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Deadline for Fall 2024 Admission: February 1
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Every month, we celebrate the accomplishments of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's staff and faculty.
Tanya Malhotra (BFA 2022) merges experimentation and artistic curiosity in her job at luxury fashion house COACH.
3Arts, a nonprofit organization endorsing artists from the Chicago metropolitan area, lauds three School of the Art Institute of Chicago community members as the 2023 3Arts Awards recipients.
Continuing Studies Instructor Haman Cross III partnered with the Lincoln Park Zoo and local artists like Lecturer Eric Hotchkiss to restore the Douglass 18 miniature golf course in Douglass Park.
Senior students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Class of 2021, responded to the Bauhaus Campus 2021 competition organized by ARKITEKTURO. The AIADO 4900 Capstone students (Bella Chen, Chuck Chong, Bella Cosentino, Joslin-Rene Degrate, Venna Huang, Sarie Nohara, Pierre Pi, John Tang, Yifei Yao, Keyi Zhang) have been thinking, drawing and making, from all corners of the world, their own visions for the architecture and design school of the future.
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This year six SAIC community members were named Creative Capital’s 2024 “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” Awardees in Visual Arts and Film/Moving Image.
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This year six SAIC community members were named Creative Capital’s 2024 “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” Awardees in Visual Arts and Film/Moving Image.
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The Artist
Angel Otero
Image Credit: Greg Stephen Reigh (BFA 2013)
The Inspiration
Growing up in Puerto Rico, Otero first encountered the work of Arnaldo Roche Rabell (MFA 1984) at the Museo de Arte de Ponce. Otero began imitating what he saw from Rabell, and he discovered later that the artist served as an example in more ways than one: both artists' journeys brought them to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Angel Otero, The Golden Vase, 2009, oil, spray paint, and silicone on canvas, 84" x 72"
The Work
Otero’s interest in unorthodox materials—those oil paint skins for starters, but also resin, caulk, tar, and linen—comes from a place of challenging himself. “It's this sort of interesting way of self-exploring,” he said. “I think that's stayed with me even now.”
Angel Otero, Everything and Nothing, 2011, collaged oil paint skins on canvas
The Process
Much of Otero’s work stems from his own memories and experiences. “I always have tried to be, in a sort of way, biographical,” Otero said. “At the same time, I always have my hand [held out] to art history or painting history, and how I can keep that dialogue.”
Angel Otero, Spitting Sun, oil skins on fabric, 2018
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