Bill the Butcher

Opening July 2012, Galerie F presents itself to the city of Chicago as the first open-door gallery space. Fully functional six days of the week, all day long, with no appointments required. We seek to contextualize printmaking and street art in the contemporary art scene while promoting local and international artists. Our community, and our city, are essential to our mission. Come in, browse through our print archives, check out our latest exhibitions, or sign up for screen printing classes. Offering an extensive and affordable collection of gig posters, art posters, and other collectibles for your browsing pleasure. Clinton Reno blurs the line between nicest guy in the world and hot-tempered nut job. The dichotomy in his personality is what likely conjures art that is both light-hearted and inspiring. His work is packed with textures and ornate details. He has a grand ability to amalgamate the historical and the fictional - the technically sound and the completely absurd. Clinton grew up in the cultural metropolis of Xenia, Ohio, sketching Grizzly Adams and GI Joe characters. His love of drawing led him to the esteemed Columbus College of Art and Design, where he graduated with a BFA in Illustration in 1995. Reno has built quite a following in Columbus and beyond, hand-pulling limited edition, silk-screened posters for music events, cultural festivals, non-profit organizations and businesses. He has designed and screened posters, CD Artwork and T-Shirts for hundreds of acclaimed rock bands, including Coldplay, My Morning Jacket and Interpol. His critically appreciated work has landed him in a variety of art shows in cities across the map, including Brighton, UK, Atlanta Museum of Design, Portland, San Francisco, Cincinnati and Columbus. His work has also been featured at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH, and Flatstock poster conventions in Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas. Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. It is also known as silkscreen, seriography, and serigraph. Blunt Graffix and Galerie F has teamed up to bring you the keenest print show in town. Tommy guns, pinstripe suits, and hidden aces will be abound in this gangster-themed exhibition located in the city of sin itself. The evening’s affair will be catered by Brian Merel – poster enthusiast and chef extraordinaire. This night is the Real McCoy.