I interviewed Anna Jóelsdóttir in her studio a few weeks ago. She’s an artist who skillfully transforms her thoughts about the dualities in her life into abstract expressions on canvas. Born and raised in Iceland, Anna moved with her husband to Chicago in 1992, completed her MFA at SAIC in 2002, and has since shown with Stux Gallery in New York and Zg Gallery in Chicago. Her acrylic and ink paintings depict free-flowing geometric planes entangled with sprouting organic structures of incredible complexity.

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First place winners of the Science as Art competition sponsored by the Materials Research Society in the April 2007, Issue 2, Materials 360 newsletter:

First Place Winners

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I went to my first Artropolis yesterday and it was fascinating. There was so much art that I couldn’t take it all in.

THE ARTIST PROJECT

Hiroshi Ariyama’s current series Our City, Our Neighborhood depict original point-of-view snapshots of cityscapes in screenprinted manipulations of light, color, and texture. Ariyama says, “My intent is to capture an emotional point in time within each scene that ranges from nostalgic reflection to current observation, or simply a happy glance into a moment’s fleeting possiblities.”

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Darrell Roberts and I are going to Artropolis at the Merchandise Mart on Friday. Actually, I’m meeting him there at Art Chicago, showcasing over 100 dealers in international contemporary art. He’s showing with Thomas McCormick Gallery. I wrote my first published article on Darrell for New City Chicago Magazine last year, and I had a chance to do a follow-up interview in January about his Luscious show at Hyde Park Art Center.

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