Barbara Aubin

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  • Barbara
  • Aubin
  • Aubin
  • 1928
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • 2014
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • 1928-1958: Chicago, Illinois

    1991-1999: Albuquerque, New Mexico

    1999-2014: Chicago, Illinois
  • Collage, Mixed Media, Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
  • Frances Shimmer High School, Mount Carroll, Illinois (under Edith Bell)
    1945-1949: BA in sociology, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
    1949-1954: BA in Art Education, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
    1955: MA in Art Education, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois (Kathleen Blackshear and Edith Spears)
  • 1956: France and Italy

    1958-1960: Haiti (experimented with watercolor, mixed media, texture)

    Mexico and Central America
  • 1953, 1955, 1960, 1961, 1968: Artists of Chicago & Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1952: Chicago Tribune Art Exhibit, Chicago, Illinois

    1954: The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1956: Paintings of France and Italy by Barbara Aubin, Cromer and Quint Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

    1956: Riccardo's Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

    1957, 1958: Artist Member Exhibition, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago

    1961: Mid-Year Show, Butler Institute of American Art,

    1978: Fairweather Hardin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (represented by the gallery from 1960-1991)

    1985: Alive and Lively - Over Forty, Fairweather Hardin Gallery and Chicago State University

    1986: Talisman, Countryside Art Center, Arlington Heights, Illinois

    1986: juried exhibit, Countryside Art Center, Arlington Heights, Illinois

    1986: Chicago Neighborhood Artists, Logan Square, Chicago, Illinois

    1990: Fairweather Hardin Gallery

    1993: 18th Annual Hyde Park Art Center Member’s Show, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois

    1996: New Mexico Art League, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    1997: Meridian Center, Washington, DC

    2001: Chicago Culture Center, Chicago, Illinois (solo)

    2006: Personal Symbols of Age, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo)

    2007: ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation, Chicago, Illinois

    2008: Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois

    2013-2014: Focus 4, Four Solo Exhibitions, Illinois State Museum, Chicago Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

    2017-2018: Confluence: Contemporaries of Robert Middaugh, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois

    Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

    Illinois State Museum, Chicago Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

    Illinois State Museum, Lockport Gallery, Lockport, Illinois

     
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    Ball State Museum, Muncie, Indiana

    Centre d'Art, Haiti

    Continental Illinois Bank, Chicago, Illinois

    First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois

    Kemper Group Collection, Long Grove, Illinois

    Midwest Museum of Art, Elkhart, Indiana

    Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Washington, DC

    Shimer College,

    Skokie Public Library, Skokie, Illinois

    State of Illinois Building Collection, Chicago, Illinois

    Union League Club, Chicago, Illinois
  • Stevens, Jane. Barbara Aubin: 4+ Decades in Art. City of Chicago, 2001. Stevens, Jane. Barbara Aubin, A Lifetime of Art: 1928-2014. 2016.
  • Chicago Artists Coalition

    1953-?: Chicago Society of Artists

    Chicago Women's Caucus for Art (a founder; Vice President for the Midwest Region in the 1980s)

     
  • Honorable Mention, Dana Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

    1955-1956: George D. Brown Foreign Travel Fellowship (to France and Italy)

    1958-1960: Fulbright Fellowship (to paint in Haiti; documented textures of sea life and flora)

    1963: Huntington Hartford Grant (to work in Pacific Palisades, California)

    1985: Chicago State University (to document in mixed media the lives of 11 Chicago women artists between 40 and 70 years of age)

    1999: Watercolor USA, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri

    2001: Chicago Artists Month, featured artist

    2001: Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs/Illinois Arts Council Access Program

    Illinois Arts Council grant for postcard exhibition

     
  • Barbara Aubin papers, circa 1950-2000, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
  • 1956-1958, 1960-1967: teacher, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1957: taught at University of Wisconsin

    1971-1991: taught at Chicago State University

    1980-1981: visiting artist, St. Louis Community College

    lecturer

    art critic

    taught at Chicago State University

    writer
  • Her love of art started early and continued until her death in 2014. Elements of water, land, and seascapes seem to float through her surreal landscapes. These dream-like images become very complex and beautiful. The autobiographical surreal worlds she created reflected her strong feminist consciousness.

    Inspired by artist friends Carolyn Howlett and Vera Berdich. Mentors were Andrene Kauffman and Leah Balsham.

    She loved to receive, send and create postcards.

    Stevens, Jane. Barbara Aubin: A Lifetime of Art, 1928-2014. 2016.