The LyonsWier Packer Gallery is a mouthful to say but doles out an equally large portion of mainly local art. The gallery generally features two artists, or as they say, two- one person shows, every five weeks. Nearly 80 percent of the gallery's exhibits are created by Chicago-based artists, mostly professors or graduates of the School of the Art Institute.
Female artists abound to the point where male artists seem to be the exception rather than the rule.
The gallery exhibits contemporary realism and the unusual by contrast. The goal of the showings is to present two artists with contrasting styles or subjects that have some common ground. A recent exhibition juxtaposed Karen Perl's Hopper-like, small urban landscapes with Dan Gustin's luscious paintings of the Italian countryside.