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Summer Sights at Ryerson WoodsPosted: June 27, 2008 By: Lauren Boyle  Deerfield's ecological, historical, and architectural gem Ryerson Woods hosts their annual Summer Sights series throughout the summer months. With three art exhibitions and an environmental film festival, participants interpret this year's theme "Water" using a variety of mediums. ... Deerfield's ecological, historical, and architectural gem Ryerson Woods hosts their annual Summer Sights series throughout the summer months. With three art exhibitions and an environmental film festival, participants interpret this year's theme "Water" using a variety of mediums.  Opening with a reception on Sunday, June 29 from 1 p.m.–3 p.m., the series kicks off with an exhibition from Chicago painter Olivia Petrides called Icebound. Petrides, an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Art Institute Chicago, paints what she calls "extreme 'last places'"–volcanoes, geysers, fault lines, icebergs, glaciers, and caves. Intimate and theatrical, her paintings evoke a sense of loss for what once was. Petrides says, "Glaciers are melting and icebergs are towed to Asia, and so my delight in painting is tempered with the knowledge that these are contested territories." Petrides's exhibit runs from June 23–July 20. Brushwood. Admission is free. No registration required.  The Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival and Midwest Paint Group Exhibition makes up the second installation of the series. Friends of Ryerson Woods will host this exciting cinematic event–the largest festival of its kind in the United States. The film fest features ten inspiring short films from the Wild and Scenic Film Festival. Film topics range from a humorous look at the $40 billion lawn industry, to the life cycle of a paper cup, to a chronicle of two kayakers' trek from Alaska to Argentina in a truck that doesn't use one drop of petroleum. Pack a picnic and enjoy the movies under the starry Ryerson Woods sky. Check out trailers from the films here. In addition to the film fest, the evening will include an opening reception of landscape paintings created by members of the Midwest Paint Group. Join them for a gallery talk as they discuss their group show, "Pride of Place", which presents original and evocative interpretations of the Midwest landscape. Exhibition to run July 26 – August 17, opening reception on July 26 from 6 p.m.–11 p.m. Artist reception begins at 6 p.m.; Nature Notes and Film Festival at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $15 ($10 for Friends of Ryerson Woods members); children 12 and under are $5. To register, please call 847-968-3321.  The third exhibition, titled Aqueous Series and Other Works of Light and Air Effects, Paintings, features the work of painter Ken Minami. Minami, a painting and drawing faculty member at Evanston Art Center, works "to create a silent music in paint; a visual harmony of tone and color." Precise, seamless, and mysterious in their clarity, his paintings for this series explore the metaphor of water. He describes his work as "representational" but requires the viewer "to fill in a narrative." Minami's exhibition closes the summer series and runs from August 20 – September 21; opening reception on Sunday, August 31 from 1 p.m.– 3 p.m. Admission is free and no registration is required.
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