Irene Siegel (1932-?)
Miss Superior Vena cava, 1967
colored pencil on paper
Collection of Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Irene Siegel (born 1932)
Double Bed, 1967
lithograph
Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
27.67 x 20 inches
Irene Siegel (born 1932)
Pleasures of the Floating World, 1972
graphite and colored pencil
Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago
30.1 x 40.1 inches
Irene Siegel (born 1932)
Morning After Bee Bee, 1973
graphite
Irene SIegel (born 1932)
Footnote Drawing, 1977-1978
graphite, prismacolor pencil and colorama pencil on black paper
Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
19.6 x 25.5 inches
Irene Siegel (born 1932)
Miscanthus Sinenses "Gracillimus" with Baltimore Orioles Whizzing, 2000
digital inkjet print
Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
48 x 70 inches
Irene Siegel (born 1932)
Brambles and Nightingales, 2004
inkjet print; Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
17 x 26.5 inches
Irene Siegel (born 1932)
Wounded Tree: I’m Meant to Symbolize Strength, 2004
inkjet print
Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
31.5 x 21 inches
Artist Details
Irene
Yarovich
Siegel
partner: Dick Meyer; psychoanalyst; together 1992-?
Arthur Siegel (?-1978); married in 1955
3
1932
Chicago, Illinois
Russian
early 1960s-1986: 421 Roslyn Place, Chicago, Illinois
1986-?: Paulina St., Chicago, Illinois
LaPorte, Indiana
1992-?: Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Digital Photographer, Drawing, Painter, Photographer, Printmaker
at age 11, earned scholarship to study at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1953: graduated (with honors) Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; student of George Cohen
1953-1954: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois [studied social science]
1954-1955: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois (on Moholy Nagy scholarship) received MS degree
1967: fellowship, Tamarind Institute, Los Angeles, California; produced 21 lithographs
after 1986-?: University of Chicago; Spanish language and literature
Chicago and Vicinity Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1966: Sixty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of Chicago and Vicinity Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Family, pencil
1968: Lo Giudice Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
1978: Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]; pastel drawings
1995: The Garden, Gallery 312, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
2004: Field.wrk:Digital Ground by Irene Siegel, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois;
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Northway, Martin. “Whatever happened to Irene Siegel?” Chicago Reader, June 8, 1995; online
Schulze, Franz. “Right Thing, Right Place, Right Time,” Art News, November 1978.
1966: Logan Medal, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Family
1971-1982: taught art, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
A painter for several decades before she picked up a camera, Irene Siegel employs photographs as the raw material for elaborate digital designs. She began working with Adobe Photoshop in the 1990s, manipulating images to painterly effect. After acquiring land in northern Indiana, Siegel became an avid gardener, reading classical texts on the subject and developing an appreciation for the order that horticulture imposes on chaotic nature. Just as a garden flourishes with the right level of cultivation, this image of ornamental grasses and birds grows organically within its structural boundaries. -- Art Institute of Chicago website