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MARK OTTENS

MARK OTTENS

EDUCATION

1995                M.F.A. University of Illinois at Chicago

1992                B.F.A. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.                    

Received Edward L. Ryerson Traveling Fellowship

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

1999                                "Recent Paintings," Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1995                "Two Ox Cart," Brasil Gallery, Houston, TX

1993                                "Halfway Home," Betty Clark Cannon Gallery, Muskegon, MI

1992                                "Fastigium," Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

"Recent Paintings," Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2002                                “Pasted On: A Survey of Collage Strategies”, Carl Hammer Gallery,

Chicago, IL

Joymore Gallery, Chicago, IL              

2000                "Shake the Coat,"  North Park University, Chicago, IL             

Group Show, Lead Gallery, Seattle, WA

                        "Quilt," North Park University, Chicago, IL

                        "Figure This," Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

                        "Exquisite Corpse," Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL

1999                                "Countdown," Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA

"It Looks Easy," Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago, IL

Group Show, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

                        "Figure 99," Earthworks Gallery, Chicago, IL

1998                                "Homegrown Cool: Recent Painting from Chicago," Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC

1997                "Young and/or Restless," Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL       

                          "Post Pop, Post Pictures," Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

1996                "Face Lift," Optimus, Chicago, IL

Group Show, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL

1995                Group Show, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL

"Skew: The Unruly Grid," Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago, IL

"Clown," Kozuch Gallery, Chicago, IL

1993                                "Regional  66," Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI

"18^th Biennial Regional Art Exhibition," South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN

"Paper Trails: The Eidetic Image," Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL

"Within and Without," Center Gallery, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI

1992                                Group Show, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL

"New Talent," Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL

The images are culled from obscure sources.
They are little known, long ago abandoned,
and almost or certainly forgotten. Orphaned,
I gather them in, and give to them new
positions of significance and belonging by
arranging them in various familial gatherings
and situations.
The images themselves are silent, talking
almost about nothing. By bringing them
together and recontextualizing them, that
nothing may become something. Something that
has not quite been before. A language is
created. And although it cannot be read, it
can just almost be understood.

 

                                                            Mark Ottens


 

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