Eyeporium Gallery

Eyeporium Gallery Exhibition Opening

“Urban Flowers” by Joey Wozniak

Opening Night is Friday, September 9, 2011

Eyeporium Gallery presents Joey Wozniak’s sumptuous paintings that combine the cool allure of abstraction with figurative appliqués created with hand-cut stencils.  Using lavishly applied oil paints, he pulls, scrapes and layers saturated color fields, then meticulously populates the paintings with floral images – both real and stylized. 

WHEN:

Opening Reception (public invited) - Friday, September 9, 2011 from 7pm to 9pm

Exhibition - Through Wednesday, October 5, 2011..

WHERE:

Eyeporium Gallery (inside Eye Want)

1431 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

Phone 773.782.1744

Two blocks from the “Damen” Blue Line El stop in the heart of Wicker Park.

ABOUT JOEY WOZNIAK:

Joey attended the School of the Art Institute in the ‘70’s where he was strongly influenced by his instructor, Ray Yoshida, a contributor to a style known as Chicago Imagism.  For the last 15 years Joey’s preferred medium has been oil painting.  He exhibits primarily in the Midwest as a solo artist as well as part of a Chicago group known as the Crazy 8 – self-proclaimed creators of wild art.

ABOUT EYEPORIUM GALLERY:

Annette Sollars, creator of Chicago's fine eyewear icon, Eye Want, also launched Eyeporium, a fine art gallery in Wicker Park. Representing exceptional artists of regional and national prominence, Eyeporium Gallery features contemporary creators of paint, print, photographic and sculptural works from the realistic to the surreal to the abstract. With the location of Eyeporium inside Eye Want, Annette has created a single destination for you to procure fine eyewear and fine art “for your face and your space”.