Timothy
Van Laar
Lives and works in Chicago and Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
408 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
tvanlaar@uiuc.edu
Catalog, 40 pp, 1995 (Color Illustration)
Timothy
Van Laar |
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| Professor
of Art, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lives and works in Chicago and Champaign |
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| School
of Art and Design University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 408 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820 tvanlaar@uiuc.edu |
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| Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions (over
50 exhibitions) |
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| Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Urbana, IL, 2007 | |
| Galerie Stella A., Berlin, Germany, 2006 | |
| Electron, Breda, The Netherlands, 2006 | |
| The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI 2004 | |
| The Sheldon Memorial Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2003 | |
| Gallery 1078, Chico, CA, 2003 | |
| Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 2003 | |
| New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, Univ. of Southern Indiana, 2002 | |
| I-Space, Chicago, IL, 2001 | |
| Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland, 2001 | |
| Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2000 | |
| Dynamite Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI, 1999 | |
| Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, 1999 | |
| Galerie Unwahr im Apparat, Berlin, Germany, 1997 | |
| Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1997 | |
| Amalgama Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1994 | |
| University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 1993 | |
| Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI, 1991 | |
| Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1988 | |
| Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI, 1987 | |
| Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, 1986 | |
| Anderson University, Anderson, IN, 1985 | |
| University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, 1984 | |
| University of Alabama in Huntsville, 1984 | |
| Race Street Gallery, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, 1982 | |
| The Governor’s Residence of the State of Michigan, 1981 | |
| Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Detroit, MI, 1981 | |
| Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, 1980 | |
| Selected Group Exhibitions (over 150 exhibitions) | |
| Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Being Open, Grand Rapids, MI 2007 | |
| Mind in Matter: Constructions of the Built Environment, OPENSOURCE Art, Champaign, IL, 2005 | |
| Lipa Summit, group exhibition, Regional Museum of Ptuj, Castle Galleries, Ptuj, Slovenia, 2004 | |
| Surface and Color: Contemporary Abstraction, Columbus State University Art Gallery, Columbus, GA, 2002 | |
| Another Place, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, England, Three-Person Exhibition, 2000 | |
| Synthesis, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, 2000 | |
| Fassbender Gallery, Gallery Artists, Chicago, IL, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 | |
| Strands, University of Northumbria, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne; Wolverhampton University, Wolverhampton; and Norwich College of Art, Norwich; England, 1999 | |
| Abstract Art in Chicago, Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1998-99 | |
| Flashback - Flashforward, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, 1998 | |
| Kunstfeest - Diversity, Center Art Gallery, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, 1997 | |
| Locus Gallery, Gallery Artists, St. Louis, MO, 1995 | |
| Natural Abstraction, North Park University, Chicago, IL, 1995 | |
| Mindy Oh Gallery, Cultured Pearl, Group Exhibition, Chicago, IL, 1994 | |
| Queens College, Cambridge University, England, Searching for the Hidden, 1994 | |
| Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI, 1993 | |
| Valparaiso University Museum of Art, Contemporary Art, Valparaiso, IN, 1993 | |
| Illinois State University, The Vernacular Object, Normal, IL, 1992 | |
| Works on Paper, Traveling Exhibition, Six American Colleges, 1991 | |
| Gwenda Jay Gallery, Gallery Artists, Chicago, IL, 1990 | |
| College of DuPage, Three from Champaign, Glen Ellyn, IL, 1989 | |
| Illinois Painters, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL, | |
| and West Bend Gallery of Fine Arts, West Bend, WI, 1989 | |
| Glasgow School of Art, Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, 1988 | |
| The Ohio State University at Newark, Natural and Unnatural Environmental Visions, Newark, OH, 1988 | |
| Foundry Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1987 | |
