2009 Spring Gala Celebrating the Hyde Park Art Center’s 70th Anniversary
The Hyde Park Art Center, along with Ruth Horwich, hosted its Spring Gala on Saturday, April 25, 2009 in honor of Deone Jackman.
The event was a blast. Guests enjoyed mingling throughout the Art Center and satisfying their pallets with grazing courses created by Chicago chef and artist collaborations.
Chicago Chef and Artist Collaborations
Dana Benigno and Tara Lane of Sweet Girl with Jason Pickleman
John Caputo of Bin 36 with Darrell Roberts
Paul Kahan of Blackbird with Tony Fitzpatrick
Michael Kornick of MK
Chris Macchia of Coco Pazzo with Juan Angel Chávez
Mary B. Mastricola of La Petite Folie with Judy Ledgerwood
Brad Rubin of Eleven City Diner with Theaster Gates
Art Smith of Table Fifty-Two with Jesus Salgiuero
Randy Zweiban of Province with Mary Lou Zelazny
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Juan Angel Chávez
Juan Angel Chávezhas exhibited his sculptures, installations and drawings in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Judy Saslow Gallery, the Hyde Park Art Center, and The National Museum of Mexican Art. His work has also recently been exhibited at venues in Los Angeles, California; Burlington, Vermont; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Boston, Massachusetts. He has been recognized with the prestigious Richard H. Driehaus Individual Artist Award, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, the Artadia Award, and the 3Arts Award.
Tony Fitzpatrick
Tony Fitzpatrick’s art typically blends cartoon-like drawings and found images such as baseball cards and matchbooks with poetic or narrative description. His main subjects have been Chicago and memories of his father. His works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami. Among his works are the drawings which make up the brief chapbook “Bum Town”, and a continuing series of drawings/collages with poetry, “The Wonder: Tales of the City”. Fitzpatrick had his own spot on a Chicago radio station for eight years and books of poems with artworks published.
Theaster Gates
Theaster Gateshas a practice that covers a range of disciplines including performance and installation, Urban Planning and Design and the traditional fine arts. This tool kit has been very helpful as he moves between many communities sharing both creative practices and presenting a platform that allows people to understand how successful communities sustain themselves and offers new ways of opening up challenging issues by presenting them, not as acute encounters, but invitations to engage hard information creatively.
Judy Ledgerwood
In the tradition of Modernist painting, Judy Ledgerwoodpaints monumental abstract compositions that explore light and color. Her paintings create architectural space with decorative form that is at once optically challenging, and inherently subversive. In her compositions, she creates a dialogue that is uniquely feminine but also powerful and authoritative. Ledgerwood is the recipient of The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award, an Artadia Award, a Tiffany Award in the Visual Arts, a National Endowment for the Arts Award, and an Illinois Art Council Award. Her work is represented in public collections including: the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Milwaukee Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Her degrees are from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, BFA, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA.
Jason Pickleman
This notable graphic designer, artist, poet and cultural dilettante, and has lived in Chicago his entire life, save four years when he was earning a degree in English Literature at Boston University. His studio, the JNL Graphic Design, is responsible for designing logos, books, brochures and exhibitions for a wide range of culturally and aesthetically sensitive clients such as the Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Renaissance Society, the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and of course, The Hyde Park Art Center.
Darrell Roberts
Darrell Roberts creates painted canvases that draw from the dynamic space around him. The thickly layered paint on his canvases recall the textures, colors, and sensations of traveling through and in this city. He has taught painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute, Hearst Center for the Arts, the Hyde Park Art Center, Marwen, and Lill Street Art Center. Since 1999, he has exhibited his paintings in public and private spaces in Chicago and the surrounding area as well as Los Angeles. Darrell Roberts holds a BA in art history from the University of Northern Iowa. A BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Roberts is represented by Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago.
Jesus Salgueiro
Jesus Salgueiro’s art has garnered him extensive praise and his paintings hang in some of the premier restaurants in Chicago, Table fifty-two, Socca and May Street Café to name a few, but his greatest gift to the community has been his philanthropy. In 2003 he co-founded, with his life partner, Common Threads, a non-profit organization that teaches children about diversity and tolerance through the world’s great cultures. For his commitment and leadership of Common Threads, he was honored by Chicago Magazine as a “Chicagoan of the Year” in 2007.
Mary Lou Zelazny
Mary Lou Zelazny studied painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts and the School of the Art Institution of Chicago, where she has been Adjunct Professor since 1990. She has been a visiting artist at various institutions including Maine College of Art, Williams College, University of Iowa, and Northwestern University. Paintings by Zelazny have been featured in many solo and group exhibitions in Chicago and the Midwest, including a recent retrospective at the Hyde Park Art Center. Her works are in the collection of the Rockford Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), the McCormick Place West Public Art Collection and other corporate and private collections.
