Jonathan Worcester
@ University Club of Chicago
76 E Monroe St, Floor 12, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Saturday, March 2nd, from 11AM - 2PM
On view through Wednesday, May 22nd
The University Club of Chicago is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Jonathan Worcester.
This exhibition is by appointment only: please contact jonathan.worcester1@gmail.com to schedule an appointment. The artist will be hosting initial appointment hours Saturday 3/2/24 from 11AM – 2PM, and 3/16/24 from 11AM – 2PM. Please reach out for access and to schedule alternative appointments.
Worcester will be graduating with an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Painting & Drawing department this spring. This exhibition is presented in alignment with Worcester’s final thesis presentation on view at 33 E. Washington Street.
Through a combination of dissonant colors and textures, Worcester’s abstract paintings on view challenge the limitations of the viewer’s perception. When faced with his encompassing paintings, perspective becomes skewed, even dizzying, as the eye searches for stable ground. Through an intensive layering process, colors emerge and disappear creating swirling, captivating movements of lines and shifting His canvases call attention not only to the viewer’s physical reaction to the work, but also the parallels to our relationship with technological screens, and the inherent struggle between the physical and online world. Ultimately, Worcester’s works poetically shift and transform depending on where the viewer’s body is in relation to the paintings and the experiences they bring with them.
About the Artist:
Jonathan Worcester is a painter living and working in Chicago, IL. He received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2015, and is currently pursuing his MFA in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2024).
Worcester has had solo exhibitions at Cleaner Gallery (2024), The Hole @ Weatherproof Gallery (2023), and Belong Gallery (2022). Worcester is a recipient of the 2023 Luminarts Visual Arts Fellowship, as well as the Van Pappelendam/Castle Scholarship, and the Maurice Friedlander Memorial Scholarship. He is currently working as the Departmental Specialist for the Applied Arts of Europe Department at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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