M o l l y B r i g g s
RESIDENCE
1515 W. Park Avenue
Champaign, Illinois 61821
(217) 359-4223 (studio)
(773) 480-4730 (mobile)
EDUCATION
1998 M.F.A., Printmaking, Department of Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University
1991 B.F.A., Department of Painting, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Clearing, Zg Gallery, Chicago
2007 Projections, Zg Gallery, Chicago
2006 Fabula: North Avenue, I-Space Gallery, Chicago
2004 Zg Gallery, Chicago
2002 Fassbender Stevens Gallery, Chicago
2001 Fassbender Gallery, Chicago
2000 Standard Gallery, Chicago
1999 Fassbender Gallery, Chicago
1999 Habitat, Fassbender Gallery Annex, Chicago
1998 M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Northwestern University
Represented by Zg Gallery, Chicago
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Clusterf*ck, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008
Annual School of Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
New Views: Nature Captured, DuPont Gallery I, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
C.W. Briggs, Vicki Briggs and Molly Briggs, Cinema Gallery, Champaign, Illinois
Group Think, Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2007
Gallery Artists, Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2006
Bridge Art Fair Miami ’06 (satellite show concurrent with Art Basel Miami), The Catalina Hotel, Room 202, Miami, FL; represented by Zg Gallery Chicago, participating by invitation
(un)Natural History: 400 Years of Oddities, Curiosities and Exaggerations in the Pursuit of Beauty and Nature, Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Art Chicago at the Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois
Zg Summer Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2005
Invisible Worlds, Evanston Art Center, Curated by John Brunetti, Evanston, Illinois
Art Chicago, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois
Flora, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana
On the Mark: Chicago Printmakers Collaborative 1989 – 2004, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
2004
PIECES: Compositions of Accumulation, Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Paper Cut, Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2002
Recent Work, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, Illinois
Art Chicago, represented by Fassbender Stevens Gallery, Chicago
2001
Small Treasures, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago
Look! Paint, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio
Serendipity, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago
Artists and Alumni, The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois (exhibition catalogue)
2000
Art of Wega: Escape, various locations in Chicago and New York City
The Chicago Printmakers Collaborative: A Decade of Printmaking, Belloc Lowndes Fine Art, Chicago
Foto Flo, Standard Gallery, Chicago
1999
30 times 15” x 15”, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago
The Art of Collecting, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
Small Print Show, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago
Unlimited Editions: Prints from Anchor Press and The Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, Illinois
1998
Small Print Show, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago
100 Proof: Experimental Printmaking, The Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago
Off Guard, The Colfax Studios, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Unsettled, Nonsettled, Resettled – Graduate Exhibition, Northwestern University Settlement House, Chicago
Eighth Annual Art Against AIDS Benefit, The Drake Hotel, Chicago
1997
Summer Exhibition, Main Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
Seventh Annual Art Against AIDS Benefit, The Drake Hotel, Chicago
Promise Benefit, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago (also served as benefit coordinator)
Graduate Exhibition, Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Norris Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Art in CAS, College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
2008 – Present
University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign (UIUC)
Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design, College of Fine and Applied Art
Interim Chair, Nan Goggin
2007 – Present
Caladium Editions, Champaign, IL
Master Printer and co-founder
2007
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Lecturer, Department of Art Theory and Practice
Department Chair, Jeanne Dunning
Lecturer, School of Continuing Studies
Dean, Thomas F. Gibbons
2000 – 2005
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design, College of Art and Architecture
Department Chair, Professor Marcia Lausen
1998 – 2000
Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
Instructor
Director, Deborah Maris Lader
2000
The New van Straaten Gallery, Chicago
Curator
Owner, William van Straaten
1998 – 1999
Northwestern University College
Instructor, Department of Art Theory and Practice
Vice Dean, Louise Love
August 1998
Riverhouse Editions, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Printer (Consultancy in association with The Block Museum, Northwestern University)
Master Printer, Susan Hover Oehme
1997– 1998
Northwestern University
Teaching Assistant, Department of Art Theory & Practice
Chair, William Conger
1997 – 1998
Big Cat Press, Chicago
Printer
Owner, artist Tony Fitzpatrick
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008
New American Paintings, Midwest Edition, Featured Artist. Curator, Raphaela Platow.
2007
Cassidy, Victor, “Molly Briggs at Zg”, Art in America, September 2007, p. 172
2006
Lawton, Jenny, “Eight Forty-Eight” Three to See segment, Chicago Public Radio, December 14, 2006
Artner, Alan, “Trees Along North Avenue Become a Spare Landscape, Chicago Tribune, Art: Reviews, November 24, 2006
New American Paintings, Featured Artist, Midwest Edition
2004
Hawkins, Margaret, “Spoonful of ‘Poppins’ Helps Briggs’ Paintings Go Down,” Chicago Sun-Times, Friday, November 5, 2004, ‘Weekend’ section, p. 6.
Workman, Michael, “Mother Mary,” New City, October 14, 2004, p. 15.
