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Emerging
Illinois Artists
Brandt Gallery
May 18 - July 21, 2007
Opening reception: Friday, May 18, 5 - 7pm
Emerging Illinois Artists '07 is a juried exhibition featuring works of art by
MFA students currently enrolled in Illinois universities.
Initiated in 2004, this year's competition resulted again in a challenging
contemporary art exhibition with lively juxtapositions and provocative thematic
threads.
Exhibition
sponsored by Billy Stroud & Tony Ragusa, Dr. Richard & Nancy Trefzger, Law
Office of Allison & Mosby-Scott
Awards sponsored by Zimmerman & Armstrong Investment Advisors, Inc., Jobie &
Irving Tick, Harold & Marlene Gregor, I.S.U. School of Art
Emerging Illinois Artists is a juried exhibition featuring works of art by MFA
students currently enrolled in Illinois universities. Initiated in 2004, this
year's competition resulted again in a challenging contemporary art exhibition
with a competitive and celebratory nature
The MCAC received entries from 121 MFA students from all over Illinois. By
entering, each student added to the excellent quality of the field enabling
juror Robert Sill (Curator and Assistant Director of Art, Illinois State Museum)
to choose not only single works by individual artists but a group of artworks
that make a dynamic exhibition with lively juxtapositions and provocative
thematic threads. Mr. Sill's selection - 50 works by 42 artists - for Emerging
Illinois Artists reflects the strength of MFA students in Illinois as well as
his clear vision of what contemporary art can and must communicate.
The McLean County Arts Center offers, with its central location, accessibility
to those all over the state to visit the exhibition and see the work of the fine
artists being educated at Illinois universities. As ultimate peers, these MFA
students steer through the rite of passage that is graduate school. Using the
wide range of media offered to them,
experimenting with scale and presentation, and probing the intellectual and
emotional fabric of their lives, their journey is evidenced and celebrated in
this exhibition. The 42 artists whose works are included in the exhibition are
producing works that engage the viewer in fresh, creative, and compelling ways.
Featured Artists:
Christian Arrecis, Northern Illinois University
Sarah Baranski, Columbia College Chicago
Danielle Barton, Northern Illinois University
Margarita Benitez, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Brooke Berger, Columbia College
Nisa Blackmon, University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign
Cortney Boyd, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Mathew Crowther, University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign
Holly DeGrote, Illinois State University
Aaron Dugger, University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign
Ulrich Eigner, Illinois State University
Adam Fotos, University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign
Diana Gabriel, Illinois State University
Abby Gitlitz, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Allison Grant, Columbia College Chicago
Bill Guy, Columbia College Chicago
Matt Haugh, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Kim Jackson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Matthew Paul Jinks, University of Illinois Chicago
Jeffrey Jones, University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign
Katherine Kaminski, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Juror's Choice
Award
Sun Kyoung Kim, University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign
David Linneweh, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Lauren Macko, Bradley University
Regina Mamou, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Mitchel Martin, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Jun Il Min, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Adam Mysock, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Stephen Nyktas, Northwestern University, Merit Award
Kyoung Hwa Oh, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Kimberly Purkiss, University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign
Mark Salsbury, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Gary Schott, University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign
Dane Sorenson, Illinois State University
Sarah Stonefoot, Illinois State University
Wee Lit Tan, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Katherine Webb , Northern Illinois University
Jennifer Whalen-Shaw, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Christopher Wille, Illinois State University, Merit Award
Jennifer Wilson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Krista Wortendyke, Columbia College Chicago
Luke Young, Northern Illinois University, Merit Award
