Artist Renee Prisble Una

Renee Prisble Una – Artist Statement

My work explores personal experience, feeling and observation through materials that are appropriate to each expression. In my work I distill the observed into minimal forms of sculpture and installation created from only essential elements. My work is not about creating; but about noticing, focusing and distilling relationships.

Creating this encaustic series drew on my interest in the body and skin, which are reoccurring elements in my work in sculpture and installation. The use of wax to explore the body and skin was inspired by the anatomical waxes of Museo La Specola in Florence as published in Encyclopedia Anatomica. The circle format references petri dishes and microscopic imagery. This series of medically influenced encaustics explore the anatomy and my experience using both the graceful and the grotesque.

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Education

2008 Northeastern Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 NAB Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Biological Cartography, The International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
2001 Impression, John Woods Studio, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

Group:

2008 Method to Madness, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
2007 ArtXposium 2007, West Chicago, IL
2007 Oh My God, South Union Arts, Chicago, IL
2007 Jay-Walking, The Polish Museum of America, Chicago, IL
2006 Chicago Prayer Wheel Project, McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum, Chicago, IL
2006 Chicago Prayer Wheel Project, Daley Plaza, Chicago, IL
2005 Eightfold, Open End, Chicago, IL
2004 Open End, Chicago, IL
2003 Broadcast Newspace, Portland, OR
2002 Somatic Building MFA Thesis Exhibit, Art Site at The Davies Building, Wellsville, NY
2001 Oscillating Perspectives, Art Site at The Davies Building, Wellsville, NY
2001 Pieces of the Whole, Art Site at The Davies Building, Wellsville, NY
2000 Topographies, Art Site at The Davies Building, Wellsville, NY
1999 New York Mills Sculpture Park, New York Mills, MN
1998 Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
1998 Body Builder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Awards

2007 Chicago CAAP Grant, Chicago, IL
2005 Chicago CAAP Grant, Chicago, IL
2004 Chicago CAAP Grant, Chicago, IL
2003 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2000 New York State Foundation for the Arts: Special Opportunity Stipend

Publications

2006 Chicago Public Radio interview for Eight Forty-Eight, WBEZ Chicago, IL
2006 In These Times, Art Space, Vol. 30, Issue 11

Professional Experience

2007 Juror, Mchenry County College Gallery
2007 Visiting Artist, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
2006 Visiting Artist, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL
2004 Visiting Artist, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS
2003 Visiting Artist, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
2003 Residency, Aspen Guard Station Artist, Mancos, CO
1998 Internship, Franconia Sculpture, Park Franconia, MN



	Renee Prisble Una – Artist Statement My work explores personal experience, feeling and observation through materials that are appropriate to each expression. In my work I distill the observed into minimal forms of sculpture and installation created from only essential elements. My work is not about creating; but about noticing, focusing and distilling relationships. Creating this encaustic series drew on my interest in the body and skin, which are reoccurring elements in my work in sculpture and installation. The use of wax to explore the body and skin was inspired by the anatomical waxes of Museo La Specola in Florence as published in Encyclopedia Anatomica. The circle format references petri dishes and microscopic imagery. This series of medically influenced encaustics explore the anatomy and my experience using both the graceful and the grotesque. Resume Education 2000-02 Alfred University School of Art and Design NYSCC 1998 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1995 BA, Loyola University, Chicago, IL Exhibitions Solo: 2008 Northeastern Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL 2007 NAB Gallery, Chicago, IL 2007 Biological Cartography, The International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL 2001 Impression, John Woods Studio, Alfred University, Alfred, NY Group: 2008 Method to Madness, Links Hall, Chicago, IL 2007 ArtXposium 2007, West Chicago, IL 2007 Oh My God, South Union Arts, Chicago, IL 2007 Jay-Walking, The Polish Museum of America, Chicago, IL 2006 Chicago Prayer Wheel Project, McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum, Chicago, IL 2006 Chicago Prayer Wheel Project, Daley Plaza, Chicago, IL 2005 Eightfold, Open End, Chicago, IL 2004 Open End, Chicago, IL 2003 Broadcast Newspace, Portland, OR 2002 Somatic Building MFA Thesis Exhibit, Art Site at The Davies Building, Wellsville, NY 2001 Oscillating Perspectives, Art Site at The Davies Building, Wellsville, NY 2001 Pieces of the Whole, Art Site at The Davies Building, Wellsville, NY 2000 Topographies, Art Site at The Davies Building, Wellsville, NY 1999 New York Mills Sculpture Park, New York Mills, MN 1998 Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN 1998 Body Builder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL Awards 2007 Chicago CAAP Grant, Chicago, IL 2005 Chicago CAAP Grant, Chicago, IL 2004 Chicago CAAP Grant, Chicago, IL 2003 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Alfred University, Alfred, NY 2000 New York State Foundation for the Arts: Special Opportunity Stipend Publications 2006 Chicago Public Radio interview for Eight Forty-Eight, WBEZ Chicago, IL 2006 In These Times, Art Space, Vol. 30, Issue 11 Professional Experience 2007 Juror, Mchenry County College Gallery 2007 Visiting Artist, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL 2006 Visiting Artist, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL 2004 Visiting Artist, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS 2003 Visiting Artist, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 2003 Residency, Aspen Guard Station Artist, Mancos, CO 1998 Internship, Franconia Sculpture, Park Franconia, MN





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