Born: Albany, New York
EDUCATION
M. A. University of Missouri-Kansas City. Art and Art History.
B. A. University of Pennsylvania. Art and Art History.
San Francisco Art Institute. Pre-MFA Program, painting/printmaking
Provincetown Workshop. Eight-week Residency, scholarship,
painting/drawing
Brooklyn Museum Art School. Nine-month Museum Program, Max Beckmann
Memorial Scholarship, painting
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Nine-week Residency Program,
work scholarship, painting.
State University of New York At Albany. Figure drawing
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Scheduled: Solo Show/Visiting
Artist,
Louisiana Tech University School of Art, Ruston, Louisiana
2004 Marilyn Propp: New Paintings. Schopf Gallery on
Lake,
Chicago, IL
2003 Marilyn Propp: Paintings, On & of Wood.
Quincy
Art Center, Quincy IL
2002 time/change/motion. Contemporary Art Workshop,
Chicago,
IL
2000 Scene in Chicago. Judy A. Saslow Gallery,
Chicago,
IL. Three-person solo shows
1999 Reconstructions. Sharp/Danka Gallery,
South
Suburban College, South Holland,
IL
Icons and Golden Vessels. Lakeside
Gallery, Lakeside, MI
1996 Variations: Cycladic Figures. University
Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1995 Marilyn Propp, Paintings. Ohio Street
Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Marilyn Propp: Paintings and Drawings.
Thimmesh Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1991 Cosmic Follies: New Works on Canvas and Paper.
Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Marilyn Propp: Crossings & Expeditions. Noyes
Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
1990 The Paintings of Marilyn Propp. Valparaiso
University, Valparaiso, IN
1989 Marilyn Propp: Interior Visions. Sazama
Gallery, Chicago, IL
Stations of the Cross: Fourteen Paintings on Paper. Biblical
Arts
Center,
Dallas, TX
1987 Marilyn Propp: Works on Paper. Dorry Gates
Gallery,
Kansas
City, MO
Marilyn Propp: The Stations of the Cross.
Mulvane Art Center, Topeka, KS
1985 Marilyn Propp: Stations of the Cross. University
of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery, KCMO
1984 Vessel Series. Rockhurst College,
Kansas
City, MO
1983 The Wind and Water Series. Kansas State
University, Manhattan, KS
1982 Marilyn Propp: New Works on Canvas and Paper.
Donald Batman Gallery,
Kansas City, MO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 Art in Perpetuity. Studio 18 Gallery,
New York City, NY
When Opposites Attract: Marilyn
Propp and David Jones.
H. F. Johnson
Gallery, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI.
Travel
Documents. A + D Gallery,
Chicago, IL and Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL.
Landscape in the Postmodern.
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL
2005
The Art of the Bookplate. Printworks Gallery,
Chicago, IL.
2004
6 Artists. Anchor Graphics,
Chicago, IL. In conjunction with the publication of the limited
edition book 6Artists, published by Jet Litho and Anchor
Graphics.
2003
Remarkable Women. Peltz Gallery,
Milwaukee, WI
2001 The Exquisite Corpse. Printworks Gallery,
Chicago,
IL. Catalogue.
Group Exhibition. Contemporary Art Workshop,
Chicago,
IL
From Here to There. The Brewery Art
Centre, Kendal, Cumbria, England
1999 Prints from Anchor Graphics. Moreau Galleries,
St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN
Beyond the Surface. Paint Creek Center for the
Arts,
Rochester,
MI
1998 Familiars, Masks and Totems. Three Arts Club,
Chicago,
IL
1997 Scene in
Chicago.
Judy A. Saslow Gallery,
Chicago,
IL
Art from Anchor.
Chicago
Printmakers Collaborative,
Chicago,
IL
1996 Scene in
Chicago.
Judy A. Saslow Gallery,
Chicago,
IL
Figures. Northern Illinois
University Gallery,
Chicago,
IL
1995 Group Show. Ohio Street
Gallery,
Chicago, IL
Marilyn Propp: Drawings/Prints from Anchor Graphics.
Stocksdale Gallery, Wm
Jewell
College, Liberty, MO
1994 Go Figure!
Chicago Printmakers Collaborative,
Chicago,
IL
Behind the Scenes. Marwen
Foundation,
Chicago, IL
1993
Chicago Curators Choose
Chicago
Artists. Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gesture and Glance.
Suburban
Fine Arts Center, Highland Park,
IL
Chicago International Art Exposition. Donnelly International Hall,
Chicago, IL
1992 Works by Gallery Artists. Thimmesh
Gallery,
Minneapolis, MN
Extraordinary Women. Peltz
Gallery,
Milwaukee,
WI
1991
Chicago International Art Exhibition. Donnelly Hall, Chicago, IL
Small Things. Northern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 Black and White. Sazama
Gallery,
Chicago, IL
Perceptions of "the Other": Exploring Cultural Diversity.
Peace Museum, South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago, IL.
