Pencil This In

By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on May 27, 2011 5:30PM

Patrick Berran - Untitled (RM 8) , 2010 oil and acrylic on panel

Bike the Drive is on Sunday and Nana (3267 S. Halsted) is having a Bike 'N Brunch from 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday. They'll have a free bike valet on the 33rd Street side of the restaurant and Nana is donating 10 percent of this weekend's Bike 'N Brunch receipts to the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

Art

Abstract painter Patrick Berran's latest exhibit, One Must Eat the Other, kicks off tonight with an opening reception from 6-8 p.m. at Thomas Robertello Gallery (27 N. Morgan St.). The hungrily pigmented free-form vocabulary that has become Berran's abstract painting process resolutely unifies the tension between surface and image. Highly refined surface skins dissolve into transparency and are overtaken by chaotic imagery. Pulsating nebulae lurk everywhere and adhere to the surfaces, forcing indeterminate spatial interpretations. Sublimely tinted and seductively tactile, Berran's recent paintings assert themselves as reinvigorators of the medium. The exhibit will run through August 14.

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