Explore West Village Artist Studios at the 9TH ANNUAL Evanston Made Artist Studio Tour on Saturday, October 7, 12-5p.
Evanston Made Artist Studio Tour on Saturday, October 7, 12-5p
This is a fantastic event to meet artists in their studio, learn about their practice and start your Evanston Art Collection! Evanston Made's 9th Annual Studio Tour is a self--guided tour of studios throughout Evanston. The Studio Tour Map is available at artist studios, online at evanstonmade.org and at 1100 Florence Gallery, during the pop up exhibit.
Artist Studios are open Saturday, October 7, 12-5p. Click here to RSVP to the Studio Tour and receive a list of participating artist studios and event updates!
Pop Up Exhibit
Studio Tour participants will exhibit their art at 1100 Florence Gallery, Oct. 6-8. Join us Friday, October 6, 5-8p, for an opening reception and to pick up copies of the Studio Tour Map. This pop up exhibit is on display 10/6 - 10/8. Click here to RSVP to attend the opening reception.
More Idols Than Realities: Paintings by Paul Wear on display Sept 1 - 24, 2023 at 1100 Florence Gallery. Opening party, Saturday, Sept. 2, 5-8p
1100 Florence Avenue, Evanston, IL 60201. Gallery Hours; Friday 5-8p, Sat & Sun 12-5p. Viewings by appointment, call 847-544-8205
Photo of Paul in the studio by Joerg Metzner
We’re on the West Village Art Crawl during Evanston Made’s First Saturday Evanston Art Events. Click here for citywide listings and a Google map.
What A Relief: Simple Relief Printmaking Workshop with Jamie Thome
Make your own relief prints using simple styrofoam blocks, a ballpoint pen, and your imagination! We will explore basic relief printmaking during this two hour session, and you'll take home an edition of your very own block prints. All materials provided. Hosted at 1100 Florence Gallery, Saturday, Feb 18, 1-3p, $25/each, tickets here
Evanston Made is hosting two group shows at 1100 Florence Gallery to kick off the new year this January and February; 3D & Fiber and Prints & Printmaking.
Saturday, August 20, 6-10p, join us at the Nasty Women of Evanston Fundraiser in support of Planned Parenthood and Chicago Abortion Fund. Poster design by Maya Kabalic.
Pan•American is the experimental electronic music project of Mark Nelson, vocalist and guitarist for the band Labradford. See Pan•American live on Saturday, July 10, 2p at 1100 Florence Ave., Evanston. FREE w RSVP, seats are limited.
Evanston Made’s First Saturday Evanston Art Events invite the community to explore Evanston’s Creative Community, at openings and events across Evanston. Build your art-filled day using this Google Map
On exhibit in the gallery windows, Sugar Creek Folks by artist Jevoid Simmons. The prints of paintings are part of Simmons’ upcoming book, Up from down Home: A Family’s Journey North. The paintings were executed over a seven-year period with the last one completed in 2015, illustrating the extraordinary hardships and the life and death struggle faced by Black folks living in the South under Jim Crow.
In addition to painting, Simmons is a woodcarver and storyteller. His carvings are ongoing and capture family, friends, acquaintances and other characters from the past. The carvings are a part of a collection called Sugar Creek Folks.
Evolution of Dissolution, a multimedia exhibit about love, marriage and divorce- sculpture, paintings, found objects featuring new works by Amy Gertler. Exhibit runs March 7 - 20, Opening Reception: Saturday, March 7, 6-9p
Celebrate Black History Month. “Soul Works” II Pop Up Group Exhibit, Presented by Fran Joy, Rose Cannon Fine Art and Debra Salter. Opening Party Friday 2/21, 6 to 9 p.
Drawings & sketches done in the studio, priced to sell. Artist Talk, Jan. 15, 7p • Exhibit runs jan. 4 - 17. Gallery Hours Sundays 12-5p, Wednesdays 5-8p, Fridays 5-8p
First Saturday Evanston Art Events, 12/7, 10-8p, enjoy Evanston's Art Scene at art openings, pop up sales, community art making & more. Allen Moore at Open Studio Project. #collectevanstonart
First Saturday Evanston Art Events, 12-9p, art openings and happenings across Evanston.