Panel member in forum "Ourselves as 'Other',"
Spertus
Museum, Chicago, IL
1989 4 Square Feet. Sazama/Brauer
Gallery,
Chicago, IL
1988 Great Escapes. Sazama/Brauer
Gallery,
Chicago, IL
1987 CIVA Juried Exhibition.
Foundry Gallery,
Washington, DC
1986 Summer Show: Gallery Artists-New
Work.
Dorry Gates Gallery,
Kansas
City, MO
Close to Home: The
Midwest as Subject and Symbol. KC Artists Coalition Gallery,
KCMO
1985
New Talent/New Images. Gallery Karl Oskar, Westwood Hills,
KS
Kansas City Artists Coalition Invitational. Reuben Saunders Gallery,
Wichita, KS
1984 Selected Works from the Hallmark
Collection. The Central Exchange,
Kansas City,
MO
Intimate Images.
Crown Center,
Kansas City, MO. Best of Show. Juror: Lynne Warren
1983 Landscape '83 Mid
America.
Donald Batman Gallery,
Kansas
City, MO
Contemporary Work by
Kansas City
Painters. Halls Crown Center,
Kansas
City, MO
1982 KCAC Annual Selected Painters.
Mulvane Art Center, Topeka, KS
1981 Abstractions.
Donald Batman Gallery,
Kansas
City, MO
Selected Works.
Spiva
Art Center, Joplin, MO
Unity in Diversity.
Lawrence
Art Center, Lawrence, KS. Catalogue
1980 Selected Artists.
Mulvane
Art Center, Topeka, KS
Women and the Landscape. The Central Exchange, Kansas City, MO
RESIDENCIES AND VISITING ARTIST
2006
Louisiana
Tech University School of Art. Scheduled Visiting Artist,
Ruston, Louisiana.
2005
Jentel Artists Residency Program. Four-week Artist
Residency, with community presentations, Banner,
Wyoming.
1995
Kansas
State University Chaplaincy,
Manhattan, KS. Wellspring Quiet Garden, “Made in the Image”
Conference, two-day
Visiting Artist, slide lecture.
1989
The Lakeside Studio. Six-week Artist Residency,
Lakeside, Michigan.
1989-90
Mundelein College
(now Loyola University). Visiting Artist in Painting.
1983 Tarkio
College,
Tarkio, MO. Two-day Visiting Artist, undergraduate art department.
1977 University
of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. Visiting artist. Slide lecture, “Women in
Art” class.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Margaret Hawkins, “'Travel
Documents' lets us tour with artists,” Chicago Sun-Times, March
17, 2006.
The Art Of the Bookplate,
foreword by James Yood, Printworks Gallery, 2005.
6 Artists,
limited edition book published by Jet Litho, Inc. in collaboration
with Anchor Graphics, Chicago. Essay by Janina Ciezadlo, 2004.
Margaret Hawkins, “Gallery Glance,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
February 27, 2004.
Alan Artner, “Marilyn Propp,”
Chicago Tribune
,
February 20, 2004.
“Heads Up!,”
Quincy Herald-Whig,
February 23, 2003, 6C.
Sharon Woodhouse, “Artist
Watch--Marilyn Propp,” Ravenswood Reporter, July 2000, 7.
The Exquisite Corpse,
foreword by Bob Hiebert, Sidney Block, and Audrey
Niffenegger, essay by Mark Pascale, Printworks Gallery,
Chicago,
1999, 21.
“Hoffhines, Propp team for show,”
The Herald-Palladium,
August 6, 1999, 6A.
Julee Pearson, “FIGURES --
Northern Illinois University Gallery,” New Art Examiner, p. 45,
February 1996, 45.
Tim Bascom, “ Marilyn Propp,”
Christianity and the Arts, Vol. 3 No. 1, 1996, 8, 9.
Blair Kamin, “Architecture—Religious
Revival,” The
Chicago Tribune,
December 24, 1995,
sec. 7, 5.
Charles Cowdrick, “An Artist’s
Journey,” Pitch Weekly,
October 12-18, 1995, Art.
Michael Bulka, “Chicago
Curators Choose
Chicago
Artists,” Dialogue, November-December 1993, 20.
Esther Grisham, “Chicago
Curators Choose
Chicago
Artists,” The New Art Examiner, October 1993, 45 & 46.
David McCracken, “Local
artists shine in summer ‘experiment,’” Chicago Tribune,
July 23, 1993, sec. 7, 46.
James Auer, “Women’s show proves a
strong one,” The Milwaukee Journal,
May 24, 1992, Art section.
Lu Bro, Figure & Form, Vol. I,
Skills and Expression,
Iowa: Brown & Benchmark, 1992, 170.
Martha Howard, “Marilyn Propp.”
New Art Examiner, February 1990, 44.
David McCracken, “Gallery Scene,”
The
Chicago Tribune,
November 10, 1989,
61, sec. 7.
Donald Hoffman, “Art Journal,” The
Kansas City Star,
July 17, 1988, 10E.
Donald Hoffman, “KC artist gets
beyond trivial,” The Kansas City Star,
May 24, 1987,
9E.
