2009 Artists (I-P)
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Images Cooperative Gallery For the Ravenswood Artwalk, Images Gallery members will be participating in an integrated group show investigating viewer responses to and interpretations of visual art. RAW Location: 1823 W Wilson http://images8.com |
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Ina Karadzhova Ina grew up in Ruse, Bulgaria and moved to the US in 1999. Her life number is 5 and ironically she has five favorite things: her daughter, painting, writing, design, and traveling. RAW Location: 3701 N Ravenswood http://www.art-ina.com |
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Ingrid’s Originals Inc. Researching the ancient global rock writings known as petroglyphs and pictographs and then incorporating them into her paintings has been Ingrid’s passion. In search of these endangered images, her travels have taken her to Australia, Africa, China, Europe, and many areas of the U.S.A. She uses her hand made paper and textural surfaces to recreate the excitement and emotional response felt when one discovers these illusive ancient images in the field. She also enjoys painting traditional loose expressive paintings in watercolors, and teaches classes and workshops out of her new studio. RAW Location: 3729 N. Ravenswood, Suite # 138 http://www.ingridsoriginals.com |
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Ivaylo Yoshovski Ivaylo’s painting are an interpretation of the autonomous beauty of women. They represent womens soul, feelings, or women as human beings, alone. Women are shown in my works both directly and indirectly given the combination of abstract and reality work. They are, as created in my works, the most graceful and pure creatures existing in the human world. RAW Location: 3701 N Ravenswood ivoyoshovski@yahoo.com |
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Jack Kraig Photography Jack Kraig Photography creates still life photography and will offer demonstrations throughout the day. 773.281.2424 RAW Location: 1770 W Berteau |
| Jamie Hale Jamie Hale works with photography as a medium for capturing the world around us. RAW Location: 3701 N Ravenswood buttrflyspirit22@aol.com |
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Jamroz Photography Jamroz Photography focuses on creating color images of moments in life. RAW Location: 1802 W Berteau http://www.jamrozphotography.etsy.com |
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Jeff Bryner Jeff’s work focuses on the beauty that can be found by looking through portals. Some of his work is taken through windows, doorways, arches, and other natural and man made gateways to the outside and inside world. RAW Location: 1800 W Cornelia #201 http://jbryner.com |
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Jeffrey Liem Jeffrey Liem is a Chicago-based photographer showing captured moments of both urban life and the natural world, varying from the serious and quiet to the humorous and surprising. RAW Location: 1802 W Berteau http://www.jliem.com |
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Jennifer Friedrich Inspired by vintage fashion and design ‘Flapper’ brand jewelry and accessories are created by Jennifer Friedrich using interesting and unusual vintage beads, findings and charms in a modern way. RAW Location: 4636 N Ravenswood http://www.puppetress.etsy.com |
| Jennifer Ftacek The majority of Jennifer’s work is oil, although she does some watercolor painting as well. She enjoy painting pictures from photographs she has taken and sometimes include the photograph with the painting. She loves color and use it intensely in her paintings. RAW Location: 3759 N Ravenswood http://www.jenniferftacek.com |
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Jennifer Perunko Jennifer paints things that have some meaning to her, generally locales or characters that she admires. She also creates jewelry that is influenced by things that she has observed on her various travels. RAW Location: 3759 N Ravenswood http://www.fluxpickle.com |
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Jenny Learner Jenny’s work is mostly encaustic paintings (beeswax) and watercolor. She creates mini screens, bookmarks and floorcloths. RAW Location: 3759 N Ravenswood http://www.jennylearner.com |
| Jezebelly Jezebelly performs tribal bellydance ~ incorporating music, movement, and costume from throughout the gypsy diaspora. Our performances are primarily improvised, and feature veil, sword balancing, and floorwork. Each dance is created in the moment, punctuated by choreographed flourishes. The members of Jezebelly have been performing throughout the Chicago area since 2000. Jezebelly is also pleased to present our junior troupe, BellyRing. RAW Location: 4256 N Ravenswood Saturday at 1pm http://www.jezebelly.com |
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Jhenai Moon Jhenai creates 6×6 ceramic tiles (wall hanging), functional furniture: mosaic mirrors, hatstands, etc… RAW Location: 1802 W Berteau http://jhenai.etsy.com |
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Jim Youngs Jim creates images of architecture, portraiture and baby’s. He is an event photographer, as well. Jim practices high dynamic range imaging. RAW Location: 5220 N Damen http://www.jimyoungsphotography.com |
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Johannah Silva Johannah creates oil and watercolor paintings and drawings RAW Location: 1800 W Cornelia http://www.johannahsilva.com |
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Jordan Mummer Jordan Mummer’s paintings tend to blur the lines between natural and abstract forms. His paintings tend to be sociological in nature tending toward relationships both social and private. RAW Location: 3717 N Ravenswood http://profile.myspace.com/51600539 |
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Judith Helen D’Andreis Judith has a collection of collages and vintage dolls. RAW Location: 1802 W Berteau Caldwell60640@yahoo.com |
| Judith Roth/Roth Studio … the power of the human form and its expression is my medium and my commitment. RAW Location: 1802 W Berteau (Sunday Only) http://happyfaceschicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/artists-studio-judith-roth.html |
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Judy Hinkes Zeddies Judy’s creates relief & intaglio printmaking, including woodcuts & linoleum block prints, plus etchings, collagraphs and monotypes. RAW Location: 1800 W Cornelia http://www.judyzeddies.com |
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Judy Petacque Judy’s latest works are inspired by Mandalas from her visits to Tibet & Bhutan. The Mandala format has deep spiritual meaning for her which set her process of weaving and “ribboning” pieces of hand-made papers together with animal and plant talismans reflecting positive and spiritual energy. Metaphorically the paths & layers of her journey through life…the soul & spiritual connections with people, places, and nature..the joy & sadness of human experiences..learnings, awakenings, and lessons. RAW Location: 3717 N Ravenswood judyartteacher@aol.com |
| Juliann Wang Employing a dynamic fusion of quasi-traditional and contemporary elements, from the East and West, Juliann seeks to energetically convey impressions of the world around her. Drawing from reality, imagination, and contemplation, the works are poetic interpretations of naked perception. RAW Location: 3717 N Ravenswood http://celsiacretica.com/ |
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| Kamy Tomanova Kamy’s paintings are mostly acrylic, oil, watercolor, pastels on canvas and watercolor papers. Kamy likes to experiment with different techniques and materials. Often in Kamy’s work you can see implants of metal, fabrics, yarn and leather. Kamy’s inspiration has strong connections with Bulgarian traditions, holidays and folklore. RAW Location: 3701 N Ravenswood http://www.kamystyle.com |
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Karen Hoelscher Incorporating a wide palette of patterns, colors, and textures, Karen’s limited edition handbags and accessories offer the perfect complement for any occasion. Combining unexpected fabrics, hardware, and adornments, Karen pieces capture creative expression from urban chic to unique twists on classic favorites. Attention to detail is reflected throughout, ensuring distinct, durable, and quality accessories. RAW Location: 3717 N. Ravenswood #239 http://www.karenhoelscher.com |
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Kelly Bennett Kelly creates modern, wearable jewelry with a vintage flair. She repurposes antique pieces and fashions them into more updated versions using gold and silver chain and semi-precious gemstones. She is also currently working with silver metal clay and using that to create wearable, vintage-inspired pieces such as wax seal charms with initials. RAW Location: 1802 W Berteau http://www.ichibann.etsy.com |
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Kevin Keeley Kevin’s photography falls into four broad categories. The first is landscapes. These are either industrial or travel images. The second is bodyscapes. These are principally female forms. They are very tasteful artistic nudes. His third thread is what he calls his “Iconic Chicago Series”. These are images that are evocative of Chicago in some unique or creative way. Last, but not least, is his “Kitchen Macro” series. These are macro shots of everyday kitchen implements. RAW Location: 3717 N Ravenswood nivekk59@yahoo.com |
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Kevin Swallow Painting, Photography, Screen-printing. Kevin’s palette — whether using paint, a camera, or a computer is strongly influenced by the unlimited sights, sounds, and colors of the city. From his photographs of cityscapes, architecture and street art, to his face paintings, screen prints, and abstract digital images — he work to capture the textures and sensations of the city. RAW Location: 1800 W Cornelia http://www.swallowstudios.com |
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Laura Engel As a self described “artist hack”, Laura’s works explore color and texture, and sometimes resemble something from life. RAW Location: 1802 W Berteau laura60613@yahoo.com |
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Laura Matzen Laura’s digital photographs range from traditional black and white to complex blends of multiple images. The subject matter ranges from places around the world to imagery of people and objects. RAW Location: 3717 N Ravenswood http://www.matzenart.com |
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Laurie Shaman Laurie create vases, vessels, tiles and wall pieces hand-built from porcelain clay. Laurie’s work is populated with images of birds, animals, figures, and townscapes drawn with ceramic stains and glazes. Her work ranges from small tabletop vessels to large-scale public art. RAW Location: 4001 N Ravenswood http://www.laurieshaman.com |
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Leslie Pozen Leslie make very limited edition handbags incorporating a variety of colors, textures, and materials. RAW Location: 3717 N Ravenswood http://www.ellubags.com |
