As an independent real estate brokerage of seasoned agents, we are able to combine the best of personalized, knowledgeable service with the flexibility and community focus that only a locally-owned firm can provide. To this end, we proudly support our gallery which is the crown jewel of our office, located in thriving Peoria Heights, where we feature and promote local artists' works year-round. Each artist is on|easel for two months at a time. We are always seeking new artists to feature in our gallery space, so if you are interested in showing your art, please contact us at [email protected]!
ON EASEL: September 3 - October 30, 2024
Duffy Armstrong Farrell has decades of experience in the visual arts. Her BFA studies focused on photography and printmaking. As an experienced museum educator and gallery director, she is an artist devoted to the support of other artists and to the development of art patrons.
ON EASEL: July 1 - August 31, 2024
Elsburgh Clarke, MD is a professional photographer that has the uncanny ability to divide his time as a professional photographer and practicing emergency medicine physician.
He started taking black & white photographs during his ER residency which provided him the unique opportunity to photograph the "ER" before it was popular on TV. His editorial photographs capture the "real ER" as a front line physician. This led him to become more proficient and skilled in his craft as a photographer. This allowed him to become more diverse and branch out into sports, scenics and travel photography.
He also pursued his photographic interest in Fire/EMS/Police editorial photographs which are the highlight of his work to this day and as evidenced in his portfolio, "Eyes of Fire." He also has an ongoing project, "Black Barber Shops... A Gathering Place of Pride and Dignity", highlighting community black barber shops.
ON EASEL: May 1 - June 28, 2024
ON EASEL: November 19 - December 29, 2023
I am a self taught artist residing in Peoria, IL. My work is inspired by both the element and urban influences in my life.
ON EASEL: July 7 - August 25, 2023
I'm intrigued by how materials transform because of saturation, density and opacity, in chemical combinations, with heat and pressure, and especially visually from context and distance. This current work expands on my experiments with patina processes and plant dying on Thai papers. I use steel, copper, and bronze filings which transform to blues, greens, and of course rust. Plant materials turn from black and various earth tones to brilliant greens and yellows.
ON EASEL: March 1 - April 30, 2023
It is the genius of materials that ensnares the artist into complex attractions which typically result in artworks. Fold, tear, press… material gestures that shape the artist’s technique over time, seeding and reseeding the conditions of mark making that precedes language, but never form. Form, and with it, pull—a physical action that resonates throughout this work—allows my abstract language to come alive.
Thought and creativity are the manipulation of marks and lines. They do not exist apart from the results that they express. This capacity of active mark making opens the way for an infinite system of interpretation. The impulses that create the action sometimes precede the constraints of an abstract language; but they are emotional, effective, and limitless none the less. As these marks “bind,” “unbind,” and “rebind,” symbols that become the space for interpretation.
The ability to interpret language is not born out of a dual relationship between a symbol and an object: it is to interpret it. There is a need to organize what is not part of the relationship as it relates to thought. More importantly, it recognizes the distance and reflection between the definition of the line and that which assimilates language to the mind.
What stands between the unrepresentative content of an inner space and the representation of realities through perception, is a space we can learn to relate to.
In this series "Collected Thoughts," I have incorporated my torn paper monotypes with gestures that express my thoughts at one specific moment. Through a somewhat random selection, I have combined them to vary my message and present balanced and imbalanced drawings. I hope the viewer will interpret each gesture as personal insight that conveys a more personal message they can appreciate and contemplate its meaning.
ON EASEL: January 2 - February 24, 2023
ON EASEL: November 4 - December 30, 2022
The purpose behind my art is to evoke emotion from the viewer.
ON EASEL: September 1 - October 28, 2022
My works are monotype prints or takeoffs on them. They are one-of-a-kind prints, so no editions exist.
ON EASEL: May 2 - July 29, 2022
My studio is a flux of mediums and objects in constant conversation with each other.
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