EDUCATION top of page

1977

SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, Chicago, IL
Master of Fine Arts Painting & Drawing

1975

PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF ART, Philadelphia, PA (now known as University of the Arts)
Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting & Drawing

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS top of page

Nathan Cummings Foundation
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D C
Fogg Art Museum , Harvard University, Boston, Mass.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL
Ford Foundation
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D C
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D C
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Flash Artists' Book Collection, Chicago,
New York Public Library, Reserve Collection, NYC
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Rhode Island School of Design, Province, R I
Johann Deumens Archive, Heemsteede, The Nederlands
Garage Moderne, Paris, France
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
International Minerals & Chemicals, Chicago, IL
Westwood Management, CHICAGO, IL
llinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Bibliograph, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Salm Collection
Ellen and Richard Sandor
Francis and June Spizer
Larry Miller
Karen Indeck
Sandra and Michael Perlow
Donna and Howard Stone
Bernard
Jin Lee
Sarah Smelser and Johnathan Higgins
Jessica Swift

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS top of page

2005

INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF SURIGICAL SCIENCE, Chicago, IL

2004

EUREKA COLLEGE, Eureka, IL

GALLERY ROOM 302, Bloomington, IL

2002

ART AND DESIGN GALLERY, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, Alberta, Canada

1994-1995

GALLERY A (currently Carrie Secrist Gallery) Chicago, IL

1990

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Chicago, IL

1989-90

ART MUSEUM OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS, Beaumont, TX

1987

MARIANNE DESON GALLERY, Chicago, IL

1980

ARTEMESIA GALLERY, Chicago, IL

GROUP EXHIBITIONStop of page

2005

Minnesota Center for Book Arts, "To Have and To Hold: Art You Can Touch", Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Bookmarks III: Infiltrating Kontatkt 2005", project to encourage a wider appreciation of artwork in the book format and to engage with members of the public at libraries and at artist’s book venues :
Bookmarks III: Infiltrating Kontatkt 2005, project to encourage a wider appreciation of artwork in the book format and to engage with members of the public at libraries and at artist’s book venues such as:
Universität der Künste Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu (National Museum of Poznan), Poland
Amherst College Library, Amherst, USA
University of Missouri, Saint Louis, USA
Yale Center for British Art, USA
Broekhuis Boekhandel, Enschede, The Netherlands
Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK
Martin County Library System, Gallery, Fairmont, Minnesota, USA
Moufflon Bookshop, Nicosia, Cyprus
The entire Bookmarks sets: Parts I, II and III will also be shown as part of “60 Square Inches” a biennial, North American, small print exhibition in its 15th installment at Purdue University, USA in February 2006

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, California
New Editions Books>Old>New>/Digital 2005, Juried by Betsy Davids,

The Project MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE (is an annual year long touring exhibition of artist books, zines, and independent publications. Traveling by way of a vintage Airstream, the BOOKMOBILE visits a variety of venues in Canada and the US including community centers, schools, libraries, festivals and artist-run centers they are listed below:
Le Fablier, Longueil, Québec
La Central Powerhouse Gallery, Montréal,Québec
Cégep de Matane. Matane, Québec
École La Croisée, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec
Cégep de La Pocatière, La Pocatière, Québec
Bibliothèque Gabrielle-Roy, Québec
Comite Alpha-Papineau, Gatineau, Québec
Cornwall, Ontario
Alternative Book Fair, Montréal, Québec
Greater Sudbury Public Library. Sudbury, Ontario
Definitely Superior Artist-Run Centre, Thunder Bay, Ontario
Montcalm Treatment Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC
Banff Centre and Public Library, Banff, Alberta
Stride Arts Run Centre and Public Library, Calgary, Alberta
AKA GallerySaskatoon, Saskatchewan
L'Ilot Fleurie, Québec City, Québec
Ellipse Art Center, Arlington VA
Thomas Jefferson Community Center for Teen Meeting, Arlington VA
Clarendon Metro, special event with guest artist Austin Thomas, Arlington VA
Rosslyn Jazz Festival, Rosslyn VA
Adams Morgan Day - street festival, Washington DC
Rebel Books , Wilmington NC
Guilford College, Greensboro NC
UNC Greensboro, Greensboro NC
Greensboro Public Library, Greensboro NC
University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC
Asheville Bookworks, Asheville NC
Asheville Museum of Art , Asheville NC
Gainesville public librbary, Gainesville FL
Tuscaloosa University Library, Tuscaloosa, AL
Tuscaloosa Public Library, Tuscaloosa, AL
Starkville Public Library, Starkville Mississippi
Mississippi State University, Starkville Mississippi
Memphis College of Art, Memphis TN
'Sexfest', hosted by Planned Parenthood, Little Rock AR
Kansas City Art Insittute, Kansas City MO
Artspace, Kansas City MO
Iowa Center for Book Arts @ University of Iowa , Iowa City IA
University of Iowa Main Library, Iowa City IA
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis MN
Special Collections, UWM Library, Milwaukee WI
The Messhall. Chicago IL
Indianapolis Museum of Art , Indianapolis IN
Mattress Factory, A Celebration of Independent Media, Pittsburgh PA

