Hollis Sigler
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Her Lips are Two Roses, Her Teeth are Pearls, and Her Eyes are the Stars on a Clear Frosty Night 1989 Oil on canvas 79 x 103 inches HS 9 |
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She Always Thought She Was Wrong 1982 Lithograph Edition: 7/35 21 x 25 inches with artist made frame HS 31 . |
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But Maybe it is Also About What We Don't Eat Oil on canvas with painted frame 32 x 36 inches HS 61 (to be sold as set with HS 62) . |
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I've Always Heard, We are What We Eat 1995 Oil on canvas with painted frame 32 x 35 inches HS 62 (to be sold as set with HS 61) |
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My Body is No Longer a Temple 1995 Oil on canvas with painted frame 32 x 36 inches HS 63 |
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Renewed Hope of Recovery Fill Her Thoughts Every Day 1998 Oil, pastel on paper with painted frame 24 x 29 inches HS 64 |
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And Peace on Earth, Goodwill Towards Men 2000 Oil on canvas 78 x 102 inches 6 ½ x 8 ½ feet (framed) HS 67 . |
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Good Time Just Passing Through 1983 Oil on canvas with painted frame 61 ¼ x 61 ½ inches HS 69 |
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Handel's Messiah Series 2001 Oil on canvas 72 x 96 inches HS 68 |
Hudson Hills Press to Publish Unique Journal
Of Beautiful and Moving Paintings
Documenting Artist's Struggle with Disease
Hollis Sigler's Breast Cancer Journal
"Sigler's entire career has been a testament to the communicative graces of art,
and in the Breast Cancer Journal she reminds us
that art can accomplish this in a way that nothing else can,
and that sometimes, preciously and rarely, it will do very much more.
Sometimes art can be a matter of life and death." - James Yood
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Hollis Sigler, a leading feminist artist, was diagnosed in 1985 with breast cancer, a disease that had also stricken her mother and great-grandmother. After it recurred, she began a pictorial journal, now encompassing more than one hundred works. Art in America magazine called Sigler's Breast Cancer Journal "one of contemporary art's richest and most poignant treatments of sickness and health… Taking on a kind of religious conviction, her jewel-colored symbols imbue a death-haunted situation with miraculous, celebratory life." These works- and the commentaries that the artist inscribed on many of them- combine personal experience with family history, medical statistics, and political consciousness raising. This inspiring volume brings together the sixty finest works from the Breast Cancer Journal in full-color reproductions- paintings, drawings, prints, watercolors, and cut-paper pieces- each accompanied by the artist's commentaries. Dr. Susan M. Love, a leading authority on breast cancer, discusses the importance of Sigler's art as a document on the disease's personal impact. "Hollis Sigler gives a voice to the woman struggling with the reality of breast cancer- not the ever-happy face the public wants to see, but the real face of a woman living with a chronic and potentially life-threatening disease. It is this reality that makes her art so difficult for many women to face, and it is this reality that also makes it so powerful." James Yood recounts the aesthetic trajectory of Sigler's career, and of the Breast Cancer Journal in particular, drawing parallels with Frida Kahlo, another artist whose life and work were significantly affected by a medical condition. He is also "reminded of late works by Rembrandt or Pablo Picasso or Ivan Albright, when these artists looked squarely in the face of their death." He writes of Sigler: "In work after work she explores what it means to love, to enjoy small pleasures, to consider both the wonder and the ambiguities of human relationships, and to inventory the thousand tender wounds of intimacy… Sigler's images, with their titles often scrawled across them, constitute a corpus of work revealing the possibilities for a genre painting of the human spirit at the end of the twentieth century." Sigler herself, in an essay titled "To Kiss the Spirits," writes of her life as a woman, as a lesbian, as an artist, as a person with breast cancer, and as a breast cancer activist, also relating the history of various art projects and exhibitions that culminated in her Breast Cancer Journal, a project undertaken with the hope that "the work would thus gain the power to destroy the silence surrounding the disease." She also discusses many metaphoric images that appear and reappear in the work, such as the vanity and its mirror, a dead and broken tree, her mother's dress, and the Winged Victory of Samothrace. The titles of the paintings alone provide a poignant glimpse into the mind and spirit of this remarkable artist:
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The Illusion Was to Think She Had Any Control over Her Life
Trying to Maintain an Air of Normalcy
The Future Moves in Much Closer
What Does the Lady Do with Her Rage?
