The urban landscape is a reference point for the abstract shapes and images I create in paintings, monotypes, drawings, and one-of-a-kind artist's books. I transform what I see into an imaginary world populated by shapes, colors, nonexistent dwellings and containers surrounded by fictitious plants, animals, and strange forms of life. I use these elements as characters in a visual drama within the picture plane, choreographed to take place during the time the work is viewed, much like music or film. I have consistently explored the nature of non-objective art and abstraction, using color, form, geometric and organic shapes, and symbolic references to nature and the environment in which I live. I believe art should stimulate the viewer's imagination and provide an insight into the creative nature of life. It should enhance the life of the viewer in providing a visual experience which is unique and stimulating to their own creativity. I hope that my art has the power to communicate and that it enriches the lives of those who view it, even though the language used is purely visual, abstract, and personal.   PARTIAL LIST OF COLLECTIONS Boston Museum of Fine Arts Illinois State Museum Indianapolis Museum of Art Richard Koppe Archive, University of Illinois Continental Bank, Chicago Harris Bank, Glencoe Kemper Art Collection, Chicago Frito-Lay Corporation, Dallas, Texas Bell & Howell Corporation Ashland Oil Company Eastman Kodak Company Sears Building, Chicago Blue Cross Blue Shield, Chicago Amoco Building, Chicago, Illinois Burroughs Corporation, Infomart Building, Dallas, Texas Burroughs Corporation, New York City Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Prudential Insurance Company Commodities Exchange Center, New York Bank of America, San Francisco Heritage Insurance Company Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago Ideal Industries, Sycamore, Illinois GATX Corporation, Chicago Baker, Krupp & Tubbs IBM, Charlotte, NC. Lawson Products Habitat Company, Cityfront Place, Chicago J.S.K. Perkins & Will, Berlin, Germany David and Reva Logan Book Collection

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MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1978 BA, Highest Honors, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1967 Printmaking workshops: Vera Berdich, Art Institute of Chicago David Dreisbach, Northern Illinois University Studied with Roland Ginzel and Richard Koppe, U. of Illinois at Chicago. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVITIES Community Arts Assistance Program Panel - 1995 Illinois Arts Council Visual Arts Advisory Panel - l993, 1994 Board of Directors, 57th Street Art Fair, Chicago, Illinois Chicago Artists Coalition PUBLICATIONS Chicago's 57th Street Art Fair - The First Fifty Years 1997 Spaceprobe, catalog essay by Garrett Holg 1987 Crain's Chicago Business, November 3, l986, "Gallery" Women Artists News, Winter l985, Pilsen East Artist Open House, Barbara Aubin Independent Vision, catalog essay by Harold Haydon, 1985 Chicago Artists' Coalition Newsletter, March l98l "Viewpoint" The Living Museum, July-August 1975, Illinois State Museum, Robert J. Evans EXHIBITIONS On Line Galleries Zazzle FineArtAmerica Annual Chicago Artist Month October - 2000 - 2012 Studio 2003 January - Illinois Printmakers, Thompson Center, Chicago, IL 2000 October - Virtual and live Exhibit at Inside Art Gallery. 1999 Studio Group Exhibit - Chicago Artists Month 1998 September 12 - Inside Art, Chicago, Illinois 1998, Group Exhibit, K.A.M. Temple, Chicago, Illinois 1998, Inside Art, Chicago, Illinois 1998, Illinois Artists Month November Studio Tours 1997, Chicago State University, One Person Retrospective Exhibition 1996 Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art, Chicago,Illinois 1996 A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1995 One-of-a-kind Artist's Books, Inside Art, Chicago, Illinois 1994 Print Group Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1993 Artist's Books Illinois, State of Il. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1993 Spring Exhibition at AOE Group Show, Chicago, Illinois 1992 Wearable Art Group Show, Artists En Masse, Lawrence, Kansas AOE Group Show, Chicago, Illinois 1991 Color Printmaking by 7 Regional Artists, Lawrence, Kansas 1990 Printmakers Group Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois FAXART, University of Illinois at Chicago 1989 Printmakers Group Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1988 Artists Books State of Illinois Traveling Exhibiton 1987 Space Probe--Exploring Man/Sky Relationships, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago New Aspects of Abstraction, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Works on Paper Group Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Summer Group Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Chicago Cultural Center--Artists Books--Illinois 1986 Art Expo Chicago, Jan Cicero Gallery 3rd Annual Artists Books Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Works on Paper, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Artists Books - Illinois, State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Art on Paper Exhibition, Parson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb , Illinois Books and Recordings, Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago, Illinois 1985 Independent Vision, Ukranian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois Paintings and Artists Books, one person show, University of Illinois, Chicago Group Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1984 Ways of Drawing curated by Harold Haydon, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago One Person Show of Paintings and Artists Books,Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1983 35th Illinois Invitational, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois Breaking the Bindings--American Book Art Now, Elvehjem Museum, Madison, Wis. 1982 One Person Monotype Show, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1981 4/4 Show, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Drawings Group Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1980 - 1967 Exhibitions of paintings, books, and monotypes .

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