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Charles is a visual artist living in Austin. He was into a large Catholic family in Chicago that encouraged unfettered individualism. After receiving his degree in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, he worked in finance while also pursuing his true passion in art. His current body of work is grounded in spirituality and the human relationship to nature incorporating elements of photography, mixed-media and painting. Charles has exhibited in numerous gallery shows in Chicago, New York and in his now native state of Texas. His work is in many private, corporate and hospitality collections throughout the United States.
https://charlesheppner.com/

Asend is a Chicago-based artist and muralist. His artistic influences are deeply rooted in the Chicago graffiti and street art scene that spanned the city during the 1990’s, as well as the Baroque painting period of 1600-1800’s. Asend brings an extensive mastery of color and composition to large scale oil paintings, murals, interior design and sculpture. Recent notable projects include the completion of Chicago's largest mural located downtown on the Kennedy Expressway on the Carnivale building; as well as the portrait unveiling of Chicago White Sox’s team captain and 2020 Major League Baseball’s MVP, Jose Abreu. Following the hospitalization of his son in 2017, Asend gained a deeper understanding of the need for art in the hospital/care spaces and since then has since made it his mission to facilitate access to art programs in these spaces. His partnership with Lurie Children's Hospital and the Perillo Foundation supports fundraising for research, while leading art initiatives for children in need. This partnership offers projects that enrich care and community for children in hospitals, as well as their families.
https://www.asendone.com/

As a young child, Larry instinctively knew he was an artist. He began his long career in the field of art in high school, when he reimagined the format for his school’s literary magazine. Upon graduating from SUNY Buffalo State College, he moved to Chicago and worked as an illustrator, a copywriter, and backdrop mural painter, but it wasn’t until he completed a short film for Encyclopedia Britannica that the door was opened to the world of production design, art directing, set decoration and set design. Along with Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo, Larry was a co-founder of Hallwalls Art Center in Buffalo, NY. He also developed projects like the LOOP Show, which aimed to elevate and recognize Chicago-centric art. His career in art direction and set design has produced notable work on the sets of Native Son, ER, Flatliners, High Fidelity, The Babe, Mind of the Married Man, Sense8, Shameless, and Batwoman. Larry teaches courses in Production Design at Northwestern University.
https://www.facebook.com/LPLundy/

Having received her BFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute, Noël has maintained an exploratory approach to art making. Noël began her design career in the fashion industry and for decades has been creating surfaces patterns for interior and product use. She is known for her layered surfaces and sophisticated color palette, as well as her unconventional use of materials. Inspired by these materials themselves, weights of lines against form and the interpretive visual quality of words, her work is primarily transitional in nature and has been used in a broad range of products for the Contract, Residential, Hospitality and Retail markets. Working with such clients as DesignTex, Donghia, Maharam, CB2, and Carnegie, she has created designs for textiles, walls, glass, floor art, carpet and 3D objects.
https://www.noelashby.com/

Mia is the founder, owner and director of Ignition project space in Chicago, which provides space and funding for visual artists to develop and show new work. As a sculptor and installation artist originally from Boston, she received a BA from University of Chicago, studied sculpture at Massachusetts College of Art and received an MFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. Mia has participated in solo, group shows and residencies in museums, galleries and alternative spaces around the country. She has additionally received art grants from the City of Chicago, City of Urbana, IL and the Illinois Arts Council. Mia has completed large public projects for the City of Chicago, was commissioned to create semi-permanent installations for the Indianapolis Art Center, City of Atlanta and the City of Bellevue, WA.
http://www.miacapo.xyz/

Anthony blends his unique experiences working as a Local #1 Ironworker and as an artist to create works that explore the relationship between labor and value.  Using hyper illusionistic trompe l’oeil painting, sculpture, and installation, he distorts the line between reality and perception to question the importance and relevancy of authorship.  He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the American Academy of Art with a specialization in oil painting.  His work has been published in New American Paintings, Newcity Art, the Examiner, and has been collected by 21c Museum, the Roy Liechtenstein family, and many other private collectors.  Anthony has exhibited at venues including Volta/Armory Show, Art Miami, the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Logan Center Gallery, Lyons Wier Gallery, among others and has contributed to performances for artist William Pope.L at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Whitney Biennial.  Currently, Anthony teaches at Harper College and at Vitruvian Studio in Chicago.
https://anthonyadcock.com/

