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Renee
McGinnis "USS Caliente" oil on panel, 30" x 60" |
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STATEMENT: |
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I spent much of my childhood riding the Great Plains of central
Illinois on horseback or in luxury automobiles of the 1970's and 80's,
passing abandoned farms and towns. I was in awe of the grand,
magnificent scale of these forgotten places, and became aware of the
nature of passing time, beauty and gradual decay.
With a precise hand, I paint aging, rusted mega structures surrounded
by lush botanicals or precious stones of a misdirected beauty,
suggesting man’s infallible desire to control nature and his
surroundings. The once luxurious ocean liners, the highly sexualized
iron ore uploaders and Battersea Power Stations are staged in
deceptively beautiful gardens or stricken on turbulent seas. The
purity of the water, clouds and flora, juxtaposed with these decaying
structures, create a potent marriage of emotions where the viewer can
choose to engage in the monument of human labor or take in the serene
beauty enveloping it. |
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RESUME: |
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Education: |
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2005 |
Studied Atelier Neo Medici under Patrick Betaudier, Bordeaux, France |
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1993 |
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Sociology, Anthropology |
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1984 |
B.F.A. Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL |
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Awards & Honors |
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2010 |
Richard H. Driehaus award Art Loop Open |
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2002 |
Honorable Mention. Judge John Brunetti, Works on Paper. Eastern IL.
University
Best of Show, Judge: Ed Paschke, Anti-Cruelty Society Animal Images
Show, Chicago, IL |
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2001 |
2nd Place, Art Against Aids, The Drake Hotel, Chicago, IL |
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2000 |
Honorable Mention, Juror: James Yood, Artists of the Millennium,
Rockford Art Museum, IL
Best of Show 13th Annual Women’s Works, Woodstock, IL. |
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1999 |
1st Place, International Platform Association, Washington, D.C. |
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1998 |
Honorable Mention, Jurors T. Blackman, G. Verna, J. Dandy. Hyde Park
Art Center, Chicago, IL
Best of Show by Popular Ballot Inspired Parnership Art on the Walk |
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1997 |
Honorable Mention, ARC IV Regional, Juror Ann Sass, Curator Whitney
Museum, N.Y. |
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1996 |
Best of Show, by popular ballot. Northern Indiana Arts Association |
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1991 |
National Television Emmy Award “A Message from Michael Jordan”
designer |
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1987 |
National Bronze Award, Broadcast Designers Association |
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1984 |
Grumbacher Award, McLean County Art Association, NY |
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Solo Exhibitions: |
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2019 |
Renee McGinnis, South Shore Arts, The
Center for Visual & Performing Arts, Munster, IN |
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2018 |
The Garden of Mega-Structures, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL
Of Rust and Men, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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2017 |
A Collections of Works, Schoenherr Gallery, F.A. Center,
North Central College, Naperville, IL |
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2014 |
Fragile Beauty, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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2013 |
The Girls, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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2011 |
Views From the International Park System, Packer Schopf Gallery,
Chicago, IL |
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2008 |
Safety-Kleen Gallery, Elgin Community College , Elgin, IL |
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2007 |
Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL |
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2002 |
Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD |
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2001 |
Montgomery Ward Gallery, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL |
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2000 |
International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL |
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1999 |
Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL |
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Selected Group Shows: |
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2018 |
Zg Summer Group Show, Zg
Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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2017 |
Celebrating Women of Courage, group exhibit, Ukrainian National
Museum, Chicago, IL
Para·Natural World, ZG Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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2014 |
Metaphors, Christopher Gallery, Prairie State College, Chicago
Heights, IL |
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2012 |
So Real, Governors State University, curator, Susan Aurinko,
University Park, IL
Ways of Making, Governors State University, curator, Delores Mercado,
University Park, IL |
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2000 |
Ateleirhof Kulturhandwerk, Bremen, Germany
Neues Museum, Hamburg, Germany
Beverly Fine Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago, IL |
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1999 |
Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago, IL |
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1998 |
Swan Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Derriere Guard Graham Foundation Arts Festival, Chicago, IL
Then and Now, NIU Art Museum , Chicago, IL |
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1997 |
Plausible Deniability, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art,
Slide exhibition, Los Angeles, CA |
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Bibliography: |
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2016 |
Sports Illustrated, by Robin Dluzen and B. David Zarly |
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2015 |
Poets and Artists, juror Daniel Maidman, November issue #68
New American Paintings Blog by B. David Zarly |
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2013 |
WTTW Chicago Tonight Arts Blog by Marc Vitali
American Art Collector Magazine , November
Hi-Fructose Magazine blog, "The Girls" by Nastia Voynovskaya |
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2012 |
New American Paintings, Midwest Edition 101 |
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2011 |
Kirrko ja Kaupunki by Panu Pinkala, Helsinki National Magazine.