First Saturday Evanston October
Saturday, October 5, 12-8p, attend art openings, studio tours, Terrain Biennial and more across Evanston. #collectevanstonart
Family Art Making Workshop, North Branch of the Evanston Public Library, 2026 Central Street, 11a-2p
Connections: Learning to Dance/ Raissa Bailey Paintings. Open Studio Project Gallery 901, 901 Sherman Avenue, Reception 3-5p
'In the Shadow of the Cathedral of Lost Constellations' exhibit by Duncan R. Anderson. Terrain Installations 'Cocoons' by Rose Camastro-Pritchett, Arcos en Arbol by Paul Hertz, 1100 Florence Ave., 6-9p
Bob Tanner | Kurt Kramer. Perspective Photography Gallery, 1310-1/2 Chicago Ave, 5-7p
Valerie Kahan Art Reception & ICE Children Fundraiser. Ice House Gallery, 609 South Blvd., open 12-8p, reception 5-8p
'The Possibility of Multitudes' exhibit by Vanessa Filley. Photo credit Vanessa Filley. The Saw Room at Alley Gallery, 1712 Sherman Ave., 5-8p
ORGANIC / INORGANIC works by Pamela Feldman and Judy Solomon. SPACE900, 816 Dempster St., 12-7p
Noyes Arts Group Open House! Art making, studio tours, art on display. 927 Noyes St., 12-5p
Artem Pop Up Gallery, 1627 Sherman Ave., 12-6p
Fall Artist Studio Tour, Saturday & Sunday, 12-5p, Map: http://ow.ly/bhkI50wyP3W
Terrain Biennial Evanston Tour, 12-8p. Map: http://ow.ly/bhkI50wyP3W
These works took shape in the long shadows of the cathedrals of my homeland, the mountains of East Tennessee, and walking in the shadows of the churches of Chicago’s Ukrainian Village, where I live. -Duncan Robert Anderson. Exhibit runs Oct. 1 - 20, 2019, Artist Talk, Sunday, October 20, 3-5p
Visit Terrain Biennial sites October 1 thru November 17, map here http://ow.ly/vbqJ50wymVS
Photo by Matt Golosinski
Midwestern! Punk! Mom! is a three word title that both describes artist Ellen Greene as a person as well the three phases of development in her artwork.
In her latest exhibition that Greene describes as a “DIY retrospective”, her art and objects hang on the gallery walls of the Evanston Gallery, 1100 Florence, with painted text and infographics surrounding them. Together they tell Ellen’s story of her life in art.
“I am obsessed with reading memoirs and wanted to try my hand at it. But the words and memories wouldn’t come. I kept digging into my storage unit for objects that would trigger memories and hopefully words. Then it hit me. I think in pictures, and I make pictures. My artwork and objects are the core of the story. My whole life things like zines, journals, records, toys, books, clothes and photographs influenced my work. Also that work was in direct response to what I was going through emotionally and therefore completing to the overarching narrative. Call it a ‘DIY retrospective’ or ‘punk rock show and tell’… its my life and my stuff so I just want to share it in the most direct way I know how: put it up on a wall and then write about it.”
Greene’s art is diverse, spanning the period of 40 some years, and includes everything from childhood drawings to her well known “tattooed gloves” to self portrait oil paintings. In Midwestern! Punk! Mom! Greene’s narrative, like her work is unflinching. From intense subjects like sex and addiction to the banality of growing up in the Midwest, Ellen is brutally honest in word and image. As one of her mid 90’s self portrait polaroid pieces instruct: “Delicate People should look away.” but those who dare to look will be rewarded with a refreshing vulnerability.
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7, 6-8p
Artist Talk, Sunday, September 15, 3-5p
Closing Party, September 19, 6-8p
1100 Florence Gallery is located at 1100 Florence Avenue in Evanston, IL 60202. Gallery hours are Sunday 12-5p, Wednesday 6-8p and Friday 6-8p. View art by appointment by emailing 1100florencegallery[at]gmail.com. Visit 1100florence.com for more information.
