SELECTED
EXHIBITS
We Remember Them,
Boocoo Cultural Center, Evanston, IL 2011
Exquisite Corpse,
Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL 2011
Eclectic: Works on Paper,
Gallery G, Glencoe, IL 2011
Art is Alive in Highland Park,
The Art Center, Highland Park, IL 2011
“Best of Show” award
Members Only,
Gallery G, Glencoe, IL 2010
Highland Park Art Walk,
Highland Park, IL 2010
Visiting Artist, Woodlands Academy,
Lake Forest, IL, 2009
Image and Word,
The Art Center, Highland Park, IL 2009
Hand Made Prints,
Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL, 2009
One-Horse Press Group Show,
Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL 2008
Ten Days in May,
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2007
One of One: Prints Like No Other,
Spudnik Press, Chicago 2007
Peace Tower,
part of Mark di Suvero: Works and Protest, Chicago 2007
The Man Show,
Mars Gallery, Chicago 2007
Fully Caffeinated,
Pick-A-Cup Coffee House, Evanston, IL 2007
Under the Influence,
Line Drive Gallery, Evanston, IL, 2005
Chicago Art Open,
Chicago, IL 2003, 2004, 2005
..for you were a stranger....,
Hot House gallery space,
Chicago, IL, curated by Rick Tuttle, 2004
Peggy Shearn, Subterranean Subversive (solo show),
Aaron Freeman Gallery, Highland Park, IL 2003
Verses, Volumes, Vision: Art and the Written Word,
Juried Show of the Northbrook Arts Commission;
Northbrook Public Library, Northbrook, IL, 2003
Multiple Visions,
Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL, 2003
Ox Bow Benefits, Chicago 2000-2002
My work has been published in EAST ON CENTRAL,
A Journal of Arts and Letters,
and was featured on the cover of the 2007 issue
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1971-1974 Studied languages and political science at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. Studied layout and design, production, typography at Laney College, Oakland, CA. Worked with an alternative publishing collective in Berkeley, CA.
1977-1979 Worked as a typesetter at a commercial art and photography studio in Chicago, studied calligraphy and brush lettering through the Chicago Calligraphy Collective, Newberry Library and at suburban art centers.
1979-1992 While rearing children I did free-lance copy writing, graphic design & production work, package design, hand lettering, English and Hebrew calligraphy and illustration
1992-1994 Columbia College in Chicago in drawing, design, desktop publishing and computer graphics
1995 – present Studied (darkroom) photography with Arthur Lazar at Lake Forest College and subsequently participated in his critique groups. I have worked at the Evanston Art Center’s printmaking studio the past several years, making intaglio prints and lithographs, and continue to paint and draw. Currently studying with painter David Gista.
We Remember Them,
Boocoo Cultural Center, Evanston, IL 2011
Exquisite Corpse,
Fulton Street Collective, Chicago, IL 2011
Eclectic: Works on Paper,
Gallery G, Glencoe, IL 2011
Art is Alive in Highland Park,
The Art Center, Highland Park, IL 2011
“Best of Show” award
Members Only,
Gallery G, Glencoe, IL 2010
Highland Park Art Walk,
Highland Park, IL 2010
Visiting Artist, Woodlands Academy,
Lake Forest, IL, 2009
Image and Word,
The Art Center, Highland Park, IL 2009
Hand Made Prints,
Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL, 2009
One-Horse Press Group Show,
Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL 2008
Ten Days in May,
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2007
One of One: Prints Like No Other,
Spudnik Press, Chicago 2007
Peace Tower,
part of Mark di Suvero: Works and Protest, Chicago 2007
The Man Show,
Mars Gallery, Chicago 2007
Fully Caffeinated,
Pick-A-Cup Coffee House, Evanston, IL 2007
Under the Influence,
Line Drive Gallery, Evanston, IL, 2005
Chicago Art Open,
Chicago, IL 2003, 2004, 2005
..for you were a stranger....,
Hot House gallery space,
Chicago, IL, curated by Rick Tuttle, 2004
Peggy Shearn, Subterranean Subversive (solo show),
Aaron Freeman Gallery, Highland Park, IL 2003
Verses, Volumes, Vision: Art and the Written Word,
Juried Show of the Northbrook Arts Commission;
Northbrook Public Library, Northbrook, IL, 2003
Multiple Visions,
Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL, 2003
Ox Bow Benefits, Chicago 2000-2002
My work has been published in EAST ON CENTRAL,
A Journal of Arts and Letters,
and was featured on the cover of the 2007 issue
________________________________________
1971-1974 Studied languages and political science at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. Studied layout and design, production, typography at Laney College, Oakland, CA. Worked with an alternative publishing collective in Berkeley, CA.
1977-1979 Worked as a typesetter at a commercial art and photography studio in Chicago, studied calligraphy and brush lettering through the Chicago Calligraphy Collective, Newberry Library and at suburban art centers.
1979-1992 While rearing children I did free-lance copy writing, graphic design & production work, package design, hand lettering, English and Hebrew calligraphy and illustration
1992-1994 Columbia College in Chicago in drawing, design, desktop publishing and computer graphics
1995 – present Studied (darkroom) photography with Arthur Lazar at Lake Forest College and subsequently participated in his critique groups. I have worked at the Evanston Art Center’s printmaking studio the past several years, making intaglio prints and lithographs, and continue to paint and draw. Currently studying with painter David Gista.