Education
1979 M.F.A., Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
1976 B.F.A., University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
Teaching Experience
1986 - 2012
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Painting & Drawing
2004 - 2012
Resident Director, SAIC Prague Studio Program
Exhibitions
Individual Exhibitions:
2015
Café Charmé
Prague, Czech Republic
2010
Cressman Center for Visual Arts Gallery
Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
2002
Sonia Zaks Gallery
Chicago, Illinois
1999
University Club of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
1998
Sonia Zaks Gallery
Chicago, Illinois
1996
Sonia Zaks Gallery
Chicago, Illinois
1993
Sonia Zaks Gallery
Chicago, Illinois
Group Exhibitions:
2008
Ahh...Decadence!
Sullivan Galleries
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2007
Dekadence Dance
The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
Prague, Czech Republic
2005
Love-Art-Religion-War-Decadence-Death
Gallerie Doubner
Prague, Czech Republic
2000
The Figure at the Millenium,
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
Self-Portraits,
Printworks Gallery, Chicago
1997
Chicago Post-War Paintings,
The Smart Museum, University of Chicago
1996
Art in Chicago: 1945-1995,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1995
Seeing the Figure Now,
The Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Flora: Contemporary Artists and the World of Flowers,
The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin (traveled to Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont; New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, through 1996)
1993
Party Mix,
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1992
Face to Face: Self Portraits by Chicago Artists,
Chicago Cultural Center
1991
Realism, Figurative Painting, and the Chicago Viewpoint:
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1989
New Still Life,
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois
Dennis Adrian: A Critical Subject,
Struve Gallery, Chicago
1988
Madonna and Child,
Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
1987
Figure Painting in Chicago,
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
1986
Portraits from the Permanent Collection,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Chicago Painters,
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
1985
Then and Now,
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1984
80th Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,
The Art Institute of Chicago
Observations: Four Realist Painters,
N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
1983
Chicago: Some Other Traditions,
Madison Art Center, Wisconsin (traveled to Sheldon
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Norman MacKensie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Saskatchewan; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Art Gallery, University of Houston; Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando; Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum; Arkansas Art center, Little Rock through 1986)
1982-83
Emerging Artists,
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago