Family Portrait Drawing Workshop with Rob Pruitt

Friday, Apr 19, 3 – 5 pm
Rob Pruitt began The Obama Paintings as a means of recording Barack Obama’s presidency. Beginning with the inauguration on January 20, 2009, each morning Pruitt created a two-foot-by-two-foot painting of President Obama, with particular imagery drawn from news of the day. The work was completed on January 20, 2017, Obama’s last day in office, and is comprised of 2,922 individual paintings.

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Julia Schmitt Healy

Opening: Friday, Apr 19, 5 – 8 pm

For Julia Schmitt Healy’s first show at Western Exhibitions, the gallery is thrilled to present a selection of textile works from the early 1970s — a series of ballpoint on handkerchief drawings and a grouping of tufted watercolor on muslin pieces that exist somewhere between painting, pillows and soft sculpture. Coming out of the Chicago Imagist tradition, Schmitt Healy explores images and iconography from the news, religions, mass media and her travels. Her work focuses on themes ranging from ecological disaster, human relationships, symbols, feminism, consumerism and the natural world.
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Thomas Leinberger: INTERIOR

Opening: Friday, Apr 19, 6 – 8 pm

INTERIOR gives the viewer a considerable insight into Leinberger’s conceptual exploration of the interior and the role of objects in space. Inspired in part by his great interest in early modernist interior design and the continuum of designed objects, the pieces in the exhibition were first imagined as interventions in historical interiors, considering how they would activate in these environments and in turn, the space transformed by their introduction. These objects are conceived to participate in everyday functions of support and furbishing, yet they also possess autonomy outside of their utility.

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