Laura Greene (Haute Handed)
www.hautehanded.com
Laura Greene/Haute Handed
Haute = high fashion, hot handed = a winning streak, a lucky spell, having good luck.
Laura acknowledges these ideas as creates each piece. "There is definitely a touch of luck & spirited fashion that goes into each piece."
Laura earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Clothing & Textile design from Michigan State University. Furthering her design education, she was accepted into Parson's School of Design in New York City.
After many years of running her Interior Design company, Chic Home Chicago, Inc., Laura noticed a void and demand for inspiring artwork. She started to paint large-scale artwork for her clients. Her artwork now hangs in many inspirational homes and commercial buildings throughout the U.S., as well as a celebrity clientele following.
Laura's paintings pull from all influences of design, from graphic, to interiors, to fashion. Laura is inspired by a contemporary color palette, vintage fashion & textiles.
For purchases, custom designs or collaboration, visit her website at:
www.hautehanded.com
Or visit her Etsy shop at:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/HauteHanded
Haute = high fashion, hot handed = a winning streak, a lucky spell, having good luck.
Laura acknowledges these ideas as creates each piece. "There is definitely a touch of luck & spirited fashion that goes into each piece."
Laura earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Clothing & Textile design from Michigan State University. Furthering her design education, she was accepted into Parson's School of Design in New York City.
After many years of running her Interior Design company, Chic Home Chicago, Inc., Laura noticed a void and demand for inspiring artwork. She started to paint large-scale artwork for her clients. Her artwork now hangs in many inspirational homes and commercial buildings throughout the U.S., as well as a celebrity clientele following.
Laura's paintings pull from all influences of design, from graphic, to interiors, to fashion. Laura is inspired by a contemporary color palette, vintage fashion & textiles.
For purchases, custom designs or collaboration, visit her website at:
www.hautehanded.com
Or visit her Etsy shop at:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/HauteHanded
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Laura Gomez
www.etsy.com/people/ArtffordableWalls
Laura Gomez born of Delicias, Chihuahua (Mexico) in 1975 and graduated from the "Instituto Tecnologico de Chihuahua" as a Business Administrator, Laura emigrated to the United States at the age of 24 with her sister in the year of 2000. She currently lives in the city of Chicago that she loves as much as her hometown.
Laura uses her art as a liberation of the soul. Her basic knowledge about art, was taught to her by her father, Mr. Guillermo Gómez who never went to art school either due to economic issues. He transmitted his love for art to his three children when they were just about four years old, using just a few art books and supplies. After finishing all the supplies, Art sessions were put aside and forgotten for many many years, there was no money to buy more supplies.
When moving to Chicago, Laura started working as a Finance Office Coordinator for a Non-Profit organization. In the year of 2005 her apartment was totally consumed by a fire and lost everything she and her sister had acquired during those five years of hard work. After renting a new place, and trying to kill the boredom of not having anything to watch, read or even to sit, they decided to start their new life by buying their first new things: canvases and paint.
After having her paintings on exhibit in different places and receiving an amazing feedback, Laura decided to take the most important decision of her life in March 2012, resigning as a Finance office Coordinator to start living doing what she was born to do, Art.
Laura's inspirations are her family, her roots, culture, principles and history. Never forgetting who she is and where she comes from. She dedicates her creations to her family, in special to her beloved father and her unforgettable friends that will always be part of her story.
Laura uses her art as a liberation of the soul. Her basic knowledge about art, was taught to her by her father, Mr. Guillermo Gómez who never went to art school either due to economic issues. He transmitted his love for art to his three children when they were just about four years old, using just a few art books and supplies. After finishing all the supplies, Art sessions were put aside and forgotten for many many years, there was no money to buy more supplies.
When moving to Chicago, Laura started working as a Finance Office Coordinator for a Non-Profit organization. In the year of 2005 her apartment was totally consumed by a fire and lost everything she and her sister had acquired during those five years of hard work. After renting a new place, and trying to kill the boredom of not having anything to watch, read or even to sit, they decided to start their new life by buying their first new things: canvases and paint.
