Dana DeGiulio (b. 1978 Chicago Heights, IL) works in various media ranging from painting, drawing, video, photography, installation and writing. In her work she often blurs the line between form and abstraction, body and space, object and voids, and does so with a painterly hand that conveys a depth of emotions from poignancy to rage to beauty and ethereality. Often working in series, Degiulio will present works focusing on the body in space for this exhibition.

Degiulio is an associate professor of painting at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She received her BFA and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and has spent nearly twenty years teaching visual art to graduate and undergraduate students at RISD, NYU, Columbia University, and SAIC. She has also been resident faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2024, and last year delivered visiting artist talks at Yale, Rutgers, and the Schwules LGBTQ+ Museum in Berlin.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Artforum, erev rav, Impulse Magazine, Mousse Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Contemporary Art Daily, Bad at Sports, NewCity Chicago, on the Open Space Platform at SFMoMA, amongst other publications. Recently she’s solo exhibitions at the Ezra + Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, Middleton CT, and PPOW in NY, NY. Previously she exhibited at commercial galleries, artist-run spaces, and numerous alternative venues.

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Michelle Grabner (b.1962, Oshkosh, Wisconsin) lives and works in Milwaukee, WI; Chicago, IL; and Waupaca County, WI. Her work focuses on process, repetition, pattern, and challenging notions between fine art and craft, and the meaning of everyday materials. Not limited to one medium, Grabner shifts between painting, drawing, weaving, sculpture and installation. For this exhibition she will present an installation of hand painted porcelain sculptures of various foods such as cabbage and potatoes.

Not only known for her art, Grabner also writes, curates, and teaches fine art. As an artist She has exhibited her work in galleries nationally and internationally and has had solo museum exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland and The Indianapolis Museum of Art. In 2021, Grabner was named a Guggenheim Fellow by The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She is represented by James Cohan, New York and Green Gallery, Milwaukee. In 2014 she co-curated The Whitney Biennial and in 2018 FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. Grabner is the Crown Family Professor of Art and the Senior Chair of the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has taught for 30 years. Previously, She’s held teaching appointments at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cranbrook Academy of Art; Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts—Bard College; Yale University School of Art; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine.

Her work is included in numerous prestigious institutions including The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis IN, ICA Boston, Boston, MA, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK amongst many others.

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