Artist Statement

Deborah Boardman documents her working environs in a painterly amalgam of gestural representation and abstraction, encompassing painting, animation, video, performance and sculpture. Boardman's installations respond to existing circulatory systems discovered in exhibition sites, referencing their particular history and physical and social characteristics. Boardman probes the specific energy and history of the space, and includes collaborative community input.

Artist Bio / CV

Chicago artist Deborah Boardman's work was exhibited at Devening Projects, Lake Forest College, Gosia Koscielak, Chicago,  and at Heskin Contemporary in New York, where she will have a one-person exhibition in September, 2009. Boardman teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  She received a BFA Massachusetts College of Art (1984) and a MFA from Tufts University - School of the Museum of Fine Arts (1987).  Deborah was a recent recipient of the Roger Brown Artist Residency, Il Arts Council Special Assistance Grant and Indiana Humanities Council Grant.