PRESS
VoyageChicago, 2018
Glencoe Anchor, 2014
SELECTED EXHIBITS
“Conservation Conversation”
David Adler Center for Music and Art
Libertyville, IL
April 2019
“Impromtu”
ARC Gallery
Chicago, IL
February, 2019
“In View” Group Show
Art Center Highland Park
Highland Park, IL
January 2019
Chimera Loft Group Show
Evanston, IL
December, 2018
Dandelion Gallery
Waukegan Art Walk
Waukegan, IL
May, 2018
Artmakers North Group Show
Northshore Senior Center
Northbrook, IL
April, 2018
A.I.R. Gallery Group Show
Artists-In-Residence Gallery
Glencoe, IL
October, 2017
Sketchbook, An Exhibition of Artists Books
33 Contemporary Gallery
Chicago, IL
September, 2016
Lexicon
Zhou B Art Center
Chicago, IL
July 2016
Morphoverse:
2-Person Show with James Lambert
Artists-In-Residence Gallery
Glencoe, IL
September 2015
AIR, Wind, Earth and Fire
Artists-In-Residence Gallery
Glencoe, IL
July 2015
Outside the Lines
Artists-In-Residence Gallery
Glencoe, IL
September 2014
Open AIR
Artists-In-Residence Gallery
Glencoe, IL
September 2013
Strange Glue, exhibit and publication
Curated by Todd Bartel
Thompson Gallery, Weston, MA
October 2012
I Can Do That
Curated by Jenny Lam at Variable Space, Chicago, IL
April 2012
The Magic Garden
Painted sculpture exhibit
City of Highland Park, IL
Summer 2012
Group Show
Gallery G, Glencoe, IL, 2012
We Remember Them,
Boocoo Cultural Center, Evanston, IL 2011
Exquisite Corpse,
Curated by Jenny Lam
Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL 2011
September 2011
Eclectic: Works on Paper,
Gallery G, Glencoe, IL 2011
Art is Alive in Highland Park,
The Art Center, Highland Park, IL 2011
“Best of Show” award
Members Only,
Gallery G, Glencoe, IL 2010
Highland Park Art Walk,
Highland Park, IL 2010
Visiting Artist, Woodlands Academy,
Lake Forest, IL, 2009
Image and Word,
The Art Center, Highland Park, IL 2009
Hand Made Prints,
Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL, 2009
One-Horse Press Group Show,
Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL 2008
Ten Days in May,
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2007
One of One: Prints Like No Other,
Spudnik Press, Chicago 2007
Peace Tower,
Part of Mark di Suvero’s: Works and Protest, Chicago 2007
The Man Show,
Mars Gallery, Chicago 2007
Fully Caffeinated,
Pick-A-Cup Coffee House, Evanston, IL, 2007
Under the Influence,
Line Drive Gallery, Evanston, IL, 2005
Chicago Art Open,
Chicago, IL 2003, 2004, 2005
..for you were a stranger….,
Hot House gallery space,
Chicago, IL, curated by Rick Tuttle, 2004
Peggy Shearn, Subterranean Subversive (solo show),
Aaron Freeman Gallery, Highland Park, IL 2003
Verses, Volumes, Vision: Art and the Written Word,
Juried Show of the Northbrook Arts Commission;
Northbrook Public Library, Northbrook, IL, 2003
Multiple Visions,
Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL, 2003
Ox Bow Benefits, Chicago 2000-2002
My work has been published in EAST ON CENTRAL,
A Journal of Arts and Letters,
and was featured on the cover of the 2007 issue
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CV
2012 – present Studio practice devoted to acrylic and mixed media painting. Studied with painter David Gista.
1995-2012 Studied (darkroom) photography with Arthur Lazar at Lake Forest College and subsequently participated in his critique groups. Worked at the Evanston Art Center’s printmaking studio for several years, making intaglio prints and lithographs. Freelance work in commercial package design.
1992-1994 Columbia College Chicago: studied drawing, design, desktop publishing and computer graphics
1977-1979 Worked as a typesetter at a commercial art and photography studio in Chicago, studied calligraphy and brush lettering through the Chicago Calligraphy Collective, Newberry Library and at suburban art centers.
1971-1974 Studied languages and political science at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. Studied layout and design, production, typography at Laney College, Oakland, CA. Worked with an alternative publishing collective in Berkeley, CA.
