ANDREW REHS
Andrew Rehs is a multidisciplinary sculptural artist working primarily in reclaimed wood with rich history. Throughout his process, Andrew incorporates techniques from both of his career paths as an art therapist and a builder. His works range from recognizable wooden portraits to abstract depictions of the strange.
Where many artists find inspiration from eras of art, Andrew has always pulled the majority of his inspiration in the allegory of human experience. Always changing, always evolving. He mostly enjoys working with wood that has a story of its, adding a sequel to the story being told.
Andrew Rehs is a multidisciplinary sculptural artist working primarily in reclaimed wood with rich history. Throughout his process, Andrew incorporates techniques from both of his career paths as an art therapist and a builder. His works range from recognizable wooden portraits to abstract depictions of the strange.
Where many artists find inspiration from eras of art, Andrew has always pulled the majority of his inspiration in the allegory of human experience. Always changing, always evolving. He mostly enjoys working with wood that has a story of its, adding a sequel to the story being told.
DREW HOLLINGSWORTH
Drew Hollingsworth is a self taught artist that discovered his passion about two years ago. He experiments with pop neo-expressionism through a variety of artistic avenues that include: painting with mixed media, sculpture work, various woodworking techniques, designing furniture, appliances, and home decor, fashion design, and glass blowing.
Drew loves creating memories with people when they experience his art. It is what makes him want to make more stories and series of creations. Drew is thankful for finding himself through art and hopes to continue to develop himself throughout this art journey.
JESY GROSE
Jesy Grose (1984, Chicago, United States) makes paintings and mixed with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.
Her paintings never shows the complete structure. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality. By applying abstraction, she creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
Her works doesn’t référence recognizable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By using popular themes such as sexuality, family structure and violence, she tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
Her works often refers to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created.
RACHEL LECHOCKI
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Rachel Lechocki is a multi-media artist, teacher, certified yoga instructor for all ages and writer from and currently residing in, Chicago. Having been accepted into a painting program for high school seniors at University of Illinois at Chicago, Rachel began a love affair with collage, paint texture manipulation and repurposing objects and scraps at age 17. She went on to attend Columbia College Chicago, starting in Fine Art, graduating with honors in Art History, specializing in Non-Western and Modern/Contemporary Art, with a minor in Cultural Studies, where she now teaches Visual Arts classes for kids. She is the first one Columbia has had for this program too! Rachel was also part of multiple curation teams during her time at Columbia College and after. She has also been regularly exhibiting and selling her art around Chicago since 2008. This beautiful blend of immersing herself in an extensive and all-inclusive study of arts and humanities, laid the firm foundation for a powerfully knowledgeable teacher, collaborator and inspiration, of which she has become.
Artistically, Rachel is heavily influenced by Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg, O'Keefe and the courageousness and raw truth-telling of, Frida Kahlo's art. Each of these artists were unique in that they didn't sacrifice their particular beliefs, emotions or techniques at the time, despite what audiences and critics may have once said. This, plus the candid expression felt through their works, has been a long-time influence on Rachel's more abstract, mixed-media pieces. Rachel deeply connects with the colors, materials and environmental/emotional effects on her at that time and creates, usually beginning with acrylics and delving into other mediums that will enhance the essence of feeling.
Her pieces are loaded with passionate texture explorations that, while constructing, she almost goes into a meditative trance, where the paints lead the way to unleashing poignant energies on surface. Each work of art is rare and hand-crafted with eloquently represented moments in time, never to occur again, reminding herself and the viewer, everything is temporary.
Currently, Rachel teaches Visual Art to grades 9-12 at UNO Charter Network- Rogers Park High School. She also stays physically active and teaches/practices yoga as well. Rachel will be running her original prorgam, YogaArt for Teens, at Ahimsa Yoga Studio in Berwyn this Fall. She has been regularly teaching art and yoga in and around the Chicago land area for 9 years now. Rachel is also the owner of studio 018 at the coveted Zhou B Art Center in Bridgeport.