Christine Tarkowski

Christine Tarkowski is an artist working in a variety of formats including the making of permanent public sculptures, propositional drawings, cast glass models, and textile yardage. Plurality and promiscuity of material and method is an intentional approach to her making, with territories such as utility, craft, design, and art, merging with aggregated concept to become a discreet artistic domain of its own. Her current works are in pursuit of the abstract, drawing on history, craft tectonics, and archetypes. She employs methods of dimensional abstraction to evolve narrative elements that refer to dissolution of order through processes of alchemy, heat, and willful transformation.

She’s been commissioned to create public works by; University of Illinois Chicago, Millennium Park, City of Chicago, Socrates Sculpture Park; Manilow Sculpture Park at Governors State University. She has exhibited works at; Corning Museum of Glass, Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, Arts Club Chicago, RISD Museum, The Renaissance Society, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center. Her awards include; Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media Columbia College Chicago/3 Arts Fellow, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Individual Artist Award, Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, Franconia Sculpture Park Grant Jerome Foundation, and Creative Capital Foundation.