Landscapes / Cityscapes: Jill Kolker and Tita Recometa-Brady; Feb 2 - March 16, 2024
SoNa Chicago is proud to announce its fourth exhibition, which features Jill Kolker and Tita Recometa-Brady Filipina American artist, Tita R. Brady, is based in Joliet, Illinois. She has a BA degree from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her signature style is paintings on round canvases to reflect in part that we are all bound together in what she calls a Circle of Existence.
Jill Kolker is based in Chicago and has been creating mixed media paintings and collages out of her home and studio on the north side of the city for many years. She works with acrylic paint, molding paste, and imagery on wood panels. Jill briefly studied graphic design at Drake University. She then took art classes in the community for 10 years to enhance her technique and find her personal style. After that she began working at the Highland Park Art Center where she deepened her knowledge of texture and the many other techniques she uses in her current work.
Jill’s grid designs and scenes of people of all walks of life evoke cityscapes that show in contrast to the lush landscapes of Tita’s paintings. Both artists’ work contain geometric details and color that bring them together in a visual display that invites the viewer to reflect on how rural and urban environments are complementary and part of an interdependent world.
Image: The Red City by Tita Recometa-Brady
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