Upstairs @ The General

Dave Jordano
Articles of Faith For five years, Jordano spent his weekends traveling to many of these community churches in Chicago, getting to know their pastors and parishioners. The attention to personal detail is highly evident in his exquisite photographs that capture the identity and personalities of each church, from hand lettered signs to icons. These churches which dot the South and West Sides of the city, are truly community churches - individualized and idiosyncratic, they cater to the specific needs and wants of their ministers and members. David is a leading commercial photographer whose clients include Starbucks, Sears, Nestle`, Kraft Food...

Representations "Gathering ordinary household objects, I first whitewash them with house paint, and then draw directly onto their surfaces with charcoal or graphite. The resulting images present visual hybrids that appear to vacillate between drawing and photography, black-and-white and color, signifier and signified, and question the concept of photographic truth and its correspondence to perceived reality. No digital manipulation is involved, but the camera’s angle of view is imperative in order to create the illusion. " Her website  www.cynthiagreig.com/art/index.htm   Read More

"I transform discarded bits from daily life- scuffed baby shoe, beaver gnawed stick, rusted saw blade, worn button, shredded tire, faded wedding dress, and lost key- into sculpture, nests, and memorial baskets." patriciaburleson.com  Read More

"The act of painting is, among other things, about getting to the essence of an idea, an emotion, a memory, a moment. It is also a celebration of the physicality of paint itself and color next to color, pattern next to pattern, shape next to shape. It's an exploration into a dream world with trails marked by other painters showing the paths they have traveled." www.sterlingmulbry.com  Read More

Multimedia sculptor in Portsmouth, NH; his found object sculptures are represented in private and corporate collections; has been a theatrical prop master for the Mudd Butt Mystery Theatre Troup in Telluride, CO, for 18 years.

Whether representational or abstract in design, Artist of the Month oil painter Lydia Enriquez often begins her paintings with a collage. Her use of collage to kick start her paintings gives them a delightful "other-world" feel mixed with the familiar. The result engages the viewer by drawing the eye in to bridge the real and unreal.

Judy Warner, is well known in town for her paintings of local landmarks and subjects. Judy has lived in Harvard for almost thirty five years. She enjoys drawing and painting scenes from the places she visits each day. Finding spots that have a connection to the rural past, the barns, old houses, and public buildings in our local towns and capturing the remaining agricultural and traditional New England landscape in this area are particularly satisfying to her. Most of her paintings are done in oil or acrylic on either prepared paper or canvas. Judy says, “I try to work outside as much as possible, though I do use my own photographs so ...