share: digg facebook twitter [...] for his solo show at Joan Grona, he exhibited a recently made series of playful, colorful abstract works on paper. Rodriguez said people have historically viewed paintings on canvas as more substantial or important than art on paper, and that a paper surface is more for sketching ideas. Rodriguez compares the titles of these series to human nature. The ceramic forms of Chicago artist Nikki Renee Anderson are feminine, floral and a little disturbing. In Anderson's photographs, her lone ceramic figures occupy vast, lush landscapes that are also erotically tense. A lone vessel, titled “Drink, My Children” with a red glaze oozing from the brim, sits alone in a small gallery room