selected exhibitions & commissions/solo
Cursive/Recursive, Ysla Battrell Gallery, Wilmette, Il, 2010
ShadowMap, Openlands Lakeshore Preserve, Highland Park, Il (outdoor installation 2011)
Reading the Landscape, Openlands Lakeshore Preserve, Highland Park, Il (outdoor installation 2011)
Cursive/Recursive, South Shore Art Center, Munster, In (2011)
Cursive/Recursive, Heavy Bubble Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa (2011)
Dark Matter/Gray Matter, Cliff Dwellers Club, Chicago, 2007
Lake Series, Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, Il, 2004
Interiors, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Il, 1979
group
Chicago Art Loop Open, Chicago Loop Alliance & Chicago Artists Coalition,
Merchandise Mart, 2010
Pop-Up Art Loop Gallery, Chicago Loop Alliance & Chicago Artists Coalition, 2010
Arg-Art, Artists Respond Globally, International collaborative project, 2010
Brainstorm, Governor’s State University, Il, 2010
New Noyes, Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, Il, 2010
ArtFutura, Infinite Possibility, Rehab Institute of Chicago, 2009
Juried by James Rondeau, Art Institute of Chicago
31st Small Works National, Harper College, Palatine, Il, 2009
Art in the Abstract, Fermilab Art Gallery, Batavia, Il, 2009
Halpert Biennial ’09, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, 2009
Perfect with Pixel, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Oh, 2008
65th Annual Salon Show, South Shore Arts, Munster, In, 2008
Dialogue 4: Mentoring Vision, Metropolitan Capital Bank, Chicago, 2008
Sheets, Planes and Pulp: Works on (and of) Paper, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Il, 2007
1st Loyola National Works on Paper Exhibition, Loyola U. Crown Center Gallery, Chicago, Il, 2007
13th Annual International Exhibition of Women’s Art, SoHo20 Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY, 2007
Juried by Carrie Springer, Whitney Museum, New York
Works on Paper Invitational, Las Manos Gallery, Chicago, Il, 2007
Many Perspectives, Many Lives, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, Il, 2005
79th Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,
The Art Institute of Chicago, and traveling exhibition, 1981-83
World Print III, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and traveling exhibition, purchase prize, 1983
residencies and awards
Ragdale Foundation, 2009, 2010
Grellner Scholarship, OxBow, 2007
Resident artist, City of Evanston Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, Il, 2003-2007
Artist in residence, CETA federal program for the arts, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Il, 1977-79
permanent collections
The Phillip Morris Foundation
The Chicago History Museum
Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum
graphic and environmental design
Principal, Kate Friedman Design, Evanston, Il. 1982-2002
Award-winning Identity, signage, publications and web design for University of Chicago Hospitals, Childrens Memorial Hospital, Orland Square Mall, Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool/Chicago Park District, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and many corporate, arts, healthcare and civic organizations nationally.
education
BA, Cultural history and studio art, with high honors, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 1977
Diploma, French language/cultural history, with honors, l’Institute Catholique de Paris, France, 1975