"Art is Business" December 18, 2020
2020 Bronzeville Art District Virtual Gallery Tours
Forecasting what the future holds, and how we adapt to new ways of presenting art engagement, and audience development while practicing social distancing. Alpha Bruton, Founder of the Phantom Gallery Chicago, is moving to mark out a new and exciting program for the future of Phantom Gallery.
The Phantom Gallery will look at how the city influences art, and artists transform the city by contributing to civic dialogue and quality of life. These installations will produce "Creative Conversations" presenting artists speaking about their art.
2020 Program virtual gallery openings will focus on Examining the State of Our Environment- and having conversations with artists in their studios.
The aim of the Phantom is to examine changes in current curatorial production and to develop innovative displays in relation to virtual spaces. "Curatorial Practice" explores the impact of the urban environment on the artist and their work, and the contributions that artists make to the vitality of a city. The place where art is imagined and made, whether in a physical or virtual space, affects the idea, the process, and the final product.
Artist in Resident – Renee Baker
Renee Baker visual artist/media and film is a resident artist/curator, who has invested in the Phantom Gallery Chicago Loft as an AIR to stage her experimental film screenings, and as an ancillary gallery to showcase and exhibit her sculpture and paintings. Renee is an internationally renowned artist best known for her work in the classical music industry. She is a resident artist working in found objects, sculpture, and the experimental film just to list a few of her multidisciplinary work.
"Home Molasses" artist Renee Baker, an installation by curator Alan Emerson Hicks
LOIS STONE ARTS
Artist Statement
My artwork explores the subject of transformation and change in the human condition. What I want to discover are the ways these changes are inspired and the awareness that is revealed. I use color, shape form, and texture to inform my audience. Through my work, I attempt to evoke a feeling, response, or even a question from the view on what they feel in hopes to transform something in them. I use spontaneous mark-making movement and rhythmic patterns. My work is most often done on paper, but some work is done on wood canvas and synthetic paper and is often used together in collage pieces.
Lois Stone
"Lotus Revised 3 Kunst", 19" x 26" Lois Stone Art, Oil on Paper, 2020
Lotus Series 1 Revised by Lois Stone
Phil M. Cotton
Although the images and subjects of my artwork are diverse; the influences and subject matter originate from the 1950’s era, abstract expressionist movement, and architectural/ designs of the Mid Century Modern/ Bauhaus periods. My contemporary artwork consists of organic and architectural visual images that respond to my observations of historical moments in time and the present state of our ever-changing complex society.
"Fetish Sacrifice" Found Object Sculpture, Phil Cotton, Private Collection Alpha Bruton
"Dinosaur" Phil Cotton Mixed Media, 2017
