Mary Ann Papanek-Miller
Solo Exhibition
The Nemeth Art Center, MN
May – June 2023
Catalog is available for purchase by contacting info@nemethartcenter.org
Luciana Abait
On the Verge
Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
through July 29, 2023
Luciana Abait: On the Verge features more than 20 recent artworks spanning photography, painting, sculpture, video installation and augmented reality that demonstrate the powerful visual language for which Abait is known. The exhibition, which premiered at Loyola Marymount University’s Laband Art Gallery.
“I find that Luciana’s depictions of our contemporary climate crisis are likewise overwhelming and invitational,” said Laband Art Gallery Director Karen Rapp, who curated the exhibition.“ Her palette is sometimes skewed neon and deliberately unnatural which causes an unsettling effect. But, at the same time, she renders her pictures with such intentionally beautiful surfaces and colors to remind us of what is at stake: her landscapes are figuratively pushing at the edge of planetary existence. It’s as if she’s urging us to step into the scene and do something good.
Zack Wirsum
featured in Art 50 2022: Chicago’s Visual Vanguard
New City Magazine, September 2022
Luciana Abait
Solo Exhibition at Laband Art Gallery
Opening Reception September 24, 2022, 1-3 pm
Black Water (The Exquisite Edge of the Precipice)” photograph and acrylic painting on canvas, 56″ DIA, (2022)
Loyola Marymount University’s Laband Art Gallery this fall offers an unprecedented
survey exhibition of painting, photography, sculpture, video installation and augmented reality by artist
Luciana Abait, whose striking works shine a light on the issues of environmental fragility and climate
change. “Luciana Abait: On the Verge” includes more than 20 pieces conjuring imaginary worlds that
portend global climate catastrophe. The show opens at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17, and runs through
Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022.
Bonnie Lautenberg’s ARTISTICA! at the Boca Raton Museum of Art
Luciana Abait
The Endless Open Sky Above Us
Lee Grantham Featured in Chicago Life Magazine
Winter 2022 Edition
Click here to see the full issue.
Bill Mauldin
Pritzker Military Library
Spring 2021 – Spring 2022
Lee Grantham
featured in Rocked & Rolled
University Museum, Southern Illinois University
through December 11, 2021
Claudia DeMonte
“Tuilleries Gardens” by Claudia DeMonte will be one of the artworks featured in “Pictures at An Exhibition”
As part of Miami Art Week 2021, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and the Lowe Art Museum are co-presenting “Pictures at an Exhibition,” featuring the Frost Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gerard Schwarz.
Mindy Weisel
featured in The Times of Israel
September 2021
click on the photo to access the podcast and article
Mindy was also awarded the Order of Merit medal from the German Federal Republic
for her work in the arts for promoting peace between nations.
Meet Multimedia Artist Luciana Abait
Interview : LA Weekly
May 2021
Mindy Weisel
Zack Wirsum
Last of the Last Name, Last Chance to Make a First Impression and Make Something Lasting, 2019, acrylic on wood, 36 x 48 in.
Claudia DeMonte
Navigation
opens Thursday, October 15
at June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer Street, New York
Jonah Koppel
featured in Chicago Life Magazine
Claudia DeMonte
Luciana Abait
featured in ShoutoutLA
John Torreano
The Big Picture – Painting From the Universe
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
September 3 – January 17, 2021
Guest curated by Julie Augur
Lee Grantham: New Work
featured in the Chicago Reader
Click here to go to the article.
Luciana Abait’s
Bridge displayed on a billboard in Hollywood, CA-
Gladys Nilsson
featured in the New York Times, January 30, 2020
Billboard Creative LA will showcase
Luciana Abait’s Bridges, February 2020
Luciana Abait, Bridges, 2018, mixed media on paper, 40 x 60 inches
The work will be displayed on a street billboard in Hollywood,
on the corner of Santa Monica Blvd and Gower Street.
