GALLERY OPENING:
Images Gallery
1823 W. Wilson
Chicago, Ill, 60614
Saturday September 27, 6-9 pm.

Nicole Hollander and Sharon Evans join forces at Images Gallery for a shared exhibit of their work-in-process graphic novels.

Hollander and Evans are artists in residence at Images Co-Op Gallery. During their month long art residency they will be using the gallery as a public studio September 1- September 26. A showing/opening of their completed work will be presented on Saturday September 27, 6-9 pm. Light snacks and drinks will be served.

Hollander’s graphic memoir is titled “Living Above the Highway” and is about her childhood about her neighbors on Congress Street in North Lawndale before that neighborhood was forever changed by the demolition to make way for the Eisenhower Expressway.

Evans’ graphic novel is titled “Escape From Canaryville” tells the life story of Chicago police officer Jim Hogan, his father Lou, (also a Chicago cop), his mother Virginia and his two Irish American grandmothers and his upbringing in “Canaryville”, located in Chicago’s southside Bridgeport neighborhood.

Nicole Hollander is a syndicated cartoonist and has published over thirty books and collections. Her cartoon strip SYLVIA appeared daily and weekly in many newspapers across the country. Currently she has a new blog Badgirlchats.com, on which she writes on many topics dear to her heart and posts archival “Sylvia” cartoons. Her cartoon archives will become part of the permanent collection of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum, at Ohio State University, which just opened on November 4, 2013. It will house the largest collection of cartoon strips in the United States. Very few woman cartoonists are included in this archive and she is honored to be one of them.

Sharon Evans is a playwright and former artistic director of Live Bait Theater. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago many years ago and this is the first time she have merged her two interests, drawing and writing into one unified project. Her graphic novel is informed by her work as art activist in the Chicago community and her community program “Police -Teen Link”. She is current working in Lawndale at the Claire Senior Center as part of the Goodman Theater’s GeNarrations program, a story telling and writing workshop for Chicago senior citizens.