(Featured Image: Unfolding the Heavens, oil on panel, 36″ x 48”)
Unfolding the Heavens
The Forshey Gallery, 2nd Floor
Chicago Temple First United Methodist Church
77 W Washington Street
Chicago, IL
On view: March 10, 2025 – May 13, 2025
Opening Reception: March 23, noon – 2 pm
In her solo exhibition, Ellen Holtzblatt’s paintings explore the relationship between the physical and the spiritual, seeking an empathic understanding of self and other. Landscape, such as the Midwestern prairie or the Scottish islands, becomes an allegory for psychological states, emotion, evolution and decay. Through figures and landscapes, Holtzblatt explores the power and vulnerability of mind, soul, and the passage of time.
Setting Dawning, oil on panel, 11″ x 14”
Inside/Out
Grove Gallery
619 Grove Street
Evanston, IL
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On view: April 5, 2025 – May 31, 2025
Opening Reception: April 5, 5 – 8 pm
The Inside/Out Exhibition explores the concept of the window as metaphor. Windows, whether open or closed, represent dualities: such as freedom vs. constraint, order vs. chaos, and possibility vs. limitation. The window metaphor sets up narrative elements that address boundaries, both self-imposed and psychological.
I Have Let You See It With Your Own Eyes, oil on panel, 34″ x 48”