ARTIST'S STATEMENT

“My images tend to deal with confined spaces containing certain characters that reach out to one another but do not quite succeed in meeting; hiding behind reality, masking yourself, or trying to show with the mask how you really feel. Maybe one's “normal” face is really a mask?”

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

2001 - Curator's Choice Artist “Around the Coyote” Fall Arts Festival, Chicago, IL
1996 - Sponsors' Prize, 3rd Sapporo International Print Biennale, Sapporo, Japan
1995 - Award of Excellence, 12th North Shore Art League Midwest Print Show, Chicago, IL

SELECTED ONE- AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
(For Current and Upcoming Exhibitions see Links)

2010 - “Rendezvous Show by Seven Artists from Six Countries”, Colapasta Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2009 - “Muses Etcetera”, Avram Eisen Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 - “Atelierroute Groot Woerden”, Woerden/Kamerik, The Netherlands
2009 - Ragdale Foundation - “Talking Art With..... ”, Lake Forest, IL
2007 - “Daydreams & Night Dreams”, Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
2007 - “Paradeigmas of Silent Spring”, Oculus Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 - “The Professor and the Priest”, Almquist Gallery, NSCD School, Winnetka, IL
2004 - “Sketches and Beyond”, Illinois Institute of Art's Chicago Campus Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003/04 - Niendieker Galerie, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2003 - “Refined/Defined”, Gallery Mornea, Evanston, IL
2002 - “Images from Beyond”, Libreria San Pantalon, Venezia, Italy
2001 - “Portraits of the Soul”, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL (support: Netherlands Consulate-General, Netherland-America Foundation, Illinois Arts Council, and AKZO-Nobel)
2001 - “Poetic Narrative Prints”, Red & Gold Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 - “Dutch Perspectives, American Reflections”, Wilmette Public Library, Wilmette, IL
1999 - “Extroverted Introspections”, Sharp/Danka Gallery, South Suburban College, South Holland, IL
1975 - Cultural Center, Leamington Spa, UK
1974 - Library Warwick University, Coventry, UK (support: British Council)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1998-2010 - American Print Alliance, five traveling group shows, over 50 venues
2006-09 - “Beyond Boundaries”, Chicago Printmakers' Collaborative, Chicago, IL, 5 venues
2008 - “Nuances of Printmaking ”, Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
2008 - 7th Lessedra World Art Print Annual Mini Print, Lessedra Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria
2008 - Voorjaarstentoonstelling (spring exhibition) “Het Kunstgebeuren”, Ede, The Netherlands
2007 - “The Exquisite Snake”, Marie and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2004-07 - Uitgeverij-Antiquariaat-Kunsthandel Leida, Wageningen, The Netherlands
2006 - “Impressive Expressions”, Gallery Mornea, Evanston, IL
2005-06 - “The Art of the Bookplate”, 25th Anniversary Exhibition Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 - “Token, Talisman and Tool”, Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, IL
2005 - “On The Mark: Chicago Printmakers Collaborative 1989-2005”, Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2005 - “Rotterdam Geraakt”, Rotterdams Historisch Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2004 - “War Forum”, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002/04 - “1st & 2nd LUC Print Biennials”, Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
2000-04 - “Reimaging the Multiple” (various venues: USA, Scotland, Spain)
2003 - “Fifth Anniversary Exhibition”, Hyundai Arts Centre Gallery, Ulsan, South Korea
2002 - “Spectrum: Contemporary Art of Chicago”, Chicago Athenaeum, Schaumburg, IL
2001 - “Face to Face”, Harold Washington Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
2001 - “Through The Artist’s Eye”, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL
2001-02 - Stewart Gallery, Boise, ID
2000  - “Printworks 2000: Recent Acquisitions”, Key Tower Building Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 - “A Decade of Printmaking”, Belloc Lowndes Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 - “The Exquisite Corpse”, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996/00 - 3rd & 5th International Print Biennales, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
1999 - “National Print Exhibition”, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
1998 - “Pressing Issues”, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH\
1998 - “International Juried Mezzotint Exhibition”, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
1998 - “Parallel Visions”, Dittmar Gallery, IL, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1996 - “Printmakers ‘96”, University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1996 - “Chicago Prints and Printmakers”, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL
1994 - “National Sketchbook Invited”, Columbia College Center for the Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
1994 - “18th Harper National Print and Drawing Exhibition”, Harper College, Palatine, IL
1987-91 - Galerie “Van den Krommenakker”, Arnhem, The Netherlands         

