BareWalls 2009
Alumni and Faculty Benefit for Student Scholarship
Saturday, October 10 2009
The Sullivan Galleries
33 S. State Street, 7th Floor
Chicago, IL
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago presented the 15th annual BareWalls benefit to support the endowed BareWalls Scholarship Fund on Saturday, October 10, 2009 honoring Featured Artist, Angel Otero (BFA 07 & MFA 09).
A silent auction offed the 800 attending SAIC friends, families, students, alumni, staff and faculty the opportunity to bid on the works of art in the show while enjoying live music, an open bar, hors d’oeuvres, dessert and a do it yourself art station compliments of Blick Art Materials.
Proceeds from the event benefit students pursuing their studies at SAIC. For more information, call: 312.899.5158
View our photo gallery of the event
Click here to see work by the artists in the silent auction online!
BareWalls 2009 Guest Artist and Alumnus: Angel Otero
Born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, Angel Otero is a rising star in the international art scene. After participating in Art Chicago 2009, Otero gained critical recognition, and several international galleries offered him representation, including Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago. This year he sold out on the first day of ARCO in Spain and Circa 09 in Puerto Rico. Otero recently won the Leonore Annenberg Foundation Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts, allowing him to live and create work in New York for the next two years.
Otero’s relationship with his family, especially his grandmother, is a recurrent theme in his work, and the experience of coming to Chicago and interacting with the vibrant community at SAIC inspired him to present these themes in new ways. His figurative work focuses on images of home, often depicted in bright colors against stark backgrounds. He adds cloth and other materials to the paint to create texture and sometimes incorporates elements of collage. These techniques lend a strong sense of emotional immediacy to his work. Angel Otero received his both his BFA in 2007 and his MFA in 2009 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Participating Artists
Artists who created work on-site:
Margaret Abbott-Trboyevic
Shira Avni
Justin Block
Joseph Church
Maggie Claudy
Colleen L. Conley
Kinga Czerska
Josh Darr
Lorna Filippini-Mulliken
Shellie Fiocca
Amanda Lee Franck
Wendee Goles
Larry W. Green
Jonathan Green
Nadine Guerrera
Ashley Hagen
| Andrew Hannigan
Daphne Vickers Hill
Eric Hill
Kate Hoyer
Diane Minicucci Huff
Tracy G. Jones
Barbara Miller Kapp
Kathleen King
Margie Lawrence
Kim Leutwyler
Karin Lowney-Seed
Kimberly Madison
Mark E Mattson
Barbara Lazarus Metz
Steven Thomas Miller
William K. Moore
Jeff Musser
| Roland S. Oria
tommaso paladino
Tom Palazzolo
Catherine A. Phelps
Jim Pryzdia
Jyotika Purwar
Virginia O. Roeder
Ryan Scheidt
Sally Schoch
Howard Shoudis
Joseph Spangler
Eleanor Spiess-Ferris
Douglas Stapleton
Bruce Thorn
Alfred Li Tsao
Maureen Warren
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Artists who donated finished works:
Inez Abrahamson
Carmel Anderson
Joy Appenzeller Bauer
Margaret Biddle
Margaret Buckman
Jewelry Design, Inc.
Ann Chahbandour
Sheila Elias
Ben Fain
Nicole Kristiana FitzGibbon
Joan Fitzsimmons
Leo Holub
Doug Huston
Sung Jang
Jim Lutes
| April Jouse
seung jae kim
Jin Soo Kim
Jordie Krimstein
Ellen Lanyon
Alex M. Lee
Joowon Lee
W.K. Marhoefer
Carl McGrady
Takeshi Moro
Kori Newkirk
Ray Noland
Angel Otero
Kristina Paabus
| Mike Parsons
Rita Price
Roger Brown Study Collection
Ken Rosenthal
James Schneider
Rebecca Shore
Chris D. Smith
Jay L. Strommen
Erik Weisenburger
Yoshi
Jim Zanzi
Ryan Zoghlin
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View work and read bios of the SAIC artists who participated in BareWalls 2009:
2009 BareWalls Artist's Gallery
A very special thanks to the BareWalls 2009 Sponsors who made the event possible!
History of BareWalls and Archives
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