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Marlena Novak

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Education

  • M.F.A., Art Theory and Practice Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
  • B.F.A., Carnegie–Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Multimedia Exhibitions and Presentations

2004

  • Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts; Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct; Digital video: Dancing Cranes, Duluth, MN

2003

  • Mondriaanhuis: Museum for Constructive and Concrete Art; The Trees of Pythagoras: Concrete Art and Mathematics; Digital still prints and video installation: Dancing Cranes installation; Amersfoort, The Netherlands
    Exhibition catalogue published: Digital Illuminated Cel: Dancing Cranes.
     
  • Tweed Art Museum; Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct; Digital video: Dancing Cranes, Duluth, MN
    Publication: to follow
     
  • Museum Het Domein; Project: Soundlab; Digital video: Dancing Cranes; Sittard, The Netherlands
     
  • Museum Het Domein te Sittard, Soundlab; Digital video Dancing Cranes, Sittard, The Netherlands
  • Mondriaanhuis, The Trees of Pythagoras: Concrete Art and Mathematics; Digital video: Dancing Cranes, Museum for Constructive and Concrete Art; Amersfoort, The Netherlands
  • Art Chicago International Expo 2003, Klein Art Works;  Digital video “Dancing Cranes”, Chicago, IL

2002

  • Castle of the Prince of Pomerania; Szczecin, Poland, Transcultural Visions: Polish-American Contemporary Art; Digital video: Fluid Mechanics; Szczecin, Poland
  • Math/Art Art/Math, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design; Digital video: Fluid Mechanics; Sarasota, Florida
  • soundSCAPES and interACTORS, A+D 11th Street Gallery, Columbia College, Digital video installation: Dancing Cranes, Chicago, IL
  • Streetlevel Gallery, Digital videos: Dancing Cranes and Fluid Mechanics; Chicago, IL
  • Hart Recital Hall, Digital video: Fluid Mechanics; Central Missouri State Uiversity, Kansas City

2001

  • Intersections of Art & Science, Digital video: Soku, University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia
  • Lotte Lehman Hall, Digital video: Soku, University of California, Santa Barbara

2000

  • Loughborough University, UK, Year of the Artist Collaborative Grant (Arts Council of Great Britain), residency at LUTCHI, Creativity and Cognition Research Studios; Dancing Cranes: digital video with collaborative components of music; Loughborough, UK

1998

  • Mary and Leigh Block Museum, performance: Thresholds; computer-generated video installation with collaborative components of music and text. Funded by a grant from the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in The Arts, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
  • Selected Solo Exhibits
  • 2003

    • Davis Museum and Cultural Center; Sept. 2003, Project room, Digital video: Dancing Cranes, Wellesley, Massachusetts

    1999

    • Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL

    1998

    • Galerie Ucher, Köln, D

    1997

    • Galerie Waszkowiak, Berlin, D

    1995

    • Galerie Vromans, Amsterdam, NL

    1994

    • Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, IL

    1993

    • Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN

    1992

    • MC Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

    1991

    • Esther Saks Gallery, Chicago, IL

    1990

    • Wabash College Fine Arts Center, Crawfordsville, IN
    • C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, Evanston, IL
    • Gallery 1616, Chicago, IL
  • Selected Group Exhibits
  • 2003

    • Fire Patrol No. 5 Gallery; New York, NY; Rhythm of Structure: MathArt in Harlem

    2002

    • Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design; Sarasota, FL, Encaustic installation; Math/Art Art/Math
    • Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL; Art Chicago International Expo 2002

    2001

    • Galerie Ucher, Encaustic installation, Köln, D
    • Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL; Encaustics
    • Hyde Park Art Center,  Encaustic installation; Chicago, IL; Transcultural Visions: Polish-American Contemporary Art

    2000

    • Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL; Art Chicago International Expo 2000
    • Galerie Ucher, Köln, D; Farbe und Schatten: Kyncl, Lattgen, Novak, Stachel, Terhuven

    1999

    • Science reflected in the Arts–Art in the Sciences, UNESCO-ICSU World Conference on Science, Budapest, Hungary
    • Galerie Beeld & Aambeeld, Enschede, NL
    • Galerie Ucher, Köln, D; Struktur
    • Margin Gallery,; Chicago, IL; Butter
    • Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL

    1998

    • Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL, Abstract:Chicago
    • Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
    • Gallery 312, Chicago, IL; Chicago Artists 98

    1997

    • Museum Modern Art, Sammlung Jürgen Blum, Hünfeld, D
    • Barnes Institut, Stuttgart, D
    • Mindy Oh Gallery, New York, NY

