Rick Lazes and Harry Moody - The Art Factory - New Pop Up Gallery in West Loop.

A New Pop Up Gallery in the West Loop. Exhibiting Sculpture by Rick Lazes and Paintings by Harry Moody
Curated by Karen and Michael Bivins
Rick Lazes has been a 3-dimensional artist for thirty years and his work has been shown in art galleries and museums across the country. Rick is also a film director and producer with credits including concerts and television specials starring Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, The Black Crowes, Foo Fighters, Carlos Santana, Dave Mathews, Lenny Kravitz, BB King, and Willie Nelson. Rick's last film: "Lennox Lewis, the Untold Story" is currently airing on Amazon Prime and his current film titled "Knock Out Blonde" has won awards at several film festivals including best documentary at the Cannes Worldwide Film Festival.

Rick's latest series of sculptures titled "Savage Beauty" is composed of stainless-steel constructions that are crushed using a proprietary 90,000 lb. compression machine that he and metal fabricator, Dana Gingras built. Each piece is then meticulously finished with a brightly colored and polished powder coating technique that adds elegance to the rawness of the crushed pieces. In a world that has become increasingly polarized and intolerant, Lazes' sculpture seeks to find harmony in diversity with his colorful, sensuous and angular compositions.

Harry Moody was trained at the prestigious Art Academy Städel in Frankfurt, Germany. The highly selective academy is a progressive school without a formal doctrine, and instills ideas of free thinking in its students. Moody's artistic development was influenced by three significant professors at the academy, including Johannes Schreiter, Thomas Bayrle, and Josef Beuys. He majored in Free Painting, and his style and artistic methodology developed out of the German art scene of the 70's and 80's. Another major influence of Moody's career came in 1986 when he was introduced to Städel professor Gerhard Richter.

This Pop Up Exhibition is curated and hosted by Karen and Michael Bivins - Bivinsgallery.com

Artists: Harry Moody, Rick Lazes

Date: Saturday October 29, 2022  to Tuesday November 22, 2022

Venue: The Art Factory

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