"Run don’t walk to the awesome new show by artist Ellen Greene! Midwestern! Punk! Mom! DIY retrospective at 1100 Florence Gallery. Whimsical, funny, powerful, overwhelming, inspiring, unique." -Matt Golosinski
Click here to listen to an interview with Ellen on The Lisa D Show podcast.
Photo left: Nelson W Armour, Photo right: Jordan Scott
1100 Florence is pleased to present Oblique – Streetscapes of Chicago, a two-person exhibition featuring work of Jordan Scott and Nelson W Armour. Scott’s mixed-media artwork and photography pays homage to his beliefs in the interconnectedness of the universe and inspired by theories of the collective unconscious. Armour’s photography includes various genre, landscape, environmental portraiture, and social documentary. Both have exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally.
Oblique – Streetscapes of Chicago explores the urban landscape, searching out lesser-recognized streets, structures, and views. The flat urban typography yields different perspectives, both close and far, both recognizable and unknown. These Chicago’s streetscapes may feel familiar but are presented in unusual perspectives, tones, and feelings.
Opening: Saturday, August 3, 2019, 6-8 pm
Artists’ Talk: Sunday, August 11, 2019, 3 – 4 pm
1100 Florence
1100 Florence, Evanston, IL (Greeenleaf and Florence)
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays 5-8p, Fridays 5-8p, Sunday 12-5p, by appointment via evanstonmade@gmail.com or call 847-544-8205
‘just between you and me…’
a solo exhibition of eighteen new paintings by
david hinske
~ two days only ~
opening july 20, closing july 21
both days 2-5pm
priced to purchase at the opening
whatever you want to pay at the closing
1100 florence gallery, 1100 florence avenue, evanston, il, call for july 19 preview 575.779.2103
Click here to listen to David and his wife Carolyn’s interview on The Lisa D Show podcast.
Swing Set Drum Kit by Dave Ford is an interactive sonic sculpture encouraging people to build rhythmic sounds through their swinging. Visit the gallery during open hours and play the drums! All ages welcome!
Visit the gallery July 6, 12-8p during First Saturday Evanston Art Events.
Learn more about artist Dave Ford at davefordart.com
Photo credit: Above, Erika Anderson, Chicago 2013. Below, Chalk the Block Festival in El Paso, TX, 2011.
See Swing Set Drum Kit at Square Roots Festival, July 13, 14, 2019.
Visit artist studios & creative spaces June 1, 12-5p, in Evanston, IL, maps at locations across Evanston and online at evanstonmade.org
1100 Florence Gallery is hosting artist Dave Ford’s Truck Drawings, with several tour stops just blocks from us; Julie Cowan, Alice George, Beth Adler, Judith Lewin, Lindy Stockton, Ben Blount, Amy O. Woodbury, Rembrandt Chamber Music, WARE Ceramics, Joanna Kramer.
Visit Evanston Made Group Show at Evanston Art Center, opening party May 31, 6-10p, to see more works by the artists below. Evanston Art Center, 1717 Central Street. Learn more at evanstonmade.org
Pictured above: Artist Ben Blount at his studio MAKE, 1123 Florence Ave, Evanston, 60202
During the sixth annual Evanston Made Artist Studio Tour visit artist studios & creative spaces, June 1, 12-5p, in Evanston, IL, maps at locations across Evanston and online at https://evanstonmade.org/evanston-made-tour-map-2019/
Slide show of all participants online at https://evanstonmade.org/evanston-made-studio-tour-2019/
#collectevanstonart #evanstonart #evanstonmade— in Evanston, Illinois.