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND/OR REPRODUCTIONS

Books, Catalogues and Projects:

2010 - In: “Rendezvous Show by Seven Artists from Six Countries”, Colapasta Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2008 - In: “Mini Print 2008, 7th Lessedra World Art Print Manual”, Lessedra Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria
2007 - In: Rafal Pospiech,  Bartosz Fraczek: “Art Periscope, 2007 Calendar”, Czestochowa, Poland
2006 - In: Debra Lader: “Beyond Boundaries: 35 Chicago Artists Connect”, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL, a boxed set of postcards
2006 - Bert Menco, Bernd Lindemann (text): “Visions and Voices; 36 Drawings, Prints and Paintings”, foreword: Audrey Niffenegger, invoco-verlag, Homburg, Germany
2006 - Bernd Lindemann: “Dragon Killer!”, 14 illustrations, invoco-verlag, Homburg, Germany
2006 - In: Yames Yood, Audrey Niffenegger, Bob Hiebert, Sidney Block: “The Art of the Bookplate”, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL, catalogue. Poster: Illinois Art Education Association
2004 - In: Wijnand Steemers: “Schilders in Wageningen”, Leida, Wageningen, The Netherlands
2003 - In: Adrian M. Darmon: “Autour de l'Art Juive, Peintres, Sculpteurs et Photographs”, Éditeur Carnot, Chatou, France
2003 - In: Jun-Je Jo, Yu Jae-gil: “Seven Prints Artists from around the World”, Hyundai Arts Center Gallery, Ulsan, South Korea
2003 - In: Stacey Stern, Shawn Sheehy, Audrey Niffenegger, Anita Leverence: “Pandora's Box”, Epicenter Press, Columbia College Center for the Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL, a boxed artists' book, works by 50 artists, edition: 150
2000 - In: Marc Pascale, Bob Hiebert, Sidney Block, Audrey Niffenegger: “The Exquisite Corps”, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 - In: Ivy Sundell: “Art Scene, Chicago 2000”, Crow Woods Publishing, Evanston, IL
1997 - In: Lynne Allen, Phyllis McGibson, Ruth Weisberg: “The Best of Printmaking”, Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, MA

Articles:

Chicago Reader & Reader's Guide (Chicago, IL)
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
Contemporary Impressions (Peachtree City, GA)
Evanston Review (Evanston, IL)
artScope.net (on-line, Chicago, IL)
artdaily (Mexico City, Mexico; The First Art Paper on the Net)
Art in Culture (Seoul, South Korea)
Hokkaido Newspaper (Sapporo, Japan)
Il Gazzettino (Venezia, Italy)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (Coventry, UK)
Arnhemse Courant (Arnhem, The Netherlands)
De Nieuwe Krant (Arnhem, The Netherlands)
De Gelderlander (Veluwezoom, The Netherlands)

SELECTED CURATORIAL AND JUDGING ACTIVITIES

Chicago, IL : Columbia College, Morpho Gallery; Evanston, IL : Dittmar Gallery of Northwestern University, Lakeshore Arts Festival, D~Gallery, Gallery Mornea; Highland Park, IL : The Art Center, Port Clinton Arts Festival

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Hyundai Arts Centre Gallery, Ulsan, South Korea
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
Rotterdam Historical Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands