Hello! I am pleased to announce that I will be in a three person show titled "Temporal Figuration" at LVL3 opening this Saturday, April 14th from 6:00pm-10:00pm. The other two artists are Jade Walker, a sculptor based in Austin, and David Brandon Geeting, a photographer based in Brooklyn. LVL3 is located at 1542 N Milwaukee ave, I hope to see you there Saturday night!

Temporal Figuration explores the loose and playful use of figural elements in each of the artists’ work. David Brandon Geeting employs commonplace techniques to explore visual possibilities in the seemingly banal, giving his inanimate subjects a human feeling. Andrew Holmquist combines abstraction with fragments of figural representation to depict elements, both tangible and impalpable, of the human experience. Jade Walker evokes and explores bodily forms and gender duality, piecing together found objects to create abstract sculptures. Each artist pulls the art out of the everyday and the ordinary with the manipulation of medium and material process.

I was recently featured on the Painttube blog. Nice! Check it out!

I am very proud to be included on Newcity's list of the top 5 painting shows in Chicago of 2011. This is for my solo show at Carrie Secrist Gallery this past September.

There will be a closing reception for my show WORLDS COLLIDE at Carrie Secrist Gallery this Saturday, 10/15/11, from 3:00-5:00pm. I will be present and happy to talk about the paintings in the show to anyone who cares to listen. Hope to see you there!

Please check out these reviews of my show WORLDS COLLIDE as well as a recent interview and feature:

Newcity review by Chris Miller

Flavorpill review by Abraham Ritchie

Sixty Inches From Center interview with Tempestt Hazel

and a lovely feature on Beautiful Decay courtesy of Amir

I am very proud to be mentioned on the list of Paul Klein's top picks from the fall season opening shows in Chicago this past weekend in his most recent Art Letter. Here is what he had to say:

Carrie Secrist has married and altered her gallery's agenda to greater emphasize young and emerging artists and she starts of the season with a bang. Andrew Holmquist is a recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute. Some of his paintings are glorious, a few are clunkers. some are humorous and all are brave. Holmquist has joyous talent and trusts his aesthetic impulses, which over time will surely get honed, but for now he's sharing his not very bridled gusto with us. I love the vulnerability.

To see the entire list check out the following link.

A one-person exhibition of my paintings, entitled "WORLDS COLLIDE" is currently on display at Carrie Secrist Gallery in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago. The show features six large new paintings, a few new medium-sized paintings and two series of new daily paintings. One series spans 7/29/11, the day I was offered the exhibition, to 9/8/11, the day before the show opened. The second series began on the opening day, 9/9/11, and will continue throughout the length of the show till its closing on 10/15/11. New paintings are being added daily, so even if you've already seen the show there's good reason to go back to see the progress i've made. Check out the Carrie Secrist Gallery website to read the press release and for more information.

I'm going to have new paintings up at both the MDW Fair and the Art Chicago Next Fair as a featured artist in the booths run by Slow Gallery.

The MDW (midway) Fair is this Saturday and Sunday, 4/23 & 4/24, at the Geolofts, 3636 S Iron Street, Chicago, and is a gathering of Chicago-based galleries, spaces, artist groups and initiatives that will fill over 25,000 square feet of exhibition space.

The Next Fair at |http://www.artchicago.com/|Art Chicago is the following weekend, 4/29-5/2, and is held at the Merchandise Mart in downtown Chicago.

Please come by if you're in the area and check out what's going on!

I am pleased to be a part of the three person show "3.2..1...GO!" currently on view at Tugboat Gallery in Lincoln Nebraska. The show is curated by Byron Anway and also features the work of David Brian Dobbs and Ben Moore and will be on display through April 30th. Visit the Tugboat Gallery website for more information.

I have a piece up in the silent auction at LVL3 Gallery tonight, with all the money from the event benefiting art education. Prices for all of the art in the show start at $20 so come buy some affordable art for a good cause!

http://lvl3gallery.com/auction

Check out the Galleries & Museums section of this week's Chicago Reader and you will see a photo of one of my paintings and a write up of my show at The Center on Halsted! Full color!

Please Join me this Friday, February 18th, between 7:00pm and 9:30pm for a showing of my paintings at the Center on Halsted, located at 3656 N Halsted (close to the Addison red line stop). I will have a number of paintings and works on paper on display on the second floor, much of which are brand new, though there are some hold-overs from previous shows of the past year. The work will be on display through March 22 so if you find yourself in the neighborhood take a look.

I’m pleased to announce I will be participating in the first Art Loop Open exhibition, taking place from October 15-29 in downtown Chicago. This is both an exhibition and a competition between nearly 200 Chicago-based artists that will have their work on display at 10 locations throughout the loop where the public will be able to vote for their favorite artworks. The artists that receive the most votes will move on to the final round where cash prizes are eventually awarded to the top three.

My painting is on display on the first floor of the Block 37 mall, located at 108 N State. Many of the participating artists are also on display at this location, but to see the full list of locations along with other information about the event please click on the following link:

http://www.artloopopen.com/

To vote you will need to text the corresponding ID number found on the info card next to each piece. In the first round of voting, 10/15 – 10/21, you can vote for as many pieces as you like. From what I have seen there are a number of really interesting pieces so please come check it out (and if you vote for me that would be great!).

This Friday, October 15th from 5-8 there will be an opening reception art crawl going to each location so please come by for a complementary “artini” and a chance to talk to the artists.

I am proud to be showing with Mike Andrews and Easton Miller at Jolie Laide Gallery in Philadelphia. The opening is Friday, October 1st from 6-9pm. If you are in the area please come by and say hello!

http://www.jolielaide.com/gall Jolie Laide|

The good folks at LVL3 interviewed me for their blog. Check it out!
http://lvl3.tumblr.com/

I have one new painting up right now at Slow, 2153 W 21st st, in the group show "Booze and Bacon". There's plenty of fun work to see there and well worth the trip down to Pilsen to check it out. Regular hours are Saturdays 12-5, 773-645-8803