Real People Like Real People 2011

My acrylic painting "Patsy B" is included in the exhibition "Real People 2011," on view Aug. 5 through Sept 25 at the Old Court House Arts Center, 101 N. Johnson St. in Woodstock, IL.

The Artist's reception and awards ceremony on Saturday, August 27th from 7-9 pm will coincide with the Woodstock Jazz Festival.

"Patsy B" by Fletcher Hayes,
part of Real People 2011 in Woodstock, IL

About the Exhibition
Every August/September, the Old Court House Figurative League presents a national juried figurative show, "Real People - Celebrating the Arts through Faces and Figures." This year 80 pieces were accepted from the 418 pieces submitted by just under 200 artists from across the US (including Alaska and Hawaii) and Canada.

Opening Reception: Saturday Aug. 27, 7-9 pm
The reception coincides with the Woodstock Jazz Festival. For more information, please visit www.jazzonthesquare.net, and click on the 'Festival' button.

The Real People reception begins at 6:00pm for artists and their guests; open the reception to the general public at 7 pm.

This Year's Jurors
Dan Addington – Dan is the owner and director of the Addington Gallery located in downtown Chicago and is also an artist who has lived in Chicago since 1993.

Laura Kina – Laura is an Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design at DePaul University in Chicago, and is an artist with an extensive body of work and numerous shows under her belt.

Rodger Bechtold – Rodger is a well-respected local Woodstock artist with extensive experience as a painter.

About Woodstock, Illinois
First-time visitors to Woodstock, Illinois usually get a sense of déjà vu if they ever watched the hilarious Harold Ramis movie, "Groundhog Day" starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell.

Woodstock has a charming downtown square with a green park at its center. One of the landmark buildings is the old court house, which is now an art center.

Patsy is definitely a real person for the "Real People, 2011" exhibition! If you are up that way, stop in and take a look.

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"Real People 2011" Exhibition
August 5 – Sept. 26, 2011
Old Courthouse Arts Center‎, Woodstock, IL‎

Old Courthouse Arts Center‎
101 North Johnson Street
Woodstock, IL‎
(815) 338-4525‎

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Figure Sketchers are "Drawing Attention" at Tom Robinson Studio/Gallery

The talented and friendly artists who sketch the live models at Chicago's Tom Robinson Studio/Gallery every Sunday put together a group exhibition: Drawing Attention II.

-- Fletcher

Seated Figure (detail), pastel on Canson Mi-Teintes paper, by Fletcher Hayes

Drawing Attention II

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CHICAGO, Illinois – May 25, 2011 – A core group of artists draw together weekly and challenge themselves with the rigors of sketching the human figure from life. It takes patience. It takes guts. What they share is a need “to get it right” regardless of their artistic discipline. They are... painters, sculptors, photographers, miniaturists, and muralists. Their styles range from realism in pastels or Conte crayon techniques to near-abstraction in pencil and charcoal. What they produce reflects all the intensity and immediacy of a captured slice of being human.

The spontaneity found in gesture drawings carries over into their formal art. Their compositions include not only figurative works, but landscape, still life, portrait and pure abstraction.

WHEN:
Opening Reception (public invited) - Friday, June 3, 2011 from 5 to 9 pm
Exhibition: Through Saturday, July 2, 2011.
Hours: Saturdays: 12-5 pm or by appointment.

WHERE:
Tom Robinson Studio/Gallery
2416 W North Ave., Chicago, IL 60647
Phone 773-227-3144
Three blocks south from the “Western” Blue Line El stop; # 49 Western Ave bus to North Ave.

THE 12 ARTISTS:
Colette Wright Adams
Ann Berg
Richard Bloomfield
Rita Dianni-Kaleel
Fletcher Hayes
Tyrue Jones
Jim MacRoberts
Julia Oehmke
Krish Sengupta
Charlie B. Thorne
Chuck Walker
Scott Gordon Wills

ABOUT TOM ROBINSON STUDIO/GALLERY:
Tom Robinson -- artist, curator, arts administrator, competition founder and judge, teacher, innovator -- has been a driving force in the Chicago art scene for over 30 years. “I never tire of the ways different artists see and capture the same subject”, says Robinson. “The real difference comes from how the artists direct their attention.”

CONTACT:
Tom Robinson
Owner, Tom Robinson Studio/Gallery
Phone: 773-227-3144

Ethereal Fauna: The Artist's Muse - at Carthage College

Exterior view of Ethereal Fauna signage at the
H. F. Johnson Art Gallery of Carthage College

Group Exhibition from March 29 to May 19, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 7, 4:30 - 7:30 pm
Visit the Ethereal Fauna website.

H. F. Johnson Art Gallery

Carthage College

2001 Alford Park Drive

Kenosha, WI 53140

More than forty mid-career Chicago-area artists look inward to create images of their inner animal muse. The exhibition serves to stimulate the imagination of the young creative minds of the students at Carthage College. The Carthage College art department has laid out Ethereal Fauna's same format guidelines to their art students, who have created a student show in a separate art department exhibition space.

Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Friday: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Thursday Evenings: 6 - 8 p.m.
Saturday: 1 - 4 p.m.

Free and open to the public