Following the Ghosts of Our Grandmothers into the Future
In Spite of All, She Rises in the Morning with Joy in Her Heart
Wishing She Could Take a Vacation from Her Disease
It Starts with One Errant Cell
A Wish to Touch the Sky
In the Unfolding of Life, Every Minute Is Precious
She Had No More Room for Sorrow
We Have Sold Our Souls to the Devil
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Hollis Sigler’s Breast Cancer Journal is a beautiful art book and a unique testament to the human spirit, a fundamental affirmation of the possibilities of life discovered in the midst of agony and loss. To be published during National Breast Cancer Month, October 1999, it is the artist’s gift to all whose lives have been touched by this disease.
Dr. Susan M. Love is the bestselling author of Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book (Addison Wesley, 1990/1995) and Dr. Susan Love’s Hormone Book (Random House, 1997). A breast cancer surgeon, researcher, scholar, teacher, and activist, she studies and taught at Harvard Medical School before moving to the U.C.L.A. School of Medicine. She is also Medical Director of the Santa Barbara Breast Cancer Institute and one of the founders of the National Breast Cancer Coalition. She has been appointed to the National Cancer Advisory Board.
James Yood, born in Elizabeth, N.J., studied at the Universities of Wisconsin (B.A.) and Chicago (M.A., Ph.D. candidate). He teaches at Northwestern University in Chicago and is the author of many books on Chicago art and artists.
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Published by Hudson Hills Press
Hardcover: Retail price $45; ISBN 1-55595-175-9
Paperback: Retail price $25; ISBN 1-55595-176-7
Library of Congress Number 99-32014; CIP
96 pages; 9 x 12 inches, 60 colorplates, 1 black-and-white portrait of the artist
Like all Hudson Hills Press books, this fine volume is printed on permanent alkaline paper.
Tending the Garden
“In the face of terminal illness, those afflicted have been known to do extraordinary things. While compelled to cope with the physical effects of disease, many artists, writers, and performers have created works directly related to or informed by illness. Confronted with a new identity and status as ‘sick person,’ they have questioned the meaning of life, fate, and destiny or addressed social and political issues surrounding their illness. An energy and freedom seem to follow the diagnosis of a disease that will remain with a person for the rest of her life. Hollis Sigler’s Breast Cancer Journal is a public acknowledgement of her longtime battle with breast cancer. First diagnosed in 1985, Sigler was told seven years later that the cancer had metastasized to her bones. Responding to the disease’s permanence, it seemed natural, unavoidable, to incorporate breast cancer into her art. Since the mid-1970’s, Sigler’s continuing pictorial diary of confessional paintings and drawings has revealed her desires and fantasies, as well as her fears and sorrows. Rendered with a vibrant palette and a childlike simplicity, her fictional spaces scattered with personal effects symbolize complex and intense emotional states. Though Sigler continues to employ her vigorous yet delicate style, the content of her works shifted dramatically when she found the cancer had spread. Accepting her social responsibility as an artist, she decided to incorporate the ‘cause’ into her work. “ - Stacy Boris
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Born 1948, Gary, Indiana
Resides in Prairie View, Illinois
EDUCATION
1966-70 Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, BFA
1968-69 Junior Year Abroad: Florence, Italy
1971-73 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA
ACADEMIC POSITION
1978-Present Faculty, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
GRANTS
1987 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Fellowship Grant
1986 Illinois Arts Council, Individual Artist's Grant
Illinois Arts Council, Chairman's Grant
1973 Ann Louis Raymond Traveling Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago, IL
AWARDS
1994 Honorary Doctorate from Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1988 Childe Hassam Purchase Award, American Academy and Institute of Arts
and Letters, New York, NY
1987 Awards in the Visual Arts 6, traveling exhibition and $15,000 award
sponsored by the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1984 Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Prize for Painting, Chicago and Vicinity
Show, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1980 Emilie L. Wild Prize for Painting, Chicago and Vicinity Show, The Art
Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1977 Golden Heritage Award, Rocky Mountain National Watermedia
Exhibition, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO
1976 First Prize for Watercolor, Union League Club of Club of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
(*Asterisk denotes exhibition accompanied by a catalogue)
1998 Dancing on Death’s Door, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Being on the Edge of Hope, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces,
NM
Hollis Sigler, Goshen College Art Gallery, Goshen, IN
1998 Hollis Sigler/New Work, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1997 Hollis Sigler/Prints, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, Madison, WI
1996 Making a Deal With The Devil, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Early Drawings, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Etiquette For Dying, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
