Artists at Work Forum: Domestic Studio

Artists Jason Lazarus, Georgina Valverde and Brian Kapernakas discuss strategies for making work in their home or live/work space.  This panel was organized and will be moderated by Lorelei Stewart, Director of Gallery 400.

Co-presented with Gallery 400 at University of Illinois Chicago, this forum is a featured event of Studio Chicago.

Bios:

Brian Kapernekas received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA from University of Illinois at Chicago, both in painting. He has had previous solo exhibitions at The Museum of Photography, Riverside, California and Proof Gallery, Boston, as well as in Chicago at VONZWECK in 2005, COMA in 2007, 65GRAND in 2008, and The Hyde Park Art Center in 2009. Kapernekas received the Artadia: Fund for Art and
Dialogue Grant in 2004. Brian is Represented by 65GRAND. http://kapernekas.com/

Jason Lazarus (b 1975)
Since receiving his MFA in Photography (2003), Jason has actively exhibited around the country and abroad while teaching photography part-time at Columbia College and the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.  Selected exhibition highlights include “Black Is, Black Aint” at the Renaissance Society in Chicago, Image Search at PPOW Gallery in NYC, “On the Scene”at the Art Institute of Chicago, and solo exhibitions at Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Kaune, Sudendorf in Cologne, Germany, and D3 Projects in Los Angeles. Notable honors include an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship award, 2009; the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award, Emerging Artist, 2008; and the Emerging Artist Artadia Grant in 2006. Jasons work can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Milwaukee Museum of Art, and the Bank of America LaSalle Photography collection among many others. http://jasonlazarus.com/

Georgina Valverde (b. 1962, Mexico City.) 
Georgina’s work has been most recently featured in a one person show at antenna in Chicago. She has also exhibited at the Centro Jaime Sabines in Tuxtla Gutiérrez and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Tamaulipas, México; the University of Texas Pan-American, Edinburg; the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago; the former Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art; and the Cullacht Residency program at the Galway City Arts Center, Ireland, among other venues. She has a BFA, 1987, in Painting and Printmaking and a BA, 1987, in Modern Languages from James Madison University, Va., and an MFA, 2003, from the University of Illinois at Chicago. http://www.georginavalverde.com/

Lorelei Stewart is director of Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago where over the last ten years she has curated eight group exhibitions and organized over 30 individual artists projects, including new commissions for a wide variety of Chicago artists, large scale one person exhibitions for national artists, and the 2006 Joyce Award winning performance program, exhibition, and catalog Edgar Arceneaux: The Alchemy of Comedy...Stupid. Stewart has written for exhibition catalogs and local Chicago publications and has been a juror for artist awards and fellowships in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Texas. She is a faculty member of the museum studies program at UIC. Stewart holds an MA from Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY.

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Image:
Brian Kapernekas
"Toasted"
oil and enamel on linen
13"x13"
2009