“Still Open,” explores a familiar subject for Rapport – neighborhood scenes and portraits of a changing urban landscape. Her typically vibrant painting palette is restricted to monochromatic earth tones of black, grey, brown and sepia. 24 inky urban landscape paintings feature down-at-the-heel homes, corner stores, vacant lots, and construction sites from the near Northside neighborhoods […]
Through May, several of my urban landscape and house portraits are on view at Eye See Ravenswood, 4735 North Damen Avenue, Chicago. Visit their website at: https://www.eyeseeravenswood.com/
This Saturday, October 6, Emily Rapport will host the grand opening of “Eat Paint Studio” at 5036 N Lincoln Ave. The storefront studio will be an art gallery and working studio for the Chicago artist. An opening reception will be held from 5pm – 9pm on Saturday, October 6. A ribbon cutting ceremony performed by […]
The painting, “Streets and San: Building a New Chicago,” has been selected for inclusion in the Rockford Midwestern Biennial this Summer. Details below: FRI, JUN 8 | MEMBERS + ARTISTS PREVIEW 5–6 PM | GALLERY WALK WITH THE JUROR 6–7:30 PM | RECEPTION + ARTIST AWARDS 7:30–8:30 PM | FREE PUBLIC OPENING, CASH BAR Juried […]
Thursday, August 31, you are invited to the 24th Anniversay celebration at Delilah’s, 2771 N Lincoln Ave. New artwork by myself will be on view as well as adorning the small batch whiskey distilled and bottled by Oppidan Spirits especially for Delilah’s 24th. Available ONLY at Delilah’s. Delilah’s opened in 1993 in a space that […]
The exhibition, titled “Subject to Change: Urban Landscape and the Architecture of Place,” is both a documentary archive of a neighborhood undergoing physical and demographic shifts, and a painterly narrative that finds moments of sublime beauty in construction site debris and frozen mud tracks. Through her ongoing documentation of the changing urban landscape, Emily paints […]
HOUSE & HOME Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY July 9 – August 19 House and Home: An exhibition of artwork dealing with the structure of a house and the emotional response to the notion of home. Featuring the artwork of Jerry Alonzo, Christopher Baker, Dale Klein, Emily Rapport, and Susan Stuart. Exhibition Dates: July 9–August 19, […]
13 paintings will be on display in the downtown Chicago office of Lipman Hearne through 2016. Located at 200 S Michigan Ave # 1600, Chicago, IL 60604, the exhibit is open to the public during regular office hours, M-F, 8am – 6pm. Lipman Hearne is a marketing & communications agency for higher education & nonprofits, providing research, strategy, […]
“Leland Liquors” (just completed) will be on display as well as recent paintings from the “House Portraits” series and other urban landscape scenes painted of the Ravenswood area. Most paintings are oil on canvas, my preferred medium, but a few recent watercolors and smaller en plein air paintings will also be on view. Café Selmarie is a […]
I’ll be showing recent paintings through September at the Chicago Apartment Finders office located at 1114 W. Bryn Mawr Ave., Chicago, IL 60660. Art install tomorrow, further details as they become known. Above: Work in progress, come see it in person at my next open house (Spring 2016).