Carolynn Desch
6 East Scott Street, #3
Chicago, IL  60610
312-337-7957
carolynndesch@gmail.com

 

EDUCATION
            University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, M.F.A. in Metalsmithing, 1994.
            University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, B.F.A., 1967.

AWARDS
            Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award, 2000, $7000 award level
            Craft National 30, 1996, Cash Prize

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
            Interior, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL, May 1st to May 25th  2005
            Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL, April 1999
            Carolynn Desch:  Nature Re-collected, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, March -May, 1997
           Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, September 1997

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Frippery, Kaohsiung Musuem of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, October 17, 2009

2008
Frippery, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI, June 6 to July 13, 2008

2007
Frippery, Cardinal Stritch College, Milwaukee, WI, July 27 to September 7, 2007; 
            New Mexico State University, Los Cruses, New Mexico, October 26 to December 8, 2007

2004
Brain/Body, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL, January 9th to February 7th, Curated by Susan Sensemann.

2003
Touch, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL, March 7th to April 11th, 2003, curated by Susan Sensemann
Discrete, Riverside Art Center, Chicago, IL, February 14th to March 15th, 2003, curated by Julie Laffin

2002
Second Nature, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas, January 8th to March 15th 2002, curated by Rachelle Thiewes

2001           
Lapsus Linguæ, Slip of the Tongue, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL, November 1 to December 1, 2001
Size Matters, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL, March 1 to March 24th, 2001

2000
Welcome, Wave Hill, Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, NY, May 7th – August 20th 2000, curated  by Jennifer McGregor
2000 Evanston and Vicinity 15th Biennial Exhibition, Evanston, IL, March 12th – May 10th, 2000, curated by Gregory G. Knight and Elisabeth Smith

1999
happen.stance, Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland, November 11 to December 5, 1999, curated by Karen Indeck
Exhibition In Print, Metalsmith Magazine, Winter 1999
It’s The Touch, Contemporary Art Center of Peoria,  Peoria, IL, May 1999

1998           
The Metal Muse,   South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend , IN, October 24 - December  6, 1998.
More Is More,   Kunstlerhaus,  Hamburg, Germany, October 9, 1998 - November 7, 1998.
Metalsmithing In The New Millennium,   Danforth Gallery, Portland, MA, Sept. 11th - October 4th, 1998.
Bounderies,  Faeroernes Kunstmuseum, Torshavn, Faeroe Island, August, 1998

1997
Members Show,   Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL , December, 1997

1996
Craft National 30,   Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, University Park, PA, June 2 - July 21, 1996.
Hero’s, Women Who Inspire, Fine Arts Gallery, Texas Women’s University, Denton, TX., February 20 to March 15, 1996.

1995
Good Girls/Naughty Women, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland, December 1995.
Text/Context, Indiana University-Northwest, Gary Indiana, October 1995.
Special exhibition of works from Exhibition In Print, Sofa Chicago, 1995, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois.
Women, Impressions/Expressions, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR, February 17 through March 25, 1995.
           
1994
Exhibition In Print,  Metalsmith Magazine, Winter 1994.
Graduate Thesis Show, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, April, 1994           

CURATORIAL
           
Kaiwu – Enlightening Materials, Contemporary Metalwork from Taiwan, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago,   IL, , Co-curators: Hai-Chi Jihn, Meiing Hsu, Carolynn Desch, Nov. 2 – 25, 2000

Bodysmiths: The Body and Culture, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL, November 1999           

Spotlight On the Arts, Members show, Fox Valley Arts Council, February 1996, and 1997.

AFFILIATIONS

Artemisia Gallery, past president
Contemporary Arts Council, Board Member, Exhibition Chair, 2002/2003;   President, 2004-2005
Society of North American Goldsmiths