MELODIES ON CANVAS II
Sunday, February 2, 2020 from 1:30pm-3:00pm
The Evanston Art Center (EAC) is excited to collaborate with students from the Academy of the Music Institute of Chicago (MIC) to create a series of four musical performances inspired by four pieces of artwork on display in the 2020 EAC Faculty Exhibition. Each string quartet will perform in the EAC First Floor Gallery in front of the artwork that inspired the piece.
dis-PLACED: GENTLE DISQUIET
Featuring Tracy Templeton
February 22 - March 20, 2020
Opening Reception: Sunday, February 23 from 1-4pm
dis-PLACED is an evolving suite of prints on paper and textiles that balance elements of absence, journey and transformation.
EXTRA : : ORDINARY
Featuring Noelle Garcia and José Santiago Pérez
February 22 - March 20, 2020
Opening Reception: Sunday, February 23 from 1-4pm
Noelle Garcia and José Santiago Pérez present recent work that uses traditional craft processes to transform everyday objects and materials into exuberant works of contemporary art.
ELEANOR SPIESS-FERRIS: DAPHNE’S SISTER
February 29 - March 29, 2020
Opening Reception: Sunday, March 1, 2020 from 1-4pm
Eleanor Spiess-Ferris (b. 1941) is an American symbolist painter cited as a significant surrealist, narrative figurative and feminist artist. This exhibition of over 40 years of painting and drawing by Chicago artist Spiess-Ferris traces the development of her distinctive figures across her career and compares studies and sketches with final works.
