Artisan Gallery - Physicality: Body, Shape, Form

May 1 - July 23, 2009

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Elements of body, shape, and form are the foundations of exquisite design. Physicality: Body, Shape, Form includes submissions that investigate the essence of these foundations through conceptual, decorative, or functional objects.

Artists Represented:

Linda Brant, Sue Canizares, Annie Duffy, Rhonda Gushee, Laura C. Hewitt, Deborah Kruger, Carmen M. Perez, Roberta Polfus, Kelly Rush

Juror(s): Margaret Denny - Artisan Gallery Curator
Margaret Denny is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her dissertation, From Commerce to Art: American Women Photographers, 1850-1900, investigates women’s experience as fine art photographers and professional studio photographers in the early days of the medium.

She teaches at both Columbia College and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her recent publications include essays in the anthology The Spaces and Places of Fashion 1800-2007 and the Journal of Illinois History. Denny is a former Terra Foundation fellow and has worked at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. For the Terra, she curated "En Plein Air, American Artists in Giverny" in 2003.