4 Solo Shows:
Event Date: Artists¹ Reception: Friday, July 12, 5-8 PM
Exhibition Run: July 12 - August 17, 2013
 
Hank Feeley / Out of the Box / painting
Thomas C. Jackson / Halo / work on paper
Vesna Jovanovic / Tender Anatomy / watercolor
Dave Ford / Hauling Graphite: Five Road Recordings / graphite on paper
 
Hank Feeley / Out of the Box / painting
Hank Feeley's work is all about color and composition. He's obssesed about
collecting images. He has boxes and boxes of them. He goes through them
every time he makes a new painting.  When he sees them anew, reshuffled and
in a different context, he gets fresh ideas about them. That's his
inspiration. He takes disparate images and ideas and collages them into a
colorful, provocative composition.
 
Thomas C. Jackson / Halo / work on paper
Thomas C. Jackson also combines images to create broken narratives. He pairs
human figures with objects from the everyday world. A color ³halo² raises
the importance of the object so it functions like a story starter or
Rorschach test. These drawings are very much of the artist¹s hand.
Controlled line sometimes slip into a more expressionistic mode. Drawing
from life imparts spontaneity, immediacy, and intimacy. Drawing objects from
photo documentation adds a contrasting precision. These combinations are
both evocative and thought provoking.
 
Vesna Jovanovic / Tender Anatomy / watercolor
Sprouting vertebrae, multicolored intestines, and floating ribs appear in
this new body of work.  Evoking scientific illustration, Jovanovic combines
spontaneous inkblots with delicate renderings of plants, human organs, and
architectural forms.  Tender Anatomy straddles the line between fact and
fiction, inviting the audience to reach beyond the physical body. Squirmy
and intuitive, these drawings manifest Jovanovic¹s visceral responses to
unfamiliar environments and experiences.
 
Dave Ford / Hauling Graphite: Five Road Recordings / graphite on paper
Lines accumulate as Ford drives a 12² truck with 100 pencil-tipped water
bottle pendulums dancing above the paper lined bed. On the road, he checks
the drawing, often sharpening pencils, sometimes removing or adding a bottle
depending on where he wants a specific quality of marks or textures. After
fifteen years and several Truck Drawing projects later, ³panels² from
separate trips will be shown together for the first time. The burst patterns
created by the bottles as Ford drives across the country evoke a grace that
simultaneously jars with the truck as medium and flows with the rhythm of
travel.  5 Runs: Dallas to New York, El Paso to Falls Village, CT, San
Francisco to Las Cruces, NM, Santa Fe to Chicago, and Chicago / Philadelphia
round trip.
 

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Aron Packer
Packer Schopf Gallery
942 W. Lake
Chicago, IL 60607
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