The Chicago Atelier™ is the home of the Studio Arts as practiced by Miguel. The Chicago Atelier™ encompasses the Photography studio with a complete darkroom for classical silver gelatin photographs. A Digital lab for developing with the latest materials.; it also has a formal studio for working with models. The Sculpture studio for clay, plastiline, […]
Sculpture|photography|printmaking|stage
Marble to Paper
Sculptures created with unlimited materials.
Printing innovation
From stone lithography to monotypes.
Art photography
Witnesses of time.
Tradition and experimentation
We'll use traditional methods like stone lithography; but, we will also use the newest developments in art creation.
Experimentation based on education and knowledge.
"Photography in my life/ My life in Photography
I was almost born in a photo studio. I grew up inside the Oleo Photo Studio in Mexico City, at the time it was the largest, most modern studio in Mexico. This is before color photography so we had an 11x14 studio camera and the darkroom was one of the largest rooms in the building divided into darkroom and dry retouching areas. My father, the famous "Goyito" was an accomplished landscape painter, turned photographer, turned photocolorist. He was the pupil of Luis Magos Anaya whose wife taught him how to color photographs with oil colors.
Oleo Photo occupied the whole second floor of the "Edificio San Jose" at the corners of Amsterdam and Sonora streets in the Hipodromo/Condesa art deco neighborhood in Mexico. At any time there were 10 to 13 Maestros working in the studio; coloring photographs.
I followed: I loved the darkroom, the mixing of hypo-sulfate and other chemicals, the smell of oil paints and the linseed oil and thinner of the coloring studio.
Photography has always been part of my life; except that from the beginning, even as a child, I have the tendency to lean more for the experimental, than the formal side of the art.
I studied photography with John Grady; obviously I did my hours at Oleo Photo having to turn professional, finished, work to the customers. There was one rule in the studio: "Why can a mistake when one can do it right the first time." Now, I work both with film and digital processes. I believe that each is a unique tool for creation; similar, almost, but never the same.
The idea of the new work continues to be the same as before. The expression of the self through a medium and to explore all the possibilities combining experimental and classical techniques."
- Miguel López Lemus
Stage design and construction
Set Design
SET DESIGN STUDIO OF THE CHICAGO ATELIER™ The Atelier offers creative and unique set design for any stage production. We use traditional and unortodox materials to give each production a touch of magic. Our Artists can paint large backdrops with our own design; build the set and provide light and sound design. Our experience of 45 years allows us to have a vision that reflects and can be maleable to the needs of space, direction and budget.
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Marble to Paper
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Stone|Metal|Found objects|Paper|Wood|Clay
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Printmaking
PRINTMAKING STUDIO OF THE CHICAGO ATELIER Experimentation & Tradition. We at the Chicago Atelier print images by hand using old methods and the best inks and papers available. Our workshop uses a lithographic press, and intaglio press and hand printing. Photographic facilities with darkroom and digital lab gives us the ability to create images and portraits using the most modern and ancient techniques. Our glicee shop uses the best inks available for printing of digital images. All our prints are limited edition and each print has a certificate of authenticity.
CHICAGO ATELIER®
The day I know what I am doing I will stop making Art."
MIguel
Working from our Chicago home."
Chicago
Nuestra casa en Chicago."
Chicago Atelier
Con la misma idea expandimos nuestro trabajo a la ciudad de Oaxaca. Contaremos con recursos para impresión litográfica de intaglio, fotografía digital y análoga así como servicios de diseno de escenografía.
Pretendemos establecer colaboraciones con otros creadores de arte en esta ciudad.
Tambien continuaremos colaborando con Pandora Lobo Estepario Press en la edicion y publicacion de libros de arte.
Gracias
Esperamos su visita en el Chicago Atelier® Oaxaca
Miguel