Born: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Education
- 1994 M.F.A., Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- 1990 B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
- 1985 B.S., University of Wisconsin/Madison, Madison, WI
Graduated with Distinction
One Person Exhibitions
- 2009 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2008 Timescape, Alfedena Gallery, Chicago, IL
Upward: New Paintings, Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky, MT - 2006 Vapor, Gallatin River Gallery, Gallatin Gateway, MT
- 2005 Bittersweet, Gescheidle, Chicago, IL
- 2004 Desires, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Graystone Gallery, San Francisco, CA - 2003 Luna, Gescheidle, Chicago, IL
- 2002 This Imagined Place, Gescheidle, Chicago, IL
- 2001 Through Many Veils, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
New Landscape Paintings, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY - 2000 Elemental, Lyons Wier Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1999 Sense of Place, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- 1998 Landscape and Seascape Paintings, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1997 Imagined Spaces, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
- 1996 New Landscape Paintings, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1995 New Paintings, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1992 Cardiff Giant Theater, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2009 Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Landscape Show, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL
Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY
- 2008 Aqua Wynwood Art Fair, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, Miami FL
Vista Novus, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Drawing Show, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL - 2007 Earth and Sky, Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky, MT
Joie de Vivre: A Meditation on New Orleans, Katrina and the US, Chicago, IL - 2006 Travel Documents, Koehnline Museum, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
Travel Documents, Columbia College A + D Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Museum of Water, New York, NY
Journey II, Gallatin River Gallery, Gallatin Gateway, MT - 2005 Senza Titolo: Santa Reparata Faculty Exhibition 2005, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
Damn Good Painting!, Lyonswier Gallery, New York, NY
25th Anniversary Bookplate Show, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
San Francisco Art Fair 2005, Gescheidle, San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles Art Fair, Lyonswier Gallery, New York, NY
Scope New York, Lyonswier Gallery, New York, NY - 2004 Think Small, traveling exhibition sponsored by the Illinois State Museum: Chicago, Lockport, Rend Lake, and Springfield, IL
Earth and Sky, Gallatin River Gallery, Gallatin Gateway, MT
Articles and Waves, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
Scope Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Art Chicago 2004, Chicago, IL
San Francisco Art Fair 2004, Gescheidle, San Francisco, CA
Scope New York, Lyonswier Gallery, New York, NY
The Nature of Reduction, Prater Rouse Gallery, Norfolk, VA
Affordable Art Fair, Lyonswier Gallery, New York, NY - 2003 Eccentric Landscape, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Personal Visions, Graystone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Guest List, Gescheidle, Chicago, IL
Landscapes, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Earth and Sky, Gallatin River Gallery, Gallatin Gateway, MT
Affordable Art Fair, Lyonswier Gallery, New York, NY
San Francisco Art Fair 2003, Gescheidle, San Francisco, CA
Art New York, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY - 2002 To Kiss the Spirits: Homage to Hollis Sigler, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sea and Sky, Perimeter Gallery, New York, NY
Affordable Art Fair, Lyonswier Gallery, New York, NY
Art Chicago 2002, Lyonswier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Earth and Sky, Gallatin River Gallery, Gallatin Gateway, MT
Contemporary Drawing Salon, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL - 2001 Looking In, Seeing Big: Louise LeBourgeois and Steven Carrelli, The Community Gallery of Art, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
Artists/Alumni: Masters of Fine Arts from Northwestern’s Department of Art Theory and Practice, Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
“What They Half Create…”, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
The ArtCouncil/Chicago’s Grant Recipient Show, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Realism Today: Nine Contemporary Painters, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
SnowGlobe Invitational, Lyonswier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY - 2000 Shake the Coat: A Midwestern Tribute to Gregory Gillespie, North Park University, Chicago, IL
Strange Presences 2, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
First Works, Columbia College Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gallery Artists, Lyons Wier Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
S.O.F.A. (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art), New York, NY
Painting In Chicago Now, Oakton Community College Art Gallery, Des Plaines, IL - 1999 Images of Silence, Noyes Cultural Art Center, Evanston, IL
The Shadow of Memory, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
New Landscape Paintings, Lyons Wier Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
New Gallery: New Paintings, Euro Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Columbia College Chicago Small Works Faculty Exhibition, Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Faculty Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
The Conscious Line, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Landscape Revisited, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
S.O.F.A. (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art), New York, NY
S.O.F.A. (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art), Chicago, IL - 1998 Painting in Chicago Now, Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Remembering Beauty: The Seductive and Nostalgic Nature of American Landscape, South Bend Regional Art Museum, South Bend, IN
Small Works II, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
A Retrospective/Prospective: 98-99, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Art Chicago 1998 at Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN
Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL - 1997 Small Works, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
A Retrospective/Prospective: 97-98, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Chicago: A Spiritual Landscape, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, IL
A Year in Review, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Evanston Art Center Faculty Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Part-Time Faculty Exhibition, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Art Chicago 1997, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Fair Seattle 97, Seattle, WA
- 1996 In Side Out Side In, North Park College, Chicago, IL
Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL - 1995 Ten Emerging, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Poetic Images, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL - 1994 Three Artists, Inside Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
M.F.A. Thesis Show, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Graduate Exhibition, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Dean’s Collection, College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL - 1993 Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
Ninth Annual All-Illinois Graduate Art Exhibition, Jones College Gallery, Evanston, IL
Graduate Exhibition, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Dean’s Collection, College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL - 1991 Intimate Works, Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1990 B.F.A. Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Selected References
- 2008 Blacklight 2008, literary magazine of the Organization of Black Students at the University of Chicago, illus..
- 2006 Dan Farnham, “Katrina Evacuees to Get Taste of Home at Concert”, Liberty Suburban Chicago Newspapers, August 18, 2006.
