Faculty & Staff

Mary Borgman

Lecturer
maryborgman@sbcglobal.net

Mary Borgman

maryborgman@sbcglobal.net

 

Solo Exhibitions

2007 Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2006 Ann Nathan Gallerr, Chicago, Illinois

2005 Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

  •  2004 Ann Nathan Gallery, “New Work” Chicago, Illinois
  •  2002 Ann Nathan Gallery, “In Black and White” Chicago, Illinois
  •  1999 Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky
  •  1998 Messing Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri
  • 1997 Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
    The Gallery, University City, Missouri

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 SOFA NY: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, New York, NY

            SOFA Chicago: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, Chicago, IL

            Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

            Palm Beach 3, Palm Beach, FL

2006 Mobile Art Musuem, The Tullman Collection, AL

            8th Annual Realism Invitational Jenkins Johnson NY and SF

            SOFA NY: Sculpture, Objects, and Functional Art, New York, NY

            SOFA Chicago: iSculpture, Objects, and Functional Art, Chicago, IL

            Art Chicago in the Park, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL

            Palm Beach 3, Ann Nathan Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

  • 2005 “Re-presenting Representation VII” Arnot Art Museum, New York,
    (seven works by seven artists) curated by John O’Hern
    SOFA NY: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, New York, NY
    Art Chicago in the Park, Chicago, Illinois
    Palm Beach 3, Ann Nathan Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
  • 2004 SOFA Chicago: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Ann Nathan Gallery,
    SOFA NY: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, New York, NY
    Vision 9, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago
    Art Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois,
  • 2003 SOFA NY: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art, New York, NYC, New York,
    Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
    Absolut Vision Ann Nathan Gallery
  • 2002 Art of the 20th Century Park Avenue Armory, NYC, New York,
    SOFA Chicago: Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art Ann Nathan Gallery
    Art Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois,
    Group Show Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  • 2001 Five Pick Five, Meramec Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, invitational
    Drawing the Body invitational The Hunt Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri,
  • 2000 Midlands Invitational 2000: Works on Paper, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, curated by Janet L. Farber, Associate Curator of 20th Century Art
    Of World and Self, Innsbrook Gallery, Innsbrook, Missouri, curated by Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, The Saint Louis Art Museum
  • 1999 The Millennium: Looking Forward, Looking Back, The Center for Contemporary Arts, St. Louis, Missouri
  • 1997 St. Charles County Community College, St. Peters, Missouri,
    Nicolet College, Rhinelander, WI. Juror: artist Phillip Pearlstein
  • 1996 Figurative Painting in Saint Louis Today Fontbonne University, St. Louis, Missouri,
    Art of Living, Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, Missouri

 

Selected Honors

  •  
  • 2006 The Open Studio Press, Winner of the Midwest Competition, no. 65, MA
  • 2001 Global Grant: The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Montreal, Canada
    The Open Studios Press, Winner of the Midwest Competition, no. 35, MA
  • 1999 The Open Studios Press, Winner of the Midwest Competition, no. 28, MA
  • 1998 Honor Awards 1998 (ten award-winning artists selected from the Art Saint Louis 1997 exhibition season). Art Saint Louis. Curator: Judy Child
  • 1997 Award of Excellence “Conversations,” Art Saint Louis.
  • 1996 NAWBO Award (presented to an outstanding Saint Louis woman artist).
    Honor Awards 1996 (ten award-winning artists selected from the exhibition season).

 

Selected Collections

Kendall University, Evanston, Chicago, Illinois

St. Louis Community College at Forest Park

Saint Louis University Museum

Kenneth Alpert, New York, NY

Drs. Mark and Helene Connolly, River Forest, IL

Rod Dommeyer, Chicago, IL

John Ferring, St. Louis, MO

Patti Gilford Fine Art, Chicago, IL

Hellman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Joe Kolb, Little Rock, AR

Lorry and Cara Lichtenstein, Chicago, IL

Jan Petry, Chicago, IL

Bill Silverstein, Highland Park, IL

Ginny Sykes, Chicago, IL

Thurston and Sharon Twigg-Smith, Honolulu, HI

Robin Winslow, Evanston, IL

Chuck Wolandi, Bloomingdale, IL

 

Books, Articles and Reviews

 

Deborah Rockman. “Drawing Essentials-A Guide to Observation,” 2007. (reproductions).

Kevin Nance,. “Vision Provides Walk on the Art Side.” The Chicago Sun Times. July 2007. (reproduction).

Margaret Hawkins. Art News. Review. Sept. 2006 p.151 (reproduction).

Joshua Rose. American Art Collector. “The Tullman Collection,” Oct. 2006 p. 77,78

The Mobile Press-Register  , “Contemporary Imaginings: The Howard and Judith Tullman Collection”, Harrison, Dec.10, 2006

Fred Camper The Chicago Reader “The Female Gaze-Mary Borgman at Ann Nathan.” 2006

Margaret Hawkins. “From bleak to chic in less than a week.” The Chicago Sun Times May 2006

Art Knowledge News. “Bold charcoals by Mary Borgman in Chicago.”  April 2006

Margaret Hawkins. The Chicago Sun Times  “Drawings are no small appreciation of chickens.”  May 5, 2006

The Open Studios Press. New American Paintings. Midwest Edition. 2006 Featured artist.

