ARC Members
Stacey Lee Gee
Stacey Lee Gee was resurrected from the dust of bones, raised by wolves and came into her power one night in a dark alley when she tripped, fell and was bitten 9 times by a den of snakes.
Beth LeFauve
Born in Japan, raised in Ohio in a modernist house with an artistic family, Beth LeFauve has been surrounded by and making art all of her life. She is a painter, sculptor, and installation artist working in her Logan Square studio.
Nancy Fritz
I am a figurative painter and a long-time member of ARC Gallery, a woman-run gallery in Chicago. I am fascinated by color and form--but also by the stories paintings can suggest…There is a darkness to some of these paintings; but the figures in them nevertheless are connected to each other—in a unity that defines them. They exist within a community, an ecosystem—they are not without hope.
Lee Stanton
Lee Stanton is an artist and art history instructor currently living in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. Lee holds a Master of Fine Art in Studio Art from Northern Illinois University, a Master of Art History from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a Master of Education in Human Resource Education: e-Learning from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a Bachelor degree from Illinois State University.
Michele Stutts
Michele Stutts is a nationally and internationally exhibited artist. She specializes in watercolor, 2D and 3D mixed media, and her current work is in video and mixed media installations. She teaches Fundamentals of Art at the American Academy of Art.
Iris Goldstein
Iris Goldstein makes plaster-relief sculptures, using materials found in hardware stores to create presences which explore the connections between surface form and an emotive impact of color. Her primary interest is abstraction, and the repeated patterns of the forms, which are often geometric but also sensual, playing against the subtle shiftings of the color.
Cheri R. Naselli
Cheri is a conceptual artist, educator and lecturer. Her work spans a broad range from drawings, paintings and sculpture to installations and sound work, often sculpting the space through the use of sound and language. She received her BFA form Ohio University and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Raissa Bailey
Raissa Bailey maintains an active studio practice in Evanston, IL. Her work explores femininity and spirituality and her recent Venus series has evolved from suggestive form through abstraction in painting to textile, mixed media, sculpture, photography, digital images and storytelling all while focused on Paleolithic Venus figurines. Raissa is influenced by her travels around the world and her own diverse background. In recent years, her process of creation has gained importance as a spiritual practice of reflection and connection. Sources such as the I Ching and shamanic studies influence the work by encouraging a visual and conceptual depth. Her artistic influences include nature, prehistoric art, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Lavar Monroe as well as the theory of Biocentrism by Dr. Robert Lanza and Jean M. Auel’s Earth’s Children series. Raissa graduated from DePaul University with a BA and holds a certificate in Studio Art and Design from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also is a professional Creative Director and leads a team of Designers for the Bradford Exchange.
Ruti Modlin
I love people. I love feasting my eyes on them with abandon..
Freezing their features and expressions on my canvas brings me great satisfaction. I am amazed how different we all look, yet we are all the same: human. Our experiences are similar and our reactions as well. It shows in our facial expressions.
Laura Cloud
Laura Cloud has traveled to Brazil, Australia, Japan, Europe and across the USA over the past few years. She has documented each trip in an ongoing series called The Travel Journals. This work has been shown both nationally and internationally. She has also attended residency programs located in Vermont, Ireland and Japan. Recent work was exhibited at the Museu Historico de Santa Catarina, in Florianopolis, Brazil and in the Sidney Yates Gallery, Chicago Culture Center.
Abigail Engstrand
Art for me is about learning, expressing emotions, points of view, identity, and stories, visually. It is the ever shifting concoction of work and play. I am a woman, a wife and mother, known to slip into a dreamy appreciation of a composition I see in a face or space before me.
Cait Hardie
Cait Hardie works in water based media on paper, with an approach that could be described as an intersection of drawing and painting. Her work was exhibited at Morpho Gallery in Chicago in 2018 and 2019.
Diane Jurado
I am a painter exploring both the physical act of painting and how meaning is created on canvas. Process is essential part of my painting practice. I work primarily with oil paint for its physical richness and manipulative quality. I make a lot of changes to a painting over an extended period of time by layering, scratching, drawing on and rubbing out the paint until I feel the work is finished.
Elyse Martin
Elyse Martin was born in Chicago and has lived there most of her life. With breaks for chasing down celebrities and enjoying disco, Elyse was immersed in art all her life, including a 7th grade Saturday Scholarship class at the Art Institute. Elyse thrived, and fueled her artistic expression with a love for art supplies, and spend hours at art stores with her father.
Randi Shepard
Randi Shepard is a photographer and printmaking artist from Chicago. After receiving her B.F.A in Visual Communications from The Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1983, she immediately broke into the commercial photography scene in Chicago, working with people photographers, such as her long-time mentor Jean Moss (as well as Steve Ewert, Joann Carney and Marc Hauser).
Michelle Williams
My work reflects an ongoing inner dialogue with myself and my materials. I am attracted to the reflective qualities of the glass beads, the interaction of materials and the historical implications of the materials. Due to the nature and slow process of beading there is much time during the art making process to reflect and let feelings surface. As a result of my process I am interested in the layers that compose each of us. Thus there are many layers within my sculptures.Each sculpture is thickly encrusted with beads.