Nancy Charak

Nancy Charak makes art in a studio in the Ravenswood area of Chicago. Her painting The Dreamer and the Dream was recently in the Evanston+Vicinity Show 2010 Biennial. Another painting Rainbows End was juried into the Art Loop Open sponsored by the Chicago Loop Alliance and the Chicago Artists Coalition and exhibied at Block 37. She exhibited at Woman Made Gallery of Chicago in 2008 and juried their show Drawing on Experience. In May 2008, she had a solo exhibit, Resonance, at the University Center Gallery of the University of Montana in Missoula, and Marks in Time and Space at the Fred P. Giles Gallery of Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. Her work can also be seen at The Nines Gallery of Holland, Michigan. She is an affiliate member of the ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation, of Chicago, Illinois, one of the oldest women's' art cooperatives in the country.



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MFA, Painting and Drawing, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
BA, Photography and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Solo Exhibits
Marks in Time and Space, Fred P. Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, 2008
Drawing on Experience, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, 2008
Resonance, University Center Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula, 2008
Re Emergence, ARC Gallery, Chicago, 2006

Juried Exhibitions
Art Loop Open, Chicago, jurors Susan Aurinko, Theaster Gates, Mary Jane Jacob, Tricia Van Eyck, Rainbows End, Oct 15 - Nov 12, 2010.
Evanston+Vicinity Biennial Exhibition, jurors John Himmelfarb & Julie Rodrigues-Widholm, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois, The Dreamer and the Dream, May 23 - Jun 17, 2010.
WCA Members' Exhibition, Mid-West Regional, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Feb 3 - 27, 2009.
Lineal Investigations: a drawing show, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut, juror Robin Zella, Nov 9 - Dec 21, 2007.

Group Exhibitions
Collaboration- ARC Gallery Annual Members Exhibition, ARC Gallery, Chicago; collaboration with poet Jenene Ravesloot, Sestina-Variation, Oct 2010 and Blackbird, Oct 2009.
Summer Salon 2010, Organization of Independent Artists, New York Law School, New York, Jul 12-Aug 13, 2010; Members' Salon, 2006; Drawing, 2006; Abstraction, 2005.
Marks on Paper, Drawing and Sketch Show, Morpho Galler...