The artwork of artist Monica Cardestam is being showcased in the North Suburban YMCA Community Gallery through February.
According to a news release, the artwork is for sale with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Y’s Visual Arts Program.
After spending many years in the retail business, Cardestam became interested in the Sumi-e (ink on rice paper) technique where her interest led her to become a board member of the Sumi-e Midwest organization, the release said. Since then, she has branched out to creating art in charcoal drawing, watercolor pencils, and watercolor painting.
Cardestam has had her artwork displayed in a variety of venues including AIR Studio in Glencoe, The Gorton Center “Painting in the Asian Manner” show, Highland Park’s The Festival of Fine Arts, the Northbrook YMCA “Taste of Asia” Festival, The Glenview Arts of Life “Square Foot” show, Heller Nature Center “A Brush with Nature” shows, and many others, according to the news release. Her work has also been published in the past six volumes of East on Central as well as in The Majesty of Trees: Poets Respond Root, Trunk and Branch.
The NSYMCA’s Community Gallery, located at 2705 Techny Road in Northbrook, celebrates the diversely talented artists living and working in Chicago’s northern suburbs with monthly exhibits that are free and open to the public. For more information about art at the North Suburban YMCA, contact Cathie Winnie at [email protected] or 847-272-7250.