City Life

I am finally planning on starting a new, larger painting next week. So much has happened these past few months and change continues to distract my creative juices. Today I finally made the time to see the Cave Paintings of Lascaux exhibit at the Field Museum. About a year ago I started a series of encaustic painting inspired by Aboriginal Art after I had visited my daughter in Seattle. Soon after that, I studied cave paintings in this country and developed a series of work, "Primitive". As time went by, I became side tracked and worked only on image transfers that depicted every day life and places I visited, but I knew I had not finished developing the series of primitive works I had started. Seeing the exhibit today was the catalyst I needed to get back at it.

Main entrance at the Field Museum in Chicago

The Field Museum was one of the most exciting field trips I went on as a child. I have memories of an enormous dinosaur skeleton in the main entrance to the museum and today I was able to revisit them. I do have to say the skeleton I saw today seemed much smaller but maybe I just got bigger.

Yesterday was the drop off for the show I am included in this month at the Fine Arts Building. The gallery is on the second floor and the show runs through the month of September. Below you can see several photos taken by the other artists included in the show with me: Pat Lagger, Karen Tichy, Michele Thrane, and Catherine Keebler. Show information and a few photos of the hanging are below.

*not included in the photo above is my painting, "Pathway" on the opposite wall

I will share more photos of the gallery space after the reception, but with 5 different styles of work, each of us including a piece in the medium we worked in before we worked with wax, will make for a varied, interesting show.

Mostly, I am anxious to get back to work. I continue to learn about the gallery scene here, attending art openings and exhibits when I can, hoping to better educate myself in where my art (and I) will best fit here. My younger daughter moved into her college dorm with my help last week, my older daughter moved in with me around the same time here in Chicago, and lots of changes continue to happen here. Looking forward to how all this translates with paint.