Time and its Opposite by Steven Carrelli (Featured in the Dempsey Family Gallery)

Steven Carrelli is a Chicago-based visual artist and writer. In his work, he employs a variety of strategies to examine the uncertain nature of perception and to explore representation as a means of interpreting our relationships to place, time, labor, and history. He works primarily in painting and drawing and often combines direct perceptual experience and art historical imagery, and his works reference a variety of painting traditions that include trompe-l'oeil, still life, and figuration, as well as abstraction and seriality.

SWITCHBACK by Nicholas Sistler (Featured in the KC Magazine Gallery)

Nicholas Sistler's art is about visual and perceptual games, and sometimes about space and spatial distortion. A balancing of subject matter, composition, color, technique, and scale — often in the same piece — is at the core of his work. For the artist, the creative process is one of purposeful play. The miniature size of each completed work encourages close inspection, creating an intimate and personal viewing experience. What appears tiny on the expanse of a wall inevitably enlarges our notions of space and perspective.

Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave by Dominic Sansone (Featured in the Chicago Capital Gallery)

Dominic Sansone is a native of Chicago Illinois and has exhibited his sculpture and installation work in solo and group exhibitions across the country. His current body of artwork is a critical response to the current geopolitical landscape, created by the disproportionate role of the Military Industrial Complex in our society. Ultimately the goal is not to answer the questions or propose solutions for the viewer, but hopefully to cause them to consider, with more than a cursory glance, the reality we build for ourselves through the choices we make as individuals and how those choices impact our civilization.

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