![]() ![]() This is my story: with heavy doses of superlatives in lieu of emojis, too many exclamation points (I truly love those heart shaped exclamation points), inspired by Mark Jeffery’s heartfelt and generous social media posts that speak directly to so many of us. How I wish there was an in-depth recorded biographical history of all the outstanding non-tenured faculty who have taught and continue to teach at SAIC. I will be graduate advising in the spring of 2023. Currently, I am in preparation for my second solo exhibition at Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago to open Fall of 2023. I am grateful for the William Bronson Mitchell and Grace Slovet Mitchell Enhancement Fund Award for the 2021-2022 academic year which allowed me to finish a new body of 10 paintings entitled Palimpsest, which were exhibited September to November of 2021 in LA at Gavlak Gallery with a catalog essay by Sue Spaid to be released shortly. ![]() I returned to virtual teaching in Spring of 2021, zooming from my new home in Michigan. With new keys in hand on Thanksgiving Day, 2020, any lingering bits of buyers’ remorse was quickly pushed aside in December, with the news that I was anonymously awarded the unrestricted 2021 Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. That magical experience ultimately led to a spontaneous studio/home relocation. After 6 months, thanks to the generosity of friends, I drove to Michigan and was in residence for a month. I missed my friends, family, and colleagues. The work kept me going, as everything around me was falling apart. To stay safe, I temporarily moved out of my beautiful Pilsen studio to work from my home studio, borrowing a French easel to work on smaller paintings, and creating drawings on my kitchen table. Because of the sabbatical, I escaped that Fall semester, filled with so many unknowns. It was a successful event, but unfortunately, we returned back to Chicago on the heels of the Covid-19 epidemic. “The Vision Paintings” was a series of 20 paintings, 20 x 20 inches square, made during the year 2020. ![]() In March, I traveled with the gallery to the Independent Fair, NYC to install new paintings inspired by my trip to Umbria. I returned to Chicago to prepare for my first solo exhibition at the Monique Meloche Gallery, opening that February with a new body of double sided paintings, referred to as “Air Paintings” that rested within aluminum frames, liberated from the wall. I was newly appointed the FH Sellers Chair in Painting with a research stipend, when an opportunity came up to travel to Umbria and study the frescoes of Piero della Francesca while living at the legendary Civitella Ranieri Foundation Castle for a week in November. My sabbatical during 2019-2020 was truly phenomenal. ![]()
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