Prairie Center Open Studios - Tonight, June 25, 6 - 8pm Come and meet our artists in residence! See Bios.... C. C. Ann Chen – Winner of the Midwest Voices and Visions Competition: Ann is a Chicago, IL based artist and educator. She interested in subtle disruptions of the conventional and familiar. Her work stems from architecture and landscape, and explores perceptual translations and misinterpretations of place, time, memory, and history. She has participated in exhibitions in numerous Chicago venues, including slow, Research House for Asian Art, Zhou B. Art Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Heaven Gallery, Fraction Workspace, Gallery 312, and Gescheidle. Chen earned a BA in Architectural History from the University of Maryland, and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently Adjunct faculty in the Liberal Arts Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Marion Bénard: Marion is a French artist, based in Paris. She is graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts of Paris, France in 2012. She studied under French artists: Annette Messager, Anne Rochette, and Cuban artist: Tania Bruguera. She obtained the first drawing price of The Canson Prix Art School 2013. She uses different approaches to art such as sculpture, installation, and drawing. She composes gentle ironic situations, both funny and ruthless. Elements of her works often belong to animals -dead or alive-, the domestic universe, and disguises. She creates dualistic relationships between them with humor, tenderness and cruelty. Cathy de la Cruz: Cathy is currently earning an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She holds another MFA is in Visual Art and Film/Video from the University of California, San Diego where she was a San Diego Fellowship recipient. She’s not addicted to school, but rather to mining artistic possibilities for their potential to hold her ballooning visions, comedic prophecies, and celebrations of the rare, beautiful and possibly dead. Most recently, Cathy taught filmmaking to youth in Los Angeles with an organization called Venice Arts and in Sweden on behalf of the Stockholm International Film Festival. This summer, Cathy was awarded artist residencies to Prairie Center of the Arts in Peoria, Illinois and the New York Mills Arts Retreat in Minnesota. She was also awarded a scholarship to the Esalen Integral Leadership Program in Big Sur, California. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, xoJane, and the anthology This Day in the Life: Diaries from Women Across America. Susanne Nestory: Susanne received her BFA ‘92 in Painting from Southern Oregon University and her MFA ‘03 from the University of Pennsylvania. As an undergraduate she participated in Phase II of the Christo Umbrellas Joint Project for Japan and the USA. During the years 1992-1999, Susanne was Studio Assistant to late artist John Paul Jones, who won a Guggenheim Award for Printmaking and was Professor Emeritus in the University of California system. She assisted him with an installation of sculpture on his 20-acre property in Ashland, OR. As a mentor, he was a strong influence, both aesthetically and philosophically on her early development as an artist. In recent years she has managed the Estate of John Paul Jones collection. Susanne was a member of the Phoenix Gallery in New York where she had solo exhibitions in 2001 and 2003. She has also been included in many National Juried Competitions. Susanne taught Painting, Color Theory and Art Appreciation as an Adjunct Faculty member at Rowan University from 2004-2006. In 2006, she received a Dodge Foundation Fellowship for New Jersey Artists, which helped to fund a three-month residency for creative research at the Vermont Studio Center. She followed this experience with a second three-month residency at the Butte-Silver Bow Arts Foundation in Butte, MT. Susanne then moved to Peoria, IL in late 2006 to fill a temporary, two-year contract as Director of Galleries at Bradley University. Susanne is currently an adjunct faculty member in the art department at Bradley University. Her work was recently included in the CIAO and Friends Invitational Exhibition at the Peoria Riverfront Museum.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:24:14 +0000
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