, Kansas City, Atlanta and Japan.
Greg
Shirilla lives and works in Chicago, but his heart and
soul remain stuck in the dead steel mill city of Youngstown,
Ohio. He continues to work with the art collective, Die
Käse
Hause, which he co-founded in 1995 while attending Columbus
College of Art and Design. He tries to find a balance between the
free and unpredictable lines of drawing and painting, and the more
calculated slickness of photography and digital compostion. In
this way, the printed page becomes a large influence on the work
(i.e. magazine covers, advertisements, fashion spreads, comic
pages, etc.). His subject matter more often than not tends
to fall from the obsessive scribblings of sketchbook pages.
