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.