Early Halloween Fun-Skull Painting In Macabre Art Show Opens 9/19
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CHICAGO - illiNews -- The curator for the esteemed Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago has selected artist Anne Nordhaus-Bike's skulls painting, The Killing Field, for the art center's Halloween/Day of the Dead themed show, The Mystical, The Magical, & The Macabre, which opens Sept. 19 and runs through Nov. 7.

Anne will attend the opening reception on Friday, Sept. 19, from 7 to 10 p.m. at Bridgeport Art Center's fourth floor gallery. The center is located at 1200 W. 35th St. in Chicago.

"It's an honor to have been chosen to participate in this show," Nordhaus-Bike said. "This is my first show at the iconic Bridgeport Art Center, and I'm looking forward to meeting visitors personally at the opening."

Anne created her haunting watercolor The Killing Field in 1998 in response to coverage of brutal dictator Pol Pot's death and revelations about mass graves in Cambodia.

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Mystical, Magical, & Macabre curator Marci Rubin conceived this show to highlight art from many media that conjures a sense of mystery, awe, and fascination with the darkness and shadowy depths of humanity's complex existence.

For more information, go to https://annenordhausbike.com/blogs/blog/celebrate-halloween-early-skulls-painting-in-mystical-magical-macabre-art-show-bridgeport-art-center.

About Anne Nordhaus-Bike

Award-winning artist Anne Nordhaus-Bike's art has appeared in numerous solo and group shows as well as many arts programs, presentations, and performances. Her work has been published in periodicals and books; covered in numerous print publications; and featured in broadcast media, both on television and feature films.

She received a degree in art history, with honors, from the University of Chicago and went on to launch a fine arts column that ran for two decades in the Gazette Chicago newspaper, where she has served in various capacities since the newspaper's founding in 1983. She joined Gazette Chicago's board of directors in 2004. She founded her multimedia arts firm, ANB Communications, in 1993.

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A member of the prestigious Woman Made Gallery in Chicago since 1998, she launched her book, Follow The Sun, with a book signing at Woman Made in 2012; the book includes more than a dozen of her original watercolors. Among her many awards and honors, she was named to the National Women's Hall of Fame's Wall of Fame.

Anne lives with her husband Bill and cat Sterling in Chicago, where she makes art and enjoys cooking, tai chi, and time in nature.

For more information go to https://annenordhausbike.com/ or email anne@annenordhausbike.com.