2024 Past Exhibitions
Fall Members’ Show: Day of the Dead
October 20th, 2024 – November 30th, 10am
Congratulations to the winners for the Fall Member's’ Show. Best of Theme - “Sleep” by Ted Strandt, Award of Excellence - “Perpetually Surprised Barn” by Ken Reif, Award of Excellence - “Give a Dog a Bone” by Donna Castellanos, Award of Excellence - “The Good, The Bad, & The Dead” by John Duffy, Honorable Mention - “Hopefully I’m Evolving” by Fletcher Hayes, Honorable Mention - “Queen Catrina” by Deb Vaccaro, Honorable Mention - “Maria” by Diana Gondek
EAG Solo Show: Cassandra Swierenga
September 7th - October 18th, 2024
A Visual Memoir
Twenty-five years ago, Swierenga's painting journey began with an introductory class at the College of DuPage, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. In the semesters that followed, Swierenga had the opportunity to experiment with various painting mediums and techniques, such as oils, egg tempera, encaustic, watercolor, fresco, and acrylic. As Swierenga developed her painting practice, she focused primarily on realism in oils. In 2007, she started painting in watercolor and became a member of the Illinois Watercolor Society, achieving Signature membership in 2010. She briefly attended painting classes at the Art Institute of Chicago and taught watercolor painting at the Community School of the Arts at Wheaton College for five years. Swierenga joined the Elmhurst Artists Guild in 2013, where she is currently a member. She also served on the EAG Board of Directors for nine years, holding various roles including Program Director and President of the board.
Summer Members’ Show
April 13, 2024 – June 1, 10am
Congratulations to the winners for the Summer Member's’ Show. Best in Show - D and the Red Dress by Anna Toberman, 1st Place - Sea Monster Surprise by Dave Pryor, 2nd Place - Moon Drops by Jeanne Garrett, 3rd place - Plantation Horizon by Susan Nester, Honorable Mention - Racing Thoughts by Delia Abdelaziz, Honorable Mention - Socialite Behavior Intertwined with Hardship by Charles Williams Jr., Honorable Mention - Gateway with Blue Stone by John Duffy. Cherlyn Gnadt was the featured artist.
Spring Members’ Show
April 13, 2024 – June 1, 10am
The opening reception for the EAG SPRING Member Show was attended by 120 people. Robert Fritz spoke about so many pieces before he announced the awards. Congratulations to all the artists for once again filling our walls with such outstanding art. Here are the awarded artists. Best in Show - Donna Catellanos, 1st Place - Alan Johnson, 2nd Place - Karla Wong, 3rd place - Katheryn Gathier, Honorable Mention - Heather-Jones Pryor, Honorable Mention - Susan John Nester, Honorable Mention - Debra Vaccaro. Cherlyn Gnadt was the featured artist.
EAG Solo Show: Joan Ladendorf
MARCH 2 – APRIL 12, 2024
Common Threads
“Common Threads”, a new exhibition by artist Joan Ladendorf, will open March 6, 2024 in the Elmhurst Artists’ Guild Gallery located inside the Elmhurst Art Museum. Joan’s work was featured in March of 2019 in the same gallery in a retrospective show titled “Collections”. Her new show will feature only work created since then. Joan calls her current artwork style “Digital Photo Collage.”
Her unique creations are assembled from bits and pieces of photos she has taken. For additional interest and texture, she creates hand-painted and hand-altered recycled papers which are scanned and incorporated in the compositions. Shapes are drawn with the computer mouse, sections of the papers and photos are chosen, and all are combined in Photoshop in a collage style, with added dimensional effects.
EAG Solo Show: Gary Schirmer
January 20 - March 1, 2024
Antedated Foresights 2024: Forty Years of Aesthetic and Social Observation
Gary Schirmer has been a working artist for forty years and a studio-art educator at the college level for 30 years at the College of DuPage and Joliet Junior College in the subjects of drawing, life drawing, painting, photography, and printmaking. He has, as well, taught as a lecturer in Art Appreciation at both colleges. As a professional commercial artist, illustrator, scenic painter, and fabricator, he has worked in the film, television, and commercial photography industries. For twenty years, he has been a regular freelance scenic artist with Chicago’s PBS station, WTTW.
