OnView gallery operated by local artists who know local artists

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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