2004

The Project MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE (is an annual touring exhibition of artist books, zines, and independent publications. Traveling by way of a vintage Airstream, the BOOKMOBILE visits a variety of venues in Canada and the US including community centers, schools, libraries, festivals and artist-run centers.

Rad'a, Montreal, Canada
Conestoga High School, Berwyn, PA
project HOME, Philadelphia, PA
Space 1026, Philadelphia PA
Stroudsburg Public Library, Stroudsburg, PA
the banana factory, Bethlehem PA
Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos Hostos Community, College/CUNY, Brooklyn, New York
Parsons Gimbel Library, in conjunction with a Booklyn exhibition curated by Emily K. Larned, NYC, NYC
Local Project, Long Island City, NY
Clovis Press, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Children's Media Project, Poughkeepsie, NY
ARTSPACE, Hartford, CT
Rosendale Café, (performance space in the Hudson Valley) Rosendale, NY
Flywheel Arts Collective, Easthampton, MA
Palmer Public Library, Palmer Massachusetts
New Urban Arts, Providence, RI
AS220, Providence, RI
Center for New Words Reading Room, Cambridge, MA
Zeitgeist Gallery. Cambridge, MA
Berwick Research Institute, Roxbury, MA
Parc-Extension Library, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Shawinigan Arts Council, Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada
Séminaire Sainte-Marie, Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada
La Tuque Municipal Library, La Tuque, Quebec, Canada
L'Ilôt Fleurie, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
École La Croisée, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada
Centre d'artistes Caravansérail, Rimouski, Quebec
Centre Culturel Aberdeen Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Novia Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Struts Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
SAW gallery, Vazaleen Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
OPIRG, Peter Robinson College, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontaio, Canada
Cooked and Eaten-reading, Gordon Best Theatre, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Mercer Union, A Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The University of Western Ontario and Forest City Gallery. London, Ontario, Canada
Niagara Artists' Company, St.Catherines, Ontario, Canada
Women's Resource Centre (WRC), University of Guelph. Guelf Ontario, Canada
Syracuse University, Holly Greenburg, Syracuse, NY
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Edinboro University Art Department, Edinboro, PA
Big Idea Bookstore, Pittsburgh, PA
Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh High School for Creative and Performing Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

2003

UNIVERSITY GALLERIES, ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY, Normal, IL
Faculty Exhibit
JEAN ALBANO GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Exquisite Snake
SLANE COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATIONS AND FINE ART GALLERY, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
The Me in Team,
MCLEAN COUNTY ARTS CENTER, Bloomington, IL
So Square

2002

ARTEMESIA GALLERY, CHICAGO, IL
To Kiss The Spirits

2001

UNIVERSITY GALLERIES, ILLINOIS STATE, Normal, IL
Faculty Exhibit

2000

PRINTWORKS GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Exquisite Corpse
PRINTWORKS GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Self-portrait
PHOENIX GALLERY, Bloomington, IL
Bloomington Area Artists
Community project, Bloomington ILCORN ON THE CURB
MCLEAN COUNTY ARTS CENTER, Bloomington, IL
Interior Spaces Still Lives, Illinois Women Artists Invitational

