Bill Frederick's 'Here Comes Trouble' exhibit at CLC

An exhibit of 23 works by a Chicago painter Bill Frederick under the title "Bill Frederick: Here Comes Trouble" opened recently and will be on view at the College of Lake County Gallery of Art through June 29.

Frederick uses simple materials of brush, ink, watercolor and paper, and his work expresses his preoccupations with friends and family, history, geography and a nagging sense of dread.

Frederick says the exhibit's title refers to the undercurrent of unease implicit in the pictures.

"I typically make a point of giving the viewer a (fictional) place to be within what's shown, or at least an implied relationship to the fiction within the picture: the viewer can imagine being in a specific place - filling a car in a gas station, snapping a picture in a kitchen, standing in a yard looking at chickens through chicken wire and so on," Frederick said. "In a few cases, people in the pictures return our own stare. … I hope the interested viewer will be prompted by the title to see the pictures in a particular light and from there bring her/his own thoughts to them."

Frederick attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. In the last five years, his work has been exhibited in Chicago at Zg Gallery, North Park University, Merchandise Mart, the University Club of Chicago and Printworks Gallery; and also at Evanston Art Center, Elmhurst Art Museum and Art Center Highland Park.

The Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art on the Grayslake campus is a project of the College of Lake County Foundation and is located at 19351 W. Washington St. For further information, contact curator Steve Jones at (847) 543-2240 or sjones@clcillinois.edu, or visit [URL]gallery.clcillinois.edu;http://gallery.clcillinois.edu[URL]. Exhibit hours vary during college breaks, so call or check the website for current hours.[/URL]