M o l l y B r i g g s
BORN Champaign, Illinois 1969
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
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
2008
School of Art + Design Faculty Art Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
New Views: Nature Captured, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
C.W. Briggs, Vicki Briggs and Molly Briggs, Cinema Gallery, Champaign, IL
Group Think, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006
Bridge Art Fair Miami ’06 (a satellite show during Art Basel Miami), The Catalina Hotel, room 202, Miami, Florida, represented by Zg Gallery Chicago, which participated by invitation
(un)Natural History: 400 Years of Oddities, Curiosities and Exaggerations in the Pursuit of Beauty and Nature, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Zg Summer Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
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
1993
Alumni Exhibition, The Illini Union, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
2008 - Present University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Art + Design, College of Fine + Applied Art
Interim Director, Nan Goggin
2007 - Present Caladium Editions, Champaign, IL
Co-founder, Master Printer
2007 Northwestern University
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 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
Summer 1999 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
Summer residency
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008 New American Paintings, Featured Artist, Midwest Edition, juried by 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, 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, Rosalyn Schwartz’s students, Department of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 28, 2008
“Beauty and Landscape”, panel discussion moderated by curator J. Susan Isaacs, as part of 2-day symposium, Interrogating Beauty: the First Annual Gretchen Huepfel Memorial Symposium, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, Delaware, April 11 - 12, 2008
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
2005 Lecture for assistant professor Olivia Petrides’s “Narrative Landscape” painting class at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 26, 2005
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
2005 Panel discussion with artists included 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
2004 Lecture for students in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Emerita Professor Sarah Krepp’s interdisciplinary critique/seminar, October 2004
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 + Design
August 2008 -- Present
ArtF 102 Drawing 1
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