Art & Art History
Emerging Artists from North Suburban High Schools
Gallery 400
400 South Peoria Street, Chicago, IL 60607
Emerging Artists from North Suburban High Schools showcases the work of young artists from high schools in the northern Chicagoland area.
CURATOR BIOGRAPHY
Phyllis Bramson is an established Chicago painter and art educator. Her playful paintings depict sexual relationships and scenes from eastern mythology with an unusual, emotional sense of color. Since 1985, Bramson has been a professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Illinois Chicago. She has had multiple solo exhibitions at various institutions, including G. W. Einstein Gallery, New York (1991); Dart Gallery, Chicago (1992); and Brody’s Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1993); among many other venues. Bramson has also been featured in group exhibitions such as Already Buddha, Greenville County Museum, South Carolina (1993); The Home Show, Center for Creative Studies, Center Galleries, Detroit. Michigan (1992); and Cross Currents, Smart Museum, University of Chicago (1991). This is Bramson’s first curatorial project. She received a BFA with high honors in drawing and painting from the University of Illinois (1963), an MA in painting from the University of Wisconsin (1964), and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1974).