MODULAR22 Artist Profile - Robin Dluzen

Website:
robindluzen.com

Favorite Color:
grey

Where were you born/raised:
Ypsilanti, Michigan

Education:

BFA Adrian College 2008; MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2010

Describe your work in 140 characters or less:
My practice employs industrial and everyday materials to explore the confluence of landscape and labor, particularly as it relates to the Midwest landscape and my family's labor history.

Current obsessions (art, design, music, movies, whatever, etcetera):
Polish Film, Lawrence Weschler, Bob Dylan, cardboard

Favorite piece/project you’ve done:

Transmission Towers, cardboard and paper tape, 2012

 

What is your least favorite question/comment about your work and how do you respond?

"Oh, I thought a man made this!" to which I reply, "Yeah, I'm a little macho."

22 likes to focus on the overlap between art and design. Do you consider yourself an artist or designer?

Artist
 

Tell us about the piece(s) you created for MODULAR22:

I've long been interested in replicating found line drawings and the illustrations on hardware packaging in order to highlight their functionality as well as their relatively anonymous authors.

Anything else you would like to share with us?
Robin Dluzen is also an active art critic in the city of Chicago and her writing can be found in such publications as Art Ltd Magazine, Visual Art Source, New American Paintings Blog, New City, the Reader and i4design Magazine.

MODULAR22 Artist Profile - Matthew Scott Gualco

Website:
http://www.matthewgualco.com

Favorite Color:
N/A

Where were you born/raised:
Sacramento,CA

Education:
Kansas City Art Institute, BFA Painting, May 2008, San Francisco Art Institute,MFA New Genre,May 2012
 

Describe your work in 140 characters or less: My work forms an allusive hybrid between drawing and literature by interjecting the subject matter with literature and symbols. There is rawness in the manner that is within the understanding of the viewer. Based on my experiences and everyday life, I portray society with all of its imperfections that we all enjoy. Society is placed starkly into traditional literary formats of screenplays, prose and poetry.

The wingding characters interspersed throughout my writings act as both decoys and stage directions to compel the viewer/reader to determine for themselves whether these dashes, arrows and symbols serve a particular semiotic purpose or whether they may simply be placeholders, abstract glyphs alluding to some modern day Rosetta Stone.

 

Current obsessions (art, design, music, movies, whatever, etcetera):
GG Allin, Daniel Johnston, Sam Peackinpah, Philip Guston, Harper Hair,Clayton Skidmore, Rachel Mack,Brian Henkel, Conrad Guevara,

Favorite piece/project you’ve done (send pic): Lindsay Lohan: Performance Reader (2012)

What is your least favorite question/comment about your work and how do you respond?

Them-How Do you say your last name? Me- Its like "guacamole"

22 likes to focus on the overlap between art and design. Do you consider yourself an artist or designer?
I would like the think of myself more as an "writer"

Tell us about the piece(s) you created for MODULAR22:

The peaces that are in MODULAR22 come from one of my books. Wingding Opus.

MODULAR22 Artist Profile - CJ Hungerman
  

Website:

www.bluecanvas.com/randomrobot

 

Favorite Color:

Red

 

Where were you born/raised:

Pittsburgh

Education:

M.F.A. Northern Illinois University
B.F.A. West Virginia University
B.S. West Liberty State College
 

Describe your work in 140 characters or less:

Cosmo Erotica is in every Random Robotica which speaks to the principle of controlled chaos in uncontrollable situations.

Current obsessions (art, design, music, movies, whatever, etcetera):

My current obsession is art.

Favorite piece/project you’ve done (send pic):

I love each piece whilst I am creating it and then it needs to go to a new home

What is your least favorite question/comment about your work and how do you respond?

My least favorite question is explain my work, that is what the artist statement is constructed for....

 

22 likes to focus on the overlap between art and design. Do you consider yourself an artist or designer?

I am both an artist and designer

Tell us about the piece you created for MODULAR22:

The piece I created for MODULAR22 is an extension of the color pieces I am currently creating.

