Emmett Kerrigan

Gallery Y and Gallery X: Emmett Kerrigan, “Ascend” May 6, 2016 – June 18, 2016 Opening Reception: Friday, May 6, 2016, 6-9pm Artist Remarks: Saturday, June 4, 2016, 2-5pm Linda Warren Projects welcomes the spring season with “Ascend” by Emmett Kerrigan, the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Kerrigan, a trained painter and self-taught woodworker who moves effortlessly between materials, presents a new body of work of abstracted landscapes in the form of painting, sculpture, and installation. An ardent Chicagoan, Kerrigan has spent a career inspired by the urban and rural landscapes of home, working in an individual style …

Nicole Gordon // Jennifer Presant

Gallery Y: Nicole Gordon, “magnified” Gallery X: Jennifer Presant, “Lost and Found” March 18, 2016 – April 30, 2016 Opening Reception: Friday, March 18, 2016, 6-9pm Artist Remarks: Saturday, April 9, 2016, 2-5pm Linda Warren Projects is pleased to present two solo exhibitions by Chicago-based artists, Nicole Gordon and Jennifer Presant. For both of these painters autobiographical elements morph fluently into meditative and surreal scenes. Juxtapositions within idyllic sanctuaries dominate their landscapes. Gordon’s imagery leans towards the absurd and the grim with scenes of disarray that mimic our own everyday life, whereas Presant’s iconographic and tranquil paintings provide a safe, …

Michael Stillion // Ed Valentine

Gallery Y: Michael Stillion, “In the Belly of a Whale” Gallery X: Ed Valentine, “Still Lifes” January 22, 2016 – March 12, 2016 Opening Reception: Friday, January 22, 2016, 6-9pm Artist Remarks: Saturday, February 20, 2016, 2-5pm Linda Warren Projects is pleased to kick off 2016 with a pair of solo exhibitions by gallery artists Michael Stillion and Ed Valentine. Both of these painters are masterful image-makers, however the contents of their works go far beyond the literal interpretations of their subject matter. For Stillion, not only does the apparel heavily shrouding his figures suggest something other than itself, but …

Tom Van Eynde

Gallery Y and Gallery X: “Tom Van Eynde: Some of Everything, A Retrospective” November 13, 2015 – January 16, 2016 Opening Reception: Friday, November 13, 2015, 6-9pm Artist Remarks: Saturday, December 5, 2015, 2-5pm Linda Warren Projects is pleased to present “Tom Van Eynde: Some of Everything, A Retrospective,” spanning the four-decades-long photography career of gallery artist Tom Van Eynde. From the vintage portraits of late 1970s subcultures to vast panoramas of Egypt in the 1980s and the intimate studio practice he continues today, Van Eynde employs a documentary-style approach to his subject matter. However straightforward his compositions appear, the …

Nina Rizzo // Doug Fogelson

Gallery Y: Nina Rizzo “You Are Here” Gallery X: Doug Fogelson, “Broken Cabinet” September 11 – November 7, 2015 Opening Reception: September 11, 2015, 6-9pm Nina Rizzo Artist Remarks: Friday, September 18, 2015, 7pm Doug Fogelson Discussion with Giovanni Aloi: Saturday, October 10, 2015, 2-4pm Linda Warren Projects is pleased to usher in the fall gallery season with two solo exhibitions by gallery artists Nina Rizzo and Doug Fogelson. For Rizzo, the notion of “environment” is at the crux of her exhibition, “You Are Here” (Gallery Y), with a new body of paintings exploring various sites, as far reaching as Iceland …