Margaret Hawkins, “‘Travel Documents’ Let’s Us Tour with Artists”, Chicago Sun-Times, March 17, 2006 - 2005 Exhibition catalogue, The Art of the Bookplate, Jim Yood-essay, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
Exhibition catalogue, Think Small, Robert Sill-essay, Illinois State Museum, Chicago, Springfield, Lockport, IL, illus..
Michael Tisserand, “Should I Stay or Should I Go?”, Gambit Weekly, New Orleans, LA, December 6, 2005.
Michael Tisserand, “Submerged: An Evacuee’s Journal”, www.csindy.com, November 10-16, 2005.
Michael Tisserand, “Submerged: Leaving”, www.creativeloafing.com, November 9, 2005. - 2004 Andrew Patner, “Being Yourself: Ed Paschke (1939-2004)”, Critic’s Choice with Andrew Patner, WFMT Radio.
- 2003 Alan G. Artner, “Metcalf and LeBourgeois”, The Chicago Tribune, July 25, 2003.
Exhibition brouchure, Eccentric Landscape, Judith Tolnick-essay, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, illus..
Doug Norris, “Main Gallery Displays ‘Eccentric Landscape’,” South County Independent, February 20, 2003, illus..
Bill Van Siclen, “Landscapes: Give and Take Between Old and New,” The Providence Journal, February 27, 2003, illus..
Bill Rodriguez, “The Great Outdoors: A fresh perspective in URI’s Eccentric Landscape“, The Providence Phoenix, March 17, 2003.
Joyce B. Korotkin, “Hiro Yokose”, NYArts Magazine, January, 2002.
Brent Brotine, “Gallery Walk Mixes Media, Creatives And Conversation”, Chicago Creative Coalition, November 2002. - 2001 Exhibition catalogue, Looking In, Seeing Big: Louise LeBourgeois and Steven Carrelli, Steve Tomasula-essay, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL, illus..
Exhibition catalogue, Artists/Alumni: Masters of Fine Arts from Northwestern’s Department of Art Theory and Practice, Jim Yood-essay, Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, illus..
Columbian Exposition Art Auction Catalogue, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, November 2, 2001, illus..
Nancy Maes, “Portrait of the Artists”, Northwestern (alumni magazine), Summer 2001, illus..
“Choice Events”, City Talk, Chicago, IL, March 23 & 30, 2001.
Ellen Pritsker, “Small Works: Two Painters Prove That Bigger Is Not Necessarily Better”, Pioneer Press, March 22, 2001.
2001 Women Artists Datebook, Cedco Publishing, San Rafael, CA, illus.. - 2000 Exhibition catalogue, Painting in Chicago Now, Corey Postiglione-essay, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL, illus..
“Weekend Choice”, City Talk, Chicago, IL, November 10, 2000.
New American Paintings, Volume 23, Midwest, Open Studios Press, illus..
Richard Donagradi, “Louise LeBourgeois and Angela Schlaud: New Works”, www.artscope.net, December 19, 1998, illus..
Jim Houghton, “Paean to Nature”, South Bend Tribune, September 24, 1998.
Exhibition catalogue, Remembering Beauty: The Seductive and Nostalgic Nature of American Landscape, Leisa Rundquist-essay, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN, illus..
Andrew Patner, “Select Area Galleries in Global Showcase”, Chicago Sun-Times, May 8, 1998. - 1997 Shelly Hawes, “Express Yourself”, Where Chicago, August, 1997.
- 1996 Fred Camper, “Metropolis”, WBEZ Public Radio, Chicago, December 21, 1996.
Fred Camper, “Object Relations”, The Chicago Reader, December 13, 1996, illus.. - 1995 Andrew Patner, “Artistic License”, WBEZ Public Radio, Chicago, March 24, 1995.
- 1994 Andrew Patner, “Metropolis”, WBEZ Public Radio, Chicago, May 14, 1994.
- 1991 Lawrence Bommer, “Malicious and Delicious”, The Chicago Reader, November 15, 1991, illus..
Public Lectures and Symposia
- 2005 “Bittersweet: Race and Hurricane Katrina”, gescheidle, Chicago, IL
“Bittersweet”, artist’s talk, gescheidle, Chicago, IL
Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy - 2002 Visiting Artist’s Lecture, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
- 2000 “Elemental”, artist’s talk, Lyons Wier Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1998 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- 1997 North Park College, Chicago, IL
- 1996 Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy
Public Commissions
- City of Chicago Public Art Program, 17th District Police Station
Public Collections
- Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
- College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
- Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN
- McKesson Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Grants and Awards
- 2005 Who’s Who of American Women
Who’s Who in American Education - 2004 City of Chicago Public Art Program, Commission for the 17th District Police Station
- 2003 Illinois Art Council Finalist Award
- 2002 Ragdale Foundation Residency, Lake Forest, IL
Columbia College Chicago Faculty Grant - 2001 Artadia Jury Award
- 1995 Artemisia Gallery Mentorship Program, Chicago, IL
Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL - 1994 Liquitex Excellence in Art University Award
- 1992-3 University Fellowship, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- 1989-90 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Teaching Experience
- 1994-2009 Adjunct Faculty, Columbia College Chicago
- 2006 Palazzo Rucellai (abroad program of the University of Connecticut), Florence, Italy
- 2005-6 Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
- 2001-2 Artist-in-Residence, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
- 1997-2000 Instructor, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
- 1994 Instructor, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- 1993 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Painting, all levels from beginning to independent study; Landscape Painting; Beginning Drawing; Advanced Drawing; Figure Drawing; 2 Dimensional Design; Color Theory.