| Chinese National Fine Art Museum, Beijing, China, 1987 | |
| 22 Wooster Gallery, New York City, 1986 | |
| State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1986 | |
| Hyde Park Art Center, Just Four, Chicago, IL, 1986 | |
| Illinois State Museum, Recent Acquisitions, Springfield, 1986 | |
| Galveston Arts Center, Three-Person Exhibition, Little Dramas, Galveston, TX, 1985 | |
| The Illinois State Museum, 37th Illinois Invitational, Springfield, IL, 1985 | |
| N.A.M.E. Gallery, The Shadow, Chicago, IL, 1985 | |
| Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, 1984 | |
| Wright Museum, Beloit College, WI, 1984 | |
| Klein Gallery, Habitats, Chicago, IL, 1983 | |
| Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan, 1983 | |
| Drawings by Michigan Artists, Six Michigan Museums, 1981-1982 | |
| Contemporary Cliche-Verre Prints, Four Michigan Museums, 1981-1982 | |
| Cliche-Verre: Hand-Drawn, Light-Printed, A Survey of the Medium from 1839 to the Present, 1980 | |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX | |
| Selected Public and Corporate Collections | |
| Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL | |
| Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI | |
| J.P. Morgan, New York, NY | |
| Columbus State University, Columbus, GA | |
| Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN | |
| Southeast Banking Corporation, Miami, FL | |
| Steelcase, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI | |
| Herman Miller, Inc., Zeeland, MI | |
| Asbury College, Wilmore, KY | |
| First Federal Savings and Loan of Detroit | |
| Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA | |
| Selected Grants, Honors and Awards | |
| Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany, 2002 | |
| Henry Luce Foundation, 2001-2003 | |
| Howard Foundation Fellowship, 2001-2002 | |
| Pew Charitable Trust, 2000, 2002 | |
| Arts America Grant, USIA, Athens and Thessaloniki, Greece, 1994 | |
| Art Village, Artist Residency, Nea Fokea, Greece, 1993 | |
| Fulbright, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, 1988-1989 | |
| Illinois Arts Council, Artist Fellowship, 1987 | |
| Yaddo Fellowship, 1985 | |
| Michigan Council for the Arts Grant, 1978 | |
| Selected Bibliography | |
| Heinrich, Karl. “Galerie Stella A.,” Die Welt, November 24, 2006, p. 34. | |
| Taylor, Larry M. “Flinging the Museum Guide Far Outside the Doctrinal Window,” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Review Essay, Reconstruction 5.1 (Winter 2005), | |
| Holian, Sarah. Timothy Van Laar: Language and Pattern, Exhibition Catalog, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI 2004. | |
| Philbin, Gail. “Abstraction of the Familiar,” The Grand Rapids Press, June 20, 2004, B4. | |
| Hassebroek, A. “Exhibit Invites View through Artist’s Eye,” Omaha World-Herald, Oct. 8, 2003 | |
| L. Kent Wolgamott. “A Radical Look,” Lincoln Journal Star, September 28, 2003 | |
| Hertzlieb, Gregg. “Timothy Van Laar: Shadow Pictures,” Valparaiso Poetry Review: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 4 (Fall/Winter 2002-2003). Illustrated | |
| Elkins, James. “The Exact Moment of Relaxation: Paintings by Rosalyn Schwartz and Timothy van Laar." I-Space, Exhibition Catalog, Chicago, 2001 | |
| Heiney, Amy Braun. The Grand Rapids Press, November 14, 1999, Sec. F. p. 4 | |
| Krantz, Claire Wolf. “All Chicago: An Electronic Exhibit,” U-Turn E-Zine and Monograph Series, 1998 | |
| Spector, Buzz. “Natural Color Aerial Views: Timothy Van Laar’s Berlin Postcards,” Timothy Van Laar Berlin Series, exhibition catalog, Galerie Unwahr im Apparat, Berlin, October, 1997 | |
| Ticket, Berlin, Germany, November 1997, p. 28. | |
| Hoffberg Judith. “Artist Book Reviews,” Umbrella, Vol. 19, No. 1, May 1996, p. 16 | |
| De Boer, Lisa, and Luttikhuizen. Henry. Words and
Images, Calvin Collge Center Art Gallery, Exhibition Catalog, 40 pp, 1995 (Color Illustration) |
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| Macedonia, October, 9, 1994, p.2, Thessaloniki, Greece | |
| Houghton, Jim. South Bend Tribune, April 29, 1993, Section D, p. 3, Illustrated | |
| Richard, Paul. The Washington Post, June 13, 1987 | |
| Glatt, Clara. The Hyde Park Herald, February 19, 1986, Illustrated | |
| Prokopoff, Stephen. Just Four, Exhibition Catalog, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, | |
| 22 Wooster Gallery, New York City, 1986 | |
| Moehl, Karl. New Art Examiner, September, 1985, Illustrated | |
| Hixson, Kathryn. New Art Examiner, June 1985, p. 50 | |
| Drum, Sydney. New Art Examiner, February, 1984 | |
| Artner, Alan. Chicago Tribune, December 30, 1983 | |
| Slowinski, Dolores. New Art Examiner, January, 1983 | |
| Symmes, Marilyn. Contemporary Cliche-Verre Prints, The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1981 | |
| Colby, Joy Hakanson. The Detroit News, July 26, 1981 | |
| Symmes, Marilyn. Art News, March, 1981 | |