Dana Benigno
Dana Benigno has been a popular cooking instructor and website owner of chicagocooks.com since 2001. Dana’s food philosophy has always been one of convenience without sacrificing quality. Her casual fun approach to cooking and life has lead to her teaching, recipe development, food writing and serving on the boards of culinary organizations such as Slow Food, Les Dames d’ Escoffier and Green City Market. Dana received her Culinary training at the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago, a Le Cordon Blue Affiliate in 1999.
John Caputo
John Caputobegan his formal kitchen education in California at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco. After working and traveling in France, Caputo returned and worked in some of the best kitchens throughout San Francisco. Caputo later opened his own “labor of love,” the critically acclaimed Socca Restaurant in San Francisco. Caputo is currently at BIN 36 and the challege excites him.
Paul Kahan
Paul Kahan has become the nationally recognizable face for a new guard of Chicago chefs. With an ever-growing list of international accolades for Blackbird, The Publican and avec, Kahan was honored by his selection as a James Beard nominee for Outstanding Chef in 2007 and winner of James Beard Best Chef of the Midwest in 2004. Passionately seasonal, unconventionally creative and dedicated to the inspiration of classical cuisine, Kahan has earned the praise of many who claim him to be one of America’s most influential working chefs.
Michael Kornick
Michael Kornick founder and owner of mk, is a nationally recognized leader in the culinary arts. Kornick works with the freshest seasonal ingredients and stays true to classical cooking techniques. It is his belief that ingredients should speak for themselves. Kornick along with partners Michael Morton and Scott DeGraff opened Nine Restaurant, Ghost Bar, Rain Night Club and Skin Pool Lounge in the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas. According to In Style magazine, these venues have become the prime destination for the glitterati and celebrities alike.
Tara Lane
Tara Lane spent four years as Pastry Chef at Blackbird, one of Chicago’s top restaurants. Her desserts are framed by the season as she works directly with farmers of the region. Tara’s desserts are clean and crisp, with a little humor and thought. Tara has always dreamed of creating a line of desserts for the home chef and Sweet Girl is the first. The eldest of seven, Tara was raised eating breakfast lunch and dinner with the entire family that consisted of fresh organic food grown on her family’s farm. With this appreciation for real food, Tara began formal study at the Le Cordon Bleu of Western Culinary in Portland, Oregon and continued under the tutelage of François Payard in New York which taught her classic pastry skills.
CHRIS MACCHIA graduated from the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in 2000 and spent two years at the Gotham Bar & Grill in New York. His notable experience also includes the Four Seasons in Maui and the Peninsula Hotel in Chicago. Chris yearned for his Italian roots and followed his dream to Coco Pazzo Café in 2005. With grooming and guidance by Owner Jack Weiss, he became Executive Chef at Coco Pazzo Café where he remained until his move to Executive Chef at Coco Pazzo in 2008.
Mary Mastricola
Mary Mastricola, Executive Chef and Proprietor of la petite folie, earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago in 1979 and the Grand Diplome de Cuisine et de Patissiere de l’Ecole Cordon Bleu in Paris in 1995. With her husband, Michael, she opened la petite folie in Hyde Park in June of 1999.
Brad Rubin
After working every front of house position in the restaurant business, Brad Rubin left for a five-year hiatus in the corporate world, but realized he missed the show of the restaurant floor. He jumped back into the restaurant world as a maitre d’ at mk and then left for Las Vegas in 2001 to open and be the General Manager at Ghostbar with Michael Kornick and the N9NE Group. Rubin was also involved in the openings of other Chicago area restaurants including Blu 47, BIN 36 Lincolnshire, and Sushi Samba. With Eleven City Diner, Brad Rubin hopes to bring back the independent, casual family restaurant; a place with true character, good food and a vibe that makes everyone comfortable.
Art Smith
The executive chef and co-owner of Table fifty-two, ART SMITH has received the culinary profession’s highest awards and has cooked for some of the world’s most famous celebrities, such as being personal chef to Oprah Winfrey. Chef Art Smith newest restaurant, Art and Soul, opened in the fall of 2008 and is located in Washington DC, at The Liaison Capitol Hill, an Affinia Hotel. Smith is the former executive chef of the Florida Governor’s Mansion during the tenure of Bob Graham, now a United States Senator. In 2003 Smith founded Common Threads, a non-profit organization that teaches children about diversity and tolerance through the world’s great cultures. For his tireless Common Threads leadership, Smith was honored by Chicago magazine as a “Chicagoan of the Year” in 2007. That same year, the prestigious James Beard Foundation named him “Humanitarian of the Year.”
Randy Zweiban
In the summer of 1998, Richard Melman and Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Inc. (LEYE) brought Randy Zweiban to Chicago to unveil the city’s first Nuevo Latino concept. At the helm of Nacional 27, Zweiban received numerous accolades, including being named “Best New Restaurant” by Chicago magazine. He has been featured in Bon Appétit, Gourmet, Newsweek, Food Arts and USA Today, among other publications. Zweiban is currently the Executive Chef/Owner of Province in Chicago.