Elmhurst Art Museum

Elmhurst Art Museum opens an exciting new exhibition on May 15, 2010.  The Search for Form features the work of two remarkable Chicago artists: Eleanor Himmelfarb and Holly Renald Cohn.  It was during the 1980’s that Holly Renald Cohn began formally studying painting with Eleanor Himmelfarb.  The exhibition presents abstract canvases painted by both women during the last few decades.

Embodied in her paintings, and implicit in her teaching, was Himmelfarb’s guiding artistic philosophy.  “Ideas rather than things are the basis of my subject matter.  The manner of presenting an idea is the excitement of painting – the search for form.”

Highlighting the work of Richard Bresnahan and four of his former apprentices, Stoked: Five Artists of Fire and Clay represents a decade of collaborative effort with the Saint John's Pottery program.  Curated by Dr. Matthew Welsh, Assistant Director and Curator of Japanese and Korean Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the exhibition features not only the work of master potter and artist in residence, Richard Bresnahan, but that of Kevin Flicker, professor and ceramicist at University of Minnesota-Morris; Stephen Earp, ceramicist and writer from Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts; Sam Johnson, professor and ceramicist at College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University; and Anne Meyer, ceramicist and sculptor from Saint Joseph, Minnesota.  Each artist presents vastly different outlooks and creative approaches that share a common concern for indigenous materials in relationship to the environment.

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Elmhurst Art Museum will open Glass + Steel the first exhibition in the Struktur:  Architecture & Design series at Elmhurst Art Museum on August 2, 2009.  Glass + Steel will present examples of work from Herman Miller, Knoll, Higgins Glass, Haeger pottery, Isamu Noguchi, Alexander Girard, Paul McCobb, and Russel Wright on loan from many collectors as well as recent acquisitions to the Museum’s collection.  This exhibitions focus will be the translation of the energy and freshness apparent in Mid-20th Century design.  

A selection of works from the Cleve Carney collection will be exhibited at Elmhurst Art Museum, filling all three exhibition galleries. Like most collections, it has evolved. The selection is contemporary and includes Roxy Paine, Jean-Luc Moulène, Jenny Holzer, Johannes Girardoni, Joseph Marioni, Thomas Nozkowski, David Shrigley, Mel Bochner, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Jin Soo Kim, Tony Tasset, Ann Wilson, Tom Skomski, Josh Garber, John Fraser, John Pittman, Tony Fitzpatrick, Richard Rezac, and many others.