Catherine Edelman Gallery booth at Expo Chicago will include Pearl the Lunch Lady at Shady Grove Nursing Home, a pigment print on canvas with acrylic paint by Elizabeth Ernst. Image: Catherine Edelman Gallery

ARTNEWS: At Expo Chicago 2018, Catherine Edelman Gallery will present artworks by artists whose works are bound to generate a lot of interest and sales. 

BY KAZAD

CHICAGO- There are high expectations as this year’s Expo Chicago draws near.  In addition to all the projects and exhibitions scheduled for this year’s event, many galleries will also be presenting works by artists in their stable to a large art audience.  One of them is the Catherine Edelman Gallery.

Located in Chicago, the gallery has a long list of artists it represents.  Works by some of these artists will be on display at the Expo Chicago when it opens on September 26.  The artists include Jess T. Dugan, Elizabeth Ernst, Terry Evans, Garrett O. Hansen, Pete Jacobs, Michael Koerner, Laurent Millet, Lori Nix / Kathleen Gerber, Francesco Pergolesi, and Gregory Scott. Below are some of the works and artists whose work will be on display at booth 167 where Catherine Edelman Gallery will be at the art fair.

Catherine Edelman Gallery Artists

Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber

Lori Nix / Kathleen Gerber, Dawn, 2016. From the Empire series 30 x 36″, 40 x 48″, 48 x 57″ pigment print. Total edition of 15. Image: Catherine Edelman Gallery

Based in Brooklyn, Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber have been making art collaboratively for over sixteen years. Their work involves constructing model environments and photographing the results. The artists are so meticulous in their creation that it is sometimes very difficult to understand their staged realities. The duo borrows inspiration from their environment and urban surroundings, imagining a future mysteriously devoid of mankind. Their works reflect a deep appreciation of great architecture, love of science fiction, and dystopian entertainment.

Elizabeth Ernst

What happens to all those circus performers after they can no longer perform? This question has been on Elizabeth Ernst’s mind for years. For the past 12 years, she has created art about the people and entertainers affiliated with the G.E. Circus, a small family owned circus of aging performers.

Over the years, she has captured every aspect of their lives, revealing their sorrows, fear, and pain. Some of the works that will be on display at Expo Chicago are from Shady Grove, her third solo show at Catherine Edelman Gallery. The works bring attention to Shady Grove Nursing Home.  Located in Clarence, NY, Shady Grove Nursing Home is where several of the G.E. Circus performers have retired.  Her works reflect their happy moments as they cope with various circuses related ailments.  A professor emeritus at Columbia College Chicago, where she taught for 25 years, Elizabeth Ernst is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowship.

Laurent Millet

How do objects appear within space and time? Do objects activate the space or does space activate the object? Finding answers to these questions have been Laurent Millet’s quest for more than 20 years. This has propelled him to create photographs that investigate the relationship between object, space, and time.

Terry Evans

American Prairie. Even those who have never been there know about it. It is that imaginary place that Hollywood films have given a pride of place in our heads. Well, the American prairie is real. It is a real place in Kansas City, Missouri. That is where Terry Evans was born. The hay bales, grain silos, and cultivated fields give the American Prairie a unique identity, making it a place carved out of the imaginary mind of a movie make. The prairie also contains 80 species of animals, more than 300 varieties of birds and hundreds of plant species.

Michael Koerner

Michael Koerner, Coronae #9866, 2017. From the Coronae / DNA series 6 x 8″ collodion on tin Unique. Image: Catherine Edelman Gallery

Born in Okinawa, Japan in 1963, Michael Koerner works reflect his direct experience on nature and events in his life. Some works reflect physiology and the nature of diseases, while other looks at the impact of pollution on nature. The only surviving of five brothers, his mother was eleven years old on August 9, 1945, when the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.  The long-term effects of severe, acute exposure to gamma radiation led to his mother’s death at an early age. His brothers’ fates were also sealed by genetic abnormalities and cancer. Even Michael Koerner continues to think that he may suffer the consequences that befell his brothers.

The ambiance of the American Prairie fueled Terry Evans’ passion and led to a photographic journey spanning more than twenty years and countless hours 600 feet above the ground in a single-engine plane. Her images explore human mark-making as well as capture order and structure rarely seen from the ground. From Oklahoma to New Mexico, and Chicago where she presently lives, Terry Evans continues to reveal some of the hidden truth from above. Even as she travels the country in a single-engine plane and a hot air balloon, she remains committed to capturing the changes happening in the Prairie and its new inhabitants.

Francesco Pergolesi

Time changes everything.  When Francesco Pergolesi was young, his mother would send him to stores to get things for her. On his way, little Francesco would spend time at cobbler or grocery stores. As he grew older, he realized that many of those places that he cherished as a child were disappearing. Born in born in Venice in 1975, Francesco realized later in life that he must find a way to document some of the places that gave his childhood vivacity before they all disappear. After finishing his law degree, he dedicated himself entirely to photography, capturing the storefronts and people in them. Exploring lights and shadows reminiscent of Flemish paintings, he captures the present for the future. His works at the Catherine Edelman Gallery Expo Chicago booth will include his Heroes and Tableaux Series.  Francesco Pergolesi lives and works between Spoleto, Rome, and Barcelona.

Gregory Scott

Gregory Scott combines his love of photography, painting, and video in his works. When he first started out, he would incorporate paintings he did of himself, or his body, back into his photographs. The result is a hybrid creation that was both humorous and odd. In some ways, the works not only challenge the viewer’s perception of photographic truth, they also bring attention to how art can be manipulated to create new art forms. Important as those works are in Scott’s artistic oeuvre, he was not satisfied.

At 49, he went back to graduate school to strengthen his knowledge of art history and video making. That experience has continued to shape his artistic journey. When he graduated in 2008, Gregory Scott emerged with a body of work that blended all three of his artistic interests: painting, photography, and video. The works tackle issues ranging from identity and loneliness to the way the art world has pigeonholed the various mediums in which he works.

Gregory Scott Video from Catherine Edelman Gallery

A photographic conceptual artist and a painter, Pete Jacobs is concerned with vulnerable humanism. Pete is a storyteller and this is reflected in his multi-panel Tableaux series. They are aimed at transforming the worldly into a strange and illuminating melding of expressionistic color fields with ghostly underlying imagery.  A published poet, Pete works reflect a narrative that captivates viewers as if reading an unfolding story and chapters of a book. The progression of hue gradients and the linking up of the image bring attention to human experiences and encounters.  Born and raised in New Haven, CT, he attended Wesleyan University, graduating with a B.A. in English. He has won several awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Jess T. Dugan

Gender, sexuality, identity, and community are at the core of Jess T. Dugan works.  Her photographs capture men, and women in their natural environments. DaylightBooks published her series Every Breath We Drew in 2015. The publication coincided with a solo exhibition at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum.  

Jess earned an MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (2014), and a Master of Liberal Arts in Museum Studies from Harvard University (2010). She has a BFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2007). Jess has won many awards and her works have been shown in museums and galleries across the globe. Images from Every Breath We Drew and To Survive on This Shore will be on display at Catherine Edelman Gallery booth 167.

Expo Chicago will run from September 16-28, and Catherine Edelman Gallery will be presenting works by artists it represents. If you are at the 2018 Expo Chicago, share your experience with our readers.