A few pictures to capture the vibe at the annual Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood.
UPDATE: we were lucky enough to find some new artists to add to our collection at ATC. Check out some really great work from these deserving artists and genuinely good people:
- Damien James likes you. He likes everyone... well, not everyone. Just "you." It really shows in the exquisite miniature marker drawings of people he sees around
- Russ White has a business jones, or at least a jones for aged pallet wood which he sculpts into variegated mosaics and semaphores
- Christina Mann is your fotomann, with realist mystical pin-hole photos of the gradually disappearing bouldered views along Chicago's lakefront
- Darren Oberto pits formal beauty against the vulgar excess of midwestern refinery-scapes
- Karen Gagich has a singular vision of form and a wry wit to boot
- And keep an eye on Gabe Mejia, whose life-sized portraits, formerly in ballpoint ink, now in charcoal or paint, continue to find so much humanity in the stern warmth of his subjects' gaze.
And at risk of driving up prices on artists we're still just watching, check out Eric Mecum's photo realistic paintings, which took an interesting spare turn year, and Robert Burnier's taut duels with chaos.
