“Don’t Get Too Comfortable” New Paintings by Beth Borjarski and Recent Sculptures by Mark Winter

Logsdon 1909 Gallery is proud to announce the opening of a two man show “Don’t Get Too Comfortable” featuring new work by painter, Beth Bojarski and sculptor, Mark Winter. 

The show opens at the Chicago Arts District during the Second Friday Event on November 13, 2009 from 6:00 to 10:00 PM with an artists reception open to the general public.  The exhibition will be on view until December 5, 2009.

Beth Bojarski attended Kendall College of Art and Design, receiving a degree in Illustration. Her current style was developed several years later when her dad asked to show some of her paintings in a gallery he had opened in Milwaukee.  Her medium is oil paints applied to wood surfaces. She has used barn doors, cabinets, and slices of tree stumps as her canvas. She has used old boxes, antique brass sprinklers, and rusty metal as her frames.  Her process involves moving paint around on a gessoed board. Typically, she doesn’t plan anything out in advance or do sketches before she begins a piece. In the blotches of color applied, she may see an eye or a mouth’s shape that she will work to pull out of the abstract and begin defining. “I allow the painting to become what it wants and I create the characters as well as the story as I go along. I use a meat thermometer to tell when the painting is finished”.

Mark Winter has been creating sculpture for more than fifteen years.  Though his mother taught art classes at his family’s farm throughout his childhood, Mark never really took an active interest.  After high school he attended Wyoming Tech where he studied auto body repair and gained valuable training in welding, metals, and painting. After owning his own auto body business for several years, personal influences began directing him toward what is now his full time career…sculpture.  Mark incorporates scrap metal and recycled parts in his process.  The found pieces are collected and manipulated into sculptural forms. Color on the artwork is either found on the metal or applied to the piece.  Mark’s studio is located in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin on his parent’s farm. The perfect places to work, play, make noise, and store acres of collected scrap metal.  He gathers inspiration from music, dreams, art…life.  “My process is all about the moment and the purity of creativity”.