Materiality and Mark-making in Abstraction was curated from a class taught by Jeff Hirst and Lisa Pressman in July of 2020. The 5-day workshop featured three live days and two days of individual feedback where we focused on each individual participant’s work, fine-tuning content, intention and technique. The goal of the class was to have a transformation happen in the studio..The workshop included: One conference call individual work with both artists Five days of creating with three directed study days with Lisa and Jeff A critique with Chicago gallery owner, Dan Addington Individual and group discussions We are planning another workshop in September. Limited Seating Please email for information. This exhibition covers a wide cross section of work including gestural abstraction, reductive minimalism, abstract figurative painting and sculptural installations. The art in the exhibition includes paintings using complex color structure along side monochromatic palettes that work together well as a whole. Delicate passages contrast robust physical surfaces playing together to create a dialogue much like a musical ensemble works with contrasting musicians. Each artist in the exhibition has created work reflective of their involvement with process and materials. Barbara Nohinek, Cairn, 24x18 in, acrylic, 2020 Barbara Nohinek, Chromatic Code, 30x24 in, acrylic, 2020 Caroline Young, Navigating, 21"x32", oil and cold wax, 2020 Caroline Young, Tethered, 18"x24", oil and cold wax, 2020 Carrie Belk, Marionettes, 16" x 16", oil and cold wax on panel, 2020 Carrie Belk, Scream, 12" x 12", oil and cold wax on panel, 2020 Cindy Lesperance, Strata 8362, 12x12, encaustic on panel, 2019 Cindy Lesperance, Strata 8368, 12x12, encaustic on panel, 2019 Cindy Walton, Construct 14, 17x18, oil, cold wax, corrugated cardboard, arches oil paper, linen thread, 2020 Cindy Walton, Favela 1, 11x10, oil, cold wax, arches oil paper, linen thread, 2020 Clare Kennedy Jorgensen, Il Sogno (the Dream), 36 x 24 x 2 inches, encaustic, graphite, infrastructure canvas panel, 2020 Clare Kennedy Jorgensen, Dancing in the Bog, 36 x 36 x 1.5, oil, cold wax, burnt peat, Infrastructure canvas panel, 2020 Dana Killion, Do You See Me, 18 x 18, oil on panel, 2019 Dana Killion, Fenced In, 24 x 24, acrylic on canvas, 2020 Deborah Sayre, Bounce, 12” x 16”, encaustic/silkscreen, 2020 Deborah Sayre, Brainloop, 8” x 8”, encaustic/silkscreen, 2020 Deborah Peltz, Let it Fly, 22” x 30", plaster, acrylic, 2020 Deborah Peltz, Stand Up, 30” x 44”, plaster, acrylic, crayon, india ink, 2020 Woolley, MoreThanYouBargainedFor, 36x36, encaustic,2020 WoolleyS, Swept Away, 36x36, encaustic, 2020 Donna M Horn, Blues for JR 24 x 24, oil & cold wax on panel, 2020 Donna M Horn, Pink in Peril 22 x 30; oil & cold wax on paper, 2020 Joan Stuart Ross, Aggregation, 22.25"x30", ink, collage, acrylic on rag paper, 2020 Joan Stuart Ross, Wrack My Mind, 22.25"x30", ink, collage, pastel on rag paper, 2020 Karen Buttwinick, The Race Relations Puzzle, 10"x10", encaustic, 2020 Karen Buttwinick, Turbulence, 22" x 37", encaustic monotype, 2020 Kathy Elliott, Untethered, 24x24, acrylic, 2020 Kathy Elliott, Out of the Darkness, 22x18, mixedmedia, 2020 Laura Seligman, Between Two Worlds, 7“ x 5”, oil and mixed media on paper, 2020 Laura Seligman, Above and Below, 7” x 5”, oil and mixed media on paper, 2020 Lisa McGavock, DevelopThe In, 10”x14”, oil and wax on paper, 2020 Lisa McGavock, Forty Dimension, 21”x29”, oil and wax on paper, 2020 Lori Niland Rounds, Emergence, 32x20”, layered encaustic monotypes, 2020 Lori Niland Rounds, The Shape of Things to Come, 12x12”, encaustic with pigment stick print, 2020 Lynne Gillan, Jelly Roll M, 10" x 8" x 1.5", encaustic and wood on panel, 2020 Lynne Gillan, Moanin, 10" x 8" x 1.5", encaustic and wood on panel, 2020 Mara Manning, Lessons on setting the table,32 x 40, oil and cold wax mixed media, r&f pigment stick, art graf and dye stain on i infrastructure canvas, 2020 Mara Manning, Let go now or fall, 32 x 32, oil and cold wax, mixed media and r&f pigment stick on Infrastructure canvas, 2020 Mary Meuwissen , Blue, 30 x 30, oil/cold wax, 2020 Mary Meuwissen, Bedrock, 19 x 30, oil/cold wax, 2020 Marybeth Rothman, Quarantine Portrait One, 18x18x2, encaustic, 2020 Marybeth Rothman, Quarantine Portrait Two, 18x18x2, encaustic, 2020 Meg Walling, Endless Swells, 36” x 36”, acrylic, 2020 Meg Walling, Listening, 30” x 30”, oil cold wax on panel, 2020 Melissa Rian, Distance 1, 60” x 36” x 36”, encaustic, rebar, wire, wood, paper, 2020 Melissa Rian, Red thread that Binds 1, 60” x 24” x 6”, encaustic, rebar, wire, wood, paper, 2020 Michele Thrane, Form and Void., 24"x24", encaustic monotype on panel, 2020 MicheleThrane, Singularity and Companion, 24"x28", cut encaustic monotypes, staples, screws, wood, 2020 Susan Byrnes, Mo dearth`ir II, 28”X 20” oil, cold wax and Ink, 2019 Susan Byrnes, Philia, 26”X20” oil, cold wax and ink, 2019 Susan Paladino, Moon Trip, 10.5 x 10.5, encaustic with mixed media on paper, 2020 Susan Paladino, Objectivity, 10 x 14, cold wax and mixed media on paper, 2020 Terri Yacovelli, Choice and Chance, 24x30, encaustic on panel, 2020 Terri Yacovelli, For It’s Own Sake, 12 x 12, Encaustic on panel, 2019