2002
Mahajan, Rohit, “Geography of Memory, Scenes of Science,” The Life, Arts and Entertainment, February 6, 2002, p. 26.
2001
Tranberg, Dan, “Abstract Painters Make the Medium Their Own,” The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Arts & Life, November 26, 2001
Grabner, Michelle,“Reviews: Serendipity,” New Art Examiner, November/December 2001
“Recommend: Serendipity,” New Art Examiner, July/August 2001, p. 22.
Maes, Nancy, “Portrait of the Artists,” Northwestern Magazine, Summer 2001, pp. 12 - 19.
Stein, Lisa, ”Rising Stars of the Art World: Shaping MFAs at Weinberg,” Cross Currents, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, Spring 2001, pp. 9 –12.
Cassidy, Victor M., “Double-ness”, artnet.com, March 19, 2001.
Finch, Leah, “Eric Dimas and Molly Briggs at Standard,” New Art Examiner, v. 28, n. 4, December/January 2000/2001, pp. 47 – 48.
2000
Stodder, Lisa,“Profile: Molly Briggs,” UIC News (University of Illinois at Chicago), v. 19, n. 11, November 1, 2000, p. 3.
Fuller, Janet Rausa, “Thirteen Rising Stars: Portraits of the Chicago Artists as Up-and-Coming Visual Forces,” Chicago Sun-Times, October 8, 2000, Section E, pp. 1, 14-15.
Bulka, Michael, “5 Shows to See Now” and “Tip of the Week: Eric Dimas and Molly Briggs, Playing Jedi Mind Tricks on You,” New City, September 28, 2000, pp. 22 –23
Weinstein, Michael, New City, February 10, 2000, p. 44
1999
Carli, Vittorio, “Habitat,” Dialog: Voicing the Arts, November/December 1999
COLLECTIONS, GRANTS, AWARDS
2006
Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Art & Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago
2004
Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) Grant, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Chicago
2001
Public Collection, The Graduate School, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
2001
Public Collection, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
1999– 2000
Teaching Assistant Fellow, Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
1998– 1999
Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts (CIRA) Grant, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
1996 – 1998
Full tuition scholarship with teaching assistantship, Department of Art Theory & Practice, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
LECTURES/PANELS
2008
Guest critic, Junior Painting Final Critiques, Department of Fine and Applied Art, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, April 28
“Beauty and Landscape,” panel discussion moderated by curator J. Susan Isaacs, part of Interrogating Beauty: the First Annual Gretchen Huepfel Memorial Symposium, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, Delaware, April 11 - 12
2006
“Beyond Boundaries, Beyond Landscape: Anna Joelsdottir, Martina Nehrling and Molly Briggs discuss their work, their process and inspiration as they relate to the seemingly disparate genres of landscape painting and abstraction,” Zg Gallery, Chicago, Saturday, October 7, 2006
2005
Lecture for the University of Illinois at Chicago October Arts Month Artist’s Series, A. Montgomery Ward Gallery, Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Lecture for assistant professor Olivia Petrides’s “Narrative Landscape” painting class at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 26, 2005
Visiting artist in the M.F.A. studio art and B.F.A. printmaking programs at New York University, New York, April 7, 2005
Panel discussion with artists participating in the exhibition Invisible Worlds at the Evanston Art Center, February 27, 2005; moderated by John Brunetti
2004
Lecture for students in Margaret Hawkins’s critical writing seminar at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2004
Lecture for students in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Emerita Professor Sarah Krepp’s interdisciplinary critique/seminar, October 2004
Gallery lecture concurrent with solo exhibition, Zg Gallery, October 2004
2000
Video interview concurrent with The Art of Wega exhibition, sponsored by Sony Electronics, aired in various public venues in Chicago and New York City
CHRONOLOGY OF TEACHING
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Art and Design
August 2008 – Present
ArtF 102 Drawing 1, Foundations Program (2 sections)
ArtF 104 Drawing 2, Foundations Program (2 sections)
Northwestern University, Department of Art Theory and Practice
January 2007 – March 2007
Art 232-0 Intaglio Printmaking
Art 390-0 Special Topics in Art: Multiples
Northwestern University, School of Continuing Studies
January 2007 – March 2007
Art 231-CN Relief Printmaking
University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Design
August 2000 – December 2005
AD102 Beginning Drawing
AD209 Color Theory
AD251 Printmaking I
AD252 Printmaking II
AD253 Intaglio
AD351 Printmaking III (includes graduate enrollment)
AD406 Independent Study (includes graduate enrollment)
AD406 Special Topics in Printmaking: Monotype
AD451 Advanced Printmaking (includes graduate enrollment)
Chicago Printmakers Collaborative
September 1998 – August 2000
Intaglio Printmaking
Monotype Printmaking
Northwestern University College
January 1998 – May 1999
2406 – C32 Intaglio Printmaking
2406 – C33 Lithography
Northwestern University, Department of Art Theory and Practice
Teaching Assistantships September 1997 – June 1998
406 – B50 – I & II Basic Photography I & II
406 – C33 Lithography