Born in 1979, Caroline Chun draws inspiration from a wide range of ideas and subject matter, from landscapes to abstraction to everyday objects. Using a creative approach guided by humor and instinctual experimentation, she playfully works across painting, drawing, collage, and sculpture. Chun explores the boundaries of art-making and the capacity of objects to capture […]
Born in 1994, Rocco DiCaro’s work centers around the creation of drawings, comic books, and animations where recurring characters interact in various situations and settings. Working in saturated marker and pen on paper, Rocco skillfully renders these characters in a playful style of cartooning that has visual associations with anime. DiCaro cites Jim Henson, Looney
Marcelo Aguilar makes paintings and works on paper that utilize a myriad of references. The things, people, and places he visits in his daily life; become imagined landscapes where scale, pictorial space, and representation are upended by dynamic figure ground relationships and thick passages of brightly colored paint to a surreal effect.
Born in 1996, Jie Hong is one of the Chicago Studio’s newest artists. His imaginative and energetic drawings explore various personal inspirations – animals, sports, TV, favorite foods, and his Chinese heritage, among others. Hong’s intuitive creative process is largely informed by a spontaneous, experimental approach to mark-making and an affinity for bright colors.
b. 1999 Sam Filicky’s work embodies the romanticism of traditional landscape painting and an appreciation for the beauty found in the natural world. Filicky’s primary inspirations include landscapes, seascapes, abstraction, and the joy of the creative process. His soft, atmospheric landscapes aspire to capture a particular feeling or tone, whether that of a particular season,
Casey Chrzan’s gestural approach to painting and collage reflects his carefree attitude in the studio. His quick, wet on wet application of vibrant acrylics lends recurring subject matter – robots, flowers, basketballs, and family members – a sense of spontaneity and lightheartedness.
Lucy Walsh was born in Chicago in 1998. Most inspired by popular culture, her influences span television, fashion, music, fast food, and horror tropes. Particularly drawn to slasher films, she mentions It, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Friday the 13th as favorites. Walsh usually works quickly from memory and imagination, but will also sometimes incorporate
Phelan has an intuitive approach to art-making, working from imagination and memory to depict meaningful ideas or personal experiences. Recurring motifs anchor his compositions – text fragments, boxes, symbols, trains, clocks, churches, and simplified figures. His distinct drawings are often reminiscent of aerial maps or architectural floor plans. Currently, his work reflects a methodical process
Born in 1996, Joey was raised in the suburbs of Chicago. Center’s emerging creative practice is primarily driven by the exploration of his various interests – guitars, classic cars, idyllic landscapes, and space travel. Working from both memory and carefully selected source imagery, his curious graphite drawings are both dreamlike and detailed. Particularly fascinated by
Born in Evanston in 1991, Marcus now lives in Chicago. An avid fan of a wide range of music (especially Brazilian jazz, R&B, reggae, bossa nova, hip hop, and classic rock), he always listens to favorite radio stations while working in the studio. Kennedy often finds inspiration in the work of other artists, sometimes borrowing
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