To Deal With the Devil: A Breast Cancer Journal, The Arkansas Art
Center, Little Rock, AK
1995 In the Palace of Passion, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Tending the Garden, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Causes and Cures, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Dancing on the Edge, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
Working Towards Paradise, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
1994 Selected Works, Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
1994Words Against the Shifting Seasons, Columbia College Art Gallery,
Chicago, IL (accompanied by artist book Words Against the Shifting Seasons: Women Speak of Breast Cancer, collected writings edited by Whitney Scott, illustrated by H. Sigler)
Not Many Rest Stops, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
The Breast Cancer Journal, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL,
catalogue essay by Staci Boris*
Hartmann Center Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
1993 New Drawings Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993Breast Cancer Journal: Walking with the Ghosts of My Grandmothers,
Rockford College Art Gallery, Rockford, IL.* Traveled to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, catalogue essay by Debora Duez Donato
New Work, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1992 Priebe Art Gallery, The University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI
Breast Cancer Journal: Walking with the Ghosts of My Grandmothers,
Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Meditations on Maia and other works, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991 Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
New Drawings and Important Works of the Eighties, Steven Scott Gallery,
Baltimore, MD
1989 The Angry Heart, Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, TX
New Monotypes, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Paintings, Drawings and Prints: 1976-1986, Chicago Public Library
Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985 Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, catalogue essay by Barbara Tannebaum*
1985Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1983 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY.
1983Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1982 A Journey to Somewhere from Nowhere, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New
York, NY; University of South Florida at Tampa, FL, brochure essay by Alan Schwartzman*
1981 Poisoned, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY; Okun-Thomas
Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Incantations, Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1980 Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1998 Politically Direct, McClean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
1997 Not Renoir, Sonnenschein Gallery, Durand Institute, Lake Forest College,
Lake Forest, IL
A Game of Chance, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL, Susan Cummins
Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
The Nature of Intimacy, Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Richard Levy’s Smallest Show on Earth, Richard Levy Gallery,
Alburquerque, NM
The Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
The Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, North Carolina
Envisioning the Contemporary: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Not so Still Life, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
The Clothes Show: Objects for and About Clothes, Center Galleries,
Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Figuratively Speaking, Hartmann Center Gallery, Bradley University,
Peoria, IL
Preserving the Past, Securing the Future: Donations of Art 1987-1997,
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Vistas: Dramatic Landscapes by Gallery Artists, Steven Scott Gallery,
Baltimore, MD
In Bloom, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Portfolio 97, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Small Works: Part I, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
Tools as Art II, Exploring Metaphor, The Hetchinger Collection, National
Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
New Prints, Tamarind Workshop and Gallery, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM
1997 In the Image of Women, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Healing Legacies: Surviving Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL
Art That Heals, Metro State College of Denver Center for the Visual Arts,
Denver, CO
1996 Women of the Chicago Imagist Movement, Rockford Art Museum,
Rockford, IL*, Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Angels, Cherubs and Putti: The Artist’s Muses, The Noyes Museum,
Oceanville, NJ
Drawing in Chicago Now: Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago, IL;
Koehnline Visual Arts Center, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
Narrative Flow: A Multimedia Exhibition of Art That Tells Stories: The
Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts
Witness for Healing, Hicks Art Center, Bucks County Community
College, Newton, PA
Art in Chicago, 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL*
Self-Portraits 1996, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
Watershed: Water, Water Everywhere…, The Minnesota Museum of