After having her paintings on exhibit in different places and receiving an amazing feedback, Laura decided to take the most important decision of her life in March 2012, resigning as a Finance office Coordinator to start living doing what she was born to do, Art.
Laura's inspirations are her family, her roots, culture, principles and history. Never forgetting who she is and where she comes from. She dedicates her creations to her family, in special to her beloved father and her unforgettable friends that will always be part of her story.
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Charity Kittler
www.charitykittler.com
Attracted to nature's bright colors and textured surfaces, Charity focuses her photography on the peculiar and unnoticed beauty of the familiar. Her shooting techniques transform still lifes and landscapes into swaths of color and light, renewing everyday objects and scenes outside of their contextual reality. She seeks to create images that invite curiosity and contemplation.
The artist's work is held in private collections across the United States. She won first place in her college's juried student art show in 2007, and showed her first solo exhibition in 2008.
Charity studied with photographer Greg Schreck and fine artist Tim Lowly, and earned her art degree in 2008. She enjoys exploring cities on foot, and makes her home in Chicago.
Visit her etsy photography shop: www.etsy.com/shop/charitykittler
To see a broader collection of her work, visit www.charitykittler.com
The artist's work is held in private collections across the United States. She won first place in her college's juried student art show in 2007, and showed her first solo exhibition in 2008.
Charity studied with photographer Greg Schreck and fine artist Tim Lowly, and earned her art degree in 2008. She enjoys exploring cities on foot, and makes her home in Chicago.
Visit her etsy photography shop: www.etsy.com/shop/charitykittler
To see a broader collection of her work, visit www.charitykittler.com
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Mandy Adamick ~ madcanvases
www.madcanvases.com
Mandy creates digital black and white photography collages which are sublimated onto canvas fabric. She is a self-taught digital artist and uses her own photographic images as a base before manipulating them into an abstract, layered design. Her pieces focus on the well-known landmarks of the city and the architectural aspects within.
The process of sublimation turns the inks from a liquid directly into a gas when they are heat pressed onto the canvas, where the ink essentially becomes a part of the fabric and allows the texture of the canvas to remain untouched.
Mandy has exhibited her work in art festivals, small galleries and coffee shops throughout Chicago and the suburbs and continues to look for new locations for her next piece. She has recently expanded to landmarks across the Midwest and traveled to California, New York, Boston and Washington D.C. to take photographs for future designs. She also enjoys working with personal photos to create a one of a kind design that makes for an unforgettable gift.
Mandy graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in Computer Engineering in 2003. After moving to a new condo the West Loop in 2008, Mandy was faced with the task of decorating a large blank wall in her living room. Her husband and she decided that they wanted artwork that represented Chicago and their new neighborhood but was not the standard, big box store version of the Chicago Theater sign. Mandy ventured out to take pictures of landmarks around the West Loop and upon realizing that many of her photos weren’t the type to blow up for large format printing, she decided to try collaging four or five of the pictures together to digitally create one image and her style was born.
The process of sublimation turns the inks from a liquid directly into a gas when they are heat pressed onto the canvas, where the ink essentially becomes a part of the fabric and allows the texture of the canvas to remain untouched.
Mandy has exhibited her work in art festivals, small galleries and coffee shops throughout Chicago and the suburbs and continues to look for new locations for her next piece. She has recently expanded to landmarks across the Midwest and traveled to California, New York, Boston and Washington D.C. to take photographs for future designs. She also enjoys working with personal photos to create a one of a kind design that makes for an unforgettable gift.
Mandy graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in Computer Engineering in 2003. After moving to a new condo the West Loop in 2008, Mandy was faced with the task of decorating a large blank wall in her living room. Her husband and she decided that they wanted artwork that represented Chicago and their new neighborhood but was not the standard, big box store version of the Chicago Theater sign. Mandy ventured out to take pictures of landmarks around the West Loop and upon realizing that many of her photos weren’t the type to blow up for large format printing, she decided to try collaging four or five of the pictures together to digitally create one image and her style was born.