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Binomial: Claudia DeMonte and Ed McGowin
December 1, 2019 – May 15, 2020
Gabby Giffords
a conversation on gun safety
Friday, October 18
“Since our founding in 2013, Giffords has helped write, pass, and enact legislation that is reducing gun violence and saving lives. Against fierce opposition, we have helped pass more than 290 new gun safety laws in 45 states and Washington, DC. In the last year alone, 27 states passed 67-gun safety bills – including strengthening background checks, banning bump stocks, enacting extreme risk laws, closing domestic violence loopholes, and more – making this one of the most momentous years in the history of the gun violence prevention movement. Now, more than ever, we must continue to push at the state and federal level and continue to reduce gun violence in our country.”
Visit giffords.org for more information or to donate to the cause.
Zack Wirsum on WTTW Channel 11
Zack Wirsum was featured in a segment on WTTW Channel 11’s Chicago Tuesday, November 4th, at 7pm. The piece focused on Project Onward’s Fall Ball Fund Raiser At Play honoring Karl Wirsum. Zack discussed working with the Project Onward artists to create art inspired by Karl Wirsum’s toy collection, growing up Wirsum and his current show “Ever Since I Don’t Remember When” still on view at Jean Albano Gallery
Here is a link to the segment:
https://news.wttw.com/2019/11/05/vintage-toy-collection-inspires-exceptional-group-local-artists
Bonnie Lautenberg featured on Fox5
November 7th, 2019
Joe Tallarico interview in the Comp Magazine
Read the full article here: http://www.thecompmagazine.com/joe-tallarico/
Margaret Wharton featured in
What Came After: Figurative Painting in Chicago 1978-98
Elmhurst Art Museum
on view September 14, 2019 – January 12, 2020
Margaret Wharton, Leopatra, 1982, mixed media, 70 x 24 x 17 in.
See the WTTW feature on the exhibit: https://news.wttw.com/2019/10/08/what-came-after-exhibition-explores-legacy-chicago-imagism
Honey and Ice: Fragile Elements
Bonnie Lautenberg’s exhibit at the Weill Art Gallery, 92nd St. Y
September 10-November 17
Honey and Ice Pair 1, 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 45″ x 60″
Bonnie Lautenberg interviewed in Hamptons.com
Click here for the full article.
Margaret Wharton’s exhibit at JTT NYC featured in Hyperallergic
Link to the full article here: Our Love for Fetishes
July 5-7, 2019
The Bridgehampton Museum
Bonnie Lautenberg, 2004, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Marilyn Minter, Scrumptious, 2018, Archival Pigment Print, 44.7 x 36 in.
Donna Rosenthal, My Fair Lady, 2019, vintage pattern books, trim, mixed media. 21 x 13 x 13 in.
MARGARET WHARTON and ISSY WOOD
I came as soon as I heard
June 2 – August 2, 2019
JTT GALLERY
191 CHRYSTIE ST
NEW YORK NY 10002
Lee Grantham
Featured in “Rocked and Rolled”, opening May 5 at the Illinois State Museum in Lockport, IL.
Mary Ann Papanek-Miller
Recently accepted into a national juried group exhibition at the National Humanities Center in the Research Triangle in NC.
Luciana Abait
Featured in the exhibition “Metamorphosis “ at the Palm Springs Museum in Palm Desert
Luciana Abait, Iceberg (III), 2019, mixed media on wood panel, 30 x 30 in.
Jim Waid
at Prairie State College Christopher Art Gallery
Dreaming:
January 2 – 24, 2019 | Artists’ Reception: Wednesday, January 16, 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM
Jim Waid, Agua Dulce, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 28 x 40 in.
click here to read the article in the Chicago Tribune
Luciana Abait
featured in Voyage LA, January 7, 2019
click here to read the article in Voyage LA
Bonnie Lautenberg
featured in In Florida, October 24, 2018
click here to read the article in In Florida
Diane Cooper
featured in Voyage Chicago, July 2018 issue
featured in the New Art Examiner
July/August 2018 issue
Bonnie Star
featured in Hamptons Cottages & Gardens July 2018 issue
Jean Albano Gallery
INTERVIEW IN 27EAST MAGAZINE
Read here
William Harrison’s Biker Drawings
at South Shore Arts, Munster, IN
June 10 – August 26, 2018
William Harrison, Big Ben, 2014, carbon pencil on paper, 30 x 22 in.
