2024 Past Exhibitions

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.