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I welcome price and studio visit inquiries John Minkoff Resume Born: NY, NY Resides: Evanston, IL Solo and Two-Person Shows Paintings and Pastels, Optima Horizons Gallery, Evanston, IL, 2007 Mystery Spot, John Minkoff and David Hannon, Mitchell Place Gallery, Muncie, IN, 2006 Recent Paintings and Pastels, Lyon College, Batesville, AR, 2002 John Minkoff: Paintings, University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2001 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2000 Group Exhibits Poetry Scores Invitational, Luminary Art Center, St, Louis, MO, 2009 Ravenswood Art Walk, Chicago, IL, 2009 17th Annual Juried Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY, Juror: Paul Resika, 2009 Poetry Scores Invitational, Hoffman LaChance Gallery, St. Louis, MO, 2008 Works on Paper, juried exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, 2007 Hoobellatoo Invitational, Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO, 2006 Feet Here, Mind Wandering, Line Drive Gallery, Evanston, IL, 2005 Faculty Shows, Harper College, Lake Forest College, Evanston Art Center, 2001, 2003 Pastel National 2002, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS, Juror: Wolf Kahn, 2002 58th juried Exhibition, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA, 2002 2000 Pound Gorilla, juried exhibition, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL, 2000 Living with Television, juried exhibition, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL, 1997 Education MFA, painting, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2000 BFA, painting and drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997 Teaching Adjunct Instructor, Drawing and Design, Harper College, Palatine, IL, 2002-present Adjunct Instructor, Design, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, 2003 Painting Instructor, Evanston Art Center, 2001-present Drawing Instructor, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL, 2005-present Collections
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Private Collections, Bloomington, IN; Muncie, IN; Chicago, IL; Minneapolis, MN; Baltimore, MD; St. Louis, MO Other Doings Guitarist and co-songwriter in the band Enormous Richard and its spinoff Eleanor Roosevelt, 1990-95 |
I work from fleeting thoughts and visual ideas that flicker through my head as I sit, look, and contemplate the canvas. One color or shape will suggest another and this drives the process forward, if slowly. I believe in the immediacy and simplicity of this way of working. After a long period of seeing these passing images, shaping them together on canvas, I have, when it works, an object of presence, physicality, mystery, and a depicted figure with a particular kind of fleshiness, a particular kind of anxiety. The paintings should transmit some mixture of weirdness, exhiliration, perplexity, get the viewer thinking about and feeling these things. It's about moments of pleasure, excitement, moments when you get lost. |