Karl Wirsum
“The Hairy Who // Reframing Rebellion”
featured in The Seen Magazine
Read Here
Claudia DeMonte & Ed McGowin
“pARTners” on view at Mattatuck Museum
February 25 – April 22, 2018
Read the latest reviews on the wife-husband folk artists:
Republican-American, “If the shoe fits: ‘Partners’ a pleasure to see” – 3/9/18
Hartford Courant, “Wife-Husband Folk Art Exhibit At Mattatuck” – 3/9/18
Bonnie Star
“Where Women Create” magazine
Spring 2018 issue
Diane Cooper
on view at The Arts Club of Chicago
88th Artist Member Exhibition
January 19 – February 24, 2018
Read More
Imari, 2014, wool, felt, acrylic paint, 43 x 45 x 8 in.
A Conversation between Karl & Zack Wirsum
Moderated by Curator Nathan Mason
July 1, 2017
NOW ONLINE
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- Mickey Mouse Club, We Will Always Have Cold Pasta, If You Love Like That, You’ll Leave a Ghost, 2017, acrylic on panel, 36 x 48 in.
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- Alien Dating Service Portrait, 1977, reverse acrylic on acetate, 12.5 x 9.5 in.
John Maloof
donated hundreds of Vivian Maier photographs
from the Maloof Collection to the University of Chicago
You can read about his donation in the Chicago Tribune
and watch his interview on Chicago Tonight
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- Angry Arnold, 2016, reverse acrylic paint on plexiglass, 19 x 15 x 1 in.
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- What’s Real 03, 2017, Archival Pigment Prints, Collage, 22 x 15 in.
In Conversation
Zack Wirsum & Karl Wirsum
July 1, 2017
Moderated by Nathan Mason, Curator of Exhibits and Public Art
Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, City of Chicago
Zack Wirsum
A Stranger Still….
Reviewed in Create Magazine
& Featured in Chicago Life Magazine
ZACK WIRSUM
A STRANGER STILL
SOLO EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION OPENING: FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017 5:30-7:30 PM
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- Hunt Slonem
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- Bonnie Star
HONORED TO HAVE TWO ARTISTS CHOSEN AS A PART OF
ART PALM SPRINGS SELECTS
Luciana Abait
Water Cities – Los Angeles
Solo exhibition at LAX Airport (Terminal 3)
November 2016 – March 2017
JEAN ALBANO GALLERY
Featured as one of the top ten Chicago art galleries on The Culture Trip
As Long As We Are Here, We Should Probably Eat Something, 2015
acrylic, watercolor, yupo and linen on panel, 16 x 20 in.
Zack Wirsum
Ocotillo
Group Show at the Stella Elkins Gallery, Tyler School of Art
Reception: Friday, January 20, 2017, 6-9 PM
Jim Waid Paintings
Twelve-inch hardcover publication showcases 140 full-page images of Waid’s work covering 50 years of his artistry.
Foreword by Phoenix Art Museum Director Emeritus James Ballinger
Essay by curator and arts writer MaLin Wilson-Powell
For more information, Click Here
Claudia DeMonte
Abudance: Travel
featured in the article on Beth Rudin DeWoody & Firooz Zahedi’s home in December issue of Architectural Digest
AS SEEN ON ABC 7 EYEWITNESS NEWS
Go Cubs Go! Our front window is now showing it’s Chicago pride with baseball art pieces by Margaret Wharton and Chicago Cubs gear.
PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE OUR PARTICIPATION IN SOFA CHICAGO 2016
FESTIVAL HALL, NAVY PIER
BOOTH 405
November 4 – 6, 2016
Opening Night – November 3, 2016
Including Works By:
Diane Cooper | Claudia DeMonte | John Geldersma | John Maloof | Ed McGowin
Donna Rosenthal | Susan Saladino | Hunt Slonem | Courtney Timmermans | John Torreano
CHICAGO IS: OUR KIND OF ART
GROUP EXHIBITION
OPENING RECEPTION: SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 5:30-7:30 PM
Art After Hours // September 23, 2016 // extended gallery hours until 9 PM
The Art of Making the Invisible Visible:
A Retrospective by Claudia DeMonte
Powerhouse Community Arts Center // September 3 – October 5, 2016
Reception with the artist: Tuesday, September 27, 2016, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Yoga Figure 111, 2010, pewter and brass on wood, 18.5 x 15 x 10 in.
JAG at Art Southampton 2016
featured in SOCIAL – The Lifestyle Magazine
A Gala Not to be Missed by Stephanie Vitarelli
Bonnie Star – Art Southampton 2016
JAG & John Torreano at Art Southampton 2016
featured in The Huffington Post
Multiple Gems At Art Southampton 2016 by Bruce Helander
Art Southampton 2016
July 7-11, 2016
BOOTH AS26
EXHIBITING:
CLAUDIA DEMONTE | JULES FEIFFER | WILLIAM HARRISON
JEFF KOONS | ED MCGOWIN | DONNA ROSENTHAL | HUNT SLONEM
BONNIE STAR | COURTNEY TIMMERMANS | JOHN TORREANO
Jules Feiffer book signing for his new graphic novel Cousin Joseph
at the Jean Albano Gallery booth – AS26
Saturday, July 9, 2016, 3-4 PM
Puttin’ On The Ritz, 2015, 17 x 14 in.
Jules Feiffer
Cousin Joseph
Prequel to Kill My Mother
The second installment in the Noir trilogy
Available July 2016 – W.W. Norton & Company
Making Her Mark
Mattatuck Museum
April 17-June 5, 2016
Claudia DeMonte
Cut, Fold, and Form
Racine Art Museum
Racine, WI
Donna Rosenthal
January 24-May 1, 2016
My Fair Ladies: The Free Spirit, 2011,
found vintage atlases, found vintage buttons, and steel,
20 x 13 x 12 in.
87th Exhibition of Professional Members
The Arts Club of Chicago
March 1-April 16, 2016
Diane Cooper
Bundles, 2015, mixed media, wool felt, acrylic paint, 4 x 4 in. each
DiMoDA: The Digital Museum of Digital Art
Chicago opening
The Stolbun Collection
Alfredo Salazar-Caro
February 12-March 31, 2016
PRIVATE PREVIEW FEBRUARY 11
ALL OTHER TIMES BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Named one of the 25 best shows of 2015
Press: Hyperallergic, Anti-Utopias, Vice
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair
Palm Springs Convention Center
February 11-14, 2016
Booth 408
Untitled, 2015, oil and diamond dust on wood, 24 x 20 in.
Surrealism: The Conjured Life
MCA Chicago
Margaret Wharton
Saturday, November 21, 2015 – Sunday, June 5, 2016
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- Garden Chair, 1978 – Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
DiMoDA: The Digital Museum of Digital Art
TRANSFER gallery
Alfredo Salazar-Caro
November 14-December 19, 2015
Named one of the 25 best shows of 2015
Press: Hyperallergic, Anti-Utopias, Vice
Superheroes in Gotham
New York Historical Society
October 9, 2015-February 21, 2016
Jules Feiffer
I Used To Be Superman, a Jules Feiffer cartoon originally published in Playboy, will be included in Superheroes In Gotham, an exhibition at the New York Historical Society in October 2015.
SOFA Chicago
SCULPTURE OBJECTS FUNCTIONAL ART AND DESIGN FAIR, NAVY PIER
November 5-8, 2015
Booth 403
Zack Wirsum
Zack Wirsum
Getting to the Bottom of It…, 2014
acrylic, mixed media
18 x 24 in.
Awkward Silences
Opening Thursday, November 5, 2015
Artist reception from 5:30-7:00 PM, Artist remarks at 6 PM
Union League Club, Third Floor Art Gallery
65 W Jackson Blvd
Chicago, IL 60604
Jules Feiffer
2015 Baltimore Comic Convention
Baltimore Convention Center
September 25, 26 & 27, 2015
Friday 1-7 PM
Saturday 10 AM-7 PM
Sunday 10 AM-5 PM
Jules Feiffer will be at the 2015 Baltimore Comic Convention on September 25 & 26 for book signing. He will also be receiving a Harvey Award at the event.
Jules Feiffer
2015
iris print, ed. 40
Out of Line: The Art of Jules Feiffer
60 Millstone Road
Bridgehampton, NY 11976
JULES FEIFFER
JULES FEIFFER IN CONVERSATION WITH NEIL GAIMAN
THURSDAY MAY 14,2015
7PM
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York 10128
Join him as he talks with author Neil Gaiman about his life, his work and his new book, Out of Line.
Jules Feiffer will sign copies of Out of Line after the event.
Cost: from $30.00
Jules Feiffer
Water Mill, New York
Fletcher Benton
Lifetime Achievement Award
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair 2015
Fletcher Benton, 83, is a world-renowned sculptor and painter who has created a body of award-winning work ranging from delicate sketches and paintings to monumental steel constructions and seminal works of “kinetic art”.
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair 2015
Booth 713
Claudia DeMonte
Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery
September 15 – November 7, 2014
MSU Department of Art
102 Freeman Hall
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Margaret Wharton Catalog
Margaret Wharton
In Memoriam (1943-2014)
The catalog will feature a forward written by Lynne Warren (curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago) and a range of Wharton’s works through the years.
Selling for $10
Jules Feiffer
On the morning of June 26, 2014 Roger Rosenblatt led the morning discussion with Jules Feiffer at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. — Feiffer told the audience that in order to create something wonderful, one has to let the work take over instead of trying to control everything —
Feiffer’s works are on display at the Institution, including Theories of Humor.
Chautauqua Institution
1 Ames Ave
Chautauqua, NY 14722
ink and watercolor on paper
22 x 17 ½ in
Mindy Weisel: Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
Acclaimed abstract painter, Mindy Weisel started to work with glass in 2005. Her lifelong exploration of themes emerging from conscious and subconscious thought and complex emotional situations, found in glass a new outlet of expression. Curator: Henrietta Eliezer Brunner, opens June 26, 2014.
Jean Albano Gallery proudly represents the art work of Mindy Weisel.
Art Hamptons July 10-13, 2014
Jean Albano Gallery will be exhibiting at ArtHamptons, July 10-13 in booth #204. The fair will take place at Sculpture Fields of Nova’s Ark in Bridgehampton, NY
Showcasing the artwork of artist that have a presence in the Hamptons
BONNIE ENGLEBARDT LAUTENBERG
COURTNEY TIMMERMANS
American Academy of Arts & Sciences Honors Jules Feiffer
Blue Tango, Iris Print, 20 x 16 in.
Jules Feiffer is a newly elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He will be inducted at a ceremony at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts in October.
The Academy, founded in 1780 by John Adams, is considered one of the most prestigious honorary societies in the country and includes more than 250 Nobel Laureates and 60 Pulitzer Prize Winners, of which Feiffer is one himself.
Jean Albano Gallery proudly represents the art work of Jules Feiffer.
Zack Wirsum
Chance Aesthetics
Clarence Morgan and Zack Wirsum shared interest in the language of abstraction is also the starting point for their different approaches. Complex systems of patterns, geometric relationships and layering of line are employed by both artists. While a “chance aesthetics “ or randomness and unpredictability, as Clarence Morgan writes about his work, demarcates how the works are both viewed and interpreted, the figures entangled in Zack Wirsum’s work open the possibility for free association within the specific visual cues of abstraction.
