Drawing

• Medium: Pastel drawing on paper
• Artist: Robert Barnes

Artist info: Barnes received his B.F.A. from the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1956. He also studied at Columbia University, Hunter College and the University of London in England. Barnes has won several grants and awards, including two Fullbright Grants, a William and Norma Copley Foundation Prize for Painting, a Guri Siever Award from the Art Institute of Chicago, a Childe Hassam purchase prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Barnes is in several major museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art (University of Chicago), Madison Art Center, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

• Medium: Pastel drawing on paper
• Artist: Paul Brunk
• Artist info: Former Kishwaukee College student

 

 

 

 

 

• Medium: graphite and ink on paper 
• Artist: Tracy Crump
• Artist info: Represented by Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Medium: ink on paper
• Artist: Tracy Crump
• Artist info: Represented by Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Medium: mixed media on paper
• Artist: Justin Schroyer
• Artist info: Former Kishwaukee College art student

 

 

 

 

 

• Medium: Charcoal and conté on paper
• Artist: David Willett

Artist info: I am interested in the processes and forces that break us down over time both physically and spiritually.  This weathering is inevitable. The body is subject to sickness, injury and aging. The spirit is subject to varying types, durations and degrees of stressors. For me, the result of this process is of the greatest significance. What is its purpose? What does it produce? Ultimately, I hope to frame these questions within the context of impermanence and fragility. These processes and forces can leave a beautiful patina, but they also point toward mortality and a consideration of what follows. My work references these ideas through the material and process. I take various types of paper and distress them by hand until they are flexible and faceted like skin. The paper is transformed into an analog for the body, which I then cut, peel, tear, layer and repair. The end product visually reveals a history of the process and energy that acted upon it. This informs our understanding of the dissonance between its delicate beauty and scarred fragility.