By BettyAnn Mocek
AN EXHIBITION INSPIRED BY A SABBATICAL IN NEW YORK CITY, OCTOBER 5-NOVEMBER 23, McCORMICK HALL, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
Artist’s Talk & Reception Sunday, October 11, 2:00 PM in McCormick Hall, Concordia University Chicago (directly next to the Gallery) followed by a reception until 4 PM
This is a one-person show of about forty new works of art, all inspired by my sabbatical stay in New York City. But they’re not about New York per se. They are about life and the pulse of the American city and its people, expressed in drawings, mixed-media, and prints. I’ve also stretched into two new media, showing photographs and video for the very first time. These are not your typical over the couch skyline scenes. I hope you can smell the city – any city – in this show and feel the pace, the energy, and truths these works attempt to reveal.
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Since 2002, BettyAnn Mocek has been a Professor of Art at Concordia University Chicago. She is also the Gallery Director of Concordia’s Ferguson Art Gallery where she has curated over ninety five exhibitions during her tenure.
Mocek is a prolific artist who has had a lifetime love affair with her native Chicago but who also recently spent sabbatical time in NYC, inspiring the creation of new urban themed prints, drawings and mixed-media works. She holds the terminal degree of Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the University of Minnesota, MN. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree, cum laude and Honors in Art from Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Mocek has received a number of awards including but not exclusively: Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI Chicago Artists’ Coalition’s Service to the Visual Arts in Chicago Award, and the Chicago Society of Artists’ Woman of the Year Award for her significant service to the visual arts community. BettyAnn juries many art exhibitions, mentors, consults and remains an active advocate for artists’ rights.
Her works are in numerous public and private collections, including: The Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, Willis (Sears) Tower Sky Deck (TriZec Hahn Property Management), Chicago, the Fairmont Hotel, Chicago, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Mpls., MN and Chicago United, Inc., Chicago.
