Artist/Illustrator since 1975
Artist/Illustrator represented by Skidmore Inc., Detroit, MI 1975-2011
Artist/Illustrator represented by Mendola Representatives, New York, NY 1981-2006
Adjunct Instructor for College of Creative Studies, Detroit, MI –since 1984 .
Paintings by Chuck Gillies illustrate a wide range of subjects for a variety of clients which include CBS Fox Video, The Upper Deck Company, Scholastic Books, Disney Hyperion, Dell Publishing, Reader's Digest, Planters Peanuts, Pepsi, The Bradford Exchange, Deacon Jones Foundation, Donruss, Day Spring, FTD, Ford Motor Company, Chevrolet, Chrysler, and many others.
Chuck has illustrated over 80 Book covers and two complete Children's Books. He has also made hundreds of paintings for trading card companies. His acrylic paintings continue to be featured on books, prints, posters, and trading cards, as they have been for more than 40 years. Chuck is also a portrait painter whose commissions include portraits for Lee Iacocca, Mike Ilitch, Deacon Jones Foundation and many others. His work has appeared in The Society of Illustrators Annual, American Illustration Annual, and Spectrum Annual. Chuck has also participated in many gallery shows including three at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids Michigan.
For thirty-seven years he was represented by Skidmore Studio in Detroit Michigan, while concurrently in New York City he was represented by Mendola LTD, for twenty-five of those same years. When he is not working on illustration projects or fine art paintings Chuck is using his talents teaching as an adjunct faculty member in the Illustration Department at College for Creative Studies in Detroit where he began teaching in 1984.
WORK EXPERIENCE .
Artist/Illustrator represented by Skidmore Inc., Detroit, MI 1975-201
Artist/Illustrator represented by Mendola Representatives, New York, NY 1981-2006
Adjunct Instructor for College of Creative Studies, Detroit, MI –since 1984 .
CHILDREN'S BOOKS: “THE SLEEPING ROSE” by Angela Elwell Hunt Tommy Nelson 16 Illustrations
“WITH YOU ALL THE WAY’ by Max Lucado Crossway Books 16 Illustrations