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Thomas H. Kapsalis – American Artist
Works 1990 - 2013
Exhibit Dates: June 7 - August 4, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, June 7, 6-9 pm
The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art is proud to present a solo exhibition of one of Chicago’s great abstractionists, painter and sculptor Thomas Kapsalis.
The focus of this exhibition is Kapsalis’s works from 1990-2013, and features works in various media, such as paintings, sculptures in metal, wood, and recycled materials. Many of the works were created in the past decade, and have never been publicly exhibited.
Kapsalis’s combinations of colors and shapes are masterfully composed, making his work visually very attractive. But there is more in Kapsalis’s work than geometric abstraction - the titles of the works will open the door to another dimension of his works. They reveal something about the artist and his observations of everyday life, sometime intellectual, sometime with humor, but always with perspective of an American Artist.
A prisoner of war in Germany, captured during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, Kapsalis returned to the United States, and continued his pursuit of art-making. He has been an important artist and educator since the late ’40s, when he graduated from the School of the Art Institute. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute since 1954. Kapsalis’s work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo shows, and he received many prestigious prizes and awards.
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The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art invites you to an exhibition of Subconscious Eye. Artists in this exhibition include Chicago artists: John A. Kurtz, Bruce Thorn and Paul Lamantia.
Subconscious Eye brings together the work of three artists who penetrate the surface of everyday experience in order to immerse themselves in realms beyond consciousness. Their engagement with this territory varies immensely as the sources and aims of their art rarely overlap with one another. Yet there is a serendipitous harmony in this ensemble. Each pushes his form and subject matter to aesthetic extremes in order to convey the overwhelming intensity of that trip to the void. -Robert Cozzolino, Senior Curator and Curator of Modern Art Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
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Exhibit Opening Photos LINK
Friday, April 5th a record crowd of over 200 attendees witnessed the opening of a vibrant, dynamic, exhilarating exhibit by three of Chicago’s prominent artists, John A, Kurtz, Paul Lamantia, and Bruce Thorn.
The Subconscious Eye exhibit brings together the work of three artists who penetrate the surface of everyday experience in order to immerse themselves into the realm beyond consciousness.
Each of them pushes his form and subject matter to the extremes in order to convey an overwhelming intense trip into a void. Each work is an assault on the senses that intellect and emotion wrestle to balance.
The art of these three dynamic artists carries an uncanny sense of a hidden universe that stretches out just beyond a transparent veil in our environment.
It is an exhibit that entices and calls for return visits, each one opening your senses to new interpretations. – Orysia Cardoso, UIMA President
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