American Art, St. Paul, MN
Intimate Views: Landscapes on Paper, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore,
MD
Fire and Light, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Generations: Chicago Prints and Printmakers, Suburban Fine Arts
Center, Highland Park, IL
Contemporary Printmaking in America: Collaborative Prints and Presses,
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1995 Contemporary Art by Indiana Artists, Indianapolis Museum of Art-
Columbus Gallery, Columbus, IN
A Distant Grace: Before, After and During Breast Cancer, Boulder
Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO; The Firehouse Gallery, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY; Dana Bleff Gallery, New York, NY
The Arts in Healing, Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH*
Love Flight of A Pink Candy Heart: A Compliment to Florine Stettheimer,
Holly Soloman Gallery, New York, NY*
Women in Print: Prints from 3M by Contemporary Women Printmakers,
The Concourse Gallery, St. Paul, MI, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX
Pulp Fictions: Works on Paper, Gallery A, Chicago, IL
The Printers Art, Hui No’eau Visual Arts Center, Maui, HA
Regarding Women, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1995 Transparent Motives: Prints from Glass Plates, New Orleans Museum of
Art, New Orleans, LA; Louisiana State University Union Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
Midwest Arts - Poland, Galleria, Sztuki Wspolczesnej, Olstyn, Poland
Gallery Artists; Works on Paper, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
A Distant Grace: Before, During and After Breast Cancer, Dana Bieff Gallery, New York, NY
Glass As Matrix, Central Piedmont Community College Art Gallery,
Charlotte, NC
Printmaking in America: Collaborative Prints and Presses, University,
Evanston, IL
Tamarind: Into the Nineties, traveling exhibition initiated by
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Chicago Imagism: A 25 Year Survey, Davenport Museum of Art,
Davenport, Iowa
Art About Life: Contemporary American Culture, Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN
1994 Luminous Impressions: Vitreographs from Littleton Studios, The North
Star and Anderson Gallery, Wilson, NC
Contemporary Works on Paper from the Collection, National Museum of
Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
The Printer’s Art: Works from the Shark’s Inc., Print Workshop, The
Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Ten Artists View Place, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Growing Up Female, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
Nocturnes, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
Expressive Brushwork, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Small Details: Intimate Images Through Artists Eyes, Lakeview Museum
of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL.
Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and Healing, Decordova Museum and
Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA.
One In Eight: Women and Breast Cancer, Santa Monica College Art
Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Home Girls: Art of Women from Six Cultures, Beacon Street Gallery,
Chicago, IL
1993 Summer Skies, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
The Print and Drawing Society 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Baltimore,
Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
WOMAN: To the Third Power, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Memories, Milestones & Miracles, Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa
Ana, CA
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1993 Hollis Sigler/Jane Marshall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,
MI
The Chicago Invitational, Union League Club of Chicago
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago
Place, Illinois State Museum, Lockport Gallery, Lockport, IL
The Art of Etching, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Art About Art, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
A Loose Form of Narrative, Gallery A, Chicago, IL
A Few Words, Quartet Editions, New York, NY
By the Sea, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Magnifico, exhibition of Tamarind Institute's lithographs, Albuquerque
Festival of the Arts, Albuquerque, NM
1992 Interiors, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1992Vitreographs: Collaborative Works from the Littleton Museum,
Chattanooga, TN
In Celebration of Women: An Exhibition of Outstanding Women Artists of Illinois, David Adler Cultural Center, Libertyville, IL
Face To Face: Self-Portraits by Chicago Artists, Chicago Cultural Center,
Chicago, IL
Environmental Terror, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD; Frostburg State University, Main Street Gallery, Richmond, VA*
Lasting Impressions, Seven Lithographers, Steven Scott Gallery,
Baltimore, MD
1991 A Chicago Sampler: New Work by 21 Chicago Artists, Kansas State
University Union Art Gallery, KS
Philadelphia Juvenilia, The Art of Future Past, Levy Gallery for the Arts
in Philadelphia, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers, Lang Communications
Corporate Collection; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; exhibition traveled to: Madison, Atlanta, Youngstown, Kansas City, Wichita, Portsmouth and Joplin through 1994, essays by Trudy Victoria Hansen and Eleanor Hartney*
Human, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL.
