Irene Siegel

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  • 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