| Friedman, Penelope. New Art Examiner, December, 1980 | |
| Glassman, Elizabeth and Symmes, Marilyn. Cliche-Verre: Hand-Drawn, Light-Printed, A | |
| Survey of the Medium from 1839 to the Present, The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1980 | |
| Who’s Who in American Art | |
| Selected Publications and Conference Presentations | |
| Book Chapter: “Views of the Ordinary and Other Scenic Disappointments,” Postcards: Ephemeral Histories of Modernity, ed. Jordana Mendelson and David Prochaska, Penn State University Press, in production | |
| Catalog essay: The Substance of Images: The Paintings of Brigitte Riesebrodt, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, 2007 | |
| Catalog Essay: The Form You Have That Instant Taken: the Paintings of Dianne Lauble, Galleria L’Isola, Trento, Italy, 2002 (English and Italian translation) | |
| Paper: “Art and the Ritual of Scandal,” plenary session, The 2001 Image Conference, Disturbing the Peace, University of Chicago, Nov. 10, 2001 | |
| Exhibition Review: “Linda Vredeveld: Figurative Abstraction,” dialogue: voicing the arts, March/April, 2001, pp 45-46 | |
| Co-Authored Book: Art with a Difference: Looking at Difficult and Unfamiliar Art, published in 2001 by Mayfield/McGraw-Hill, New York. In collaboration with Leonard Diepeveen, Dalhousie University. 132 pp., 52 ill. (16 color) | |
| Catalog Essay: Macyn Bolt: Recent Work, Kim Foster Gallery, New York City, 2001 | |
| Exhibition Review: “Cornelia Parker,” dialogue: voicing the arts, Sept/October, 2000, pp. 42-43 | |
| Exhibition Catalog Essay: Ben Dallas, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, 2000 | |
| Exhibition Review: “Harold Boyd,” dialogue: voicing the arts, November/December, 1999, p. 14 | |
| Exhibition Catalog Essay: David Klamen, “Index, Icon, Horizon,” Richard Gray Gallery, New York, 1998 | |
| Co-Authored Book: Active Sights: Art as Social Interaction, published in 1998 by Mayfield/McGraw-Hill, New York. In collaboration with Leonard Diepeveen, Dalhousie University, 126 pp, 31 ill. | |
| Artist Book: Naming, 32 pp., 10 four-color pp., funded by a grant from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Board, 1995. Selected for distribution by Printed Matter, Inc., NY | |
| Co-Authored Article: “Getting the Big Picture: The Content of Art and the Education of Artists,” Art & Academe: A Journal for the Humanities and Sciences in the Education of Artists 4, No. 1, Fall 1991, pp. 1-14. Co-authored with Leonard Diepeveen, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. | |
| Paper: “Social Actions, Social Roles: A Framework for Discussing the Function of Artists in Society,” School of Visual Arts Fourth Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, New York City, October 26, 1990. | |
| Article: “Printmaking: Editions as Artworks,” The Journal of Aesthetic Education 14, no. 4, October 1980, pp. 97-102. | |
| Selected Lectures, Presentations, Visiting Artist/Critic (over 40 lectures and presentations) | |
| Pictura, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2006 | |
| Electron, Breda, The Netherlands, 2006 | |
| Kunstfabrik Am Flutgraben, Berlin Germany, 2005 | |
| University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 2003 | |
| California State University, Chico, CA 2003 | |
| Columbus State University, Columbus, GA, 2002 | |
| Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland, 2001 | |
| Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 2001 | |
| Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2001 | |
| Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, 1999 | |
| Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1998 | |
| Athinaikos Kallitechnicosa Technologicos Omilos (AKTO), Athens, Greece, 1994 | |
| University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 1993 | |
| Dundee University, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland, 1989 | |
| Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, 1988 | |
| Founder’s Society, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, 1977 | |
| Education | |
| M.F.A., Wayne State University, Detroit, MI | |
| B.A., Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI | |
| Professional Positions | |
| Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor of Art and Design, University of Illinois, 1981-present | |
| Assistant Director, School of Art and Design and Director of Graduate Studies, 2007-present | |
| Studio Division Chair, School of Art and Design, 2007-present | |
| Painting Program Chair, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000-02, 2006-07 | |
| Coordinator of International Programs, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, 1989-2002 | |
| U.S Coordinator, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughn, Ireland, 1994-1999 | |
| Visiting Senior Lecturer, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, 1988-1989 | |
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