Margaret
Suchland - Artist Statement
The making of artists books has been of interest to me for many years. As a printmaker and painter, I enjoy the process involved with artists books because of the flexibility it allows me of employing a wide range of mediums, materials and forms. My works are often unique book assemblages incorporating found objects. A sense of time, place, memory and the emotional connections within them are a recurring theme. These remnants from the past hold a clue that can reveal a “presence of an absence” - a past activity or relationship. My understanding and appreciation for these found objects are changed and enriched as I create new and unexpected meanings with them. As I move forward as an artist, the making of artists books will continue to be an integral part of my journey.
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Education
1992
BFA University of Wisconsin, Parkside, WI
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2000
BOOKS AND PRINTS- Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI
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1999
10 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE- Carthage College/Kenosha, WI - Edwin
C. Kalke/Chair Art Department/Gallery Director
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1998
Racine County Convention Center, Racine, WI
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1997
Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI
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1997
Seebeck Gallery, Kenosha, WI
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1993
Gallery 124, Kenosha, WI
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2007
She Objects! II: Women Who Make Objects, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
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2007
Second Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
- 2006
1st Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
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2006
19th NATIONAL SMALL PRINT SHOW, UWP, Kenosha, WI
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2006
BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, UWMilwaukee, WI
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2006
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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2006
Art Institute’s Joan Flasch Library, Chicago, IL
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2005
18th NATIONAL SMALL PRINT SHOW, UWP, Kenosha, WI
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2005
BOUND AND UNBOUND, Tohono Chul, Tucson, AZ
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2005
SALUTE TO THE AUDUBON, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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2005
REVISIONS, Tohono Chul, Tucson, AZ
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2004 17TH NATIONAL SMALL PRINT SHOW, UWP, Kenosha, WI
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2004
ARTISTS IN THE GARDEN, Tohono Chul, Tucson, AZ
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2004
ABC, Details & Green Shoelaces, Tucson, AZ
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2003
16TH NATIONAL SMALL PRINT SHOW, UWP, Kenosha, WI
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2002 15th NATIONAL SMALL PRINT SHOW, UWP, Kenosha, WI
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2001 14th NATIONAL SMALL PRINT SHOW, UWP, Kenosha, WI
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2001
FOR WOMEN ONLY, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI *
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2001
RAG TRIENNIAL, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, WI*
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2001
WATERCOLOR WISCONSIN, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, WI*
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2000
BOOK SHOW, San Francisco Center for the Book
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2000
13th NATIONAL SMALL PRINT SHOW, UWP, Kenosha, WI *
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2000
GROUP 2000, Anderson Art Center, Kenosha, WI
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2000
HEART ART, Seebeck Gallery, Kenosha, WI POSTCARD ART, Kohler Arts
Center, Sheboygan, WI
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1999
WINTER SHOW, Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI POINTING FINGERS, All
Digital Show, Vanguard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
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1999
BOOKS, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, IL
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1999
DIMENSIONS, Plymouth Art Foundation, Plymouth, WI
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1999
MIDWEST NATIONAL PRINT SHOW, Prairie Art Center, Arlington Heights,
IL
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1999
12TH NATIONAL SMALL PRINT SHOW, UWP, Kenosha, WI
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1999
RACINE AREA ARTS, Charles A. Wustum
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1999
Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
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1999
TRI-COUNTY PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT SHOW, Wustum Museum
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1999
STATEWIDE MEMBER SHOW, Lawton Gallery, UW Green Bay, WI
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1998
HAND-PULLED PRINTS VI, Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, TX
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1998
TRIENNIAL, Racine Art Guild, Wustum Museum, Racine, WI *
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1998
11TH NATIONAL SMALL PRINT SHOW ,UWP, Kenosha, WI
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1998
STATE OF THE BOOK, Golda Meir Library, UWMilwaukee, WI
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1997
FIELDS OF COLOR, Seebeck Gallery, Kenosha, WI
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1997
MIDWEST PRINT SHOW, Loyola University, Chicago, Il
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1997
THE VIEW FROM SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN, Wustum Museum, Racine, WI
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1997
VIRTUALLY THE FIRST, WP&S Worldwide Web Gallery
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1997
10TH MINI PRINT EXHIBIT, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY *
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1996
RACINE AREA ARTS, Wustum Art Museum, Racine, WI *
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1996
PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE, Layton Gallery, MIAD, Milwaukee, WI *
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1996
BOOKS, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, IL
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1996
LIGHT LET LOOSE, Columbia College Center for Book Arts, Chicago, IL
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1996
HAND-PULLED PRINTS, Stonemetal Press, San Antonio, TX
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1996
TEXTile, Textile Arts Center, Chicago, IL
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1995
WISCONSIN INVITATIONAL, UWParkside, Kenosha, WI
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1995
10TH MINI PRINT EXHIBIT, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
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1995
19TH NATIONAL PRINT EXHIBIT, Schenectady Museum NY
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1995
ART OF DIVERSITY, An Art Place, Chicago, Il
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1995
ARC NATIONAL ARTIST-MADE BOOKS ARC, Chicago, IL
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1995
10TH NATIONAL SMALL PRINT SHOW, UWP, Kenosha, WI
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1995
HAND-PULLED PRINTS, Stonemetal Press, San Antonio, TX
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1995
RACINE AREA ARTS, Wustum Art Museum, Racine, WI *
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1995
MIDWEST PRINT SHOW, Loyola University, Chicago, IL *
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1995
EXPERIMENTS BOOKARTS, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
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1995
ARTIST BOOKS, Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA
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1994
WP&S STATEWIDE MEMBERSHIP EXHIBITION, Bradley Gallery, Lakeland
College, Sheboygan, WI *
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1994
PAPER BOOKS, Minneapolis Center for Book Arts, MN
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1994
RACINE AREA ARTS, Wustum Art Museum, Racine, WI
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1994
STATELINE VICINITY EXHIBIT, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
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1994
WP&S STATEWIDE MEMBERSHIP SHOW
Rivers Edge Galleries & Sculpture Garden, Mishicot, WI
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1994
PAPER CLASSIC AGA Center for Visual Arts, Appleton, WI
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1994
READING ART/ARTIST BOOKS, UWM, Milwaukee, WI
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1994
WISCONSIN ARTISTS BIENNIAL, UWM/Lawrence University
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1994
MEMBERSHIP EXHIBIT, WP&S, Memorial Union, UWM, Madison, WI
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1994
ADORNMENTS AND ORNAMENTS, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
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2001
Watercolor Wisconsin - Purchase Award - Wustum Museum of Art, Racine,
WI
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2001
Watercolor Wisconsin- Cash Award of Excellence –Wustum Museum
of Art, Racine, WI
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2001
Racine Area Arts- American Frame Award
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2001
Racine Area Arts- Merit Cash Award
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1996
Racine Area Arts- Cash Award
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1995
North Shore Midwest Print Show - Purchase Award/Amoco Corporation
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1995
13th Parkside National Small Print Show - Purchase Award/University
of Wisconsin
Corporate
and Private Collections
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University of California, Davidson Library, Santa Barbara, CA
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University of Arizona, The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
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Texas Tech University, Southwest Collections, Lubbock, TX
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Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI
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Wisconsin
Natural Gas
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Johnson
Wax
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Wustum
Art Museum
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Case
Corporation
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University
of Wisconsin at Parkside
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Amoco
Corporation
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Joan
Flasch Artists Book Collection, Flaxman Library
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School
of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Golda
Meier Library, UWMilwaukee
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UCLA
Library, Los Angeles, CA
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