EAG Members’ Meeting

Thursday, November 21st, 7p-9pm
Elmhurst Art Museum, Guild Room

Presentation by artist Karyl Silerzio

Karyl Silerzio is a cross-disciplinary artist working recently and primarily (but not exclusively) with clay and printmaking processes such as monoprinting, silkscreening, relief printing. She is a veteran Art teacher, now retired and living in Naperville.

Karyl grew up in Elmhurst and went to York Community High School, graduated from Northern Illinois University and Aurora University with degrees in Art Education. She earned my National Board Certification in 2003 and worked in several schools and school districts in the west suburban area before retiring in 2016 from Indian Prairie School District 204/Neuqua Valley High School.

In her own words “Now in retirement, my main goal is to further my personal growth as an artist. To that end I have zeroed in on working with clay and other ceramic materials. By adding methods of printmaking to my clay repertoire, I have extended the range of ways I can express my ideas.My current work includes themes of "big ideas" mostly in the context of a series of pieces that express a theme in a variety of ways. The series may be linked by way of forms (i.e. pyramids of the "Trust" series) or subject matter such as with the series "Secret Places and Sacred Spaces". In this current work I have incorporated printmaking techniques to give a graphic element to my 3D sculptural forms.”