 

 

 

MODULAR22 Artist Profile - Sean Walker

Website:
http://seankwalker.wix.com/paint#!home/mainPage

Favorite Color:
Green

Where were you born/raised:
Born in Algonquin, IL, Raised in Vandalia, IL

Education:
M.A. in Studio Painting, Eastern Illinois University

Describe your work in 140 characters or less:
Geometric Abstraction fueled by folded architectural forms that deny gravity.

Current obsessions (art, design, music, movies, whatever, etcetera):
I've listening to the Chicago based band Little Boy Jr. nonstop while I paint lately.

Favorite piece/project you’ve done:
U.A. No 19.

22 likes to focus on the overlap between art and design. Do you consider yourself an artist or designer?
I like to think of myself as an Artist surrounded by designers

Tell us about the piece you created for MODULAR22:
The piece I created for MODULAR22 was an experiment to create space using only black and white. The majority of my work relies on bright color and perspective to create an illusion of space, with that said, this piece was a fun chance to reduce my normal process down to warped perspective and value.

MODULAR22 is open 5 days a week through Dec. 22nd.  

Tusdays-Sundays from 1-6 pm.

6910 Cermak Rd.  Berwyn, IL

 

 

 

These 35mm film images are courtesy of Dan Streeting

 

MODULAR22 Artists - Victoria Almanza, Jaime Alvarez, Emily Baker, Meaghan Barry, Lindsey Bates, Eric Battaglia, Rebecca Belmore, Sarah Kate Burgess, Anne Busch, Celia Butler, Caroline Byrne, Jessica Calek, Andrea Campos, Allison Carron, Young Cho, Matthew Coglianese, Kim Counes, Lilian Crum, Michelle D'Cruz, Charlie DeLeonardis, Erika Dely, Robin Dluzen, Andrew Doak, Amy Nicole Dosen, Trevor Edmonds, Anne Evans, Emily Fundis, Tony Garbarini, Matt Geer, Geo, Ricardo Gonzalez, Tiffany Goodman, Carson Grubaugh, Matt Gualco, Lauren Cahoon Hamon, Jessica Harvey, Ron Hemphill, Mallory Heyer, Jennifer Hines, Julie Hoppner, CJ Hungerman, Anvita Jain, Nicole Killian, Andrew Kudelka, Advanced Laser Cutting Technologies, Jackie Laurita, Miro Ledajaks, Tommaso Lesnick, Jacque Liu, Carlos Lopez, Elaine Luther, Ahmad Mali, Maxblr, Erin McGuire, Chad McKinney, Jude Morales, Josep Munoz i Perez, Ferran Munoz i Perez, Lyndsay Murphree, Kiel Mutschelknaus, Brittany Nelson, Satoru Nihei, Olea Nova, Jan Olof Nygren, Charlie O'Geen & James Haddrill, Megan Owdom-Weitz, Karl Paloucek, Kevin Paolozzi, Jiha Park, Sean Patrick, Katrina Petrauskas, Adriana Poterash, Sana Pyrali Singh, Carisse Ramos, Anna Reber, Haynes Riley, Christopher Santoso, Neil Schierstedt, Mackenzie Schubert, Jason Schwartz, Egon Selby, Ashley Allen Short, Dan Sinclair, Seth Stephens, Dan Streeting, Dana Tatge, Kyle Thye, Dann Tincher, Melissa Urbonas, Tania Ursomarzo, Brad Vetter, Sean Walker, Mr. Walters, Mrs. Walters, Melinda Wind, Allison Wong, and Lisa Yu

Special Thanks to Advanced Laser Cutting Technologies

Thanks to everyone who helped make the MODULAR22 opening a great success!

More pictures to follow next week.

 

We've been really busy at 22 getting ready for the opening of MODULAR22 on October 13th.  Here are some pictures from the past few weeks of what we have been working on.  Enjoy!