Paul Klein’s Art letter |
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2008 |
Harpers Magazine, Illustration Te Amo Colombia, February |
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2007 |
Illinois Wesleyan University Magazine, Spring Issue pg.14-16 |
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2005 |
Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Solution Show, Margaret Hawkins, June 17,
2005 |
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2003 |
The Chicago Tribune/Art Scene, The Chicago Solution Show. Feb. 7, 2003
Chicago Solution Show, Dziennik Zwiazkowy, Piatek -Niedziela, Jan 31
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2002 |
In The Arts, The Washington Gazette. Oct 30, 2002 p b-4 |
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2001 |
Chicago Tribun, Suite Home Chicago, 7-22-01 (Special Section pg.
1,5,8)
Chicago Artists Coalition News -Cover Story, by Jeff Helgeson (June,
’01) |
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2000 |
Rock River Times, Aug 16-22, 2000, Rockford, IL
Chicago Reader, Review author Fred Camper June 9, 2000 (Section 1
pg.40)
Who’s Who of American Women 22nd Edition
Women Caucus for Art Newsletter Feature, April
Kunstzeitung NR.40 December 1999 p22
Punkt Kunst im Nordwestem “Deutsch-amerikanischen Kulturaustausch” by
D.I. Herrmann, p39 |
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1999 |
Chicago Sun-Times, July 16 (NC pg. 25)
Elmhurst Pioneer Press, May 28
Elmhurst Pioneer Press, March 18, B16
Chicago Sun-Times, Friday, January 29 Features. (NC pg 45) |
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1998 |
Chicago Sun-Times September 4th. Friday
American Arts Quarterly “The New Radicals” Spring, Summer |
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Radio, Television & Film |
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2007 |
Artist To Artist with Enid Silverman , Comcast Cable
WBEZ Public Radio –
Three to see 848 Charles Darwin, Jasper
Johns and Renee McGinnis |
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2004 |
“AMERICAN BURQA,” co-starred, H.Khandan & S.Yazdani film, Gene Siskel
Film Center, Chicago, IL. |
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2003 |
WTTW Ed Paschke, Artbeat Chicago – Chicago Solution Show
WGN Morning News, Chicago Solution Show
WBEZ Public Radio – Interview w/Renee McGinnis, Ed Paschke & Leon
Golub: Chicago Solution Show |
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2002 |
WBEZ Public Radio – Morning edition with Tony Serabia -artist responds
to 9/11 |
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2001 |
WGN Morning News “Suite Home Chicago”
Free For All, WYCC “Suite Home Chicago”
Chicago Works, Channel 23 “Suite Home Chicago” |
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1999 |
WGN 9:00 News: Teen Living Benefit at ARC Gallery |
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1991 |
WGN 9:00 News: Ohio St. Gallery Debut |
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Corporate & Public Collections: |
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East Bank Club, Chicago, IL
Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL
Hedge Fund Research, L.L.C. Chicago, IL
Lettuce Entertain You Ent., Chicago, IL
Nicholas Financial, Chicago, IL |
Orleans Plaza, Chicago, IL
Schopf & Weiss, Chicago, IL
TVO Realty, Chicago, IL
Water Tower Realty, Chicago, IL |
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