    1996

    • Art Cologne-Galerie Waszkowiak, Köln, D (November)
    • Galerie Waszkowiak, Berlin, D; Discoveries
    • Galerie Beeld & Aambeeld, Enschede, NL
    • Galerie Nijhove, Diepenheim, NL
    • Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
    • Beaumont Fine Art, Berlicum, NL

    1995

    • Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, IL
    • Stichting Amazone, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Arte Piccola

    1994

    • Wabash College Fine Arts Center, Crawfordsville, IN; 20 Years of Collecting
    • Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
    • Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
    • Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
    • Bethany College Fine Art Center, Mankato, MN; Invitational
    • Greenpeace Fund Benefit, Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, IL; Sustainable Earth Art

    1993

    • Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL; Abstract:Chicago — Contemporary Chicago Abstraction
    • Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Invitational
    • John Sommers Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Nine on View
    • Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, IL
    • MC Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

    1992

    • Kay Garvey Gallery, Chicago, IL
    • Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA/Atlanta, GA
    • MC Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
    • Esther Saks Fine Art, Chicago, IL
    • Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
    • DePaul University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

    1991

    • Esther Saks Fine Art, Chicago, IL

    1990

    • Art Institute of Chicago, Betty Rymer Gallery; Paschke Picks
    • The Chicago Exhibit, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
    • Deson–Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
    • Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Art at the Big Ten
    • Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, GA
    • Carson Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

    1989

    • Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
    • East West Contemporary Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
    • AES Gallery, Chicago, IL

    1988

    • George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, MA
    • East West Contemporary Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

    1987

    • Gracie Mansion Gallery Museum Store, New York, New York
    • Rizzoli Bookstore Gallery, Chicago, IL; Art Now

    1986

    • Gracie Mansion Gallery Museum Store, New York, New York
    • Rockford Museum, Rockford, IL; The Fetish Object In Art
    • Union Art Gallery, Midwest Exchange; Milwaukee, WS

    1985

    • Universiade Kobe, Kobe, Japan; International ’85
    • A.R.C. Gallery, Labyrinth; Chicago, IL
    • Gracie Mansion Gallery Museum Store, New York, NY

    1984

    • Senator Paul Tsongas Suite, Government Center, Boston, MA; Five Cape Cod Artists
    • Harrisburg Museum, Harrisburg, PA

    1983

    • Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
    • Chatham Creative Center For The Arts, Invitational; Chatham, MA
    • Eye of Horus Gallery, Provincetown, MA
    • Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA

    1982

    • Pittsburgh Plan for Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA; New Talent Invitational
    • The Schoolhouse Gallery, Truro, MA
    • Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
    • Forbes Street Gallery, Carnegie–Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

    1981

    • Bird–In–The–Hand Gallery, Sewickley, PA

    1980

    • Design Center and Mendelssohn Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

    Bibliography

    2002

    • Explorations in Art and Technology, Editors: Linda Candy and Ernest Edmonds; Switched On (Chapter 23) by Marlena Novak; Publisher: Springer-Verlag, London, 2002 ISBN:1-85233-545-9

    2000

    • YLEM : A Newsletter for Artists Using Science and Technology, Contemporary Collaboratives; Dancing Cranes by Marlena Novak and Jay Alan Yim;Nov/Dec 2000 Vol.20/No.12.
    • Who’s Who in the World,  Millennium Edition (Reed Elsevier, New Providence, NJ 2000)

    1999

    • YLEM : A Newsletter for Artists Using Science and Technology, Jan/Feb 1999 Vol.19/No. 2.

    1997-01

    • Who’s Who in America, 52nd - 55th Edition (Reed Elsevier, New Providence, NJ 1997-2001)
    • Who’s Who of American Women, 20th Edition and Millennium Edition (Reed Elsevier, New Providence, NJ 1996-2000)

    1995

    • Ground Zero Productions, “Surfaces in Transition” documentary film on encaustic painting technique directed by Michael Hoffman, USA

    1992

    • WCBS–Minneapolis, October 1992, television interview, “Arts On 2”
    • Atlanta, July 1992, television interview

    1991

    • Chicago Tribune, May 31, “Gallery Scene”

    1990

    • New Art Examiner, December 1990, “Paschke Picks”
    • C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, newsletter, “Transformations”
    • The Block Newsletter, Spring 1990, Vol. 3, No.2, Northwestern University, “Art at the Big Ten”

    1986

    • Milwaukee Journal, January 26, “Northwestern Art”

    1984  

    • Provincetown Magazine, Provincetown, MA, “Art Exhibit at Senator’s Suite”

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