“It’s a themed show, but it isn’t so tightly specific to an image or a specific story line,” said R!ch Cihlar, Co-owner of E11even 2 and curator of Echo. The title of the show is “Echo: an exhibition on textures, repetition, and patterns.” The loose parameters set for the artists led to an assortment of interpretations of these themes. Generally […]
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“I don’t see myself as a landscape artist,” admits Eileen Dorsey… I can’t help but chuckle as I look around her space in 78th Street Studios, the walls covered with colorful landscapes. She corrects herself – “I know I paint landscapes, but I see them as something more.” I agree. Dorsey is known for her oil landscapes – usually she depicts deep, lush forests, […]
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312 in the 216! Chicago post-graffiti expressionist, Ish Muhammad, will debut his new work at Eileen Dorsey Studio this fall! When Muhammad and Dorsey met a year ago, they agreed that they would trade studios for Studio Swap: Chicago and Cleveland. Dorsey spent time working in Muhammad’s studio in Chicago this past May, and now it’s time for Ish to […]
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The last thing painter Eileen Dorsey wants to know is how much exactly she spends on paint. In her first-floor space in 78th Street Studios, table-sized palettes lay flat with paint chips as big as apples. Walls are lined with a dozen oil paintings of a green-and-purple Ireland, those all furnished with the well-known Dorsey schtick: a palette knife and […]
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