Christine Ilewski

436 Bluff Street

Telephone: 618-465-2528 Alton, IL 62002

www.ilewski.com email:cilewski@juno.com

Education:

1988 University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI; BFA, Prints and Drawing.

1989 University of Southern Illinois, Edwardsville, IL; MFA work in Prints.

1990 University of Southern Illinois, Edwardsville, IL; BS, Art Education, K-12

1994 Lindenwood College, St. Charles, MO; MFA work, painting

Major Exhibitions:

2009-10 Faces …Portraits of Children Murdered by hand guns, (ongoing solo project) exhibited at the Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, MO,…juried by Yolanda Lopez

2009 Ossia Fine Art Space, Chicago, IL, group summer exhibit

2009 Swanson Reed Gallery, Louisville, KY, group exhibit

2009 Brewington Gallery, St. Louis, MO, group exhibit

2009.Jacoby Art Center, Alton, IL, Award of Excellence invitational

2008 Florissant Valley Com. College, Solo Exhibit

2008 Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL Emerging Artists exhibit

2008-9 B Studio, Three Oaks, MI, summer group exhibit

2008 Ossia Fine Arts Space, Chicago, IL , Solo exhibit, www.ossiaspace.com

2008-10 WCA International Show, St. Louis, juried

2007 St. Louis Speaks Up, Democracy Now , St. Louis Regional Arts Center, invitational

2007 Gallery of Contemporary Art at Forest Park CC, St. Louis, MO, Solo Exhibit

2007 Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL,. Juried

2006 IL State Gallery-Rend Lake, Color It Pink, Invitational

2005 Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, Watercolor USA, Juried

2005 Left Bank Books, St. Louis, MO, Solo Exhibit

2004 Northbrook Art Assoc. Northbrook, IL ,Lit, Liberty and Art, Juried, poster image

2004 Mosaique Gallery, St. Louis, MO, Solo Exhibit

2003 Women’s Institute and Gallery, New Harmony, IN, Solo Exhibit

2003 Saint Louis Univ. Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, Invitational

2002-10 IL State Galleries, R.J. Thompson Center, Rend Lake, Springfield; IL State Artisan 2002

2002 WCA, MO,IA,IL,NA, Daughters, Invational, traveling1999,

2001-3,5 Mitchell Museum, Southern IL Biennial, Mt. Vernon, IL Juried

2001 Park Avenue Gallery, St. Louis, MO—Solo Exhibit

2001 Pensacola Art Museum, Pensacola, FL—Invitational

2001 Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL—Invitational

2001 Millstone Gallery, St. Louis, MO, Dance of Intimacy—Solo Exhibit

2001 Lemp Gallery, St. Louis, MO, Venus Envy III—Invitational

2000 Innsbrook Conference Center, Innsbrook, MO—St. Louis Women Artist Exhibit curated by Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, St. Louis Art Museum—Invitational

2000 JCC Gallery Show, St. Louis, MO–The Eye of the Beholder–Solo Exhibit

2000 Park Avenue Gallery, St. Louis, MO – Solo Exhibit

2000 Skokie Art Center, Chicago, IL—Juried

2000 Lemp Gallery, St. Louis, MO Venus Envy II—Invitational

2000 15th Annual Greater Midwest International Show, Warrensburg, MO–Juried

1999 North Gallery, St. Louis, MO—Solo Exhibit

1999 St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Louis, MO—Missouri Millennium—Juried

1999 WCA International Show, St. Louis, MO—Contemporary Women Artists XI—Juried

1999 Arts Vision Inc., Chicago, IL—The World of the Spiritual—reviewed

1998 Art St. Louis at Hot Locust, St. Louis, MO—Solo Exhibit

1997-8 Art St. Louis XIII, St. Louis, MO—Juried

1997 Towata Gallery, Alton, IL—Solo Exhibit

1997 University of Missouri/Columbia, Columbia, MO—Missouri Women in the Arts—Invitational

Bibliography:

2009 Lali French art bog. Www.lali.toutsimplement.be/?p=11551

2009 Chicago Art Examiner, review of Damsels at Ossia Fine Art by Darrell Roberts

2008 Factio Magazine,Fashion's Artistic Flair by Georgia Bistolaridis

2007 St. Louis Post Dispatch, Beautiful and Complex Artwork..by Jane Henerson

2003 Evansville Courier Press, Gallery review of Women’s Institute solo

2002 Belleville News Democrat, Visions of Fine Art, Suzanne Boyle,

2002 The Telegraph, Our Girls, by Vicki Bennington

2001 Alton Telegraph, Alton’s “Petite Boulevard” by Dave Whaley

2000 Alton Telegraph, The Eye of the Beholder Review by Corey Schulte

2000 Innsbrook St. Louis Women Artist Exhibition Catalog, Olivia Lahs Gonzales

1999 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Remaining Fluid, Review

1999 www.artscope.net, Review of The World of the Spiritual, Chicago, Illinois

1998 Belleville News Democrat, Sunday Edition Feature page, Review, Transplant

1997 Jeff Daniel on Art, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Showcase Show Runs the Gamut

Represented:

IL Artisan Gallery, Chicago IL

Swanson Reed Gallery, Louisville, KY

Contemporary Art Center, New Harmony, IN

Brewington Gallery, St. Louis, MO

B Studio, Three Oaks, Michigan

Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL