Join us on Thursday, March 6, 7 p.m. at the Glenview Public Library
The Glenview Art League welcomes Jolee Klugherz to share techniques in mixed media collage. Jolee is a visual artist based in suburban Chicago and a member of the GAL. A lifelong lover of creating art, Jolee credits her earliest inspiration to her grandfather, a painter, who allowed her to join him in the studio at the Art Students League in New York City as a child. Her artistic focus has always been creating from observation, both from still life and the natural world around her. With degrees in psychology and art education, Jolee taught art to children and adults in media ranging from pottery to drawing, hoping to impart her love of art and the importance of observation to all of her students.
Her current mixed media artwork is a more interpretive and expressive evolution of her highly detailed drawings and paintings. In these pieces, she starts with a drawing from observation but then focuses on the overall colors and shapes that define her subject matter, rather than the minute details that are often the focus of her other works.
An integral part of her mixed media process is the painting of the papers with which she assembles her final pieces. By painting her own papers she has complete control of the color palette, and the process of doing so allows her to enjoy the freedom of layering and applying the paint itself without the boundaries of shapes. The marks and textures of the paint application are then incorporated into her work as part of the overall composition.
Jolee, her husband Seth, and their two daughters love to travel and appreciate art around the country and the world. Their particular love for the desert southwest often emerges in her work. She appreciates that her family supports her artistic endeavors and that they all tolerate, and even encourage, her frequent stops to explore potential subject matter during their travels.
This event is free and open to the public, and is ADA accessible.
