Steven Skinner Watercolors
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Education:
1977 - 1981 |
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA,
Oil painting, watercolor painting, drawing, figure drawing,
lithography, photomechanical lithography, intaglio, metal sculpture, Chicago, IL
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Teaching Positions:
2007 - 2009 |
Adjunct Professor, Fundamental Drawing, Watercolor Studio, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, IN
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1997 - 2007 |
Adjunct Professor, Beginning Drawing, Drawing II, Beginning Oil Painting, Watercolor Studio, Beginning Lithography, Fine Art Department, School of Art & Design, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
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2006 |
Adjunct Professor, Italian Architecture and Landscapes in Watercolor, Florence Italy, Fine Art Department, School of Art & Design, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
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2004
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Co-Lead Artist, Painting, watercolor painting, printmaking, Gallery 37, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
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1999 - 2003
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Co-Lead Artist, Architectual Watercolors, Interior Architecture Department, School of the Art Insititute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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2002
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Assistant Artist, Water Soluable Printmaking, Gallery 37 and Anchor Graphics, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
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Affiliations:
Present
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Owner and Artist, BlackTree Studio Pottery, New Carlisle, IN
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2008 & 2009
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Gallery Director, Raclin School of the Arts Gallery , University of Indiana South Bend, South Bend, IN
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2008 & 2009
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Juror, Scholastic Art Awards, South Bend, IN
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2002
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Co-Curator Hollis Sigler Alumni Exhibit, Hollis Sigler Memorial Fund Exhibition, Fine Art Department, School of Art & Design, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
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1997, 1998
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Curator, Auction Committee Member, Inspiration Cafe, Chicago, IL
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1996 - 1999
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Studio Arts Technician, Fine Art Department, School of Art & Design, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
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1996 - 1998
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Arts Review Panelist, Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP), Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
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Representation:
1990 - 1992 | Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
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1994 - 2000 | Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
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Exhibits:
2009
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2 person Show, Watercolors & Ceramics, Lubeznik Art Center, Michigan City, IN
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2008
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2008 Rockford Midwestern Exhibition, Curator Robert McCauley, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
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Memento Mori, The F.U.E.L. Collection, Curator Katerina Lydon-Warner, Philadelphia, PA
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Focus Midwest, Midwest Museum of Contemporary Art (MiCo), Curator Scott Grow, Indianapolis, IN
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2007
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Solo Exhibition, "Little Things", South Bend Regional Musueum of Art, Curator Jason Lahr, South Bend, IN
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16th Annual National Exhibition, Art Institute & Gallery, Salisbury, MD
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2006
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49th Annual Chautautqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Institution
Juror: Louis Grachos, Director of the Albright Knox Museum of Art, Chautauqua, NY
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20" x 20" x 20" Compact Competition, Juror: Tara McDowell, Associate Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LSU Union Art Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
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2006 Biennial: Contemporary American Realism, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
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2005
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23rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Pleiades Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Juror: Jordan Kantor, Assistant Curator The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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Juror’s Award, Berkeley Art Center Association’s 22nd Annual National Juried Exhibition, Jurors: Karen Breuer, Curator of Contemporary Graphic Art at the Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco, & Donald Farnsworth, artist and Director of Magnolia Editions, Berkeley, CA
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American Drawing Biennial 8, The Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William and Mary,
Juror: Phyllis Rosenzweig, Curator Works on Paper, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Williamsburg, VA
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Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, Curator Joseph Thompson, MASS MoCA, Cambridge, MA
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Landscapes Varied Views, APEX Gallery, Washington, DC
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2004
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The Drawing Center, Slide Library, Luis Camnitzer Viewing Program Curator, New York, NY
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All Media Juried Exhibition, APEX Gallery, Washington, DC
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22nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Pleiades Gallery of Contemporary Art, Curator Tracey Bashkoff, Associate Curator for Collections & Exhibitions Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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NJCVA International Juried show, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
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2nd Annual All Media Show, Artists Museum, Washington, DC
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2003
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Options, Proposed work for the corporate collection, The IL Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
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46th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY
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Westmoreland Art Nationals, Youngwood, PA
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Living Art, Gallery 37, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago, IL
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2002
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Drawing/Watercolor: Illinios, 14th Biennial Exhibition, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinios University, Charleston, IL
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Hollis Sigler Memorial Fund Exhibition, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
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2001
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Columbian Art Exposition, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
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2000
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First Works, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Group Show, Arts & Riverwoods, Riverwood, IL
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The Chicago Art Open, Chicago Artists´ Coalition, Chicago, IL
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1997
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Group Show, Part Time Faculty, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Group Show, Shrines, A Photography Show, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Group Show, Chicago Places + Spaces, Coyote Gallery, Chicago, IL
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ARC Regional IV Competition, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
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1996 - 2003
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Curator´s Choice, Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL
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1995 - 2003
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Group Shows, Wishing You Were Here, Small Works, Small Packages I & II, Artists´ Kites, Personal Works, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
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1996
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Agora Gallery, SOHO, New York, NY
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Solo show, Triangle Association Gallery, Chicago, IL
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Group show, Agora Gallery, SOHO, New York, NY
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1994
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Solo show, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
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1990
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Group show, University Club, Chicago, IL
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1983
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Solo show, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Group show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
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Publications:
2006
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Watercolor Magic, October issue, F& W Publications, Inc., Cincinnati, OH
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2005
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Design & Architecture Magazine, May/June, Chicago, IL
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2000
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Art Crowd Magazine, Fall issue, NY
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Manhattan Arts International Magazine, New York, NY
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1995
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Open Studios, New American Paintings, A Quarterly
Exhibition
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1993
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Chicago Office, The 1993 Publication of the Building Owners, Chicago, IL
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