| Lillstreet Art Center Founded in 1975, Lillstreet Art Center is a large community of artists and students working side-by-side in a friendly environment which encourages and inspires artistic growth in the individual. Lillstreet Art Center supports the arts through an artist residency program, gallery, studio space, In addition to our gallery and extensive studio space, we offer adult classes and workshops for all skill levels in six different departments: ceramics, metalsmithing & jewelery, painting & drawing, printmaking, textiles, and glass. Each department offers First-Time Artist classes that help beginners to explore a new medium in a relaxed environment. Our Kidstreet program has classes, camps, and family workshops for children age 2 and up. RAW Location: 4401 N Ravenswood http://www.lillstreet.com |
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Lincoln Square Pottery Studio The 2,000-square-foot Lincoln Square Pottery Studio-Learning Center opened in May of 2003. Twelve wheel-throwing workstations, two high-fire electric kilns, opportunities for other types of firings with field trips in Raku, wood fire, pit and sager firing, and a multitude of studio classes for all levels. In addition, the studio supplies space for students to display and sell their artwork in return for a minimal fee. RAW Location: 4043 N Ravenswood http://www.comeplaywithclay.com |
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Linda Loew Linda exhibits color digital photographic prints (occasional black and white & sepia) The subject matter of her images has a strong emphasis on architecture and abstractions, with some nature and street scenes mixed in. RAW Location: 1802 W Berteau http://www.loewphotos.com |
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Lori Swerdlow Lori’s work is inspired by the world around us. Some of the simple complexities and the beauty of Lori’s digital photography evoke different curiosities and emotions from viewers. Some may ask: What was she seeing in her minds eye? Where was that image taken from? or How was Lori able to capture that perfect moment? RAW Location: 1802 W Berteau http://www.finishedfinely.com |
| LoveBug Studios Ebony Love takes ordinary, everyday objects and refines them into charming, fashionable pieces that reflect modern sophistication and flair. Ebony takes pride in making individually handcrafted items using her own original designs. She especially loves taking traditional techniques (in quilting for example) and combining them in fresh, unexpected ways. RAW Location: 3759 N Ravenswood http://LoveBugStudios.etsy.com |
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Lynnda Pardoe Lynnda creates post-industrial urban landscapes. RAW Location: 3717 N Ravenswood http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynndaphotos |
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Maggie Hayes Maggie is a high school student about to enjoy her second year of studying photography. RAW Location: 4043 N Ravenswood sharonhayes2468@aol.com |
| Magra The Eisenberg’s art is a collaboration of aesthetic endeavors, found objects, and photographic images from their wonder lust. RAW Location: 3759 N Ravenswood magra.art@gmail.com |
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Marie-Pier Guillaud Marie-Pier’s watercolors are created with spontaneous brushwork, washes, and lines that are exuberant in color and playfulness. Her paintings feature renderings of Chicago’s skyline and parks, as well as works inspired from travels to France, Morocco and Spain. RAW Location: 4001 N Ravenswood mapie123@aol.com |
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Mary Phelan Mary works with oil on linen to create urbanscapes of Chicago neighborhood locations. RAW Location: 1802 W Berteau http://maryphelanart.com |
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Maryann Grumman MaryAnn Grumman is a photographer and card-maker whose images emphasize the subtle beauty and complexity of nature. 773.244.1377 RAW Location: 1770 W Berteau |
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MC O’Neill MC creates glass beads, glass sculpture, glass jewelry, glass vessels, glass household items, and paintings on glass. RAW Location: 3717 N Ravenswood Ozrevisited@yahoo.com |
| Meggan Kehrli Meggan creates intaglio etchings and linoleum block prints, characterized by detailed line work and quirky surrealist themes. RAW Location: 1802 W Berteau http://www.meggankehrli.com |
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Melanie Brown Melanie uses visual language to create a plane of reality where seemingly disparate images come together to create a world unique to her experience. She paints and draws from her intuition and seek to distill dreams and memories to their most succinct expression. She creates something that is neither pure abstract expressionism nor surrealism, but rather something in between. RAW Location: 4401 N Ravenswood http://melaniepbrown.blogspot.com/ |
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Meredith Dytch Meredith creates oil paintings of urban landscapes. RAW Location: 1802 W Berteau http://meri-art.blogspot.com/ |
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Meridee Hodges Meridee is predominately a decorative artist who does a wide variety of faux finishes and murals. In the past 5 years, she has been doing more works on canvas and wood panels. Most of her works are “textural abstracts” and most are in triptych formats. She also now has a storefront studio and gallery location. RAW Location: 5220 N Damen http://www.mdeesigns.com/ |
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Merkeyna Coif Boutique Merkeyna Coif Boutique is a collaborative/cooperative project by artists Erin Coleman-Cruz and Bianca McGraw. We perform as a traveling boutique and our product line includes all hand-made or altered items related to the Merkyena. (a merkeyna is a 21st Century refashioning of the merkin, or pubic wig.). The Merkeyna is used as a catalyst for discussion about the body both historically and contemporarily within a safe and healthy environment that takes form as an installed boutique. RAW Location: 3759 N Ravenswood www.merkeynacoifboutique.etsy.com |
