Art Watch: “Artfit” Your Man Cave with Pieces from “Ascensions” at Eyeporium Gallery
By chicago-pipeline at July 6, 2012 | 2:50 pm | Print
With pieces titled “Foosball” and “Betting Games,” it’s impossible not to think of your fill-in-the-blank friend growing up that had the sweet basement rec room that everyone wanted to hang out in.
Now, at Wicker Park’s Eyeporium Gallery, 1431 N. Milwaukee, you can find original art for those rec room walls, specifically at tonight’s opening reception for Sandra Hart, who paints in watercolors using scenes of nature and everyday life as her inspiration.
Hart is a member of the Plein Air Painters of Chicago and a flight attend who paints en plein aire whenever possible, according to a press release issued by the Gallery, which will feature “Ascensions,” a body of Hart’s work, beginning tonight, Friday, July 6th.
An opening reception will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. The gathering is free, open to the public, and presumably air conditioned, so pop by if you can. “Ascensions” runs through August 1st, 2012.
“Friendly Skies”
WHERE:
Eyeporium Gallery
1431 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Phone 773-782-1744
Two blocks from the “Damen” Blue Line El stop in the heart of Wicker Park.
“Poppy”
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Sandra Hart is a born and bred Midwesterner. Starting with an Associate of Arts from Wabash Valley Community College in Mt Carmel, IL, she refined her skills in portraiture at the University of Evansville. She later obtained her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a signature member of the Illinois Watercolour Society, a member of the Arlington Heights Art Guild, the Plein Air Painters of Chicago and the International Society of Marine Painters.
ABOUT EYEPORIUM GALLERY:
Annette Sollars, creator of Chicago’s fine eyewear icon, Eye Want, also launched Eyeporium, a fine art gallery in Wicker Park. Representing exceptional artists of regional and national prominence, Eyeporium Gallery features contemporary creators of paint, print, photographic and sculptural works from the realistic to the surreal to the abstract. With the location of Eyeporium inside Eye Want, Annette has created a single destination for you to procure fine eyewear and fine art “for your face and your space”.
