MARY LOU ZELAZNY

 

Mary Lou Zelazny

 

RESUME

 

Born:

1956    Chicago

 

Education:

1980    BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1978    California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

 

Academic Affiliation:

1990-present. Adjunct Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

Selected One Person Exhibitions:

2007    Repeating the Habit, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

2004    Break the Charm, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

2001    What Was the Question Again?, IUN Gallery for Contemporary Art, Indiana University Northwest, Gary IN

2000    What Was the Question?, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago

1996    Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago

1994    Soundings, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago

1992    Living with Memorabilia, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago

1991    Mary Lou Zelazny: Solo Series, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL

1990    Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago

1988    History of Tools, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago

1987    Peter Miller Gallery

1986    Peter Miller Gallery

1984    Famous Women and Interesting Men, Bookspace, Chicago

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2006    Creative Imagining, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection, The Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile AL

            Putting it All Together, The Art of Collage, Hinsdale Center for the Arts, Hinsdale, IL

2005    All About Women, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

2004    The Flat-Round World, Three Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago

            The Reflected/Refracted Self. Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

            Hard Candy, Sextablos, Works on Metal, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

            Time Travel: Truth, Beauty, and Justice,  Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

2003    Emergence: Women Artists in the New Millennium, William Bachman Gallery, Munster, IN

            Color and Form, Forum  Plus Gallery, Chicago

2002    Transcultural Visions: Polish-American Contemporary Art, National Museum of Szczecin, Poland

            Natural History, Aaron Packer Gallery, Chicago

            Evoking Histories/Memory of Water: Spoleto 2002, curated by Mary Jane Jacob and Tumelo Musako, Charleston, SC

            Pasted On, A Survey of Collage Strategies, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago

2001    Reflections: Fifteenth Anniversary Show, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago

            Transcultural Visions: Polish-American Contemporary Art, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

2000    Synthesis, Collage and Mixed Media, Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL

            Sextablos, Works on Metal, Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1999    It Looks Easy, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago

            Collage '99, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA

            Sextablos, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

1998    The Velvet Show, Café Bocci, Chicago

1997    Breadth of Aesthetic, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago

            Pink, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago

1996    International Exhibit of Collage, Parkland College, Champaign, IL

            Revelries, Ford Center for the Arts, Knox College, Galesburg, IL

            Visual Feasting, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL

            Views of a Lady, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York City

            Pleasure (Beyond Guilt), Artemesia Gallery, Chicago

            Selected Works in Collage, Merwyn-Wakeley Galleries, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL

1995    Some New Faces, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago

            Art About Life: Contemporary American Culture, Indiana University Fine Arts Gallery, Bloomington, IN (catalog)

1994    Something in Common, The Women Faculty in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Artemisia
            Gallery, Chicago (catalog)

1993    A(t)Tension to the Moment, Bowling Green State University College of Musical Arts, Fine Arts Center, Bowling Green, OH
            (catalog)

            Chicago Drawings, Galleria Porta 33, Madeira, Portugal

            The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York City

            Chicago Art Group in Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany (catalog)

            Garment as Metaphor, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL

            Collages: Faulkner, Sensemann, Zelazny, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago

1992    Quotations from America's Studio: Drawing New Conclusions, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
            (catalog)

            Face to Face, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago (catalog)

1991    Spirited Visions: Protraits of Chicago Artists, State of Illinois Gallery Chicago (traveling-1993) (catalog)

1990    The Chicago Show, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago (catalog)

            Indianapolis Collects,  Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, IN

            Our Corner of the World: Seventeen Illinois Artists, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL (catalog)

1989    Material Matters, College of DuPage Arts Center Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL

            Chicago Artists in the European Tradition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (catalog)

1988    Endangered Species, Klein Gallery, Chicago

            Field and Seam, Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

            Only a Woman Could, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago

            The Truncated Figure, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago

1987    Egg Tempera: Archaic Methods/Modern Minds, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago

            Masks, Klein Gallery, Chicago

            Artagogo, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

            Surfaces: Two Decades of Painting in Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago (catalog)

            Endsville, 1480 W. Webster, Chicago

1986    New Horizons in Art, 1986, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago

            Self-Protraits: Then or Now, ARC Gallery, Chicago (catalog)

1985    Mary Lou Zelazny, Andre Ferella, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago

            UNScene, ARC Gallery, Chicago

            14th Union League Art Competition and Exhibition, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago

1984    Chicago Head, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago

1983    The Big Pitcher: 20 years of the Abstracted Figure in Chicago Art, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (catalog)

            Sex Show, The Northside Auditorium Building, Chicago

1981    Some Girls, A Celebration of Chicago Women Artists, The Donahue Building, Chicago

 

Visiting Artist:

2004    Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

2002    Williams College, Art Department, Williamstown, MA

1998    University of Iowa, School of Art and Architecture, Iowa City, IA

1996    DePaul University, Department of Fine Art, Chicago

1994    Columbia College, Department of Art, Chicago

1992    Northwestern University, Department of Art, Evanston IL

            Oxbow, Saugatuck, MI

1989    Rockford College, Department of Art, Rockford, IL

 

Public Commissions:

2006    McCormick Place Expansion Project, Chicago

 

Awards and Fellowships:

2003    Margaret Klimek Phillips Fellowship

1998    Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1992    Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Arts Fellowship Award

1986    Dorland Mountain Colony Residency

 

Selected Collections:

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

First Chicago Bank, Chicago

Kemper National Insurance Companies

Nagin and Associates, Miami, FL

Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ

Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL

Weichman and Associates, Munster, IN

 

Bibliography:

Zelazny's Work Has Come a Very Long Way, Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune, December 2003

Mary Lou Zelazny, Fred Camper, Chicago Reader, December 2003

New American Paintings, Number 35, 2001

New American Paintings, Number 11, 1997

Superior and Huron Bring on a New Season with Style, Margaret Hawkins, Chicago Sun Times, September 1996

Mary Lou Zelazny,  Thomas Connors, New Art Examiner, 1996

Art Exhibition Explores Metaphorical Works of Four Contemporary Collage Artists, Gisele Atterberry, News Gazette, Champaign, IL, 1996

Dedicated to Paint, Mary Jane Jacob, Something in Common (catalog), 1994

Zelazny Takes Giant Step with Latest Show, Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune,  September 1994

A(T)Tension to the Moment, Jacqueline Nathan (catalog), Bowling Green State University, OH, 1993

Artists Take Collage on a Joyride of Perspectives, David McCracken, Chicago Tribune, April 1993

The Best Art Exhibitions, Alan Artner and David McCracken, Chicago Tribune, December 1992

Mary Lou Zelazny,  Kathryn Hixson, Flash Art, Summer 1992

Art People: Mary Lou Zelazny's Feminine Perspective, Judith Lin Eftekhar, Chicago Reader, March 1992

Zelazny Seamlessly Blends Collage, Paint. David McCracken, Chicago Tribune, March 1992

Face to Face, A Chance to Meet 80 Chicago Artists as They See Themselves on Canvas, Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune, March 1992

Mary Lou Zelazny,  James Yood, Art Forum, Summer 1992

Spirited Visions, Portraits of Chicago Artists, photographs by Patty Carrol, text by James Yood. University of Illinois Press, 1991

Rockford Art Museum Keeps Contemporary, Cindy Kranz, Rockford Register, September 1991

Mary Lou Zelazny, Kathryn Hixson, Arts Magazine, April 1990

Artist's Latest Works Show She's Joined the Major Leagues, Gordon Ligocki, The Hammond Times, January 1990

Mary Lou Zelazny, Garrett Holg, Art News, April 1990

Our Corner of the World, Laurie Dahlberg, catalog, Illinois State University 1989

The Persistence of Modernism, Lynn Warren, catalog, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, 1989

Mary Lou Zelazny, Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune, September 1998

Mary Lou Zelazny, Jeff Abell, New Art Examiner, December 1998

Mary Lou Zelazny,  Buzz Spector, Art Forum, February 1988

Collage's Pictorial Variations on a Theme, David McCracken, Chicago Tribune, March 1988

Mary Lou Zelazny at Peter Miller, Sue Taylor, Art in America, January 1988

Surfaces, Two Decades of Painting in Chicago, Seventies and Eighties, Judith Krishner, catalog. Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, 1987

Two Decades of Painting in Chicago, Denis Adrian, New Art Examiner, December 1987

Review, Garrett Hold, New Art Examiner, September 1986

Collages Depict Us as Seekers of Goods, Sue Taylor, Chicago Sun Times, July 1986

The Big Pitcher: 20 Years of Abstracted Figure in Chicago Art, catalog, 1983