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Michael Mahoney – Paintings
August 25 – September 26, 2025
Reception: Tuesday, August 26, 4:30-6:00

Michael Mahoney is a painter based in Macomb, Illinois. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he is the eldest of ten children. His interest in art began early, and by high school he had committed himself to becoming a professional artist.

Mahoney earned both his undergraduate and Master of Fine Arts degrees in painting from Wayne State University in Detroit. Following his graduate studies, he spent five months in Italy studying its rich artistic heritage and producing new work. This formative experience continues to influence his practice.

Upon returning to the United States, Mahoney began teaching at several colleges and art centers in the Detroit area. He later accepted a full-time faculty position at @ 2026 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ, where he taught for fifteen years. Now retired from academia, he works daily in his studio in Macomb, continuing his lifelong dedication to painting.

Danny Houk – Pawns
September 9 – October 3, 2025
Reception: Tuesday, September 9, 4:30-6:00
ANNEX GALLERY

My artwork often deals with language, humor, games, and systemic critiques. I enjoy making art containing contradictions and engaging tensions like playful and provocative, silly and serious, recognizable and surprising, quotidian and spectacle, high and low, handmade and manufactured, micro and macro, personal and universal, human and divine. Although my art is autobiographical, I hope viewers connect with its universal ideas.

Biennial Faculty Exhibition
September 15 – October 24, 2025
Reception: Tuesday, September 23, 4:30-6:00

Jason Franz – Figure Ensõ : Twenty-Two Years of Life Drawings
October 7 – November 14, 2025
Reception: Tuesday, October 7, 4:30-6:00
Reception: Tuesday, December 2, 4:30-6:00

Jason Franz is a Cincinnati, Ohio based artist, educator, and director/cofounder of the nonprofit arts organization Manifest. He received a BFA degree from the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1988, and an MFA from the University of Cincinnati in 1998, and taught at both schools as well as Xavier University from 1997 through 2012. He continues to exhibit his drawings nationally, and his work is held in multiple museum and private collections across the U.S. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife, Brigid O’Kane, and daughter, Alexandra Franz, who are both artists as well.

Ann Blaas – True Nature
November 5 – December 5, 2025
Reception: Tuesday, November 5, 4:30-6:00
ANNEX GALLERY

ANN BLAAS is a Chicago-born artist based in Chicago, IL. She received her MFA from Northern Illinois University 1996. (Under Gordon Dorn) She is an abstract painter/ educator. Her work alternates from painting on mylar, and canvas, as well as murals and drawings. Stylistically the work incorporates a graffiti styled abstraction with intuitive and repetitive gestural mark making that incorporates areas of tension and release along with poetical referential elements. Recent exhibitions include group exhibition at Beverly Art Center, Stardust: Cellular to Celestial, Two-Person exhibition, Shapes and Colors, at Studio Break Gallery ( Ann Blaas and Eric Ockrassa ), also, featured on two recent podcasts with David Linneweh on Studio-Break. Recent residency and exhibition at Fulton Mkt Kitchen, Chicago. Group mural Blast at Nicky’s in Beverly, Window Installation at Two Mile Coffee and feature on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight for Beverly’s Altwalk, curated by Sal Campbell during the pandemic- and looking forward to fall 2023 solo exhibition at Benedictine University in Lisle. She teaches Painting, Drawing, Studio Art & Contemporary Art at College of DuPage, Harper College, and Joliet Junior College.

Talent Grant / Tuition Waiver Exhibition
November 18– December 12, 2025
Reception: Tuesday, November 18, 4:30-6:00

Andrew (Droopy) Tomlinson - BFA Exhibition
December 2– December 17, 2025
Reception: Tuesday, December 2, 4:30-6:00