Mary Ellen Sullivan. Art Info “The Chicago Show Goes On-Under New Leadership.”  May 1, 2006.

8th Annual Realism Invitational Jenkins Johnson Gallery NY and SF  catalog (reproductions).

John Cleary. “The Big Event.” Star Gazette, New York September 16, 2005. (reproduction).

John O’Hern. Arnot Art Museum Representing Representation VII Catalogue (reproductions).

John O Hern. Art Collector’s Magazine “Museum Curator” p 26  Jan. 2006. (reproductions).

SOFA Chicago 2005 Catalogue (reproduction).

SOFA New York 2005 Catalogue (reproduction).

Art Chicago 2005 Catalogue (reproduction).

Katherine Rook Lieber. “Mary Borgman at Ann Nathan Gallery” Artscope.net, 2004.

Margaret Hawkins. “Less is lots better at Art Chicago show” Chicago Sun Times, May 10, 2004.

Alan G. Artner. “Mary Borgman.” Chicago Tribune, Oct. 4, 2002 Section 7 c, page 36, (reproduction).

Ann Weins. “Mary Borgman,” The Chicago Art Critics Association Review, Oct. 2002 Vol 3. No.1

Jeff Daniels. “From River City to River North.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept. 27, 2002 Everyday Section page 1 and D6, (reproductions).

Margaret Hawkins. “Making the Rounds.” Chicago Sun Times, Sept. 13, 2002, (reproduction).

Jeff Daniels. “It’s the Art, Not the Space.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 11, 2002, A&E Section.

The Open Studios Press. New American Paintings. Juror: Janet Bishop, Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Featured artist. no. 35, 2001.

Janet L. Farber. Midlands Invitational 2000—Works on Paper. Joslyn Art Museum Catalogue pages 4, 5, 14, 15, 49. (reproductions).

McNally, Molly. “Illustrating the Inner and Outer Experiences.” The Reader, June 7, 2000 Calendar 58, pages 37-38. (reproduction).

Hay, Cris. “Paper World.” The Omaha Weekly, May 11, 2000. Vol. 1, Issue 10 p. 3-6.

The Kentucky Voice “St. Louis Artist’s Exhibit at Yeiser” July 1999, Volume 8, No. 7 page 1, 8. (reproductions).

Callahan, Teresa. “The Millennium: Looking Forward, Looking Back.” Art St. Louis Magazine Volume 13, No. 3, page 9. (reproduction).

The Open Studio Press. New American Paintings, Juror: James Rondeau, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago Featured Artist, no. 23, 1999. (reproductions).

Rogers, Stacy Smith. “Artist Eye on Paducah,” Arts and Crafts Across Kentucky, Spring 1999, page 11. (reproduction).

Wampler, Scott. Contemporary American Drawing. China: Jilin Fine Arts Publishing House, 1997, catalog. (reproductions).

Batz, Jeanette. “Conversations: Shades of Gold.” The Riverfront Times, February 12-18, 1997, page 10. (reproductions).

Duffy, Robert. “Portraits That Penetrate and Reveal; Mary Borgman: Black and White Portraits.” Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, February 20, 1997, Get Out Section, page 27, col.1. (reproduction).

Duffy, Robert. “Go Figure.” Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, September 19, 1996, Get Out Section, page 27, col. 1.

Shepley, Carol Ferring. “A Dozen Strong Emerging Artists.” Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, March 28, 1996. Get Out Section, page 26, col. 1. (reproduction).

Shepley, Carol Ferring. “A Show of Color.” Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, May 4, 1995, Section G, page 4, col.1.

 

Education

  • Fontbonne University, St. Louis, MO 2001: M.F.A. Drawing, 2000: M.A. Studio.
  • St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, St. Louis, MO 1986: A.A. Deaf Communications, Sign Language Interpreter.
  • Washington University in St. Louis, 1982: B.F.A. Graphic Communications
    Teaching Certificate in Art, Missouri Life.

 

Teaching Experience

  • Instructor:
    2004-2008 Washington University in St. Louis Core drawing and figure.
  • 1999-2004 Fontbonne University: Drawing: graduate and undergraduate
  • 2003-2004 University of Missouri at St. Louis Advanced Painting and Drawing
  • 2000/2004 St. Louis Community College at Meramec: Figure Drawing I, II, Drawing II
  • 2001 St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley: Figure Drawing I and II
  • 1999-2003 St. Louis Community College Continuing Education: Figure Drawing, Drawing

 

Juror


 2008
Foundry Arts Center, St. Charles, MO

2001 St. Louis Community College at Forest Park Student Exhibition, guest awards juror

1998 NAWBO Award, Juror: (presented to an outstanding St. Louis woman artist)

 

Guest Artist Lectures:

Webster University , 2000, 2003

St. Charles Community College, 1999, 2002, 2004.

St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, 2000, 2003

St. Louis Community College at Meramec, 2000,

St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, 1999

The Ethical Society of St. Louis, 1998

University of Missouri at St. Louis, 1998

Fontbonne University, 1997,

Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 1997

The Messing Gallery in St. Louis, 1999

St. Louis Women’s Caucus for Art, 1997

The Mitchell Museum in Illinois, 1997

 

Representation

Ann Nathan Gallery
212 West Superior Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610