BIO
Born: Story City, IA 1978
Current: Chicago, IL
“There is a silence from which it is not possible to speak….a lettering, I said, but before that..” - Nathalie Stephens – The sorrow and the fast of it.
"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."
Roland Barthes
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EDUCATION
2002-2005 MFA Painting, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL
1996-2001 BFA Drawing/Painting, Western Illinois University, Macomb IL
1996-2001 BS Psychology, Western Illinois University, Macomb IL
TEACHING
2005-2009 Sauk Valley Community College, Dixon IL
2008 Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL
2002-2005 Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2006-2009 Faculty Advisor – Honors Projects in Art – Sauk Valley Community College
2006-2007 Assistant Director – Nehring Gallery, DeKalb, IL
2006-2008 Faculty Advisor – Student Artists Guild – Sauk Valley Community College
2006 Drawing/Painting Curriculum Advisor – Sauk Valley Community College
2006 American Archives Project – Northern Illinois University
2002-2005 Graduate Assistant – Fine Arts Office – Northern Illinois University
2000 Volunteer – Artistic Pursuits Ltd. – Ottawa, IL
1999 Assistant Fine Art Slide Librarian – Western Illinois University, Macomb IL
EXHIBITIONS
2009 Self Portrait – Gallery 818 (solo) - Piraeus, Greece
2008 Arte Bogota 08 – Esta No Es Una Galeria (International) – Bogota, Columbia
2007 Recent Work – A.R. Wilson and S.M. Gorgas (2 person), EXP Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 10th Annual International Open – Woman Made Gallery - Chicago, IL
2006 S.Gorgas Recent Work (reading Kenneth Rexroth). (solo) Bad Dog Gallery, DeKalb, IL.
2006 Collaborations, Bad Dog Gallery, DeKalb, IL
2005 I’ll tell you. No, I’ll tell you nothing.(solo) Pleasant Street Galleries DeKalb, IL
2005 Oh the stories I could tell you if I were easy…(solo) Gallery 214 DeKalb, IL
2005 But ships are fallible I say (2 person), Bad Dog Gallery, DeKalb, IL
2005 Northern Illinois University School of Art MFA Exhibition 2005, NIU Art Museum Chicago, IL
2005 The Show, The House Café DeKalb, IL
2005 Graduate Group Exhibition, Jack Olson Gallery DeKalb, IL
2004 Collaboration, NIU Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Widespread Annex Group Exhibition, Bad Dog Gallery DeKalb, IL
2004 Multiplicity Gallery 9 Elmhurst, IL
2004 Cold Bad Dog Gallery DeKalb, IL
2004 ARS Nova Juried Exhibition (3rd place) Jack Olson Gallery DeKalb, IL
2004 Graduate Group Exhibition Jack Olson Gallery DeKalb, IL
2004 Graduate Buy the Foot II Glass Gallery DeKalb, IL
2003 Graduate Buy the Foot Graduate Gallery DeKalb, IL
2003 Graduate Group Exhibition Jack Olson Gallery DeKalb, IL
2003 Bad Dog Inaugural Exhibition, Bad Dog Gallery DeKalb, IL
2003 Women’s History Month Show DeKalb Area Women’s Center DeKalb, IL
2002 Collage/Montage/Assemblage (International), Stage Gallery - Merrick, NY
2001 Conterminous (solo) Western Illinois University Gallery Macomb, IL
CURATORAL
2009 Faculty Curatorial Advisor – Student Art Exhibition – Sauk Valley College
2008 Co-Curator To Poland and Back – the Nerhing Gallery DeKalb, IL
2007 Curator Training – Bad Dog Gallery, DeKalb, IL
2006 Curator The Show, The House, DeKalb, IL
2005 Co-Curator Graduate Group Exhibition, Jack Olson Gallery DeKalb, IL
2005 Co-Curator Open Studio – Arts Annex, DeKalb, IL
2004 Co-Curator Widespread Annex Group Exhibition, Bad Dog Gallery DeKalb, IL
2004 Co-Curator Open Studio – Arts Annex, DeKalb, IL
2003 Co- Curator Women’s History Month Show, DeKalb Area Women’s Center – DeKalb, IL
2003 Co-Curator Open Studio – Arts Annex, DeKalb, IL
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