Home, Sweet Home, The Columbia College Art Gallery, IL.
The Printed Landscape, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Into the Forest, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Kadaj, Parks, Sigler, Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies,
Detroit, MI
Summer Pleasures, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1991 Silent Interiors, Inaugural Exhibition, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle;
WA Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1990 Bathers: Contemporary Images of Summer Idyll, Louisville Visual Art
Association, Louisville, KY
In the Garden, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1990 Drawing Invitational: 29 Chicago Artists, Sarah Spurgeon
Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburgh, WA
Inside/Outside: Three Approaches to the Figure, Munson-Williams-
Proctor Institute, Utica, NY*
Iconic Image, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Reflections and Mirror Images, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1989 At the Table, Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH, brochure essay by Abby
Schwartz*
Chicago Works: Art from the Windy City, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Lines of Vision: One Hundred Drawings by Women, Hillwood Art
Gallery, Island University; Blum Helman Warehouse, NY*
Three Contemporary Presses, Associated American Artists New York,
NY*
Group Exhibition, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
Land/Sea/Air: Recent Atmospheric Vistas, Steven Scott Gallery,
Baltimore, MD
Gallery Artists 1989, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Views from Within, Lockport Gallery, Illinois State Museum, Lockport,
IL, Art Gallery of the Illinois State, Springfield, IL
1988 Not So Naïve!: Six Women Artists, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1988 Art and the Law, Metro Toronto Convention Center, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada; Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; Anderson Gallery,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Rose Art Museum Brandeis University, Waltham, A.*
15th Anniversary Exhibition, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago,
Alice and Look Who Else, Through the Looking Glass, Bernice Steinbaum
Gallery, New York, NY
Good Painting: Contemporary Chicago Painters, State of Illinois Gallery,
State of Illinois Center, Chicago, IL, brochure essay by Deborah Donato*
The Developing Image: Continuity and Change in a Chicago Artistic
Tradition, Jonson Gallery of the University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, catalogue essay by Len Klekner*
Urban Concerns: Contemporary Artists look at the City, Evanston Art
Center, Evanston, IL
Welcome Back: Painting, Sculpture, and Works on Paper by
Contemporary Artists from Indiana, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, IN
1988 Nocturne: Portraying the Night, Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art
Institute, Kansas City, KS
Group Exhibition, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
Summer Preview, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Gallery Artists, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1987 Surfaces: Two Decades of Painting in Chicago, Terra Museum of
American Art, Chicago, IL catalogue essay by Judith Russi Kirshner*
Awards in the Visual Arts 6 Exhibition, Grey Art Gallery and Study
Center, New York University, New York, NY; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, Catalogue essay by Barry Schwabsky*
Urgent Messages, The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago,
IL, catalogue essay by Russell Bowman*
Word and Image: Selections from the Permanent Collection", Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL*
Architecture as a State of Mind, School #33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD,
brochure essay by Helen Glazer*
Luminous Impressions: Prints from Glass Plates, Mint Museum,
Charlotte, NC*
Cook-Out Exhibition, Glen Echo Gallery, Glen Echo, MD
A Telling Impulse, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1986 Intimate/Intimate, Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terra Haute,
IN
New Drawing, Gallery Association of New York State, Hamilton, New
York, NY*
Thirty-eight Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
The Contemporary Arts Center Biennial, Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati, OH; Cleveland Institute of Art, OH; Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, IN; Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI*
Symbolic Expressions: Five Women Artists, Summit Art Center, New Jersey, catalogue essay written by Nancy Cohen*
Prints from Glass, Western Carolina University Art Gallery, Cullowhee,
NC*
Sky Writing: Dimensions of a Transient Medium, City Museum of Kassel,
Germany
Midwest Places and People, The Centennial Hall Gallery, Augustana
College, Rock Island, IL
1985 Recent Acquisitions, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, DC
The 39th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting,
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1985 The Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston,
IL
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, catalogue essay by Lisa
