EAG Summer Members Show – A Month-Long Indoor Art Fair

The Elmhurst Artists’ Guild (EAG) hosts the Summer Members Show in the EAG Gallery at the Elmhurst Art Museum. The exhibit comprises the work of EAG artists and includes a variety of styles and media in two and three-dimensional contemporary artworks ranging from paintings to sculptural works in fabric, ceramic, stone, glass and other materials.

Featured artworks include several seasonally timely paintings, inviting the viewer to enjoy warm weather pleasures of the outdoors after the long winter.

Crystal Lake artist and educator, Jeanine Hill-Soldner’s oil on canvas painting, “Connectivity Crown Fountain” is a fun, refreshing, impressionistic depiction of a group of children playing in the “spitting” spray from the Crown Fountain in Millennium Park. “My work invites the viewer to explore layers of color and delve deep into the surface of the oil painting in a dance of discovery. I am inspired by the changing visual fragments of everyday life. My work captures the fleeting moments of human interactions, as played out in private and public spaces,” she explained.

A softly ethereal painting, aptly titled, “Summer Solstice,” by Naperville artist, Susan Janssen, provides a mystical hint of summer’s emergence. The delicate image of a woman appears to be shrouded by leaves, or perhaps is an outgrowth of the leaves themselves in human form.

Graphic artist, Ross Felten, a Lombard resident, takes the art in a surrealistic direction with his acrylic on canvas painting, “Phantom Limbs,” a colorful take on cut logs that appear to be drifting off from their parent tree limbs.

Donald Johnson’s “Summer Regatta,” is an inviting acrylic on canvas painting of sailboats racing across a deep blue lake, with their contrasting red, white and blue sails a flowing patriotic wave to Independence Day.

EAG President, Charlene Lee-Freislinger, commented, “Like the summer art fairs, most of the work on display is for sale and is reasonably priced. But our Summer Members Show offers the opportunity to see the work of over 50 artists, indoors, for over a month, so viewers and potential buyers can come back again and again.”

The public is invited to the free opening reception on Friday, June 14, 2019 from 7:00 to 9:00pm.

The exhibition can be viewed during regular museum hours, Tuesday through Sunday from 11am to 5pm.