Saturday, June 1: Celebrate and elevate the visual arts in Evanston, attend First Saturday Art Events 12-10p. Hosting sites and events:
Evanston Made Group Show & Pop Up, Evanston Art Center, 1717 Central Street, 9a-4p
Evanston Made Artist Studio Tour, Click here for Map, 12-5p
Boundary Issues Warehouse Show, 942 Pitner, 12-10p
Dave Ford Truck Drawings, 1100 Florence Ave., 12-8p
Ice House Gallery, 609 South Blvd., 5-8p
Steve Geer | Verna Todd, Perspective Photography Gallery, 1310-1/2 Chicago Ave, 5-7p
Group Show, SPACE900, 815 Dempster, 12-8:30p
Cécile Trentini & Stephen Murphy, The Saw Room at Alley Gallery, 1712 Sherman Ave., 5-8p
Victor Ing Paintings, Swantiques Pop Up, 2016 Central St., 11a-6p
Hosting sites, please email info[at]evanstonmade.org to be listed and promoted.
Saturday, April 6: Celebrate and elevate the visual arts in Evanston, attend First Saturday Art Events 12-8p. Hosting sites and events;
Kathy Halper Paintings, 1100 Florence Ave., 6-8p
Stephanie Taiber Photography, Perspective Photography Gallery, 1310-1/2 Chicago Ave, 5-7p
Allen Meyer Photography, Ice House Gallery, 609 South Blvd., 5-8p
Early Spring Group Pop-Up Show, SPACE900, 815 Dempster, 12-7p
Corey Ciszek, Melanie Deal, Howard Kanter & Steve Sager, The Saw Room at Alley Gallery, 1712 Sherman Ave., 5-8p
Dorit Jordan Dotan, "Everything Must Go" Closing Event, Wedge Projects, 1448 W. Howard St, 5-8p
Puzzle Project Exhibit by One River Evanston students, children's section of Evanston Public Library, 3-5p
Hosting sites, please email info[at]evanstonmade.org to be listed and promoted.
Trajectory : Process Revealed
Seven friends on connection & the creative path
Opening Reception // Friday, March 22, 6–8pm
Artists@Work // Saturday, March 23, 10am–2pm
Artists’ Debrief // Sunday, March 24, 3–4pm
Artwork by Leah Lemelin
Don Miner resides in Skokie but is from Evanston. He is writing a book. Very slowly, but it will get done. He works in a school serving troubled youth, not just because he loves these kids but also for the ease of access to copy machines in the event he can’t get a publisher.
Jayme Gualtier is a heavily tattooed, scooter-riding, music-loving, world-traveling, reclusive introvert who is fascinated by people and their stories. Her art is an ever-evolving conversation about the masks we all wear and what lies beneath them.
Leah Lemelin explores presence, awareness, and fragile human perception within the Transparency Collection, a growing body of artwork on transparent, breakable surfaces. The work is a layerable catalog of ephemeral connection and an offering of gratitude and reflection. It plays in this way of ‘seeing’ for all who engage with it.
Marjory Oliva has been making things her entire life, but it wasn’t until recently that she called herself an artist and built a studio in her basement. Marjory’s current work is acrylic and mixed media on canvas, though she is easily distracted by textiles, wood, and sparkly things. Marjory is fascinated by the power of color. Her favorite painting tools are credit cards and kitchen spatulas.
Matthew Huang Cummins is an engineer/artist/educator on a mission to expand curiosity and community through the wonders of geometry. He is artist-in-residence at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago and teaches in the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern.
Peter Durand is a globetrotting visual artist who lives in Evanston. Born in Kenya and raised in Tennessee, he studied visual communications, painting, and printmaking in St. Louis, Paris, and Kraków, Poland. He will happily bounce on a trampoline when the opportunity presents itself.
Sarah Jolly is a part-time poet and a full-time student beginning to realize a body of written work in the space between past, present, and perfect.
Saturday, March 2: Celebrate and elevate the visual arts in Evanston, attend First Saturday Art Events 12-8p.
New works and light installation by Darren Oberto, 1100 Florence Ave., 5-8p
LENS 2019, Opening Reception, Juried Photography Exhibit, Perspective Photography Gallery, 1310-1/2 Chicago Ave, 5-7p
Salvador Campos Featured Artist Reception, Ice House Gallery, 609 South Blvd., 5-8p
Paintings by Joseph Taylor, The Saw Room at Alley Gallery, 1712 Sherman Ave., 5-8p
Synergia: “Working Together", current and past students of Jill King. SPACE900, 816 Dempster St. 5-8:30p
Inner Balance, Exhibition featuring artwork by: Helen Butler, Janise Curry, Lauren Herrmann, Lindsey Lugsch-Tehle, & Nancy Wong. Open Studio Project, 903 Sherman Ave, 4-7p.