Lyons*
The Chicago and Vicinity Show: Drawing, The Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
States of War, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, catalogue essay by Bruce
Guenther*
Space and Time, Experimental Prints, The Firehouse Gallery, Houston,
TX
Inside Places: Interior Spaces of the Mind and Eye, Noyes Museum,
Oceanville, NJ
Situations, The Museum of Modern Art, Art Lending Service, Freeport-
McMoran, Inc., New York, NY
1984 The Chicago and Vicinity Show, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Selections/Art Since 1945, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Domestic Tales, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA, catalogue essay by Helaine Posner*
Indiana Influence, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
New American Painting, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of
Texas at Austin*
El Arte Narrativo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S. Long Island City, New York, NY*
Visions of Childhood: A Contemporary Iconography, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, NY
A Celebration of Women Artists/ Part II: The Recent Generation, Sidney
Janis Gallery, New York, NY*
A Few Fears, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
The American Artist as Printmaker, The Brooklyn Museum, New York,
NY.*
Group Exhibition, Ohio University, Athens, OH
Alternative Spaces: A History in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, IL, Catalogue essay written by Lynne Warren*
1983 Chicago: Some Other Traditions, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI,
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln,
NB; Norman Mackensie Art Gallery, University of Houston, TX;
Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL; Anchorage Historical and
Fine Arts Museum, AS; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK,
catalogue essay by Dennis Adrian*
Inaugural Exhibition, Matthews Hamilton Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Clothes, The Museum of Modern Art, Art Lending Services, General
Electric, Bridgeport, CT
1983 Illumination, The Museum of Modern Art, Art Lending Services,
Freeport-McMoran, Inc., New York, NY
Looking at Women, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL*
Back to the U.S.A., Kunstmuseum, Luzern; Rheinshes Landesmuseum,
Bonn; Wurttembergiszher, Sustberein, Stutgart*
Sky Art: Paintings in the Air, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, CA
Personification, Joseph Carreiro Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art,
Boston, MA
A Love Story, Just Above Midtown, New York, NY
Contemporary Light, Katyrn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Eight Artists: The Anxious Edge, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,
MN, catalogue essay by Lisa Lyons*
Stroke/Line/Figure, Gimpel Fils, London, England*
Inside Spaces, The Museum of Modern Art, Art Lending Service, Dancer
Fitzgerald Sample, New York, NY.
Incidences and Events, Joseph Seagram and Sons, New York, NY
New Drawing in America: Part I, The Drawing Center, New York, NY;
Sutton Place Heritage Trust, London*
N.Y. New York Generation, Origrafica, Malmo, Sweden
Painting and Sculpture Today 1982, Indianapolis Museum of Art,
Indianapolis, IN*
1981 1981 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
NY
Seven Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, catalogue essay
by Lynne Warren*
Currents: A New Mannerism, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL;
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL*
Narratives, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York, NY
For Love and Money; Dealers Choice, Pratt Manhattan
50 Works of Art That Shouldn’t Leave Madison, Madison Art Center, WI
Summer Pleasures, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
1980 The Chicago and Vicinity Show, The Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL*
New Directions, Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
Renderings of the Modern Woman, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
Interiors, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Chicago Drawings, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Touch Me, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL, catalogue essay by Joanna
Frueh*
1979 Portraits, Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO
Chicago Alternatives, Herron Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington,
IN
Narrative Imagery, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1978 Works on Paper, 77th Exhibition, Chicago and Vicinity Show, The Art
Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL*
Chicago: Self-Portraits, Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago,
1977 American Drawings: New Directions, University of South Florida, Tampa,
FL
Lineup, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition, Foothills Art Center,
Golden, CO*
Strong Works, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Chicago and Vicinity Show, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL*
Personal Information, Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL
1976 Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis,
IN*
