GoodArt by Tim Holliman and Mark Sunders

GoodArt by Tim Holliman and Mark Suntres GoodArt is presented by the Open Studio Project from December 2, 2023 to Jan 30, 2024. It will feature the work of two Chicago artists, Tim Holliman and Mark Suntres. As developmentally challenged, self-taught artists, their work is an expression of the essential human need for creation and a celebration of the joy of life. Mark was born in Chicago in 1964. He began creating art when the Art Program at Austin Special Chicago was founded in 2001. Mark works primarily in oil pastel on paper. Over the years he has explored a variety of subject matter; portraits of historic figures from history books, images of angels from a period after his grandmother passed, Christmas themed gatherings and celebrations. But his favorite subjects are architectural images and landscapes. He has a collection of architectural picture books and travel books that he researches. He then takes images of monuments and buildings that capture his imagination and translates them into a rich, colorful, bold and expressive images that live somewhere between imagination and reality. Tim is a pop artist par excellence. He was born in December of 1962 in Chicago. He is a very inspired and independent artist that has also been working with the program since its foundation. Tim primarily creates portraits of his favorite media personalities, athletes and entertainers. He is an emerging nonconformer artist with an amazing talent to capture and express the essence of a subject in a unique, often humoristic way. His ongoing series takes pop culture and translates it into a fascinating commentary on society and racial perception. He follows a meticulous process from gathering, recording and storing references to the creating of the portraits from pencil, to oil pastel, then text, and finally adding the original reference to the back along with his signature and tagline and/or logo. Austin Special Chicago is a nonprofit, grassroots, community-based, social service agency founded in 1953 to support individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities. The Austin Special Chicago Art Program facilitates and guides developmentally disabled clients who show a strong inclination to express themselves through the visual arts. The artists are all self-taught. Our mission is to help them develop their skills, nurture their talent, and provide an opportunity for their art to be recognized and shared. We exhibit, promote, and sell the artists’ works to provide earned income and a sense of personal achievement, as well as to integrate the artists into the wider arts community.

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