"The Human Factor” exhibit of new works by Adriana Kamenetsky. Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes, 5-8pm
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Join us as multidisciplinary artist Darren Oberto breathes new life into an ongoing project. His kinetic, process-based project develops each drawing from a solitary line into a seductive layering of marks. Images emerge from the paper similarly to a piece of ceramic being thrown or wood being turned on a lathe, and the introduction of chemicals and ink manipulation create an interplay between randomness and order, organic and plastic. In this show, Darren directly confronts the gloomy, mundane spirit of the season by literally bringing new light to his turntable drawings. In building layers of back-lit transparent drawings, he explores new textures and searches for new meaning and beauty within this kinetic drawing project.
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 2, 5-7p
Artist Talk, Saturday, March 16, 3-5p
Kirstin Mariani photographed in her studio by Joerg Metzner for his Picturing Evanston project, Info
Artist Kristin Mariani will be the Artist in Residence at 1100 Florence Gallery this February, “Two Sides to the Horizon”
Meet Kristin and learn about her process Saturday, Feb. 2, 5-7p, during First Saturday Evanston Art Events.
Project Description and Residency Hours
Two Sides to the Horizon - Is an extended wall installation to reflect the viewpoints from inside and outside the corner space of 1100 Florence. Merging these viewpoints over the four week period of the residency, this installation will evolve, merging multiple vantages into the visible sphere of the gallery space.
Below is a schedule where the public is invited to come into the gallery space to see Kristin’s works in process.
Week 1:
Friday 2/1 12-3:00 p.m.
Saturday 2/2 5-7 p.m.
Week 2:
Tuesday 2/5 12-3:00 p.m.
Thursday 2/7 3-6:00 p.m.
Friday 2/8 12-3:00 p.m.
Saturday 2/9 12-3:00 p.m.
Week 3:
Tuesday 2/12 1-4:00 p.m.
Thursday 2/14 12-3:00 p.m.
Friday 2/15 12-3:00 p.m.
Saturday 2/16 2-3:00 p.m.
Week 4:
Tuesday 2/19 12-3:00 p.m.
Thursday 2/21 1:00 p.m. -4:00 p.m.
Artist Bio & Statement
Bio: Kristin Mariani is a Chicago based dressmaker, designer, artist, and educator. In her art and design practice she investigates hidden layers of labor discovered inside found cloth and garments, incorpo- rating physical responses to material that emphasize process, chance, and patience. In 2000 she founded her label RedShift; a line of contemporary couture created from salvaged materials and found garments. Her designs have been distributed internationally. She is faculty at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an artist member of The Arts Club, Chicago. She maintains an in- terdisciplinary practice creating works for dance, performance, and installation.
Artist Statement:
My practice is an ongoing discourse between design and art. I acknowledge the unstable distinctions between the two disciplines, and my investigations unfold in this unstable territory, continually questioning how the body is figured through fashion, place, and labor.
Dressmakers are often confined to small spaces, small motor skills, mechanical cycles and repetitive processes. Handiwork is concealed in the inner linings of a garment. I don’t always want to stay inside of a dress. How can I use my skill set to address other spaces that the body occupies? How can I build coherent relationships from disparate parts? How can I connect the flow of raw material in my studio to a larger material stream and thought process?
My raw material is a by-product of my dressmaking process and comes in parts. Thread is my drawing tool and connective device to reintegrate cloth fragments and garment remnants into coherent visual relationships. Stitching on two-dimensional surfaces enables me to create fronts that reveal what is commonly concealed in the facades of fashion. Structuring a crosshatch of materials to establish a new value for what is typically discarded, I deploy aesthetic strategies and skill- based knowledge to probe the historical, material, and labor-oriented underpinnings encapsulated in any effort to clothe the body.
-Kristin Mariani
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