Walter fydryck • Lea basile Lazarus • Frederick walter Nitsch
Raúl Ortiz • Lee Rainboth • Jeffrey Repko
Carol Stitzer • Don Widmer
NEXT is a virtual exhibition featuring past and present works from artists from our previous shows. Each exhibiting artist will have a piece from a past show and a piece that they have most recently completed. Due to the current crisis, many art exhibitions, events and opportunities have been put on hold. Right now, artists need your support more than ever. Help enrich their lives by enriching your environment with a purchase of original artwork. We want to keep the spirit of art alive and accessible to everyone.
We hope these works will inspire and motivate you.
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Walter Fydryck’s paintings focus on the intersection of painting as an image and container for forms. Twisting planes float weightlessly in front of undulating backdrops. Light and shadow flow across surfaces, suspending objects and locating a world outside the canvas. None of these paintings would be possible without Fydryck’s technical mastery, derived from years of experimentation.
For Lea Basile-Lazarus, art is not something that she chooses to do, but rather what she must do. She is compelled to react to world events that affect the many groups of people that populate our world. There are moments in time that need to be documented. She does this through contemporary printmaking and papermaking. Currently, she makes monotypes, a one of a kind print, which incorporates multiple layers of colors, shapes, images, and textures.
In his mixed media work, Frederick uses paint to obscure personal and found photographs in an attempt to convey something new about his subjects. The ‘What Do You Miss' piece was created in May of 2020.
Raúl Ortiz is a process painter. He photographs nature during his walks and travels and then photo copies the images to transfer onto canvas. This results in collages of paint using expressive brushstrokes, adding & removing patches of flat spaces, and shifting the composition by dividing the picture plane.
Lee Rainboth is an American artist creating work defined by the Haitian environment and communities. As a non-Haitian artist creating work in a Haitian environment, his goal through his recent art is to recontextualize how the Haitian body is viewed in relationship to the spiritual and cultural histories that it incarnates. By using a variety of different kinds of Haitian bodies as his subjects, he created a series of works that express the balance of divinity, regality, and humanity which these bodies carry into the world.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after de-industrialization, Jeffrey’s work explores notions of industry and the stories he heard growing up. His work is a personal attempt to experience and create the physical objects, optimism, and a sense of community. Time, technology, and color have become a lens distorting the work. His practice evokes a sense of serious play as the sculptures and paintings use color to reinvigorate and turn these analog tools and machinery into playful toy-like assemblages.
Carol Stitzer is a ceramic artist with additional experience in collage, painting, and photography. All of these disciplines have converged to help strengthen and develop her ceramic work. She describes her current ceramics as “collage in clay”; a variety of unique items “cut out” of clay and affixed to forms and figures she has hand built.
Don Widmer is a Chicago-based book and paper artist specializing in pulp painting, a process that uses pigmented paper pulp as a painting medium. The softness of paper, its imprecise delineations and blurred lines, contrast with the severity of the steel structures he represents, creating a dreamlike quality.