Angel Kwolek-Folland, “Marilyn Propp,”
New Art Examiner, March 1987, 53.
Garry Noland, “Artists Share Tendency
for Personal Revelation,” Forum, Vol. 10, no. 5, Nov/Dec 1985,
10.
Donald Hoffman, “Stations’
builds on Passion,” The Kansas City Star,
August 18, 1985, 11E.
Debra L. Di Blasi, “Marilyn Propp,”
New Art Examiner, February 1985, 66.
Donald Hoffman, “Marilyn Propp,”
The
Kansas City Star, September 1984. 8-I.
Angel Kwolek-Folland, “Propp
paintings on display in
Union,”
The Manhattan Mercury,
February 13, 1983,
D7.
Donald Hoffman, “Marilyn Propp,”
The
Kansas City Star,
March 14, 1982, 9F, and
October 21, 1979, 8F.
Michael Walling, “Marilyn Propp,”
Forum, April 1982, 5.
Michael R. Bailey, “Interview with
Marilyn Propp,” Forum, November 1979.
Elisabeth Kirsch, “Male/Female: The
Human Figure,” Forum, April 1979.
Michael R. Bailey, “Marilyn Propp at
the Galerie Spielhagen, Batman & Murphy,” Forum, December 1978.
Victoria Kirsch Melcher, “She Works
Wonders with Pastels,” The
Kansas City Star,
November 15, 1978,
6G.
Robert Travaglione, “Art Goes Big
Downtown,” The
Kansas City Star Magazine,
August 14, 1977, 42 & 43.
David L. Morehead, “City Scenes
Project Transforms Slums to Supergraphics,” Today's Art, Dec
1977, 16-21.
Peg McMahon, “The Marilyn Propp
Story,” Greenhouse, Kansas City’s Journal of the Arts, Nov
1976, 16-19.
AIA Journal, November 1976, 22.
“Wall mural completed,” Kansas
City Art Institute Newsletter, lxxxvi no. 6, Oct 1976, 3.
“Kansas
City Completes City Scenes ‘76 Wall,” Coatings,
October 4, 1976,
99 & 100.
Zeva Oelbaum, “Waitress Paints
Mural for Downtown,” The
Kansas City Star,
August 8, 1976, 3B.
GRANTS AND HONORS
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant.
Three CAAP Grants. Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the IL Arts
Council Access Program.
Nominated, Sixth Annual Awards in the Visual Arts and First Missouri
Visual Artists Biennial.
Four William Jewell College Faculty Development Grants.
"City Scenes '76." Design chosen for urban mural and installed on a
55’ x 115' wall in downtown Kansas City,
Missouri. Nat’l Paint & Coatings Assn's bicentennial program that
chose 8 murals throughout the U.S. Supported in
part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Davis Museum and
Cultural Center, Wellesley College; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of
Art, Evanston, IL;
The Summer Palace, Saudi Arabia; Amnesty
International, New York, NY; Morningstar Inc., Chicago, IL;
Van Den
Bergh Foods Company, Lisle, IL; Old St. Patrick's Church, Chicago, IL; Sandoz Corporation, Des Plaines, IL;
Hallmark Collection, Kansas City,
MO; AT&T Collection, Kansas City, MO; McDonald's Corporation, Chicago,
IL;
Mission Hills Bank Collection, Mission Hills, KS; Wendy's
Corporation, Raytown, MO.
Private collections in Chicago, Kansas City,
and throughout the United States.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS and OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2002-present Columbia College Chicago,
Chicago,
IL. Adjunct faculty, Art and Design Dept.
2003, ’04, ‘06 Loyola University, Chicago, IL. Adjunct faculty,
Fine Arts Department.
2000-02 School of the Art Institute of
Chicago,
Chicago, IL. Adjunct faculty. Painting and Drawing Dept.
1990-present Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL. Instructor,
painting, drawing, figure drawing.
2004 Community
Arts Assistance Grants,
Chicago,
IL. Panelist.
Chicago
Dept. of Cultural Affairs, & the IAC Access Program.
2000
Three Arts Club of
Chicago
Mentoring Project, 2000. One of six mentors selected to work
with
younger women artists of all disciplines.
1990-96 Marwen Foundation, Chicago, IL. Instructor, studio
and art history.
1995 Gallery 37, Chi. Cultural Center,
Dept. of Cultural Affairs,
Chicago, IL. Instructor, printmaking.
Illinois State Museum, Lockport Gallery,
Lockport,
IL. “Careers in the Arts,” Panel discussion, slides
1991-present Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL. Member, Board of
Directors.
1990
Anchor
Graphics, non-profit printshop and gallery,
Chicago,
IL. Co-founder.
1989-90
Mundelein College (now Loyola University), Chicago, IL. Visiting
Artist in painting; instructor, figure drawing.
1983 Rockhurst College,
Kansas
City, MO. Instructor, art history.
1979-87
William Jewell College, Liberty, MO. Adjunct faculty,
Art
Department.
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