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Michael Strening Jr. Michael composes and performs instrumental music for solo piano. His performances involve story telling as he shares his life experiences that have inspired the different pieces on his albums. RAW Location: 4256 N Ravenswood http://www.thornwoodmusic.com |
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moss moss is a sustainable architecture studio committed to establishing meaningful, long-term relationships based on communication, education, trust, and mutual respect. Mutual respect is all encompassing for the client, the community, and equally important – our natural surroundings. We believe that successful design provides a solid connectivity with nature while responding to client needs, desires, and their vision of a comfortable, livable, and functional environment. This allows us to create site specific and sustainable architecture. RAW Location: 1754 W Byron http://www.moss-design.com |
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Nancy Bank Nancy Pochis Bank is an artist, illustrator and art teacher based in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood. She created two giant globes for “Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet”, environmental art exhibits in Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles. Her watercolor illustrations appear on a series of folktale CDs. Nancy teaches weekly art classes and is available for individual and group workshops. RAW Location: 1806 W Cuyler http://www.nancypochisbank.com/ |
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Nancy Charak Nancy is a mark-maker, she make drawings on paper. RAW Location: 1800 W Cornelia http://www.rounderstudio.com |
| Nanette Allen Nanette’s art is the result of an ongoing exploration of the characteristics of common objects, she has coined the term “arti-factual” to describe her creative process. Her ceramics projects are lively with rich surfaces that are carved, pressed, and patterned and which reveal playful hidden secrets to the probing eye. RAW Location: 3759 N Ravenswood nanetteallen1@hotmail.com |
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Nicole Hollander Nicole will showcase drawings, photographs, and sculpture to form a memoir of her life-well, not all of it! RAW Location: 3717 N Ravenswood http://edgycat.com |
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Oak Gallery OAK Gallery is one of the newest additions to the emerging art district in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood. Specializing in unique one-of-a-kind art, the gallery features fine art, contemporary glass, pottery and exceptional jewelry deigns by established and emerging artists. RAW Location: 4415 N Ravenswood http://www.oakgallery.net |
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Ork Posters Ork Posters creates typographic city neighborhood posters, screen prints and offset posters. RAW Location: 3759 N Ravenswood http://www.orkposters.com |
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Patricia Green Patricia works primarily in high quality oil painting and mediums as well as Sumi-e ink. Her work is influenced by Sumi-e painting, the focus being the process: preparing her palette, tools and vision of the canvas. Each mark of her brush meets the canvas as an extension of her state of mind. Flowers, she paint wet into wet to capture the immediacy of the bloom-many times sculpting with a palate knife. Landscapes and portraits develop through many layers of transparent paint to achieve vibrant color effects. Finishing with a glaze to give the surface a consistent sheen. RAW Location: 3759 N Ravenswood http://www.patricialarkingreen.com |
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Patricia O’Neal Patricia use her hand made paper in most of her work. She does some illustration, as well as printmaking and mixed media. She also creates lamp shades for vintage lamp bases, as well as lanterns, of which some use candles and others use electricity. RAW Location: 1770 W Berteau crosssticks@sbcglobal.net |
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Perceptual Motion Perceptual Motion is a dynamic multi-generational modern dance company that creates unforgettable, timeless images in movement. They will be offering a dance workshop for adults on Saturday, Oct 3 from 2:00 - 3:00pm at 4057 N Damen. Workshop attendees will be invited to perform with Perceptual Motion on Sunday, Oct 4 at 3:00pm at Architectural Artifacts. RAW Location: 4057 N Damen & 4325 N Ravenswood www.perceptualmotiondance.com |
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Peter N Gray Peter N. Gray uses the hard malleable metals steel and bronze to awaken our inner scientist as he expresses the inherent softer organic sculptural aesthetics of genetics and biotechnology. RAW Location: 3717 N Ravenswood #245 http://www.metal-i-genics.com |
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Peter Salerno Peter’s painting style can be described as a direct abstract/expressionist approach using color to convey mood and strong composition to visually balance the work. RAW Location: 3701 N Ravenswood http://e-artpub.com |
| Philip Marty Phil’s work is primarily nature-oriented. Though much of his photography is literal, in many instances he use a variety of special lenses, photographic techniques and filters in Photoshop to give a more painterly feel to his work. RAW Location: 1802 W Berteau http://www.pmphotography.net |
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