Deborah Boardman
Deborah Boardman's work in painting and installation has been shown widely in Chicago area and nationally, including New York, Boston and the Czech Republic. The recipient of numerous grants and awards including an Illinois Visual Artist Fellowship in 2002, her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Chicago Cultural Center. Deborah Boardman grew up in coastal New England and received her BA from Mount Holyoke College, her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, and after pursuing art study at Atelier Lucio Loubet in Paris, received her MFA from Tufts University with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1986. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has taught painting since 1997. Recently Deborah Boardman opened two exhibitions: The Flux of Matter in partnership with the Miami Nation of Indians of Indiana at the University of Indiana Kokomo (October 19 - November 18, 2007) and The Studio Practice at the Koscielak Gallery in Chicago (November 2 - December 11, 2007). Deborah Boardman exhibited her work inspired by the history and culture of the Miami Nation of Indians of Peru, Indiana. "Boardman brings together two constellations of psychic and actual space: the private imagination as sheltered in the artist's studio; and our collective history as collected and narrated in museums or marking the transformations of the American landscape and the migration of people across it." Excerpts from Deborah Boradmand's catalogue essay by Elijah Burghur.
