2011 Artists (K-L)
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Karen Avery
Wheel Thrown Pottery RAW Location: 4401 N. Ravenswood (Lillstreet)
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| Karen Becker
I look forward to participating in RAW again this year. I have been especially driven to get my art out for public display as opposed to laying in piles on my dining room table. My background is in fine art, from attending arts camp in my youth to art school at the University of Michigan. Working as a graphic designer is no longer fulfilling, so I recently took some time to study at The School of Representational Art, an atelier in Chicago. Last year I was honored to be a participant in the Art Loop Open with a still life titled “Books and Bricks,” in the Hard Rock Hotel and happy to have it find a good home with someone else. I was also awarded Best in Show at the 6th Annual Chicago Alumni Art Show by the Zolla/Lieberman Gallery. RAW Location: 1802 Berteau 2nd Floor
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| Karen Thomas
I work in oil and acrylic, do printmaking (lithographs, linocuts), draw, and generally enjoy line, space, color and design. RAW Location: 3717 N. Ravenswood 2nd Floor
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| Karma Neutral Ceramics
Karma Neutral Ceramics Studio is a working pottery studio and gallery that was founded by Sangeet Gupta, Carl Mankert and Erik Gellert in May of 2010. Currently, there are three artists working at the studio, Carl, Sangeet and Rebecca Deppe. Carl has a background in both photography and ceramics and specializes in raku fired pottery. He teaches ceramics at various locations in the Chicago area and also runs Chicago Kiln Service. Sangeet has been doing pottery for the last 8 years. His current body of work includes larger wood fired jars and vases as well as tableware. Rebecca is the newest addition to the studio and has studied painting and textiles as well as ceramics. She is a prolific artist whose goal has been to create a living museum within her home and her life. RAW Location: 3717 N. Ravenswood. #221e |
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| Kate Biderbost
I believe handmade objects, pots in particular, function much like a photograph. They may conjure up memories of people and places, leaving the user with a lasting impression and a permanent connection heightened through interaction. I believe that most of us are continually learning through our work about what matters to us as individuals. It’s this connection that can be formed through handmade objects which is at the core of my inspiration. My hope is that this connection allows a dialog to exist between the maker and the user. An open dialog creates a greater understanding of the time and effort put into a handmade object, thereby speaking to the value which so often may be lacking in our fast-paced lives. RAW Location: 4401 N. Ravenswood (Lillstreet) |
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| Kathleen Toledano
Kathleen Toledano, artist My artwork comes from a passion for observing people and the world around us. How we, individually and together, interact and view the world. My business name is Kathleen’s Kloset; this is the receptacle of all the artwork I create in mixed media: shadow boxes, jewelry and decorated handbags. integrating many found objects: vintage jewelry pieces, paper, my own drawings and painting. My artistic process usually starts with one object or text; it may be a poem, or a vintage frame or purse that inspires an idea that I want to express. From there I gather items that I have been collecting over the years. These items include stamps, paper, found items and many vintage jewelry pieces and toys. I combine all these plus painting and drawing to create my artwork. RAW Location: RAW Street Fair Tent |
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| Kathy Blankley Roman
My abstract paintings are built up in layers of graffiti-like drawings (assertion), followed by painting over with acrylic paint (obliteration). This is repeated, drawing back in and painting over until I am satisfied. This process allows me to create fresh and direct, in-the-moment paintings that are full of energy and flux. I experiment with different organizing principles, which allows me to work in new directions without necessarily planning the outcome. This contributes to the creation of satisfying, expressive paintings that often end up 180° from where I thought I started. That surprise ending is my payoff - it’s exciting and why I do this! RAW Location: 3711 N. Ravenswood 1st Floor |
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| Katie Mills
Vintage inspired jewelry crafted with a modern sensibility, Lady Faye Jewelry evokes nostalgic afternoons spent digging through your mother’s jewelry box. Featured jewelry will include Czech glass cocktail rings and delicate bracelets, necklaces and earrings using combinations of brass, copper and sterling silver. RAW Location: RAW Street Fair Tent |
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| Kelly Bennett
Kelly Bennett is the creative mind behind Ichibann Jewelry. Her lifelong love of all things shiny is what led to her 8 year career in jewelry. Ichibann hosts an eclectic mix of designs as Kelly enjoys dabbling in all forms of jewelry, but her current obsession is creating .999 pure silver charms using vintage wax sealing stamps. These pieces can be worn as necklaces, bracelets, or earrings and have a timeless yet modern quality that you will be able to wear for years to come. Visit the Ichibann website at www.ichibann.etsy.com to view Kelly’s work and purchase a piece of sparkle all your own. RAW Location: 3701 N. Ravenswood 2nd Floor |
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| Kevin Swallow
Painting a blank canvas or wandering around city streets with a camera in hand gives me the most important ingredients when I’m creating art: spontaneity and freedom. My palette — whether using paint, a camera, or a computer is strongly influenced by the unlimited sights, sounds, and colors of the city. From my paintings of cityscapes and people to my architectural photographs, screen prints, and abstract digital images — I work to capture the textures and sensations of the city. I value the process of creating art and like to experiment with new techniques. I draw inspiration and ideas from the city, music, other artists, street art/graffiti, observing people, technology, and the media. RAW Location: 1800 W. Cornelia #201 |
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| Kim Laurel
My work is symbolic commentary combined with figurative form study. Contemporary cultural icons, forms and their associations are investigated. Utilizing printmaking and collage as an extension of drawing and painting, I have found that mixed media is one of the most authentic and subjective tools to express my voice. My personal work includes: painting, printmaking, collage, sculpture and installation works. Member: Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, Illinois. Exhibiting with Deborah Maris Lader at 1807 West Sunnyside during RAW. RAW Location: 1807 Sunnyside 1A |
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| Larry Zgoda
My inspiration comes from nature. These original images take their visual source from trees and vegetal forms, abstracted and distilled into stained glass compositions. I begin with a linear design, which I then construct as a stained glass panel. Within the natural world, exist the opportunities of line, color and light. With line, I compose designs that have tension and vitality. With color, I create combinations that compete with the color strategies presented by nature at her best. Light is a very special quality of my art. Since the light comes through the glass, stained glass is a light and color source. With these three facets of design; line, color and light, I strive to synthesize the vigor of the living world. RAW Location: 1807 Sunnyside 1st Floor |
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| Laura Engel
Abstract art, functional pieces and lots of surprises are in store for this year’s exhibit. Color, form and shape converge to create affordable, approachable art for the novice or serious collector. RAW Location: 1807 Sunnyside 2nd Floor |
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| Laura Matzen
Laura Matzen enjoys experimenting within the art realm including altered photography, film techniques and a mixing of medias from painting and ceramic art to polaroid manipulation. “I believe that the media is the vessel for my creative voice, whether it takes form in a painting, a ceramic piece or a photograph.” Matzen’s collection from “Unlocked Destiny” features imagery of doorways combined with faces and text signifing a soul entering a fate. Her imagery of “56 In Harmony” is an artistic documentation of origin of birth. The colorful images of the flags are projected upon the face, falling across different skin tones and facial features. Her newest collection, “Against the Sky” features bold and muted skies with contrasting dark branches and birds on a wire. RAW Location: 4515 Ravenswood
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| Laura McKeown
Laura McKeown is a graduate of Illinois State University’s prestigious art program. I haven’t quit my day job, but my passion continues to be painting. I like to produce colorful acrylic paintings that make your eyes dance and move within the canvas. I love to present everyday objects, animals, and people in the most vibrant way possible. I’ve exhibited in several shows and exhibitions and am truly excited to be a part of 2011′s Ravenswood Walk! RAW Location: 3759 N. Ravenswood 2nd Floor |
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| Laura Young
Contemplative Fine Art Photography Laura Young’s intimate, meditative images reflect her sensitivity to the natural world and the delicate balance of relationships within it. “I am forever falling in love and my lens is certainly a conduit for that. I believe when one sincerely seeks to know something…to truly pay attention with respect, openness, and curiosity, one begins to erase the distance between you. For myself, when I do that, I fall in love. I can’t help it. I have fallen in love with individual flowers, mud drying on a canyon floor, decaying logs. I have even fallen in love with spiders. I was a serious arachnophobic but it is the absolute truth. Learning how to see cured me of my fear.” Laura can be commissioned to do custom photography of one’s private garden. RAW Location: 3759 N. Ravenswood 2nd Floor |
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| Lauren Harlowe
Lauren Harlowe’s work is a celebration of pattern and color. In nature, in architecture, all through cities, and a part of textiles, patterns become emblazoned in our memories and become embedded in how we catalogue our experiences. Her paintings are very much about how all sorts of patterns from my life and from the past have come together, how they interconnect, and how they change and meld in the mind’s eye. They become colorful abstractions based on an overlapping and skewing of very tangible objects. Images emerge through the layering of these patterns, and they grow to become larger stories that reveal the unexpected and speak to how memory can shift and transform the visual imagery we live with everyday. RAW Location: 1800 W. Cornelia #101 |
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| Laurie Shaman
My vessels and wall pieces are hand-built from porcelain or stoneware clay. Using ceramic stains and glazes, each piece is populated with hand drawn imagery such as birds, animals, landscapes, or elements of nature and architecture. Forms include vases, pitchers, teapots, wall plates and tile series. RAW Location: 4001 N. Ravenswood #505 |
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| Leon Sarantos
The unifying theme in my art is conveying the feeling or mood evoked by the subject of my painting. My art focuses on the interplay of color, the prominent use of strong heavy lines, and an extreme gradation from light to dark color values. My non-objective painting, Mexican Roadtrip, conveys a sense of exuberance; in style, all sections of the painting are transected by strong, heavy, black lines, with vivid bursts of color. An abstract series, Organic Creatures, combines a feeling of whimsy with a sense of bizarre absurdity. In my still life painting, Mannequin Hand, the black lines outline simple geometric shapes such as circles and triangles, to create an abstract painting superimposed over realistic objects. (This painting recently won Best of Show at Cornerstone Art Gallery.) RAW Location: 1802 Berteau 1st Floor |
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| Lincoln Square Pottery Studio- Learning Center
Lincoln Square Pottery Studio- Learning Center is a not for profit that specializes in ceramics classes for children and adults of all skill levels. Opened in May of 2003, our storefront space has grown to include 13 wheels, an extruder, a slab roller, an ever expanding palette of glazes, several field trips to raku and wood firings, and many display shelves to show off the work being made here. We have 8-week evening classes for adults, as well as a Saturday kids class, independent study for artists looking for a place to work, summer day camps, and one day mini-sessions for people who just want to give clay a try. RAW Location: 1802 Berteau 1st Floor and 4043 N. Ravenswood 2nd Floor |
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| Linda J Loew
Buildings, sculptures, and architectural details recur in my images. Shelter and utility at the least, these are awesome creations of humanity at their finest. They interact with us far beyond their basic function to house our activities. They occupy our minds and affect our sensibilities even as we occupy their space. A native New Yorker, I’ve spent most of my adult life in Chicago. Shaped and inspired by both cities, I am drawn to the energy of the urban landscape and to images that reflect the vitality of city life. We are surrounded by compelling designs everywhere we go: parks, libraries, office buildings, theaters. What rewards we reap when we pause to consider the dimensions, shapes, and textures of the spaces we occupy! RAW Location: 1802 Berteau 2nd Floor |
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| Lisa Harris
I create functional vessels and sculptural pieces that reflect the urban landscape and figural studies. Surfaces are painterly, often crusty, eroded and etched. RAW Location: 4401 N. Ravenswood (Lillstreet) http://www.lisaharrisceramics.com
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Lissa Treger
RAW Location: 1807 Sunnyside #300 |
| Lori Swerdlow
My passion is with no formal photographic education - just a camera that works well with me and the world to share it with! When confronting MS I’d take a cab often laying down in the back seat to regenerate my nerves. Guiding the path they’d ask, “How do you know where we are?” I’d say, “I know the tops of the buildings as well as the bottoms.” It was then I dreamed of photography, documenting my perspective! It is now my mobility as I scoot out on my journeys (and my mobility scooter) to expand my visions. We may not have or take the time to experience and be part of that moment. “Scooting and shooting” and loving it allows me to look at, see and be part of my all. The curiosities my photos elicit stimulate the imagination and infuse the energy, humor and life force vital to us all. RAW Location: 3711 N. Ravenswood 1st Floor |
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| LoveBug Studios
Ebony Love is a fiber artist who creates charming, fashionable pieces that reflect modern sophistication and flair using her own original designs. She handcrafts each item herself, and offers a wide variety of items such as quilts, handbags, stationery, and home decor. RAW Location: 3701 N. Ravenswood 2nd Floor |
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