Artist's Abstract Paintings Intrigue Audiences

Doris Hoyt of Prospect Heights is an artist who invites her audience to feel the experience of her paintings, abstract collages on canvas that incorporate acrylics, ink, Japanese rice paper, natural found objects, and resin.

Hoyt, who is exhibiting her work through Saturday, April 7 at the Arlington Green Executive Center, 2101 S. Arlington Heights Rd. in Arlington Heights, will meet and greet the public at a reception, 1 p.m., Saturday, March 24. Her exhibit is co-sponsored by the Northwest Cultural Council that has organized the reception.

"I express my feelings in a style rendering the essence, rather than the literal representation of my subject matter," Hoyt says. Her fine art appeals to people's emotions.

Hoyt has exhibited her work at Cleveland Museum of Art and Butler Museum in Youngtown, OH, along with having had shows throughout the Chicago metro area at galleries, cultural centers, and libraries, such as the Barrington Art Show, the David Adler Cultural Center in Libertyville, and Mount Prospect Public Library. Her art is also in corporate and private collections.

Hoyt graduated with honors from the Cleveland Institute of Art with a major in painting and a minor in design. There, she met her husband Richard Hoyt, a commercial artist who now has a studio in Chicago.

The Northwest Cultural Council serving the Northwest corridor, is a non-profit organization. It supports and promotes the work of area visual artists and poets, offering a variety of programs including corporate gallery exhibitions, co-sponsored by businesses, convention and visitors' bureaus, libraries, and hospitals; art competitions to stimulate, promote, and encourage artists; and poetry workshops and readings.

For more information about NWCC exhibits, call (847) 382-6922.