Current Exhibition
Installation view of “Repurposed Failure Series”
Announcing Summer 2026
East Garfield Park Pop-Up Art Exhibition
2855 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago
Presented by Epic Interiors
Dates & Times
Saturday, June 13th, 2026: 12:00-6:00 pm
Sunday, June 14th, 2025: 12:00-6:00 pm
Also open by appointment.
My brother and his team spent years lovingly renovating and restoring this incredible three-story residence on Washington Blvd. in Chicago’s East Garfield Park neighborhood. We collaborated on our first home tour/pop-up art exhibition in the fall of 2025.
Now we are back with a new exhibition presented by Epic Interiors, including Pamela Staker and guest artists, TBA.
The show will run through the summer and fall of 2026. Please join us during our open hours on June 13th and 14th, or feel free to email art@pamelastakerstudio.com or call 312.925.0989 to set up a viewing.
View and shop the East Garfield Park Exhibition page.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Art in Transit
An exhibition exploring how artists respond to the world around them.
Presented by Bridgeport Artist Community & Oliva Gallery
July 24-Aug.29, 2026 | Opening Reception: Friday, July 24, 5-9 PM
Oliva Gallery | 3816 W. Armitage Ave. Chicago
Artsy
River North Design District Fall Gallery Walk
Save the Date for the 10th Annual Gallery Walk: Friday, September 11th, 2026
Epic Interiors & Studio41 Presents:
Salvador Dominguez, Lucy Slivinski, and Pamela Staker
Studio41 | 225 W Hubbard Street, Chicago, IL 60654
Past Exhibitions
Art For Life
October 16, 2025, 5:30-8:30 pm, in the South Lobby at The Mart (222 Merchandise Mart Drive)
This juried art auction and social event showcased the talents of emerging artists alongside established creators. The artist-donated pieces will be auctioned both virtually and in person during an enjoyable evening filled with cocktails, food, networking, and excitement. We're also thrilled to welcome back Chicago's own Michael Thomas as our DJ for the night!
Thank you to our nationally renowned jury consisting of Bill Erwin, Principal | Chicago Art Source, Leah Bolger, Principal | Leah Bolger Designs, and Amy Kartheiser, Principal | Amy Kartheiser Design. They will judge all the art submissions to find about 90 pieces that will be auctioned off this year.
Fragments of the Familiar: Nature in Abstraction
JAN 17th – MARCH 7, 2025
Opening Night, January 17, 2025 from 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Bridgeport Art Center
3rd Floor Gallery
1200 W. 35th Street
Chicago, IL 60609
Nature has long served as both inspiration and subject matter in abstract painting, offering artists a rich and symbolic language to explore emotion, form, and structure. The impressionist movement laid the groundwork for modern-day abstraction through its novel attempts to paint the essence of light and color in the natural environment. The 20th century produced artists whose innovations in abstraction found them employing nature's chaotic, energetic, and elemental qualities as metaphors for human emotion and the subconscious mind. This collective legacy continues to inspire the three painters in this exhibition as they use memory and philosophical observation to inform their exploration of nature and abstraction.
Exhibiting Artists:
Alissar Najd Langworthy
Katie Luo
Pamela Staker
9th Annual River North Design District Fall Gallery Walk
Presented by Sherwin-Williams
Opening Night | September 6, 2024 | 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Transforming the Ordinary into the Extraordinary
Pamela Staker in collaboration with Epic Interiors
Friday, September 6th, 5-8pm
SEE OUR WORK AT:
Kohler Signature Store by Studio41
322 W. Hubbard St., Chicago.
All showroom events are free and open to the public. The exhibition runs from September 6 - October 7, 2024. Visit RNDDfor exhibition maps and more information.
Artist Statement
Pamela Staker is a Chicago-based abstract painter and sculptor. She uses everyday materials such as wire, cardboard, spray paint, gold leaf, and screen mesh in her sculptural work, recycling them into suspended sculptural forms with surfaces entirely transformed and unrecognizable from their former state. The organic geometry of the shapes, minimal use of soft colors, and highly worked, textural surfaces will create an intriguing counterbalance to the hard materials and shapes in their Kohler Signature Store by Studio41 environment.
Artwork
“Suspended Forest” (2024) Cardboard, acrylic, spray paint, beeswax, gold leaf, Sizing varies depending on configuration
Commissioned Artwork—April 2022
It all began with a small 3-d Sketch.
Large-scale, three-dimensional, site-specific, painting construction.
My client requested a commission that would have the feel of the above small construction at an enlarged scale in a horizontal format. They built a niche area specifically to house the artwork. So respectful of the art! I developed several digital renderings before receiving approval. It was time to start building, and I videoed the entire process. Take a look below…
Watch me work.
Installation view of “Abstract Interior (green no.2)” (2022) acrylic, charcoal, wood, and canvas, 41x82 x 4”
Art Curator: Anne-Laure Lemaitre—In Situ Art
COLLECTION OF WEWORK, CHICAGO–COMMISSION INQUIRY
7th Annual River North Design District Fall Gallery Walk
Presented by Daniel Kinkade Fine Art
Opening Night | September 9, 2022 | 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Space Flowers, wall-mounted sculpture made from recycled materials.
EARTH. WIND. FIRE.
In collaboration with Shakoor Interiors. See our work at Prestige Designs - 223 W. Erie Ave. Chicago.
September 1 - October 15, 2022
ART-IN-PLACE
The Conversation
LOCATION: 5638 W. North Avenue, Chicago.
As a response to the violence epidemic in the United States, CNL Projects and Terrain Exhibitions have relaunched ART-IN-PLACE for late summer 2022. Over two years after the first iteration, ART-IN-PLACE continues its efforts to bring people together to call us to action through the experience of public art. We invite artists of any medium and experience level to respond to the current state of our country by exhibiting an original work of art or performance in public. This artwork/performance can be displayed outside a home, on a lawn, from a window visible to the public, or through an artist-formed partnership with a local business between September 1 - October 15, 2022. This collective action provides artists and community members in neighborhoods throughout the country with a sense of hope and connectivity and offers opportunities to impact change fundamental to our human rights.