Throughout the year, the Beverly Art Center presents rotating exhibitions of contemporary art in our spectacular new 2nd floor art gallery. These exhibits are free and open to the public. While in the neighborhood, be sure to visit the Vanderpoel Art Association Gallery, which houses notable works by American Impressionists and other artists, including Mary Cassatt, Loredo Taft, Maxfield Parrish, and Grant Wood.

GALLERY EXHIBITS - TOP

Jerrold Maddox - Photographs - top Saturday - September 25 East Gallery & Atrium Exhibit: August 13- September 25 Reception & Artist Talk: September 25, 6-9pm Artist Talk at 7pm Jerrold Maddox is a photographer who lives in central Pennsylvania, where he teaches at Penn State University.  After many years as an exhibiting painter he turned to photography and digital media in 1990. Most of the photographs in this exhibition were taken within walking distance of his home in Pennsylvania Furnace. There are also a few taken in Tokyo and England. Included in the exhibit are a series of screen and digital prints made to be given away - they are in stacks on boxes in front of the windows. Please take copies, if you want them. Pictured art: Two Apple Trees, 2008

Beautiful Industry - Photographs & Painting - top Sunday - September 26 Bridge & Theater Galleries Exhibit: August 13-September 26 Reception: September 17, 7-9pm This exhibition will feature cheerful acrylic paintings by Mary King and black and white photographs by Gary Cialdella which celebrate the industrial areas of  southeast Chicago and northwest Indiana that some people live in the midst of and other people do not realize still exist.     King and Cialdella take two very different approaches in representing this area, but the work of both makes clear their understanding, and even love for, this part of the greater Chicago region. Mary King  exhibits widely. She has had one-person shows in New York, Chicago and Detroit. TheChicago Reader and The New York Times like her.  She lives and works in Chicago. Gary Cialdella is a native of Blue Island. He lives in Michigan and works in Michigan and Chicago.  His book The Calumet Region: An American Place was published by The University of Illinois Press in 2009. Works from the book will be included in the exhibition. Pictured image: Pipes with Steam Acrylic on Dura-Lar     13" X 16" by Mary King

34th Annual Beverly Art Competition - top Friday - October 01 APPLICATION DEADLINE: Oct. 1 A non-refundable fee of $30 ($25 BAC members) is required. Enter Early and SAVE! Enter by September 5: $20 ($15 BAC Members). Enter by September 20: $25 ($20 BAC Members);  Enclose check or money order payable to the Beverly Arts Center. Additional applications in other media from the same artist will be accepted for an additional fee of $10 per application. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD APPLICATION. Eligibility: The competition is open to artists who live in or within 100 miles of the City of Chicago. All work must have been completed in the last 5 years and be professionally finished. (All accepted entries must be framed and wired for hanging; sculptures must be ready for installation). Exhibit: November 5 - December 27 Opening Reception & Award Ceremony: Friday, Nov. 5, 7-9pm Jurors: Linda Warren of Linda Warren Gallery and Don Southard www.donsouthard.com Sponsored by:

Part of Chicago Artists' Month: Mary McCarthy, Paintings 2000-2010, A Survey - top Sunday - October 31 Part of Chicago Artists' Month Exhibit: October 1-31 Opening Reception: October 2, 6-8pm Mary McCarthy is an abstract painter who lives and works in Chicago.  Her work has been featured in several publications and has been exhibited throughout the U.S.  Her work is included in private collections,  nationally and internationally.  McCarthy is an Alumni of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Studio Arts Center International in Florence, Italy.  This exhibition will include grid paintings of the past, and will focus on her more recent free flowing geometric abstractions. Mary McCarthy's exhibit is part of Chicago Artists Month 2010, the fifteenth annual celebration of Chicago’s vibrant visual art community coordinated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.  For more information, visit www.chicagoartistsmonth.org. Pictured art: Greenhouse, 2009   Oil and enamel on wood 20" x 24"

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Establishing a Connection: Robert Catania - Photography - top Sunday - October 31 Exhibit: October 1-31 Reception: TBA Working as a photographer since the early 1990's, Catania's approach to the photographic medium has evolved with the technology. Currently working with applied digital technologies, Catania has begun to explore documentary photography in the digital world. While historically a field that relies on the camera's ability to recreate reality, Catania's approach challenges traditional thinking by employing selective focus and desaturation. Shooting in the backyards and side streets of Chicago, Catania has aimed his camera and computer at a slowly vanishing subject, the pay phone.   "Establishing a Connection" looks at the places, phones, and conditions that surround a way we once communicated, and wonders aloud about how we communicate now. His treated color prints allow the viewer to explore places that he or she might otherwise have missed, in a way that re-emphasizes what photography does so well...It establishes a connection with the viewer. Robert Catania's exhibit is part of Chicago Artists Month 2010, the fifteenth annual celebration of Chicago’s vibrant visual art community coordinated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.  For more information, visit www.chicagoartistsmonth.org.

3rd Annual Evolving Artists Exhibition - top Sunday - January 30 Exhibit: Dec. 30, 2009-Jan. 30, 2011 Opening Reception: TBA Application Deadline: November 22. APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE SOON! Competition open to artists age 21-35. 2011 Judges: Susannah Papish and Sandra Leonard Hosted by the BAC Young Adult Board. Interested in sponsoring this competition? Contact laura@beverlyartcenter.org or 773-445-3838 ext. 210.

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