August House Chicago
Reading, Writing, & Riverview, 4'x8'. Permanently displayed at the Lincoln Belmont Chicago City Library
About August House
August House Chicago is a creative Mecca in the heart of Roscoe Village. We have been serving the artistic needs of the Community since 1987. August House Chicago is an Exhibit Gallery and also offers a full range of Painting & Drawing classes for Adults & Children in a friendly and casual environment. We invite you to stop by.
Meet Marya Veeck
Marya Veeck creates elaborate and beautifully detailed tableaus of dollhouse furniture, natural objects, and old toys that reveal elliptic metaphors of submerged feelings. Her skillful renderings of objects forgotten and small, place us in a world as detailed as a novel and as personal as a memory. Her oil paintings create a sense of inner radiance, as scintillating colors emerge from the edges of objects, glinting from behind their surfaces, in a manner that suggests an undeniable vital or life force animating seemingly inanimate objects. The glow of florescent color keys the viewer to the objects' metaphoric strength, and gives the viewer an altered emotional perception.
Veeck's paintings are part autobiographical, but with the names and places changed into wind-up birds and wooden toy clowns, dried seed pods and antique farm implements. Broken winged birds and dollhouses point, perhaps, to emotional losses and childhood environments, tiny cages and chairs to relationships stilted and supportive. Never overt, Veeck's paintings reveal their moods slowly, with everything cloaked in their own hidden significance, creating moods alternately wistful, nostalgic, and ebullient. Marya Veeck recreates the classic still-life into a unique snapshot of memories, as emotionally and densely narrative as her fascinatingly detailed picture plane.
Art Night
It's about four photographers who select a poetic prompt, go off to create photos with film cameras, make prints in our darkrooms, then gather to drink wine and critique each others' work.
Jane Erlandson, Doug Hanson, Jacqui Merhaut, & Henry Sampson
March 10th - April 8th, 2023
Hours: Thursday - Sunday, 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Adult Class Schedule - Kids' Schedule TBA
| Day | Start | End |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday | 6:45PM | 9:30PM |
| Wednesday | 9:00AM | 12:00PM |
| Saturday | 10:00AM | 1:00PM |
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