Elmhurst Art Museum

01.13.12 - 03.10.12

Molly McCracken Kumar contemplates the birth, death and regeneration of the natural world in her exuberant paintings. McCracken Kumar’s paintings embody themes from Hindu philosophy and spirituality. Her whimsical compositions represent Shiva’s cosmic dance of the dynamic tension and change of the universe. McCracken Kumar says she “experiences this dynamic tension most keenly while gardening and observing plants.”

01.13.12 - 03.13.12

Meghan Q. McCook’s Terra Hive series of blown glass terrariums seamlessly blend artistic exploration with functional craft. McCook creates flowing organic environments by blowing hot glass into a copper-wire structures. With the higher melting temperature of wire, the frame stays intact as the molten glass billows around the structure.

01.13.12 - 03.31.12

Chicago artist Stephen Eichhorn creates delicate hand-cut paper collages from photos of foliage—palm fronds,
grasses, leaves and flowers. Quiet and poetic, Eichhorn’s work radiates a complex harmony between the natural
and handmade world. Eichhorn’s new work has on black backgrounds creates a floating image in cosmic space. Though complexly layered and intuitively organized, the work exudes a simple elegance. Eichhorn’s floral arrangements suggest an underlying structural rhythm to growth, adaptation and accumulation.

03.16.2012 - 3.31.2012

Portfolio is an exhibition, competition, and series of educational programs for high school seniors demonstrating commitment and competency in visual art.  All high schools in DuPage County, and this year, other selected high schools, will be invited to select and submit artwork, in portfolio format, of their five most gifted art students.  Up to twenty-five portfolios are selected for exhibition.  Join us and say bravo to the next generation of emerging artists. 

Please join us for Portfolio's opening reception on Friday, March 16 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm.


Click here for the Portfolio Application

Click here for the Portfolio Internship Application

 

Elmhurst Art Museum will open Glass + Steel the first exhibition in the Struktur:  Architecture & Design series at Elmhurst Art Museum on August 2, 2009.  Glass + Steel will present examples of work from Herman Miller, Knoll, Higgins Glass, Haeger pottery, Isamu Noguchi, Alexander Girard, Paul McCobb, and Russel Wright on loan from many collectors as well as recent acquisitions to the Museum’s collection.  This exhibitions focus will be the translation of the energy and freshness apparent in Mid-20th Century design.  

09.16.11 - 12.30.11

Matt Woodward's massive graphite works on paper are infused with a personal history that is mysteriously and hauntingly executed through an intense reductive representation of architectural details. Building a visual record of physical activity upon the surface of his wildly handled and purposely abused expanses of paper, Woodward works a graphite field to cloak the fierceness of his treatment and then slowly and delicately erases out decorative architectural elements. The resulting pieces are as much "objects" as they are paper representations of any one thing. The process reveals the quiet scream of an artist dynamically challenging historical concepts about illustrative representation and results with the assertive and deeply complex voice of an artist speaking through his work about theory that is even bigger than his creations.