JANET CARKEEK
Email: [email protected]
Lives in Nebraska
Born 1953 in Indianapolis, Indiana
Founder of The Wood Interpretation Society/www.woodinterpreters.org
EDUCATION
1983
MFA, Painting, University of Illinois/Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1981
BFA, Painting, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1993
“Janet Carkeek,“ Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1992
Catherine Smith Gallery, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
1991
Feature, New York, New York
1990
“FOCI: Janet Carkeek,” Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois; traveled to Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; University Galleries, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois; University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
1989
Feature, New York, New York
1987
Feature, Chicago, Illinois
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
"The French Connection," Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN.
2010
“Power to the People,” Feature Inc., New York, NY
2006
“Art in the Abstract,” Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2001
“The Land Around Us: Landscape from the Collection of the Illinois State Museum,” Illinois Art Gallery
1993
“Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
1992
“From America’s Studio-Drawing New Conclusions,” Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; curated by James Yood
1991
“Office Party,” Feature, New York, New York
“Contemporary Painting,” Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; curated by Victor Faccinto
“Tenth Annual Saint Valentine’s Day Preview Exhibition and Benefit Auction,” N.A.M.E., Chicago, Illinois
1990
“New Generations: Chicago,” Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; curated by Elaine King
“NATURE/nature,” Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois; curated by Hudson
1989
“The Spectacle of Chaos,” Chicago, Illinois; curated by Klaus Ottman
“Dorothy,” Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; curated by Hudson
“Resurgence: Surrealism Inferred,” Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
“Tenth Anniversary,” Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1988
“Landscape Anthology,” Grace Borgenicht, New York, New York
“Artists See Nature,” College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois; curated by Eileen Broido
“Near Miss,” Feature, Chicago, Illinois
“Chicago Buy The Square Foot,” Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
“Midwest Landscape, Part 1” Joy Emery Gallery, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
1987
“Signs of Intelligent Life,” Greathouse, New York, New York
“Surfaces: Two Decades of Painting in Chicago, Seventies and Eighties,” Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois; curated by Judith Russi Kirschner
“Anxious Objects,” Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, Illinois; curated by Barry Blinderman
“The Non-Spiritual in Art, Abstract Painting 1985-????, Chicago, Illinois; curated by Hudson
“Knew,” Feature, Chicago, Illinois
1986
“Made in America,” The Great Lake States,” Alternative Museum, New York, New York and Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio; curated by Geno Rodriguez
“Promises, Promises,” Feature, Chicago, Illinois
“Promises, Promises,” C.A.G.E., Cincinnati, Ohio; curated by Hudson
1985
“Invitational,” Feature and Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
“Outdoor Installations,” Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
“Second Annual Juried Drawing Show,” Moming Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
“Eighty-first Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
“New American Talent,” (Slide Exhibition), Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas; curated by Patterson Sims
“The Shadow,” N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1984
“Outdoor Installations,” Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
“Illinois State Fair Professional Art Exhibition,” Springfield, Illinois
“Beyond Contrast,” Moming Dance and Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois
“Introspectives - A National Exhibition of Autobiographical Work by Women Artists,” Rochester, New York; curated by Lyn Gumpert
“Artist’s Call,” A.R.C./Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, Illinois
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
1990
Chicago Office of Fine Arts, Artist Grant, Chicago, Illinois
1987
Art Matters, Inc., Fellowship, New York, New York
1984
Illinois Arts Council, Artist Fellowship, Chicago, Illinois
1983
University of Illinois/Chicago, Teaching Fellowship, Chicago, Illinois
PUBLICATIONS
1990
Carkeek’s Pocket Guide to Plywood Veneer Grades. Chicago, Illinois. Artist Book. Photographs and text by Janet Carkeek and the American Plywood Association. available through Printed Matter, Inc., New York.
VIDEO
1985
S.S. United States - World’s Fastest Liner, 10 seconds, color, mono; aired February 6-7 on NBC, WMAQ-TV, Chicago, during the “David Letterman Show.”
