2011-2012 Ferguson Art Gallery Exhibition Season
April 29 – May 19, 2012
Concordia University’s Senior Art Show
Students graduating with a major or minor in art, graphic design, select art education concentration programs and or M.A.T. programs exhibit their art.
May 5, Saturday, Artist’s Reception 2 – 4 PM
May Through July 2012
Concordia University’s Summer Art Show
View the Works of Concordia’s Art Students and Art Faculty
September 30 - October 30, 2011
Concordia University Celebrates Chicago Artists’ Month
Capturing Chicago Theater: 35 Years of Theater Photography by Lisa Howe-Ebright. Photo Gallery.
October 2, Sunday, Artist’s Reception 1:30 – 4 PM
November 6 – January 8, 2012
Geography of Somewhere
Dave Beck - Rachel Bruya - Mike McMann - Piper Vollmer - Joshua Wilichowski.
Printmaking, Photography, Drawing and 3-D. See Photo Gallery
This show investigates space and place in a myriad of media. “Our environment is constantly changing: we tear things down, we remodel them, build new things. How we move through space, how we experience it and how we remember it are all subject matter explored in this exhibition”.
November 12, Saturday, Artists’ Talk 1 PM, McCormick Hall
Artist’s Reception, directly after in the Gallery, 2- 4 PM
January 15– February 19, 2012
Concordia University Celebrates Black History Month
Jesse Howard's "Urban Abyss" series
January 29, Sunday, Artist’s Reception 2 – 4 PM
February 9, Thursday, 7 – 8 PM: Special Artist’s Talk
McCormick Hall located in Kretzmann Hall next to Gallery
August 15 – September 25, 2011
Concordia University Celebrates Latino History Month:
Arceo Press’s Relief Print Portfolios
Selections and highlights from six portfolios: Bestiario £ Nahuales I and II, Day of the Dead, Centennial of Mexican Revolution, and Santitos. Entire portfolios and images can be viewed at Arceo Press website, entering each portfolio. See photo gallery
September 11, Sunday, Artist’s Reception 2 – 4 PM
September 13, Tuesday, 7 – 8 PM: Special Artist’s Talk by Rene Arceo
Werner Auditorium located next door to the Gallery
January 15– February 19, 2012
Concordia University Celebrates Black History Month
Jesse Howard's "Urban Abyss" series
January 29, Sunday, Artist’s Reception 2 – 4 PM
February 9, Thursday, 7 – 8 PM: Special Artist’s Talk
McCormick Hall located in Kretzmann Hall next to Gallery
2010-2011 Ferguson Art Gallery Exhibition Season
March 28 – April 10, 2011
Concordia University’s Invitational Student Art Show
View an eclectic array of 2-D & 3-D artworks produced by current Concordia students enrolled in studio art classes during the current academic year.
February 21 – March 20, 2011
Concordia University Chicago Celebrates Women’s History Month
New Works by Margaret Buchen
Paintings, Prints, Drawings and Mixed-Media Works
The work takes inspiration and is derived from sources such as silent films, classic films and popular culture. Buchen creates acrylic paintings, monotypes and drawings using color pencil, graphite and pastels that mix abstraction and representation.
January 10– February 13, 2011
Concordia University Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month
P.I.E.C.E.S by Trish Williams, Fiber Artist – Quilter
Precepts; Inspiring; Episode; Creative; Expressions; Self
Many mixed-media techniques such as paint, hand dyed fabric, photo transfer and computer generated or screen printed images on fiber create fine art compositions. Her art expands upon her grandmother and mother’s tradition of creating textiles and quilts.
November 8 – December 18, 2011
Drawings and Paintings by George C. Clark
Clark’s well honed drawing ability sets the tone for paintings, prints and drawings of landscapes, travel studies and the figure created from working on site as well as in the studio. Large, midsize and small scale works abound in ink, oil, acrylic and more.
November 14, Sunday, Artists’ Reception 2- 4 PM
October 4 – October 31, 2010
Concordia University Celebrates Chicago Artists Month: The City as Studio: "Logan Square's Sulzen Fine Art Studio Travels to Concordia"
Experience the art that is produced in one of Chicago's neighborhoods due to the unique live, work, teach and showcase space that artists Julie Sulzen and Dan Zamudio share. They have turned their home into an incredible user friendly artist's haven for learning, creating and exhibiting that Chicago artists in the Logan Square neighborhood have some to treasure.
August 16 – September 26, 2010
Concordia University Celebrates Latino History Month:
Mixed Media Works by Juan Alberto Castillo
Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, Castillo moved to Chicago at the age of nine and fell in love with art at an early age. He is currently a manager in design/production for the Chicago Cub’s publication’s department. His fine art works range from acrylic, cut-paper and three dimensional compositions. View fine art works as well as sport related graphics by an artist whose versatile and unique use of a variety of surfaces such as window panes expresses his love of shapes and color. Inspiration for his imagery comes from his family.
2009-2010 Ferguson Art Gallery Exhibition Season
Celebrating Latino History Month
Storied Threads: Latino and Irish Cultures Intertwine
Crocheted and mixed media paintings by Lourdes Guerrero
Celebrating Chicago Artists Month
The Artists of Dayton Street Studios
2008-2009 Ferguson Art Gallery Exhibition Season
Celebrating Latino History Month
AVID: Abstract Oil Paintings on Wood by Mia Garcia-Hills
Avere (to desire) is the etymological root of the word Avid. Desire is the discursive space found between passion and reason.
Celebrating Chicago Artists Month
Johnson 3: Chicago in Three Generations
Photographs by fine art photographer Jeffrey C. Johnson featured alongside the Chicago news photography taken by his late grandfather and father.
The Poetics of Light, Form and Space:
Confluent Visions, Divergent Voices
Recent paintings by
Stella Zee and Sam Whitaker
New works reassert the primacy of pictorial form, light and space in painting.
Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month
The Abstract Truth
New oil paintings by
Floyd Atkins
Celebrating Women’s History Month
Beyond Boundaries: Women of Courage
Oil and Cold Wax Portrait Paintings by
Andrea Harris
Portraits of Women Who Inspire Others
Concordia University’s Invitational Student Art Show
An eclectic array of 2-D & 3-D artworks produced by Concordia students attending studio art classes during the 2008 – 2009 academic year.
Concordia University’s Senior Art Show
Students graduating with a major or minor in art, graphic design, and select art education concentration programs exhibit their two- and three- dimensional work.
Concordia University Chicago Summer Art ShowThe works of Concordia University Chicago students and faculty artists