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| education |
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| 2001 |
Washington University,
St. Louis, Missouri
Master of Fine Arts, Painting |
| 1996 |
University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting |
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| grants/awards |
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2005
2003
2002
2001
1999 |
Illinois Arts Council
Grant, Finalist Award
Illinois Arts Council, Special Assistance Grant
City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs,
Individual Artist Grant
Art St. Louis, Award of Excellence
Stanley L. and Lucy M. Lopata Endowed Graduate Fellow |
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| solo
exhibitions |
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| 2004 |
Far-Flung, Beverly
Arts Center
Chicago, Illinois |
| 2003 |
Glide, Contemporary
Art Workshop
Chicago, Illinois |
| 2000 |
Nine Paintings, Art
St. Louis
St. Louis Design Center, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1996 |
Give and Take, Arts
Coalition Gallery
University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois |
| 1995 |
Ungainly Crisscross
McKinley Foundation, Champaign, Illinois |
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| group
exhibitions |
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| 2005 |
Built Against Site
Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri; Curator
Hesse McGraw (catalogue) |
| 2004 |
Welcome to Wonderland
1R Gallery, Chicago |
The Nature of Reduction
Prater Rouse Gallery, Norfolk, Virginia; Curator
Marci Rae McDade |
Art Chicago, Navy Pier;
with 1R Gallery
Chicago, Illinois |
Miami University Young
Painters Competition
Hiestand Galleries, Oxford, Ohio; Juror Buzz Spector
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| 2003 |
Gilded Lilly
1R Gallery, Chicago |
Ant- spacesuit: The
dirty future
Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
The Stray Show, with
1R Gallery
Chicago, Illinois |
New American Talent
- The Texas Fine Arts Association
The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas;
Curator Dominic Molon (catalogue) |
Nada Art Fair, with
1R Gallery
Miami Beach, Florida |
The EAC Invitational
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois; Curator
Brooke Marler |
| 2002 |
16th Evanston + Vicinity
Biennial 2002
Evanston Art Center, Illinois; Jurors Michael Rooks
and Kathy Cottong |
Surfacer
111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, California; Curator
Maria Park |
School of Art and Design
Faculty Exhibition
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign,
Illinois |
| 2001 |
Washington University
School of Art Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
In/Form Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri |
Honor Awards Exhibition
Art St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri |
Transpolyblu: A Digital
Exposition
Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri;
Curators Sabina Ott and Ron Laboray |
Selected Paintings
Fleishman-Hillard International Communications,
St. Louis, Missouri |
| 2000 |
Art on Art
Collaborative Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, St.
Louis, Missouri |
Why Can’t You
Just Listen
Crowe T. Brooks Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri |
Of World and Self:
Works by St. Louis Women Artists (catalogue)
Innsbrook Conference Center, Innsbrook, Missouri |
Mixed Bag
Art St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri |
MFA Annual Web Expo,
New American Paintings
The Open Studios Press, Wellesley, Massachusetts |
Super·Imposed,
Des Lee Gallery
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1996 |
The Link Exhibition
University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois |
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| appointments/professional
experience |
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| 2002 –2003 |
Instructor, School
of the Art Institute of Chicago |
First Year Program,
2D Studio |
| 2002 |
Visiting Lecturer,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Visiting Artist, North Park University, Chicago,
Illinois
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Painting and Drawing
Program
Art Department, Painting |
| 2001-2002 |
Visiting Assistant
Professor; University of Illinois, Champaign |
Painting Department;
Figure Drawing; Painting |
| 2001 |
Visiting Artist, Webster
University, Webster Groves, Missouri |
Painting Department |
| 1999-2000 |
Teaching Assistant,
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Instructor,
Florissant Valley College, St. Louis, Missouri
Instructor, Center of Contemporary Art, St. Louis,
Missouri
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Painting-All Levels;
Figure Drawing
Drawing
Beginning and Intermediate Painting |
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| selected
bibliography |
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| Brenner,
Molly Beth. “New American Talent: The Eye of
the Beholder”, The Austin Chronicle, August
8, 2003. |
| Cregan,
Lisa. “Three-Part Harmony”, Chicago Tribune
Magazine, February 27, 2005 (Interiors). |
| Daniel,
Jeff. “2001 Honor Awards”, St. Louis Post
Dispatch, March 25, 2001 (Arts and Entertainment,
Section F6). |
| Drea, Amber.
“Michelle Wasson, Glide”, Bridge Online,
May 2003 (Art Reviews) |
| Downen,
Jill. “Transpolyblu: Art gone digital challenges
traditional space”, West End-Clayton Word,
Feb. 22-28, 2001. |
| Herman,
Max. “Emerging artists break through”,
Evanston Express, Volume #3 Issue #10, 2003. |
| New American
Paintings – 2003 Midwestern Edition, The Open
Studios Press, Wellesley, MA, 2003. |
| Parr, Debra
Riley. “Transpolyblu”, New Art Examiner,
July/August, 2001 (Page 89). |
| Smith,
Brian. “Super-Imposed”, St. Louis Post
Dispatch, April 19, 2001 (Arts and Entertainment,
Section F6). |
| Southland,
Jenny. “Critics’ Picks”, The Octopus,
April, 1996 (Page 25). |
| Workman,
Michael. “Futuristic Imperfect”, New City
Chicago, August 20,2003 (Art-Eye Exam) |
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| slide
registries |
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| 2005 |
Library and Research
Center of the National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington D.C |
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