The Chicago Gallery News

Evanston Art Center's
Gala Party and Live Auction

This Saturday, the Evanston Art Center (EAC) will host its 25th Annual Spring Benefit Art Auction.

Attendees will have the opportunity to enjoy a festive evening of art while viewing + bidding on paintings, drawings, photographs, ceramics, sculpture, prints + more donated by 120+ leading Chicago-area artists. New this year, an “Experience Auction” will offer items like hotel stays, restaurant credits + spa packages.

A silent auction + exhibition began April 29, + this Saturday’s event will close the exhibition + auction. All proceeds from sales benefit the EAC’s scholarship, exhibition + outreach programs.

Saturday, May 19
6:30-11pm Gala Party
(cocktail reception followed by dinner)
8pm Live Auction

Evanston Art Center
2603 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL
Tickets: $100/person;
$65 for 35 yrs old + under.
Reservations + details

Cash ‘n Carry Print + Poster Sale
At Chicago Printmakers Collaborative

This weekend, The Chicago Printmakers Collaborative will present its 5th annual $20 Cash ‘n Carry Print and Poster Sale.

Support local artists + visit the CPC this Saturday, May 19 from 12-6pm to purchase bargain prints from artists:
Jay Ryan (the Bird Machine), Amos Kennedy Jr., Dan Grzeca, Justin Santora, Steve Walters (Screwball Press), Dan MacAdam (Crosshair), Jen Farrell (Starshaped Press), Phineas X Jones, Sanya Glisic, Debra Riffe, Marnie Galloway, Julie Morelli (Letterform), Shawn Stucky, Dennis O'Malley, Deborah Maris Lader, Maria Sanchez and more!

May 19, 12-6pm
Open House & Reception

Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
4642 N. Western Ave.
chicagoprintmakers.com

Phineas X Jones, Canasta & Rego, screen print, $20

Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
Opens at The Art Institute of Chicago

Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective will open Tuesday, May 22 at The Art Institute of Chicago.

The retrospective samples five decades and over 160 works by Lichtenstein (1923-1997) grouping bodies of work into familiar categories of the artists’ oeuvre, i.e., cartoon and comic paintings that staked his place in the Pop scene of '60s, a series in black and white, a variety of enlarged brushstroke paintings. Read more about the exhibition in CGN's Blog...

Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
May 22 - September 3, 2012
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603

Pictured:
Roy Lichtenstein, American (1923-1997). Keds, 1961. Oil on canvas. 123.2 x 88.3 cm (48.5 x 34.75 in). © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. The Robert B. Mayer Family Collection, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Vera Klement: Recent Paintings
+ Carly Silverman: Party Time

Now on display at Zolla/Lieberman Gallery is two new exhibitions:
Vera Klement’s Recent Paintings + Carly Silverman’s Party Time.

Klement writes about her painting, “Close as paint is to the inner stuff of our body, its liquidity and plasticity, pransparence and ooze - it's iridescence - it makes painting the perfect medium for coaxing image into being.”

Silverman’s paintings examine the ideals and shortfalls of feminine identity. She received her MFA in painting from SAIC in 2011 and currently lives + works in New York.

Both exhibitions will be on view May 11 - June 30, 2012.

Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
325 W. Huron, Chicago IL 60654

Carly Silverman, Girls Night In, 2012