The Northwest Highway art store is a continuing challenge for creative people who must transition to business operators.
The dog-head sculpture on display, made of high-fire clay, looked interesting enough until Russell Phillips brought a small fan to place opposite the sculpture. Phillips turned on the fan, which blew the strands of hair atop the dog-head. Maria Kuchinski, head of the ceramics department at the College of DuPage, concocted this two-piece set of artwork, on sale for $650. That’s the key to OnView, a two-year-old gallery at 139 N. Northwest Highway: quality work produced by Chicago-area artists. And if the truth be known, gallery proprietors Phillips and Cynthia Crampton, married 27 years and 21-year Park Ridge residents, don’t mind at all giving fellow artists from town prominent display. There were two big paintings from Andre Lidgus. …
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Students' work was hung in a show at Brickton Art Gallery.
With their paintings framed and their photos matted under glass, seventy-three art students from Maine South High School got to show off their works at a gallery reception Thursday evening. Art teachers selected works to appear in the Maine South Art Awards Show, held at the Brickton Art Center, 306 Busse Highway, Park Ridge. "It's typically our senior awards show--where we recognize talented students who have worked hard all year," said Deb Newberg, who teaches photography and digital imaging at Maine South. "It's our chance to show them off since we don't have a show at the school." For the first time, the show included works from 18 younger kids at Emerson and Lincoln Middle Schools in Park Ridge-Niles School District 64, most of whom …
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