group painting show september 25 - october 23
PRESS RELEASE works
Chicago Art Review
ebersb9 is pleased to announce it's upcoming group exhibition, “Group Painting Show” featuring five painters (Amy Mayfield,Howard Fonda,Tyson Reeder, Sebastian Vallejo, and Paul Wackers), loosely conveying a similar conversation in abstraction as well as the abstracted form.
This conversation initiates from varying thoughts and ambitions in abstract painting. Examples include the exuding implosive energy and the highly intuitive idiosyncratic manner in which Amy Mayfield’s paintings are made, while Sebastian Vallejo’s paintings describe the aesthetic relation between organic and inorganic forms and its visual and social implications. Tyson Reeder and Paul Wackers work enhances this dialog and Howard Fonda sees painting as a philosophical sanctuary and spiritual outpost as he embraces painting’s traditions and limitations, finding comfort in them. “Art is everything and nothing. Everything is everything and nothing. Nothing is everything and nothing,” quotes Fonda.
Howard Fonda received his MFA in 2001 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art and widely throughout the United States.
Amy Mayfield received her MFA from the school of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Hyde Park Art Center, in Berlin and widely throughout the United States.
Tyson Reeder received his MFA from the University of Minnesota ad lives and works in Milwaukee, WI. He has exhibited In Norway, Denmark, Paris, Toronto and widely throughout the US.
Sebastian Vallejo received his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited at the Museo de las Américas and in the Museo del Arsenal de la Puntilla, both in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was part of Third Arm, a SUGs curated SAIC booth at Art Chicago 09’. Other fairs are NEXT 09’ and CIRCA 06’. Recently, Sebastián won the second prize in the 2009 Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Visual Arts Juried Competition.
Paul Wackers received his MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. He shows heavily in San Francisco as well in other parts of the US, London, and Belgium.
