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Interview with MendyZ on Life as a Fine Art Resident Artist for a Chicago Art Gallery

Mendy Zimmerman, or MendyZ, has a captivating face and enticing hands. His face is a bit more entrancing than Spiderman (Hollywood actor Tobey Maguire), it is perfectly proportioned, and his green-grey eyes change subtly with his mood--with a dimple to boot. He uses his hands to gesture and drive home his points with pin-point accuracy to compound the thoughtful words he uses. The two cause you to flick your eyes from face to hand while he makes his points on art. He speaks in an eloquent and complex English language only reminiscent of my own daily-use English, with an interesting mix of Midwestern newscaster appeal and a restrained New York edge. We are sitting in his art studio only three hours before the creation of his spectacular large 'Lady Liberty' painting which pulls him from a 10 month stretch of art creation on everything imaginable into the lull of his current showing at...

MendyZ, resident artist for Exclusive Canvas Art | A Chicago Art Gallery on Music, Birthday, and Happiness.

Captivating Interview with MendyZ, the fine art resident artist at Exclusive Canvas Art | A Chicago Art Gallery on Music, Happiness, Birthdays, and much more.

Mendy Zimmerman (Mendyz.com), the Resident fine art artist at Exclusive Canvas Art | A Chicago Art Gallery (ExclusiveCanvasArt.com), has been touted as charming, obsessive, bad at dating, messy, serious, a poet and in love, and more by recent reviews. His artwork are primarily paintings that centralize around humans via portraits, figures, or human struggles and emotions, and are fantastic to look at. They internalize themselves rapidly, and speak volumes with an extremely high return per square inch of canvas. His personality is on par with those winning people's choice awards, and his work is highly sought after by those who take a moment to breath and investigate his artwork. It has been questioned as...

Exclusive Canvas Art | A Chicago Art Gallery, is proud to present the fine art artist M. Zimmerman to our gallery collections. For the price conscience buyer who loves the artwork but can not afford an original painting, we are using Fine Art America for our posters and prints.

With so much flurry of activity, public venues, and private showings we decided to present you two critiques in their interview form and unedited.

We hope that it serves to assist other artists in understanding what galleries look for, and what makes fantastic art.

Here are two excerpts. We hope you enjoy these unedited remarks.

It depicts a woman running down a dark street with some bright light. I feel she is running from something. Our world is full of dangers, and this woman is feeling the danger. One can feel especially vulnerable in urban spaces. We all seek the safety of our own homes. The sense of the woman's motion conveys an urgency. The bright lights, and what...