Art Shifts:
In & Out of Alliances
Ewa Bloch | Baltazar Castillo
| King Farish
One show, two exhibitions, three artists.
These artists engage in personal and professional collaborations and move their art in and out of the gallery space during the course of a month and a half.
This innovative collaboration presents three artists from Chicago's Flat Iron Building, in two shifts, during two important months. SHIFT #1 highlights Baltazar Castillo and Ewa Bloch celebrating both Hispanic Heritage Month and Chicago Artists Month (CAM); SHIFT #2 adds abstract painter King Farish to the mix for the remainder of CAM.
THE FIRST SHIFT brings two north side artists to the south side with their large scale paintings in oils and acrylics. Castillo's paintings, employing two and three-D forms, derive inspiration from Mexico's "Carniceria" and overheard street conversations, included in his works as cutouts. Ewa Bloch's large scale abstract paintings record her experiences in the city while at work, and on the streets of her neighborhood. Her paintings are a cacaphony of color and sensation. The unique collaboration between Bloch and Castillo is sub-titled "Zippered". The SECOND SHIFT, sub-titled "King Baltazar", brings intensely colorful abstracts by King Farish to integrate with the FIRST SHIFT.
All artists show new work. These three Flat Iron artists collaborate to represent figurative, abstract, male, female, Latino, and European concepts in a quick change exhibition that responds to rapid fire global and technological concerns.