1999

NEW AMERICAN PAINTING
The Open Studios Press, Number 23
GALLERY A, Chicago, IL

Gallery Artists, Group Show

1998

UNIVERSITY GALLERIES, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Shona Macdonald, L J Douglas, Sean Caulfield
ARC GALLERY, Chicago, IL
25th Anniversary Show

1998

PRINTWORKS GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Collaborations
GALLERY A, Chicago, IL
Project Room: Group Show

1997

GALLERY A, Chicago, IL,
Gallery Artists, Summer Group Show

1996

GALLERY A, , Chicago, IL
In Her Own Right

1994

ARTEMESIA GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Something in Common
BENNETT GALLERY, Knoxville, TN
Transition I: A look at Progress
GALLERY A, Chicago, IL

1993

GALLERY A, Chicago, IL
Once Upon a Time...
GALLERY A, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Views From Within
ILLINOIS STATE MUSEUM, Lockport, IL
Views From Within
ILLINOIS STATE MUSEUM, Springfield, IL
Views From Within

1992

N.A.M.E. GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Plot: Mary Brogger, L. J. Douglas & Gary Justis, Susan Eder, John Ploff

CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, CHICAGO, IL
L.J. Douglas, Lorraine Peltz, Donna Tadelman

1991

ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM, Rockford, IL
Silent Dramas
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Chicago, IL
Source Material: A glimpse Into the Artist’s Studio

1989

MISSOURI GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Small Things
MISSOURI GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Still Life Show
CONTEMPORARY CENTER FOR ART, St. Louis, MO
Metaphor & Atmosphere: New Realism in Chicago
STATE OF ILLINOIS ART GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Good Painting

1987

CONTEMPORARY ART WORKSHOP, Chicago, IL
Veiled Light

1986

KRANNART ART MUSEUM, Champaign, IL
Group Show: Visiting Artists
N.A.M.E. GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Then & Now
MARIANNE DESON GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Artists Go To Bat

1985

Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Convergence, Mind, Myth, & Material

1984

N.A.M.E. GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Mythology & Religion in Art
RANDOLPH STREET GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Chicago Head 1984

1983

NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, Dekalb, IL
Chicago Artists
HYDE PART ART CENTER, Chicago, IL
The Fan Show
HYDE PARK ART CENTER, Chicago, IL
The Big Pitcher: 20 Years of the Abstracted Figure in Chicago Art (curator Devon Golden)
ARTEMESIA GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Looking at Women (organized by Michele Fire, Anita David, Jim Faulkner)

1982

MARIANNE DESON GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Summer Group Show
RANDOLPH STREET GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Opening New Doors
RANDOLPH STREET GALLERY, Chicago, IL
The Salon Show (organized by Michael Hoskins)

1981

N.A.M.E. GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Guy Whitney / L J Douglas
CAROLINE SCHNEEBECK GALLERY, Cincinnati, OH
Chicago Artists

1980

Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Outdoor Installations

1979

Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Chicago Art Perspectives
WEST HUBBARD GALLERY, Chicago, IL
Alter Ego

