GRANTS AWARDED
ILLINOIS ARTS COUNCIL INDIVIDUAL ARTIST PROJECT GRANT, VISUAL ART, 2010
Awarded for the research, application, and exhibition of traditional glue/chalk gesso and panel supports in oil painting, culminating exhibition held at Belle Plaine Studio in Chicago 2010.
ILLINOIS ARTS COUNCIL INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP, VISUAL ART, 2002
Awarded for monotyped prints from water-soluble inkjet glossy photo paper emulsion and prismacolor. The imagery featured digitally reconfigured interiors from screencaptures of homes for sale. Imagery in this series brought forth unseen psychological dramas that were implicit in what was then a new style of marketing photography with a highly distorting fisheye lens.
ILLINOIS ARTS COUNCIL INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP, VISUAL ART, 2000
Awarded for digital manipulation of traditional black and white photography printed as monotype. Imagery showcased trees that grew in the margins between human development and uncontrolled natural growth; the trees as subjects of individual portraits were partially compromised by human encroachment in the environment and their wounded nature was explored visually.
ARTS MIDWEST /NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS REGIONAL ARTIST’S FELLOWSHIP, WORKS ON PAPER, 1994
Awarded for exploration of a new printmaking process using photocopies as plates in the vein of lithography through traditional photography, digital imaging, and large scale photocopying. Watertowers were the subject of this body of work and were approached as portraiture; they were stylized to make visible different metaphors of the vessel.
NAP GRANT, CITY OF CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, CHICAGO, IL 1994, 1993, 1992
Awarded to support work as an artist-in-the-school with Chicago Public School elementary students as they created and painted murals for their school (1992), explored art history through recreation of artifacts from Ancient Egypt (1993), and wrote and illustrated giant storybooks for their school library (1994).
CAAP GRANT, CITY OF CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, CHICAGO, IL 1992, 1991
Awarded to support work with translating digital imaging to traditional relief/woodblock printmaking processes through reductive woodcut methods.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Anne Karsten, Paintings, Belle Plaine Studio, Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Project Exhibition, Chicago IL, 2010
The Drawing Center Viewing Program 2010
ArtXposium, West Chicago, IL, September 2008
“Chicago Looks,” Public Art Project, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Riverwalk between Clark and Dearborn, 2008-2009
Massive Markets, Davis Art Advisory, Nashville, TN, two-person show, July 2008
eBay Painting Series, Substation No 9, Hammond, IN, April-June 2008
The Artist Project, Merchandise Mart/Artropolis Chicago, April 2008
Works on (and of) Paper, Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL, September 2007
EBay Painting Series, Open Studio at 179 N State, Chicago IL, January 2007, Public Art Program of the
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
South Shore Arts Center Salon Show, Munster, IN, award of distinction, 2006
“On the Mark: Chicago Printmakers Collaborative 1989-2005,” Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Il, 2005
“Le Papier,” group exhibition, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago Il, 2005
“Sanctuary,” invitational exhibition for the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, 2003
“CPC: a Decade of Printmaking,” Belloc-Lowndes Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2000, group exhibition
“100 Proof,” Workshop Print Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1999, group exhibition
“Unlimited Editions,” Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL, 1998
“Small Packages,” Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1998, group exhibition
“Dwelling,” Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL, 1997, group exhibition
Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL, 1997, Jeanine Ryding, curator
Cyrus M Running Gallery, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, 1996
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, 1996 group exhibition
Flora 96, Chicago Botanic Garden, Lake Forest, IL, 1996 group exhibition
InsideArt Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1996
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1996, national print biennial
“Printmaking in Chicago” Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL, 1996, group exhibition
Morton College, Cicero, IL, 1996
Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, 1995, two-person exhibition
“Six from Chicago,” Cotman Gallery, King’s College, Wimbledon, England 1995
Prints Using Photographic Processes, Workshop Print Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1994
Beret International Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1994, CPC group exhibiton
Center of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, 1992, group exhibition
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1991, The Boston Printmakers Exhibition
“The Printed Image,” St. Bonaventure University, Allegheny, NY, 1989
New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, 1989, group exhibition
Doshi Center for Contemporary Art, Harrisburg, PA, 1989, two-person exhibition
Erie Museum of Art, Erie, PA, regional exhibition, 1989, purchase award
Main Public Library Gallery, Columbus, OH, 1988
State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, regional exhibtions in 1988, 1989
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, 1987, regional exhibition
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, 1987, Columbus area artists exhibition
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2000-2002
Adjunct Faculty positions held in Printmaking at:
Columbia College, Chicago IL 1990-1995
Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL 1994-5
Triton College, River Grove IL 1992-3
Barat College, Lake Forest, IL 1995
Assistant Director & Printmaking Instructor, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, 1992-1999
Jury Panel, C A A P Grants-Visual Arts, Chicago Dept.Cultural Affairs, 1994, 95
Visiting Artist, Concordia College, Moorhead MN, 1996
Resident Artist, Centrum voor grafiek Frans Masereel, Kasterlee, Belgium, 1994
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium, Centrum voor grafiek Frans Masereel Archives
The Howard Memorial Drawing Collection, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
Traveling Collection of the Greater Harrisburg Arts Council
Print Collection of the Patee Arts Library, University Park, PA
SELECTED REVIEWS
Johnathan Marx, “The Showroom Brings New Art, New Images to Downtown Gallery District,” The Tennessean, July 6, 2008
Tim Shellberg, “A Play on Imagery,” Northwest Indiana Times, May 2, 2008
Yolanda Perdomo, “Artists at Work,” Chicago Journal, January 2007
Roger Green, “Artworks Share a Shift in Perception,” The Grand Rapids Press, November 30, 1995
Jeanine Ryding, “Prints Using Photographic Processes,” Journal of the Mid-America Print Council, October 1994
Robin McCloskey, “Computer Imaging and Woodcuts,” The California Printmaker: The Quarterly Journal of the California Society of Printmakers, December, 1993
Margaret Hawkins, “Near West Gallery Draws Viewers into Artists’ World,” July 17, 1992
EDUCATION
MFA: Printmaking, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
BA: French, Luther College, Decorah, IA
Year Abroad - University of Nottingham, England