Nothing is more beautiful and interesting than the adaption of nature to its environment.  Drawings of nature opens my artistic creations to new possibilities and furthers the complexity of my work.  For years I have focused my aesthetic expression on photography.  With the advent of digital photography and understanding the harmful effects of photographic chemicals on the environment I turned my artistic expression to my first love...drawing.  Working in graphite, color pencil, ink and watercolor expands my artistic discoveries and leads me to to new aesthetic ideas.  

When we view the world around us, we always bring our own perceptions to what we see.   Scale can transform that perception.   My goal is to bring the viewer closer to an object; to have the viewer see it out of scale, to transform the viewer's perception.

Leaf and Eggshells

Graphite on Paper

21 x 21"

$400

Transformation

Watercolor on Paper

12 x 12"

$300

Trapped…No Longer

Graphite on Paper

12 x 12"

$300

Boruch Lev

I love clay.   When I was a kid I was working in modeling clay of different colors. 50 books of encyclopedia were marked with sticky substance making my dad angry. I was working on my sculpture garden making landscapes, planting trees and filling that environment with lots of animals (Encyclopedia was a great shots of existing and extinguished species). All that was built on 30"x30" piece of plywood at the SW corner of the room. Once my little brother not walking very well back then awkwardly sat on a top of my garden destroying everything... Now think, why the dinosaur era ended so abruptly...I love clay.   And after almost 40 years long break I came back.    Now I live in Skokie and work at my home studies and at the Evanston Art Center. Obviously my favorite medium is clay. I work with bronze and concrete as well.   Here, at Devonshire I display some my reliefs, pages of the series:  Absurd Diary and The Night.

Boruch Lev was born behind the “iron wall”, in the Soviet Union, in a suburb of Moscow. He remembers himself playing with modeling clay at the age of four. During that time he turned his surroundings into a sculpture garden full of plants and animals using sticky colored blocks of plastilina, matches and other suitable found materials.

Terracotta Relief

13 x 18"

$1,050

Terracotta Relief

13 x 18"

$1,000

Terracotta Relief

13 x 18"

$1,150

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Decolorizing the Islands: Interference

Oil and Photo Transfer on Canvas

48 x 38"

$2,500

Portugal: Wild Fires 2

Oil and Photo Transfer on Canvas

48 x 32"

$2,000

I lived in Skokie from 1992 - 2014. I have been working at a Skokie family owned business since 2006. My mother still lives in Skokie so it is a place I spend a lot of time in. I periodically go to Emily Oaks for serenity and inspiration. Making art for me is a process of self discovery and healing. My current work is inspired by the diversity and balance that occurs in nature. I seek out images that are intermingled, meshed and in various life stages. Capturing them by camera allows me to enlarge, reconstruct and decontextualize. I work primarily with watercolor and pastels. Embracing the unexpected interactions of watercolor allows me to be spontaneous and responsive to the surface. The earthiness of pastels creates a tactile connection that elicits a physical and emotional response. The results are sometimes surprising, sometimes affirming.

All Together      Pastel on Uart    26 x 37"    $950

Leonid Osseny

Born in 1948 in the city of Nizhny-Tagil, Russia. In 1963, Leonid became a student at the Ural College of Applied Arts, and later attended Belarus State Theater and Art University studying art and design. After graduating, he worked as an architect and restorer at the Belarus Institute of Renovation and Conservation. Since 1991, Leonid lives in Chicago where he works as an architect, designer, freelance artist and an illustrator.

Leonid Osseny’s art and research were recognized in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally. Among them, shows at the ArchiTech Gallery, Chicago, the International James Joyce Symposium at the National College of Ireland, Dublin. Personal exhibitions at the Irish American Heritage Center in Chicago, Evanston Public Library and the Gene Siskel Film Center.

His work was published in the Joyce Studies Annual, Fordham University Press, and can be found in public and private collections in the United States and Europe. Several original drawings for James Joyce “Ulysses” are on display at the James Joyce Museum in Dublin, Ireland.

Duckling      Acrylic on Canvas      36 x 36"      $2,500

Roses     Acrylic on Canvas     30 x 24"     $600