BIBLIOGRAPHY top of page

Elizabeth Sher and Madelaine Shellaby, March 2005, “New Editions Books: Old>New> Digital”, digital catalogue, of the exhibition.
Artner, Alan, (Friday, March 11, 2005, section 7 C) Chicago Tribune, Art Galleries, “L J Douglas/ Karen Jayne”, pp 25
Loehrke, Mark, (February 25, 2005, Tuesday, March 1), Key,This Week In Chicago, pg 7
Faulkner, Tamara/Score, Joel/,( Friday, February 4, 2005, Volume 34, Number 19), Chicago Reader, Readings & Lecturers/Galleries, pg 21
Radio interview with Laura Kennedy on National Public Radio, aired on June 20, 2000
Alison J. Hatcher, “Interiuor Spaces Still Lives, exhibit catalog, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, Il, pg. 3.
Mark Pascale, “ The Exquisite Corpse, exhibit catalog, Printworks Gallery, 1999, Chicago, IL, pg. 21.
Condon, Elisabeth. “L. J. Douglas, Lorraine Peltz, Donna Tadelman.” The New Art Examiner, September 1992, p. 30-31.
McLaughlin, Bonnie. “Source Material: A Glimpse Into the Artist’s Studio” The Reader, August 9, 1991, p. 32-33.
Hawkins, Margaret. “Studio is the Art in an Exhibit that Offers Unique View” Chicago Sun Times, August 2, 1991, p. 58.
McCracken, David. “Exhibit Offers Glimpses of Artist’s Studio’s” Chicago Tribune, July 26, 1991.
Brunetti, John. “Dialogue”, January / February 1991, p.17.
Artner, Alan. “Inverting Time: L. J. Douglas show views the present to the past” Chicago Tribune, September 13, 1990.
Stonitsch, Lonette M. “Views from Within” New Art Examiner, May 1990.
Holg, Garrett. “Views from Within, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, & Lockport (Catalogue), 1989, p. 8-13.
Donato, Debra. “Good Painting: Contemporary Chicago Painters” State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, IL (Catalogue), 1988.
McCracken, David. “ It’s Hard to Classify ‘Good Painting’ Works” Chicago Tribune, April 1, 1988, section 7, p.52.
Yood, James. Art News, November 1987.
Abel, Jeff. New Art Examiner November 1987.
Golden, Deven. “Veiled Light...The New Glaze and Scumbling” Contemporary Art Workshop Chicago IL (catalogue) February 1987.
Bonesteel, Michael. “Realism Resurgence” Art in America December 1986.
Thorsen, Alice and Yood, James “Who Follows the Hairy Who?” The New Art Examiner March 1985.
Lyon, Christopher “Five Painters View Modern Landscape” Chicago Sun-Times November 24, 1984.
Segard, Michael. “L. J. Douglas/ Marcia Weese at Marianne Deson Gallery” Chicago Tribune November 1984.
Artner, Alan “L. J. Douglas / Marcia Weese at Marianne Deson Gallery” Chicago Sun-Times, November 16, 1983.
Fernandez, Joyce. “Atlas & Odalisque” New Art Examiner summer 1983.
Lyon, Christopher. “Hyde Park Show Fuels Interest in figurative Art” Chicago Sun-times January 30, 1983, p. 22, 27.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Artner, Alan. “The Big Pitcher” Chicago Sun-Times January 4, 1983, p. 13-14.
Bonesteel, Michael. “L. J. Douglas / Guy Whitney at N.A.M.E. Gallery” Art in America, January 1982
Lyon, Christopher. “Expressionism Rides in on Eighties Wave of Interest” Chicago Sun Times, January 30, 1982, p. 22.PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES AND REVIEWS by L. J. Douglas
" Right on the Wall" Dialogue March 2002
“Paul Rosen ” Dialogue March 1989.
“Chuck Walker” New Art Examiner November 24, 1989.
“Figures” Dialogue, May / June 1989
“Views on Painting” guest Editor, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago publication, Chicago/ Art/ Write
Issue on Representation, Figuration, and Realism 1988.
“”Tony Gilberto at Two Illinois Center” New Art Examiner, May 1987.
“Anne Farley Gaines, Marilyn Schulenberg, Ruth Willet at ARC Gallery” New Art Examiner June 1984.
“Will Northerner” New Art Examiner, January 1982.
“”Terry Dowd, R. A. Fischer, Kermit Berg at One, Two, Three, Illinois Center” New Art Examiner, March, 1982

Public Commissions top of page

1992

PUBLIC ART PROJECT, Evanston, IL
Leafgate Garden

GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS top of page

2003

ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
Large Faculty Grant

2001

ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
Large Faculty Grant

1988-89

ILLINOIS ART COUNCIL
Individual Artist’s Grant

1975-77

SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, Chicago, IL
Brown Tuition Scholarship

1975-1972

PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF ART, Philadelphia, PA
Painting scholarship

AFFILIATIONS/GALLERY REPRESENTATION / PUBLICATION top of page

2005

ALFEDENA GALLERY, Chicago, IL

PRINTED MATTER, NYC, represents artists' book Greed

1999 – 2000

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT top of page

• ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY WORKSHOPS (classes taken)
  • Flash, Web design
  • Web Design using Dreamweaver
  • Web Design using Netscape Communicator
    
• SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO (classes taken)
  • Computer as a Graphic Design Tool, (Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Quark Express program
  • Advanced Etching, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • Lithography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
    
    

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