Ed Valentine // Michael Stillion

Gallery Y: Ed Valentine “Somebody’s Beauty” Gallery X: Michael Stillion “B.Z.&C: Bent, Zigzag and Crooked” February 8 – April 5, 2013 Opening Reception: Friday, February 8, 2013, 6-9pm Linda Warren Projects is proud to usher in 2013 with exhibitions by gallery artists Ed Valentine and Michael Stillion. Though both painters engage portraiture on the surface, each artist spins off from that trope, transcending the figure and presenting viewers with differing conceptual points of entry. In Ed Valentine’s “Somebody’s Beauty” in Gallery Y, and Michael Stillion’s “B.Z.C: Bent, Zigzag and Crooked” in Gallery X, both artists build pictures upon frameworks with …

Shay Kun // Doug Fogelson

Gallery Y: Shay Kun “Feast and Famine” Gallery X: Doug Fogelson “potpourri” December 14 – February 2, 2013 Opening Reception: Friday, December 14, 2012, from 6-9pm As we make our way into the winter of 2012, feeling perhaps a heightened awareness of chaos and instability, Linda Warren Projects opens two shows that coax beauty out of complex notions of human survival, while they speak simultaneously to man’s exploitation of and love affair with the natural world. Marking for both artists their first solo exhibitions with the gallery, we proudly present in Gallery Y Israeli-born, New York-based painter Shay Kun’s “Feast …

Peter Drake // Scott Carter

Gallery Y: Peter Drake: “Re-Animate” Gallery X: Scott Carter: “Force Majeure” October 26-December 8, 2012 Opening Reception: Friday, October 26, 2012 from 6-9pm Marking Peter Drake’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Linda Warren Projects proudly presents, “Re-Animate” in Gallery Y. In recent years, Drake’s work has primarily stemmed from his exploration of the lead soldier collection left to him by his father, which ignited the artist’s imagination and concern with inventions of imagery, and its power of indoctrination and subversion. As Drake “played” with these toys using his masterful painting skills, breathing life into these incredibly static objects with …

Brenda Moore // David Reninger

Gallery Y: Brenda Moore“Between Tragedy and Frivolity” Gallery X: David Reninger “Animal Tales” September 7 – October 20, 2012 Opening Reception: Friday, September 7, 2012, 6-9pm Linda Warren Projects proudly kicks off the fall art season with the solo exhibitions of two noteworthy Chicago-based artists, Brenda Moore and David Reninger, who celebrate the imagination by transposing the animal figures of their empathy into allegorical forms of visual poetry. Like fables or fairytales full of fantasy and folly, their anthropomorphized animals are quite deceptive – like wolves wrapped in sheep’s clothing. On display in Gallery Y, “Between Tragedy and Frivolity” marks …

Juan Angel Chavez // Glenn Goldberg

Gallery Y: Juan Angel Chavez: “Gone” Gallery X: Glenn Goldberg: “Fables and Other Places” June 22- August 18, 2012 Opening Reception: Friday, June 22, 2012 As in the summers of previous years, we run contrary to the expectations of those who generally regard this period as a slower season in the art world, and proudly open two very special exhibits which offer the warm weather lovers, and the voyagers for escapism, a contemplative respite and space to connect with some powerful and enriching art. In Gallery Y, sculptor Juan Angel Chavez presents “Gone,” a fresh body of work that emanates …