Staff
Executive Director:
Bryan Northup
Bryan is a queer eco-artist and writer with a multidisciplinary background in 3D visual arts and poetry. He received his B.A. (Fine Art Photography) at California College of the Arts.
Bryan relocated from the San Francisco Bay Area to Oak Park in 2008 and joined the staff at OPAL working in many capacities, creating in-house graphic design, monthly member newsletter, web design and maintenance, social media marketing and planning, coordinating and installing monthly exhibitions from 2009 to 2018.
Over the past 20 years, Bryan has worked as gallery director, content creator, marketing manager, curator and exhibition preparator for art organizations as well as private collectors.
Since 2015 Bryan has created sculpture, abstract wall reliefs and installations with single-use plastic as art medium.
Programming Coordinator:
Michael Cuadrado Gonzalez
Michael is an artist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. He earned a BFA in Drawing from Pratt Institute in 2018 and an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale University in 2024. Most recently, he attended the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including Harkawik, SPURS Gallery, David Castillo, Yossi Milo, LVL3, Patient Info, North Loop, New Collectors, and Coco Hunday. He has attended residencies at the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Wassaic Project, and BOLT at the Chicago Artists Coalition.