Paperworks, Soho 20 Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Scene, Deson-Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Union League Club, Chicago, IL
Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1975 Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Quincy College, Quincy, IL
One Illinois Center, Chicago, IL
Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
1974 Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1974Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago, IL
1973 Fellowship Show, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1973Chicago and Vicinity Show, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
SPECIAL PROJECTS
1997 Website: four works from Breast Cancer Journal included in The Breast
Cancer Answers Website sponsored by the California Public Health Foundation @http://www.canceranswers.org
Website: works from Breast Cancer Journal included in Society for Arts
Healthcare website @ wwww.societyforartshealthcare.org
1996 Print Publications: Shark’s Inc., Boulder, CO
Print Publications: Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
Print Publications: Madison Print Club, Madison, WI
Print Publications: Tandem Press, Madison, WI
1995 Print Publications: Shark's Inc., Boulder, CO
1994 The Polaroid Museum Replica Collection Hospital Tour of Hollis Sigler’s
Breast Cancer Journal: Walking with the Ghosts of My Grandmothers, traveling since 1994 to numerous hospitals throughout the U.S. (scheduled through 1997)
Print Publications: Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL
Print Publications: Shark's Inc., Boulder, CO
Print Publications: Cradle Oak Press, Peoria, IL
Print Publications: Red Cat Press, Chicago, IL
1993 Print Publications: Sharks, Inc., Boulder, CO
1992 Print
Publications: Sharks, Inc., Boulder, CO
1991 Chicago White Sox---Old Comiskey Park Seat Project, for The
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Set Design for In One Year and Out the Other, performed at Mordine and
Company Dance Theatre, The Dance Center at Columbia College,
Chicago, IL
Book Cover for Danish translation of Gabriella De Ferrari's novel A Cloud
On Sand, published by Roman Borgen, Valby, Denmark
Print Publications: Sharks, Inc., Boulder, CO
1990 Print Publications: Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
Print Publications: Topaz Editions, Tampa, FL
1988 Print Publications: Sharks, Inc., Boulder, CO
1986 Illustrations (including cover) for volume of poetry by Elaine Equi, The
Corners of the Mouth, Iridescence Publishers, Culver City, CA
Began series of quilts with Leah Isadore. Working title, The Story of Love First quilt exhibited in the Artist's Alternate Media, Northern Illinois
University Gallery, CHICAGO, IL
1985 Portrait of athlete Scott Fletcher. Baseball Card project for the
Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Print Publications: Harvey Littleton, Spruce Pine, NC; Sharks, Inc.,
Boulder, CO
1982 Print Publications: Vermillion, Minneapolis, MN
1981 Print Publications: Graphic Studio, Tampa, FL
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1996 Drawing: Space, Form & Expression, Second Edition, by Enstice &
Peters, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ
1994 The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the
1970's, History and Impact, edited by Norma Broude and Mary D.
Garrard, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York, NY
1994 Words Against the Shifting Seasons: Women Speak of Breast Cancer,
edited by Whitney Scott, illustrated by Hollis Sigler, published by Calhoun Press, Chicago, IL
1991 Spirited Visions: Portraits of Chicago Artists by Patty Carroll, text by
James Yood, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, IL
1989 Exposures, Women & Their Art, text by Betty Ann Brown & Arlene
Raven, NewSage Press, Pasadena, CA
1989 Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women, Hudson Hill Press,
New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Arthur Anderson, Inc., Chicago, IL
AT&T, Chicago, IL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bank of America Corporation, New York, NY
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Chicago Tribune Corporation, Chicago, IL
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
First Bank, Minneapolis, MN
First National Bank, Chicago, IL
Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, MO
Harold Washington Library, Chicago, IL
Hechinger Corporation, Landover, MD
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Kemper Group, Long Grove, IL
Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL
Lang Communications, New York, NY
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Principal Financial Group, Des Moines, IA
The Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, OH
Prudential, South Plainfield, NJ
Rivendell Foundation, Wyoming and New York
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, IL
Spencer Art Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
The State Department of the U.S., Washington, DC
The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, HA
3M Corporation, St. Paul, MN
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
University of New Mexico, University Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Zemmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