Cedar Avenue group to present art show
The Cedar Avenue group will present a Fall 2014 art show in the building's Skylight Gallery, in conjunction with the Charlie's Center for the Arts "All of the Arts, All over Town" event.
The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 11-14. An artist reception will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13.
The Skylight Gallery's fall show is a collection of oil pastels, fumage, oil and acrylic paintings and photography.
Cedar Avenue Studios is a collaboration of six local artists who call the St. Charles Cedar Avenue Business Center home for their art studios. All six artists gravitated toward the historic former banjo factory over the past few years and are committed to strengthening the Arts in the St. Charles area through gallery shows and studio tours.
• Catie Baron paintings in oil are best known for its magnified view of flowers, which are studied up-close and passionately re-created. Her painting style is unique as she creates, she shapes what she sees in the canvas, depicting light and dark interpreting the connection the brain makes with your surroundings.
• Al DaValle is a professional photographer whose work has been profiled in the magazines Lenswork and B&W Magazine. He uses his studio not only to produce and display his work, but also as a vehicle to collaborate with other artists creating a think tank where artists can learn from each other.
• Amy Klapperich Furio is an artist who works in two opposite mediums. She uses photography to present what she sees as a lost reality, not altering photos to show a perfect world. Taking extreme close-ups of flowers, she rejoices in all the beauty they have to offer; a rip in a petal, a dead leaf or even scattered pollen. Painting in oil pastels, she presents her memories of her trip to Italy, always with a written story or a question that triggers the piece.
• John Granata is a fine art photographer who has exhibited and sold his work across the country. He also teaches specialty fine art printing classes in his studio. Granata not only captures the image, but he processes and prints all of his own work. He prints on alternative surfaces (such as stainless steel) and also mounts his images on acrylic frames exclusively produced for his work which are of his own design.
• Anne Ressman Zabinski has been creating art most of her life. She has an unconventional gift of seeing words, music, emotions, days, months and numbers as having their own distinctive hues. She relies on her synesthetic abilities to create abstract art using acrylics and watercolors on canvas or paper.