Arts in Bartlett features watercolor paintings in new exhibit
Arts in Bartlett presents a new exhibit, “Landscapes by Kandice Husarik,” through Sept. 30 at the Bartlett Village Hall 2nd Floor Gallery, 228 Main St., in Bartlett. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m.-noon Saturday.
Kandice Husarik is a Bartlett-based artist who works primarily in watercolor and occasionally charcoal. She is entirely self-taught and, early in her career, painted landscapes, especially beach scenes, boats and barns. In the past few years she has found success composing still-life studies.
Many of her still-life paintings depict treasured objects that tell a part of her family history. Other subjects include America’s heartland and working harbors of the Midwest. Often, the reflective qualities seen in her early watercolors of sea and sand appear in her still-life compositions.
Her creative process, in part inherited from her father, an amateur jazz musician, begins with objects found around the home, which she photographs from various angles to play with composition. The objective: find an angle that will tell a story.
Rather than striving to achieve photographic realism in her paintings, Kandice alters light, colors and the reflective quality of the photographed objects to illuminate characteristics and new dimension in everyday objects.
She sees and shares purple and red in the bark of a tree outside her home; blue, violet and pink in a stainless steel bowl in her kitchen; orange, green and rose in the brass of her father’s trombone.
Kandice has exhibited her work at the DuPage Art League’s Gallery in Wheaton, for the Alliance of Fine Art and in the Arts in Bartlett Member’s Show. Her paintings have been part of the rotating exhibit at Wells Fargo Advisors in Itasca, and she was the first artist to participate in Gibby’s Wine Den “Art By the Glass” exhibits in Geneva.
Her still-life paintings have won several awards, including Best of Show, Theme, Special Merit and Merit awards. She received the Honorable Mention award from the Alliance of Fine Art’s “Best of the Best Show” at the Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook for her painting “Mood Indigo.”
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