As a symbolist painter, Jason creates enigmatic images inspired by the intersection of myth, perception, and scientific theory. Beginning his career as an aspiring filmmaker, he found himself called to drawing, painting, and sculpture while visualizing his short films. This passion for figurative subjects led him to continue his studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Concentrating on artistic anatomy, landscape, and the illusionistic methods of the renaissance, he developed his aesthetic through a close study of nature, launching his painting career in 2003, with a project entitled “Travelogue”. Painting and journaling daily, he traversed twenty-five states, exploring both without and within. He exhibited these paintings alongside journal excerpts and musings on his experiences. Landscape remains at the core of his practice. He has exhibited nationally, placing work in many prestigious collections. His most recent work employs metal leaf and relief effects such as pastiglia and sgraffito, exploring the tension between illusionistic space and decorative effect.
https://www.studiomcphillips.com/

Nancy was born and raised in Chicago and earned her BFA in painting and sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute. A dedicated painter, educator and mentor, Nancy has devoted her life to painting, exhibiting and teaching. Her work has exhibited in galleries across the country and though her paintings can be difficult to categorize due to her unique use of mixed media and surfaces, most of her work is figurative in nature. She combines oil bars, China markers, graphite and oil paint on a variety of surfaces, including gessoed paper, pieced and handmade papers, linen and rice paper. Her pieces feature infinite detail and layers, textures and colors. Nancy has shown in many venues including shows at Kansas City Art Coalition, Elmhurst Museum, Milliken University, The Post Family, and the Illinois Art Institute, but most recently, her work has become nationally recognized through the popular Netflix series Grace and Frankie, where Nancy’s art is prominently featured as Frankie’s (Lily Tomlin’s) paintings.
https://www.nrosen.com/

Originally from Kathmandu Nepal, Rajee holds a Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science and Mathematics and worked as a software designer for several years before completing her MFA in painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute. In her visual works, Rajee breaks apart a representative whole such as an image or a text into its constituent units, which she then puts back together to create a different whole that subverts the narrative of the original. Her work quite literally sits at the nexus of science and art. Rajee’s works have been featured in many print materials for the School of the Art Institute, as well as being featured in many gallery shows in the city. She lives in Chicago and produces work in her studio space at Mana Contemporary.
http://www.rajeearyal.com/

Melinda received her MFA cum laude in painting from the New York Academy of Art and BA degrees in both Art History and Studio Art from Indiana University. She held an assistant curatorial position in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago and also sculpts anatomical models for many of the country's top anatomical supply companies. Her work has been featured in American Art Collector, American Artist Drawing magazine, Poets&Artists, the Art Renewal Center, Manifest Gallery’s International Painting Annual, and numerous exhibitions from New York to Chicago. Melinda teaches anatomical drawing and écorché at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, at the University of Illinois Chicago Biomedical Visualization Department, and in the Medical Humanities department at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is also co-founder and principal instructor at Vitruvian Fine Art Studio in Chicago with her husband, painter David Jamieson, where they place a strong emphasis on artistic anatomical training alongside traditional painting, drawing and sculpture practices.
https://www.melindawhitmore.com/

Eric is a Chicago based artist who was born and raised in New York City. His interest in art was first ignited at Marlboro College, where after initially studying creative writing, he fell in love with sculpture. Graduating with highest honors, Eric then went on to earn his BFA from The School of the Art Institute. Gushee created metal furniture elements at a small local foundry called West Supply, supplying high-end bronze furniture to Holly Hunt. It was there that his personal work, characterized by strands of metal woven into organic, circular layers, was first noticed by Hunt’s team and subsequently used to animate their showroom spaces. Much of Eric’s work is a struggle between the two and three-dimensional worlds, the shadows cast by his sculptures often can be seen in his drawings and sometimes the drawings themselves are made from the sculpture’s materials. His work combines the unfamiliar world with the familiar, he does not try to disguise the materials he uses but embraces them for what they are. His work demonstrates the smallest composition elements are capable of profound gesture. Eric is a founder of the Artruss Gallery in Chicago.
https://www.ericgushee.com/

Sophia attended University of Illinois, majoring in Political Science and completed graduate studies at University of Chicago. That same year, she received a book that would forever change her life called ‘Africa Adorned’. This publication drew her to the study the jewels of Africa and the general language of adornment. Following a stint in the Peace Corps, Sophia traveled throughout the Balkans and former Soviet Union, gathering elements to create her custom jewelry creations. Upon her return, she was awarded the prestigious Marshall Field's Distinction in Design for her work and then displayed in the Field’s iconic State Street store. With this platform of recognition, she started her business, the Feel Beautiful Gallery, which just celebrated its 20 year anniversary in Burr Ridge last year.
https://sophiaforero.com/