Elmhurst Art Museum

Sunday, May 20 from 1:00 - 5:00 pm.

Join us to celebrate International Museum Day. Ride the trolley to all four of Elmhurst’s Museums. Each Museum features a free family activity to enjoy. At EAM, Mario Trejo’s large chaotic drawings will inspire families create their own masterpieces with repeated marks and indentations against a dark surface. What will you discover? This program is free and open to the public.

04.06.2012 - 06.01.2012

Peggy Macnamara’s work is about the study of nature, and her subjects--birds, insects, small creatures and their habitats--surround her every day as Artist-in-Residence at the Field Museum. Through careful observation, Macnamara gathers the precise information she needs to paint the large, colorful watercolors that lyrically interweave art and science.

04.6.2012 - 06.01.2012

Michael x. Ryan's installations are big--in size and content. In Holes and Flow, Ryan uses data compiled from the Elmhurst Quarry and similar sites to build his gallery sized, multi-dimensional installation at Elmhurst Art Museum.

04.06.2012 - 06.09.2012

Mario Trejo’s wall-sized drawings of manic marks investigate concepts of eternity, infinity and the theories of math, science and aesthetics. Trejo draws hundreds of thousands of marks in each work as a method of testing the artistic limits of time, space and numerical systems. His repetitive gestures lend a sense of mass through quantity, resulting in large abstract compositions.

04.06.2012 - 06.09.2012

Gordon Powell’s abstract painted wood assemblages defy categorization. Equal parts painting, assemblage and sculpture, Powell’s weathered, hand-distressed sections of wood panel bound together with dyed glues form erratic edges that challenge conventional ideas of construction and presentation. The cracks and pits of the panel and grid-like compositions allude to aerial landscapes, urban detritus and faded graffiti.