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L. J. Douglas
Born: Sellersville, PA, 1948Education
1977 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1975 BFA, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Solo Shows
2005 The Body Re-imagined, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
2004 Terra Derma, Eureka College, Eureka, IL
2002 Art and Design Gallery, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
1994-1995 Gallery A (currently Carrie Secrist Gallery) Chicago, IL
1990 Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1989-90 Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
Selected Group Shows
2003 Exquisite Snake, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 Me in Team, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
2004 So Square, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
2002 To Kiss The Spirits, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Gallery Artists, Gallery A, Chicago, IL
1999 Self-Portrait Show, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Interior Spaces Still Lives, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
1999 25th Anniversary Show, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Collaborations, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Gallery Artists, Gallery A, Chicago, IL
1996 Her Own Right, Gallery A, Chicago, IL
Selected Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, Artist Book Collection, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Artist Book Collection, Washington D.C.
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Artist Book Collection, Boston, MA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Artist Book Collection, Chicago, IL
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Artist Book Collection, Washington D.C.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Flash Artists’ Book Collection
New York Public Library Reserve Collection, Artist Book Collection, NY
Rhode Island School of Design, Artist’s Book Collection, Providence, RI
Johan Deumens Archive, Heemsteede, Netherlands
Garage Moderne, Paris, France
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
International Minerals & Chemicals, Chicago, IL
Westwood Management, Chicago, IL
Selected Bibliography
Kennedy, Laura, NPR radio interview, June 20, 2000
Hatcher, Alison, Interior Spaces Still Lives, catalog, McLean Country Arts Center, Bloomington, IL, 1999
Pascale, Mark, The Exquisite Corpse, catalog, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, 1999
Condon, Elisabeth, The New Art Examiner, September 1992, pp.30-31
McCraken, David, Exhibit Offers Glimpses of Artists’ Studios, Chicago Tribune, July 26, 1991
Brunetti, John, Dialogue, January/February, 1991, p. 17
Artner, Alan, Inventing Time: L.J. Douglas views the present to the past, Chicago Tribune, September 13, 1990
Stonitsch, Lonette, Views from Within, New Art Examiner, May 1990
Holg, Garrett, Views from Within, Illinois State Museum, catalogue, 1989
Donato, Debra, Good Painting: Contemporary Chicago Painters, State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago, IL, catalogue, 1988
McCracken, David, Its Hard to Classify, Good Painting Works, Chicago Tribune, April 1, 1988, sec. 7, p.52
Yood, James, ARTnews, November 1987
Abel, Jeff, New Art Examiner, November, 1987
Bonesteel, Michael, Realism Resurgence, Art in America, December 1986