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
2011 - Artist Residency: “Guanlan Orginal Printmaking Base”, Shenzhen, China
2011 - First Prize Established Artists' Category: “One Inspired Evening Art Auction”, Chicago, IL
2008 - Artist Residency: “Ragdale Foundation”, Lake Forest, IL
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 as well as Representations see Links)
2010 - '12 - “On and Of Paper: Selections from the Illinois State Museum Collections”, Illinois State Museum Galleries, Chicago & Springfield, IL
2010/11 - “Cover Stories, The Art of the Book Jacket; 30th Anniversary Exhibition”, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 - “80th Anniversary Jubilee Exhibition”, Galerie Bregman, Renkum, The Netherlands
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
2011 - “Strong Water”, Janina Monkute-Mark Museum Gallery, Kèdainiai, Lithuania
2010 - “Art Edition; Seoul International Print, Photo & Edition Works Art Fair (SIPA 2010)” represented by Gallery Mac, Bexon Convention Center, Busan, South Korea
2008/2010 - “7th and 9th Lessedra World Art Print Annual Mini Print”, Lessedra Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria
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 - 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 - “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 - “Through The Artist’s Eye”, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL
2000  - “Printworks 2000: Recent Acquisitions”, Key Tower Building Gallery, Seattle, WA
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:

2011 - In: Tom Palmer (editor): “American Art Collector 2012”, Alcove Books, Berkeley, CA
2011 - In: Despina Giannopoulou-Tunberg (curator): “International Dictionary of Artists”, World Wide Art Books, Santa Barbara, CA
2011 - In: “Feest (Celebration)”, 18de Internationale Exlibris en Kleingrafiekwedstrijd, Internationaal Exlibris Centrum, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
2010 - In: Godelief Niewendijk (editor): “Olifant in Boa”, www.beeldendekunstinede, Ede, The Netherlands
2010 - In: Jennifer Jaskowiak: “On & Of Paper, Selections from the Illinois State Museum Collections”, The Living Museum (Illinois State Museum, 72 (2/3), Springfield, IL
2010 - In: “Rendezvous Show by Seven Artists from Six Countries”, Colapasta Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2008/2010 - In: “Mini Print 2008/2010, 7th and 9th 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 set of dedicated 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 (an artists' book, 50 artists, edition: 150)
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, 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
Etching Guild Collection, Riga, Latvia
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Hyundai Arts Centre Gallery, Ulsan, South Korea
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
International Ex-Libris Center, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
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
Museum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands