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Open House: Art About Home

January 19 - April 20, 2013

EAM’s winter exhibition programming focuses on artists’ representations of home. Inspired by the museum’s McCormick House, a mid-century modern home designed by architect Mies van der Rohe, the new exhibitions consider experiences, contents, memories, and realities of home today.

No Rules: Contemporary Clay

September 7 , 2012 - January 5, 2013

No Rules: Contemporary Clay is the second in a series of three exhibitions at Elmhurst Art Museum exploring ceramic tradition and new creative developments. No Rules focuses on clay-based work of a nonfunctional nature and includes an international group of artists. Taking a variety of forms—from large and small-scale sculpture to community-based walks to performance, video, and photography—the work in this exhibition underscores artists’ enduring relationship with clay and its adaptability to contemporary concerns.

Join us to celebrate the opening reception of No Rules Contemporary Clay on Friday, September 7 at 6:30 pm.

Casey Roberts: Totally Free Now

06.15.2012 - 08.25.2012

Casey Roberts’ paintings create small poignant moments, vaguely narrative and reminiscent of the most elegant children’s book illustrations. Somewhere between the bright playfulness of Eric Carle (The Very Hungry Caterpillar) and suggestive darkness in drawings by Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are) Roberts’ work creates a distinct atmosphere where empty space, nature and narrative become characters in the artist’s own curious world.

Heather Becker: The Hidden Face

Heather Becker, The Guardian, 2011 06.15.2012 - 08.25.2012

Becker’s quiet portraits evoke longing and foreignness with distant glances and delicate expressions. Haunting and expressive, Becker’s emotional subjects are drawn from memory, not from models or photos. The women she creates are distinctly hers, each displaying features of traditional beauty, high cheekbones, large eyes and narrow faces, but none of her drawings are particularly beautiful. Instead, these women express stillness, as if they are too delicate to move or breathe.

Anders Nilsen: Adam and Eve Sneaking Back Into the Garden to Steal More Apples

Anders Nilsen, Last Remnant After the End of the World, 2007 06.15.2012 - 08.25.2012

Anders Nilsen tells stories with pictures. Adam and Eve Sneaking Back into the Garden to Steal More Apples is an exhibition of stories from the 594-page comic book, Big Questions, and for Nilsen, a new exploration of fate.

Billy Tokyo: The Shape of Things to Come/John Dempsey: Urban Nature

06.15.2012 - 08.25.2012

Billy Tokyo is John Dempsey. John Dempsey is Billy Tokyo. But you can call him Jack.

Billy Tokyo is the alias John Dempsey created in 2008 when commissioned to create illustrations for the Chicago Cubs. Concerned with pigeonholing himself in the world of commercial art, Dempsey created his alter ego to make artwork for festivals like Lollapalooza and South X SouthWest. Heavily influenced by Japanese Pop Art and the Chicago Imagists, Tokyo’s work is bright and complex. Embracing a psychedelic rainbow palette, Tokyo packs every inch of space with commentary on contemporary culture and skewers stereotypes with ample wit and humor.

John Dempsey’s paintings are equal parts graffiti and illustrative patterns that create vibrant and approachable landscapes. Using the landscape around him as inspiration, Dempsey abstracts landmarks into splatters, curves and outlines that reflect the artist’s inner feelings about urban locations.

Michael Ferris Jr.: Kindred

06.15.2012 - 08.25.2012

Michael Ferris Jr.’s large-scale sculptures of recycled wood take portraiture to an extreme. His figures, often of close friends and family, are massive; one torso measures more than five feet tall. Ferris’ interest is in the balance of extremes; between the stoic and classical compositions of his sculpture and the tattoo-like patterns of painted wood on the clothing and flesh of each figure. As his process develops, Ferris’ concentrates on infusing each portrait with genuine human presence.

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Elmhurst Art Museum

Open House: Art About Home

No Rules: Contemporary Clay

Casey Roberts: Totally Free Now

Heather Becker: The Hidden Face

Anders Nilsen: Adam and Eve Sneaking Back Into the Garden to Steal More Apples

Billy Tokyo: The Shape of Things to Come/John Dempsey: Urban Nature

Michael Ferris Jr.: Kindred

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