Local Artists Exhibit At Elmhurst Art Museum

ELMHURST, IL — The Elmhurst Artists’ Guild will host the annual Summer Members Show, featuring a variety of its members’ original artwork, in the Elmhurst Artists’ Guild gallery at the Elmhurst Art Museum, 150 S. Cottage Hill Ave., Elmhurst, from June 25 through Aug. 4. The public is invited to the free opening reception on Friday, June 30, from 7 to 9 p.m.

According to a release from EAG, the Summer Members Show presents the current artwork of 50 plus emerging local artists from the greater Chicago area. Their breadth of styles and medium encompasses dramatically different artworks, such as “Skeletons of Fukushima,” a stone sculpture by Ted Strandt, who developed his skill during a career as a tombstone carver, and “War(hol) & Peace,” a small acrylic painting by Terri Shimkus, with a repeating grid take on the peace sign.

Artist Fred Moss, whose jubilant painting, “Cubs Winning the World Series,” will be exhibited, described his inspiration in a release, “Like all of Chicago I was happy and excited and wanted to create a painting of the occasion. I used abstract orange brushstrokes behind the players to convey the excitement.”

Jack Nixon’s large pencil drawing of an iconic Chicago monument, “The Bowman and North Grant Park Commissioner’s Memorial,” took six months to create. Art by other exhibiting artists include watercolor, ceramics, oil, acrylic, digital, collage and photographic works involving landscapes, portraits, abstract and other styles, according to the release.

Most artworks in the exhibit are available for purchase.

“We offer affordable, great art by living artists, that is a gift that keeps on giving. Artwork purchases bring joy to the collector, while the sale proceeds bring 3-way support to the artist, the EAG, and the Elmhurst Art Museum," Cassie Swierenga, EAG president, said in a release.

According to the release, the exhibition can be viewed during regular museum hours, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Admission is $8 adults / $7 seniors except the first Friday of each month which is the Museum’s free admission day. EAM and Guild members, students and children under 18 are admitted free.

For more information, visit elmhurstartistsguild.org.

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