Drop by this weekend's group art receptions!
• Friday, April 4, 7-9 pm at Elmhurst Artists' Guild for the EAG Spring 2025 Members Show, 150 Cottage Hill Avenue, Elmhurst, IL
• Saturday, April 5, 5-8 pm at Grove Gallery Evanston for "Inside/Out: The Window Metaphor", 619 Grove Street, Evanston, IL

"Convergence and Divergence of Light Reflections" painting captures sunlight streaming through the leaded-glass windows. The divergent qualities of cool diffused reflections of the blue sky converge with the warm light beams upon the hardwood floor. Thru 3/31/25 at the Grove Gallery, Evanston, IL.

This Friday Jan. 31, 7-9pm, join us for the reception of "Joyful Notions" at the Elmhurst Artists' Guild, 150 Cottage Hill Ave., Elmhurst, IL. Sharing to the world our creations that spark the joy within us. Family-friendly; refreshments served.
Continues to Feb. 21. My painting is "Occhi Chiusi".

Join us this Friday 7-10 pm, January 17th, for the opening reception of CAVA's 36th Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition at the Bridgeport Art Center. It's a massively wonderful exhibition featuring works that will appeal to everyone's taste in art.

1220 W. 35th Street, Chicago, IL 60608

Join us this Friday evening, 5:30 to 8 pm, January 10th, for the opening reception of The Art Center Highland Park's "In View 2025"! Fall in love with a piece of must-have art that you can't live without! 🍷🎨

theartcenterhp.org/contemporary...
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This Friday! ☆ Presenting Fletcher Hayes' "Ninja on the Watch" and Kim Laurel's "Child of Nature – Phalaenopsis" at EAG Winter Members' Show. ☆ Opening reception December 6, 7-9pm ☆ Free ☆ Works of 53 members 12/1/2024 – 1/5/2025 ☆ Elmhurst Artists' Guild, 150 Cottage Hill Avenue, Elmhurst, IL 60126

Happy Thanksgiving! This narcissistic butterfly gazing into a mirror serves as a reminder to focus outside one's self and treat everyone with kindness and humility.

(Morpho helenor, or Common Morpho, photographed at the Peggy Notebart Nature Center in Chicago, ©2024 Fletcher Hayes)

Apropos of the Day of the Dead theme in the Elmhurst Artists' Guild Fall 2024 Member Art Exhibit ☆ "Hopefully I'm Evolving" by Hayes is a self portrait as skeletal quadriped holding a baboon skull​ mask. ☆ Inside the Elmhurst Art Museum, 150 Cottage Hill Ave., Elmhurst, IL 60126 ☆ Thru 11/30/2024

This is "Crystal Labyrinth" from my sci-fi series of oil paintings on 20 x 20 inch cradled panel. Available through 1/1/2025 as part of the CAVA Contemporary Art Exhibit at ALMA Gallery ☆ 3636 South Iron Street, Chicago, IL 60609 ☆ It is a peek at abducted Earth horses in an alien spacecraft.

Presenting my small painting "Synapse" at Jackson Junge Gallery's TEN by TEN group exhibition ☆ 1389 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622 ☆ Thru January 5, 2025

Currently I am showing in 3 Chicago exhibitions:
• "Lightness and Being" at SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art ☆ til 1/11/25 ☆ 1527 N. Ashland Ave.
• "TEN by TEN" at Jackson Junge Gallery ☆ til 1/5/25 ☆ 1389 N. Milwaukee Ave.
• "CAVA Contemporary Art" at ALMA Gallery ☆ til 1/1/25 ☆ 3636 S. Iron Street
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