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UPCOMING EVENTS
Tethered to My Word, Contemporary Figure Painting: Location, Chicago
An exhibition organized by Phyllis Bramson that deals with contemporary figuration in all forms, chosen from Chicago painters or artists who regularly show in Chicago. Continuing the tradition of using the figure, that began with Ivan Albright, Seymour Rosofsky, early Ellen Lanyon, Leon Golub and Peter Saul, among others showing earlier in Chicago. Each of these artists require the figure as a reference, to chart or map the human condition, always looking for a personal connection. Often presenting multilayered situations that can induce many narrative interpretations, the work in the exhibition may walk along various lines between heartfelt sentiment, irreverence and satire. Artists included in the exhibition: Nicholas Africano, Scott Anderson, Phyllis Bramson, Peter Drake, Julie Farstad, Andreas Fischer, Vernon Fisher, Anne Harris, Ellen Lanyon, Judith Raphael, Adam Scott, David Sharpe, Elizabeth Shreve, Caleb Weintrub, Karl Wirsum and Kevin Wolff.
The Art Center in Highland Park | 1957 Sheridan Rd. | Highland Park, IL
September 3–October 1, 2010
Opening Reception: September 11, 2010, 6–9 pm
Chicago Imagism(s)
The exhibition will include approximately 12 artists representing both the founding generations of Imagism and those whose work can broadly be seen in various ways as extending that tradition today. Curated by James Yood.
Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose State University in California
One Washington Square, San Jose, CA
November 16–December 17, 2010.
Henry Darger: Intersections with Contemporary Art
A two-part conference session during College Art Association's Annual Conference in New York City. Bramson will present "Perspective of a Practitioner."
American Folk Art Museum | 45 W. 53rd St. | New York
February 11, 2011, 9:30 am–noon
February 12, 2011, 9:30 am–noon.
recent ExhibitionS
Then is Now
Two-person Exhibition: Phyllis Bramson and Judith Geichman
March 20–April 24, 2010
Carrie Secrist Gallery | 835 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago | www.secristgallery.com
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recent NEWS
Awarded an Anonymous Was a Woman Grant for 2009
Anonymous Was a Woman is a grant program focused on supporting individual women artists. The phrase is taken from A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf’s classic statement of the challenges facing women seeking to create art. With these four words, Woolf succinctly and powerfully evoked the centuries-long struggle of women to gain recognition as artists. Yet there is much more to this innovative grant program than its thought-provoking name. Anonymous Was a Woman was created to fill a national need. In 1995, the National Endowment for the Arts, under intense political pressure, discontinued funding individual artists. This galvanized an unnamed woman artist in New York to take action. “It was obvious there was a need for more private support,” she later wrote. So she used her personal funds to help fill that void. Since 1996, Anonymous Was a Woman has awarded ten grants of $25,000 each per year, except one year when eleven were given. The purpose is to support women visual artists over the age of 45 who are at a critical juncture in their lives or careers. The overriding purpose of the grants is to allow artists to pursue their work. Read more about this organization at their website, www.philanthropyadvisorsny.org
Distinguished Alumni Award
The School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has instituted the Distinguished Alumni Award to be given to past alums based on their accomplishments to their field and community. Bramson was selected by the faculty to be one of their first celebrated alums. This award will be presented at a reception for alumni during the CAA's conference held in Chicago, in February 2010. |