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Katie Traynor
www.katietraynor.blogspot.com
www.etsy.com/shop/TraynorPaintings
www.facebook.com/TraynorPaintings
Katie Traynor is a painter and writer born and raised in Chicago. Since childhood, Katie has always had her hands in some creative project; from singing and acting to construction paper and acrylics. After leaving Chicago (and art) for college, she stayed away for almost a decade – exploring Champaign, Illinois and Anchorage, Alaska where she reconnected with the artist inside and picked up her brushes once again. After many years of painting for personal enjoyment, Katie discovered that artmaking is a wonderful instrument for navigation through difficult periods of her life. In 2011, one particularly rough patch pushed her to further her practice, and to share it with others.
Katie also blogs about art and artmaking as well as her struggle with grief and trauma following a great personal loss. The two concepts intertwine in such a primal way that it only seemed natural to explore them together:
I am in a completely different world when I’m in my studio. Bad things can’t get me there. Good things flow through me and my mind gets a chance to rest. I zone out and spend hours in my happy place and when it’s over, there’s a beautiful piece of art sitting in front of me.
Recently my life has gone through a plethora of world-altering changes. The more changes you go through, the more feelings you have. The more feelings you have, the more static you have to get out of your mind and down onto canvas.
Her work explores the playfulness of shape and the overwhelming nature of color while allowing the natural flow of emotions to guide the strokes of paint across the canvas. Each piece is born out of internal conflict or mental static – Katie turns the soul of the work inside out for all to see as she attempts to transform something challenging into something beautiful.
Katie’s paintings are available for purchase through Etsy (Traynor Paintings) and her thoughts are available for perusal at www.katietraynor.blogspot.com.
Katie also blogs about art and artmaking as well as her struggle with grief and trauma following a great personal loss. The two concepts intertwine in such a primal way that it only seemed natural to explore them together:
I am in a completely different world when I’m in my studio. Bad things can’t get me there. Good things flow through me and my mind gets a chance to rest. I zone out and spend hours in my happy place and when it’s over, there’s a beautiful piece of art sitting in front of me.
Recently my life has gone through a plethora of world-altering changes. The more changes you go through, the more feelings you have. The more feelings you have, the more static you have to get out of your mind and down onto canvas.
Her work explores the playfulness of shape and the overwhelming nature of color while allowing the natural flow of emotions to guide the strokes of paint across the canvas. Each piece is born out of internal conflict or mental static – Katie turns the soul of the work inside out for all to see as she attempts to transform something challenging into something beautiful.
Katie’s paintings are available for purchase through Etsy (Traynor Paintings) and her thoughts are available for perusal at www.katietraynor.blogspot.com.
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Mary Gaspar
http://www.Etsy.com/Shop/MaryGaspar
Mary Gaspar was born in Chicago in 1980. She began painting at a very young age and in high school her artwork began to receive critical attention. While she was preparing to apply to art school her mutual love of theatre took her in another direction. Mary went on to receive her BFA in acting at the University of Illinois. After pursuing acting in both California, Chicago, getting married and two little girls later, Mary has returned to painting with a passion.
"I began my thirties with a resolution to paint my heart out. I began to feverishly paint, every evening after putting my girls to bed. I'd play a record, get a glass of wine and pour my soul into a canvas."
In the last twelve months she has launched her Etsy shop, had her own art show, and sold dozens of her paintings.
"I am probably most inspired by music when I paint. My recent series definitely reflects all the eighties records I've been listening to...Modern English, New Order, Echo and the Bunneyman. Definitely going more abstract with this recent series...bold shapes, strong unabashed color. Other constants in my arsenal of inspiration...Fashion, flowers, graffiti and letting my imagination run wild."
"I began my thirties with a resolution to paint my heart out. I began to feverishly paint, every evening after putting my girls to bed. I'd play a record, get a glass of wine and pour my soul into a canvas."
In the last twelve months she has launched her Etsy shop, had her own art show, and sold dozens of her paintings.
"I am probably most inspired by music when I paint. My recent series definitely reflects all the eighties records I've been listening to...Modern English, New Order, Echo and the Bunneyman. Definitely going more abstract with this recent series...bold shapes, strong unabashed color. Other constants in my arsenal of inspiration...Fashion, flowers, graffiti and letting my imagination run wild."
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