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Periodicals
Artner, Alan. “’Art in Abstract’specifically about Illinois painters.” Chicago Tribune. Thursday, August 18, 2005, section 5. p.3.
Artner, Alan. “Two Unusual Exhibitions at the State of Illinois Gallery.” Chicago Tribune. Friday, August 10, 1990, section 7. p.52.
Artner, Alan. “Catalogue is best part of ‘non-spiritual‘.” Chicago Tribune. Thursday, June 11, 1987, section 5. p.11E. (reproduction)
Bonesteel, Michael. “Medium Cool: New Chicago Abstraction.” Art In America 75, December, 1987: pp.138-147. (reproduction)
Cullinan, Helen. “Midwestern artists trace roots.” The Plain Dealer. Thursday, October 16, 1986.
Hakanson Colby, Joy. “A groundswell for landscapes for landscapes at the Emery.” The Detroit News. March 4, 1988. p.3D. (reproduction)
Homisak, Bill. “King’s Chicago our kind of town. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Sunday, March 4, 1990. (reproduction)
Hudson. “On Natural.” Nit and Wit 7, April 1987. pp.24-25. (reproduction)
Hudson. “Promises, Promises.” Dialogue 9, September/October 1986. p.86.
“Janet Carkeek and Jim Iserman.” The New Yorker, February 4, 1991. p. 11.
Mahoney, Robert. “New York in Review.” Arts Magazine, April 1991. p.105.
McCracken, David. “Summer shows a time for reacquaintance.” Chicago Tribune. Friday, June 30, 1989. p.54.
Odom, Michael. “Michael Gitlin and New Generations Chicago.” In Pittsburgh. (Newsweekly), March 14 - March 20, 1990. p.26.
Patterson, Tom. “Secca shows evoke contemplative mood.” Winston Salem Journal. Sunday,January 10, 1993. p.C6. (reproduction)
Raven, Arlene. “Climate Control.” The Village Voice. June 20, 1989. p.114. (reproduction)
Shearin, Margaret. “Board of Evocation.” Style Magazine, (Winston-Salem), December 23, 1992. p.11.
Smith, Roberta. “In Summer Exhibitions a Chance for the Vital but Unheralded to Be Noticed.” The New York Times. Friday, June 30, 1989. p.18.
Stevens, Mitchell. “Janet Carkeek.” New Art Examiner, November 1990. p.42.
Yood, James. “Janet Carkeek.” Artforum, November 1990. p.173. (reproduction)
Westerbeck, Colin. “Pedant’s Progress.” Chicago Reader. July 9, 1987.
Books and Exhibition Catalogues
A Checklist of Painters C1200-1994. The Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1995. p.83.
Anxious Objects. Normal, Illinois: Illinois State University Galleries, 1987. Essay by Barry Blinderman.
Annual Bibliography of Modern Art. Museum of Modern Art Library. New York: G.K. Hall, 1992.
Art Bibliographies Modern. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts: Clio Press, 1988.
Forms of Contemporary Illinois: Janet Carkeek. Springfield, Illinois: Illinois State Museum, 1990. Essay by Barry Blinderman.
Made in America: The Great Lake States. New York: The Alternative Museum, 1986. Essays by Eleanor Heartney and Geraldine Wojno Keifer. Available through Printed Matter, Inc.
New Generations: Chicago. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, 1990. Essay by Elaine King.
The Non-Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1985-????. Chicago: Maginnis Graphics, 1987. Essays by Richard Brettell, Hudson and Kevin Maginnis.
Surfaces: Two Decades of Painting in Chicago, Seventies and Eighties. Chicago: Terra Museum of American Art, 1987. Essay by Judith Russi Kirshner.
Wittig, Rob. Invisible Rendezvous: Connection and Collaboration in the New Landscape of Electronic Writing. Hanover, New Hampshire: Weslyan University Press, University Press of New England, 1994. p.4.