Heather Marshall // Kathy Ruttenberg

Heather Marshall – Olio Tableaux Project Space: Kathy Ruttenberg September 7th- October 13th, 2007 Opening Reception: Friday, September 7th, 6- 9pm Artist Talk: Saturday, October 6th, 1pm. In conjunction with Chicago Artist Month. Linda Warren Gallery proudly opens the Fall 2007 art season with an exhibition of new paintings by Heather Marshall, “Olio Tableaux.”  This will be Marshall’s first solo exhibition with the gallery as well as her career. At first look, Marshall’s meticulously painted oils on panel read as though they could be the source material from which her process begins – the photograph. But wanted from the viewer …

Emmett Kerrigan // Lora Fosberg

Emmett Kerrigan, Spin Off Lora Fosberg: New Drawings Friday, June 29th- August 18th, 2007 Linda Warren Gallery is proud to announce the opening of Emmett Kerrigan’s first solo exhibition at the gallery – “Spin-off”. Kerrigan’s interest throughout his career has been to charge iconic objects embedded in our consciousness from childhood, youth and bygone eras with excitement, movement and meaning. Dynamic shapes that transcend the ordinary and are mechanisms of motion – tricycles, tractors, propellers and fans – have all figured prominently in past work. In this exhibit, Kerrigan delves into the shapes, forms and functionality of the age-old, universally …

Jennifer Presant // Jeremy Long & Mark Mamalakis

Jennifer Presant: Pro•ject Project Space: Jeremy Long “Drawings and Studies”; Mark Mamalakis “Portrait of A Filmmaker” Artist Reception: Friday, May 18, 6-9pm Opening Reception: Friday, June 1, 6-9pm May 18th – June 23rd, 2007 Linda Warren Gallery is proud to present the thoughtful and thought-provoking, mood-driven paintings of Jennifer Presant in her first solo exhibition at the gallery entitled “Pro•ject”.  In meticulously painted, realist-based oil paintings, Presant pictorially represents the interaction of reality and illusion and the process by which memory and fantasy unfold. Interplays between conscious and subconscious thought processes are constructed as visual, poetic fragments, utilizing both object …

Paula Henderson

Paula Henderson- Social Fabric: Ball Park Figures Project Room: Social Fabric: Domestic Balance April 6th – May 12th, 2007 Opening Reception Friday: April 6th, 6-9 pm Linda Warren Gallery is proud to present SOCIAL FABRIC: BALL PARK FIGURES a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by Paula Henderson. Furthering her artistic strategy to reshape the status quo Henderson examines our assumptions of race, class and disparity and the manners in which our social landscape becomes shaped and fixed in our consciousness. By focusing on the culturally loaded world of professional sports – be it as spectator or participant, Henderson brings …

Alex O’Neal

Alex O’Neal- Lick the Sun March 2nd – March 30th, 2007 Opening Reception Friday, March 2nd: 6-9pm We are proud to announce the opening of Alex O’Neal’s first solo exhibition in the gallery, “Lick the Sun,” wherein will be featured his most current drawings and paintings alongside pieces completed within the last twelve years. This format intends to allow the viewer a broader insight and understanding into the complex and distinctive narratives of O’Neal’s visual vocabulary as well as the evolution and cohesiveness of his artistic style. Themes of anarchy, community, religious fervor, power, struggle, nature, disguise, dysfunction, secrecy, “mean …