Kenosha, WI 53140
Margaret Wharton
1943 – 2014
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Margaret Wharton on the morning of January 20, 2014. She had been sick since last Fall and died peacefully in her sleep.
Margaret was an amazing woman in so many ways and her spirit will live on.. Her creative and intelligent artwork, her insightful wit, and her caring personality and spirit will be remembered and missed by all – especially her children, Darby and Greg, their spouses Jimmy and Kristin, and her grandchildren who she adored.
MEMORIAL
A Remembrance Gathering to celebrate the life and work of MARGARET WHARTON: Saturday, February 8, 2014 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
The Rainbo Club
1150 N. Damen Avenue
Chicago
For additional information, please call the gallery.
Gladys Nilsson
Hidden Treasures Unveiled: Watercolors
September 28, 2013 – January 5, 2014 Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts 118-128 N. Broad Street • Philadelphia, PA 19102 • 215-972-7600
Gladys Nilsson
The Art of People Watching
We are happy to announce a wonderful article in the current SHERIDAN ROAD MAGAZINE on the truly amazing Gladys Nilsson.
http://www.sheridanroadmagazine.com/article.php/vol/6/issue/8/title/article-1382985301362
Zack Wirsum
Ghosts Don’t Burn
October 19 – November 23, 2013 SIDECAR GALLERY 411 Huehn Hammond, Indiana 46327
Mindy Weisel
Not Neutral
September 3 – December 28, 2013
The Kreeger Museum
2401 Foxhall Road, NW
District of Columbia
Tohoku VI, 2012, made of Japanese papers, collage and paint, 50 x 28 in.
Mary Ann Papanek-Miller
DePaul Faculty Exhibition
July 25 – September 29, 2013
Reception: September 18, 2013 6-8PM
DePaul Art Museum
935 West Fullerton Avenue
Chicago IL 60614
Preparing for Winter: I Will Work Harder I-V, 2013
mixed media, acrylics, graphite, printed fabric on wood
24 x 11 in ea
DePaul Richardson Library
Through September 2014
Reception: September 24, 2013 3-5pm
2350 North Kenmore Avenue
Chicago IL 60614
Courtney Timmermans
An Object of Beauty: Glass, Fiber and Metal
June 22 – July 18, 2013
Fowler-Kellogg Art Center
Chautauqua Institution
Chautauqua, New York
Urban Herd: Lion, 2012
cast resin, air rifle BBs, mixed media
16 x 13 x 8 in
Margaret Wharton receives Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant, 2013
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grants were established to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art. Grants are awarded to artists who have been working in a mature phase of their art for at least the last 20 years.
Different Strokes, 2011
chair parts, golf clubs, golf tees, tennis rackets, badminton racket, tennis ball
61 x 32 in
DIANE COOPER
Bonnie Peterson & Diane Cooper: Textiles
May 24 – June 28, 2013
College of Lake County
19351 West Washington
Grayslake, IL 60030
Bundles Varie’s, 2010-2011
mixed media
31 x 31 x 5 in
Bonnie Peterson & Diane Cooper: Textiles
Houghton, Michigan artist Bonnie Peterson uses embroidery on textiles to communicate provocative environmental and social issues. Chicago artist Diane Cooper displays a Japanese aesthetic in her work. Her constructions employ fiber, leather, wood and bits of society’s detritus.
NYC Literary Honors JULES FEIFFER
2013 award for Humor
The NYC Literary Honors was created by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to honor great living authors and scholars who have demonstrated a lifetime of achievement, and for whom New York has been a central inspiration. Jules Feiffer received the award at Gracie Mansion on Tuesday, April 23, 2013.
Jean Albano Gallery is proud to represent the art work of Jules Feiffer.