CURRENT/UPCOMING NEWS

IMPACT Color/IMPACT Black & White
The Art Center
Highland Park, IL
Rhonda K. Brown, Cesar Conde, Sheri Rush, Jurors
August 9 - October 2, 2019

Contemporary Ancients
South Haven Art Center
South Haven, MI
August 24 - September 21, 2019

76th Annual Salon Show
South Shore Arts (David Klamen, Juror)
Munster, IN
September 14 - November 10, 2019

Global Village
CSI Exhibition at Veeck Gallery
Catholic Theological Union
Chicago, IL
September 16 - December 13, 2019


SELECTED RECENT JURIED & INVITATIONAL EXHIBITS & PUBLICATIONS

2019
Variations in Wax
State Street Gallery at Robert Morris University.
Chicago, IL
March 11 - April 25, 2019

40th Annual Juried Exhibition
Monmouth Museum
Lincroft, NJ
January 11 - February 8, 2019

Painting with Fire
Zhou B Art Center
(Sergio Gomez, Curator)
Chicago, IL
January 11 - February 8, 2019

Beyond Fayum
Arts Place, Inc.
(Carrie Baxter, Curator)
Portland, IN
January 7 - February 3, 2019

2018
42nd Annual Beverly Arts Center Exhibition
Non-Representational Award
(Paul Nudd & Bert Green, Jurors)
Beverly Arts Center
Chicago, IL
November 10, 2018 - January 2, 2019

Rockford Midwestern Biennial 2018
Rockford Art Museum (Aron Packer, Juror)
Rockford, IL
June 8 - September 30, 2018

Design is a Verb
Best of Show Award
Chicago Sculpture International Biennial (Alyssa Brubaker, Curator)
Evanston Art Center
Evanston, IL
July 27 - August 26, 2018

Organic to Geometric II
(Carol Pelletier, Curator)
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Provincetown, MA
May 25 - June 24, 2018

The Blues
Adam Peck Gallery Invitational
Provincetown, MA
June 1 - 6, 2018

Artlink Regional Exhibition
(Danielle Riede, Juror)
Artlink Contemporary Gallery
Fort Wayne, IN
January 5 - February 5, 2018

Studio Visit Magazine
Volume 39, January 2018 (George Kinghorn, Juror)

2017
In the Abstract
(CarolAnn Brown, Curator)
Lubeznik Center for the Arts
Michigan City, IN

South Shore Arts 74th Annual Salon Show
(Gregg Hertzlieb, Juror)
South Shore Center for the Arts
Munster, IN

The Vital Art Project
(Mimi Peterson, Curator)
Racine, WI

Northeastern Illinois University Alumni Show
(Shannon Keck, Juror)
NEIU Fine Arts Gallery
Chicago, IL

Encaustic 2017: Rebirth of an Ancient Medium
(Lelda Kalmite, Curator)
Bridgeport Art Center
Chicago, IL

InterAction
Christopher Art Gallery (Beth Shadur, Juror)
Prairie State College
Chicago Hts., IL

Sense of Place
Castle Hill Center for the Arts (Patricia Miranda, Juror)
Truro, MA

Like, Uh, You Know What I Mean
Brickton Art Center (Mimi Peterson, Curator)
Park Ridge, IL

Bridgeport Art Center 5th Annual Competition
Third Place Award
(Fred Camper & James Yood, Jurors)
Bridgeport Art Center
Chicago, IL

Small But Mighty
(Aron Packer, Juror)
Christopher Art Gallery, Prairie State College
Chicago Hts, IL

Studio Visit Magazine
January 2017 (Jessica Roscio, Juror)


2016
True to Form
Brauer Museum of Art (Gregg Hertzlieb, Gloria Ruff, Jurors)
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, IN
August 23 - December 11, 2016

Rockford Midwestern Biennial
Rockford Art Museum (Sarah Krepp, Juror)
Rockford, IL
June 10 - September 25, 2016

39th Harper College National Juried Exhibition
Harper College (Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Juror)
Palatine, IL
August 29 - September 29, 2016

Making Nature
Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Gallery
(Shencheng Xu, Deanna Krueger, Jurors)
Chicago, IL
June 6 - July 15, 2016

Touch of the Blues
ARC Gallery (Sarah Krepp, Juror)
Chicago
February 3 - 27

Shelley Gilchrist, "Form and Iteration Across Mediums," ProWax Journal, No. 14

Studio Visit Magazine
Volume 31, January, 2016 (Mary M. Tinti, juror)

Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century
E. Ashley Rooney, ed., 2016
(more info here)

2015
Far-Flung
Arts on Elston (Rebecca George, Arthur Connor, jurors)
Chicago

Continuous Span
Hyde Park Art Center (Jen Tremblay, curator)
Chicago

Sculpture Invasion
Koehnline Museum of Art (Nathan Harpaz, curator)
Oakton Community College, Des Plaines

Expansive Vision
Prairie State College (Beth Shadur, curator)
Chicago Hts., IL

Organic to Geometric: Investigations in Structure and Surface
Endicott College (Carol Pelletier, curator)
Beverly, MA

Studio Visit Magazine
Volume 27 (Carl Belz, juror)

Arbitrary Values
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago, IL

2014
38th Annual Art Competition & Exhibition
Beverly Arts Center of Chicago
(Edra Soto, Alberto Aquilar, jurors)

South Shore Salon Show
Second Place Award - Renee and Sam Denmark Memorial Award
South Shore Arts (Ron Reason, juror)
Munster, IN

2014 Rockford Midwestern Biennial
First Place Award (William Lieberman, juror)
Rockford Art Museum
Rockford, IL

Square
The Red Head Gallery
Toronto, Canada

Roam (solo show)
ARC Gallery
Chicago, IL

17th International Open
Woman Made Gallery (Myra Greene, juror)
Chicago, IL

Fused
Union Street Gallery (Jessica Segal, curator)
Chicago Hts., IL

2013
Abstract Impulse
Prairie State College (Beth Shadur, curator)
Chicago Hts., IL

Chicago Sculpture International Exhibition
Bridgeport Art Center (Lelde Kalmite, curator)
Chicago, IL

Six to the Third
The Cliff Dwellers
Chicago, IL

Sculpture, Where It's At!
Bloomingdale Museum
Bloomingdale, IL

Rhythm in Wax
Norris Cultural Arts Center
St. Charles, IL

Material Difference
Art Museo (Dan Addington, curator)
Intercontinental Hotel, Chicago

12 FUSED Artists
Robert T. Wright Gallery
College of Lake County
Grayslake, IL

2012
Encaustic Works 2012, R&F Biennial Published Exhibition
Portfolio Artist (selected by Joanne Mattera)

Tactile Encounters
Kemper Gallery
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

Six to the Third
Chicago Sculpture International at EXPO CHICAGO

Inspired By . . . Celebrating Illinois Women Artists and Artisans
Woman Made Gallery (Mary Stoppert, juror)
Chicago, IL

Confluence: Water & Light
Kobalt Gallery (Francine d'Olimpio, curator)
Provincetown, MA

Forms & Fragments
Art Museo (Martha Schneider Gallery, curators)
Intercontinental Hotel, Chicago


For more information, see resume.