ARTIST STATEMENT The narratives in my work have focused on a variety of topics at different times.In the past I have addressed everything from contemporary politics, to history, absurd humor, personal psychology and the existential nature of the human condition, but lately I have been thinking a great deal about the idea of family and the ways in which I do and don’t fit into mine.
Families can be paradoxical for artists in the sense that they take pride in and encourage ones creative individuality while simultaneously insisting on absolute conformity to norms of the family structure.It’s essentially tribal in the sentiment that ‘it’s okay to not be one of them, as long as you are one of us’. The seemingly inborn longing for connection with family is at odds with the cultural imperative to “find your path”.As a university professor I have been a yearly witness to the moment when young artists realize that they are expected to now blaze their own trail, often with no backup plan or safety net and head out into the world with a sense of excitement on the one hand and utter panic on the other.
The imagery in “Natural Family” uses humans, animals and human/animal hybrids to represent the duality of embracing the domestic norms of family while nurturing the natural, even primal impulse to create.I think that many of these new paintings and works on paper exist as reflections on the nuances of how we understand ourselves as part of a family, whatever that might mean, and the urge to both cherish it and escape its chains.Families have the capacity to foster moments of great joy as well as lingering sorrow, pain and regret. It is this complex and sometimes confusing nature of family that I’m fascinated by and attempting to explore in this body of work and while I don’t claim to necessarily provide any answers to the conundrum it represents, I hope that this work can help to show that beauty and meaning can be found there.
BIOGRAPHY Fred Stonehouse was born in 1960 in Milwaukee, WI. He received his BFA from UW Milwaukee in 1982. He had his first solo show in Chicago in 1983 and shows regularly in New York at Howard Scott Gallery and in Los Angeles with Koplin/DelRio. He has exhibited in Mexico, Amsterdam, Rome and Berlin. He has been the recipient of an NEA Arts Midwest Grant and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Individual Artists Grant. He is currently an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Wisconsin.
RESUME
EDUCATION 1982 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2008 to present Assistant Professor of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2006-2008 Senior Lecturer in Painting and Drawing, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1997 Lecturer, Advanced Drawing, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 Fred Stonehouse, The Deacon’s Seat, St. Ambrose College, Davenport, IA 2012 Fred Stonehouse, Works on Paper, Slugfest Gallery, Austin, TX 2012 Family Tree, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen, Germany 2012 Blood Relatives, Taylor Bercier Fine Art, New Orleans, LA 2012 Marschmeister, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2011 Fred Stonehouse, The Deacon’s Seat, Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 2011 Marsh Night, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2011 Marshland, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 Blood Relatives, Museum of Wisconsin Art 2010 Marshland, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY 2009 Den of Secrets, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2009 Sang Real, Taylor Bercier Fine Art, New Orleans, LA 2009 Fred Stonehouse, Retell, Select Works, Dot Weikamp Gallery, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN 2007 Fred Stonehouse, Painting, Tammen Galerie, Berlin 2007 Fred Stonehouse, Selections from the Natural History Portfolio of Marshall Deerfiled, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee 2007 Fred Stonehouse, Paintings, Lakeside Gallery, Michigan City, MI 2007 The Ice Pavilions, Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN 2006 The Sanguine Sea, New Paintings by Fred Stonehouse, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA 2006 Nohl Fellowship Exhibition, INOVA, Peck School of the Arts, UW Milwaukee 2006 Signs & Souvenirs, Koplin/DelRio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Fred Stonehouse: Paintings, Philip Slein Gallery, St.Louis, MO 2006 Songs and Dreams, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Songs and Dreams, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, New York 2005 Fred Stonehouse: Paintings, Barone Odom Gallery, Rome, Italy 2004 Family Land, Rucshman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN 2003 Dreams of Youth:Recent Painting, Koplin/DelRio Gallery, Los Angeles 2003 Dope, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2002 The Golden Game: New Paintings and Works on Paper,Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Fred Stonehouse: New Paintings and Works on Paper, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, NY 2001 The Odor of Sanctity, Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN 2001 Penance, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2001 Fred Stonehouse, Eyre/Moore Gallery, Seattle, WA 2000 Fred Stonehouse: Paintings, Entre Estudio Y Galleria, Puebla, Mexico 2000 Jibberish,(And Other Communications), INOVA, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 2000 Little People For God, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2000 13 Prayers, Lisa Sette, Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 1999 Fred Stonehouse: Sasso Casa (An Historical Account), Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Wool From an Ass, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1999 Fred Stonehouse: Works on Paper, Project Room, M-13 Gallery, New York, NY 1999 Fred Stonehouse: Collage Work, Pumphouse Regional Art Center, Lacrosse, WI 1998 Fred Stonehouse: New Work, M-13 Gallery, New York, NY 1998 Fred Stonehouse: Painting, Drawing, Collage, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1998 Fred Stonehouse: The Monkey’s Wedding, Ruschman Gallery, IN 1997 Fred Stonehouse Furlong Gallery, UW Stout, Menomonie, WI 1997 13 Devils and El Libro de los Suenos Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 1997 L’Altro Mondo, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1996 Orazioni, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 1996 Joy Farm, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL 1996 Tener La De Malas, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 1995 Fred Stonehouse: Paintings, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN 1995 Fred Stonehouse: New Work, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1995 Fred Stonehouse: New Paintings, M-13 Gallery, New York, NY 1995 Fred Stonehouse, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN 1995 Fred Stonehouse, M-13 Gallery, New York, NY 1994 Fred Stonehouse, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 1994 Fred Stonehouse: New Paintings, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL 1993 Fred Stonehouse, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1993 Fred Stonehouse, Caplan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1993 Fred Stonehouse, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 1992 Fred Stonehouse, M-13 Gallery, New York 1992 Fred Stonehouse - 10 Year Survey, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 1992 Fred Stonehouse, Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1991 Fred Stonehouse: Monoprints from Landmark Editions, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI: Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN 1990 Fred Stonehouse: New Work, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1990 Fred Stonehouse, Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1990 Fred Stonehouse, Pence Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1989 Fred Stonehouse, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN 1988 Fred Stonehouse: New Paintings, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1988 Fred Stonehouse, Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1987 Fred Stonehouse: Recent Paintings, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL 1986 Fred Stonehouse, Bedrock Gallery, Chicago, IL 1985 Fred Stonehouse, Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1984 Fred Stonehouse: Works on Paper, Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 Vice and Virtue, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL 2013 Wunderkammer: Miniatures and Curiosities, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2013 Contemporary Prints, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2013 Alter-Egos, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA 2013 Fred Stonehouse & Mark Todd, Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX 2013 25th Anniversary Show, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2013 The Beast Within - Images of Animals in Tattoo and Contemporary Art, Tory Folliard Gallery 2012 Don’t Wake Daddy VII, Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, Germany, Dec 6-Jan 2 2012 Between Truth and Fiction, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, LA, Sept 8-Oct 19 2012 Man, Myth, Monster, LeMieux Gallery, New Orleans, LA, June 2-July 28, 2012 Fabled Fixations,Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN, April 14-May 26 2011 Krampus, Curly Tale Fine Art, Chicago, IL, Dec 3-Jan 31 2011 Don’t Wake Daddy VI, Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, Germany, Dec 5- Dec 31 2011 Krampus, Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA, Aug 12- September 3 2011 Sante Muerte, Sacred Machine Gallery, Tuscon, AZ, Oct 28-Dec 31 2011 Foot, Oo Gallery, Kingston, NY, April 22-May 30 2011 Grand Opening Exhibition, Edington Gallery, Three Oaks, MI, April 29-May 30 2011 Beyond the Sacred, Sacred Machine Gallery, Tuscon, AZ, May 13-July 31 2010 Don’t Wake Daddy V, Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, Germany, Dec 4- Dec 24 2010 Small Works Invitational, Sacred Machine Gallery, Tuscon, AZ, Nov 12 – Feb 13 2010 Mano/Mundo/ Corazon: Artists Interpret La Loteria, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Colombia College, Chicago, IL, November 8-December 10 2010 Unleash the Beast, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2010 Santa Muerte, Sacred Machine Gallery, Tuscon, AZ 2010 Kink, The Seduction of Art, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Alchemy and Image, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, May 7-Aug 29 2010 Neo Fabulists, Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, Germany, May 8- May 29 2010 Curiosities of the Curio, Andi Compgnone Projects, Pomona, CA, Mar 13-Apr 24 2010 Outside Influences: Mike Noland and Fred Stonehouse, The Gallery at UTA, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, March 22-April 24 2010 Blab: A Retrospective, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY, Mar 24-May 1 2009 Don’t Wake Daddy IV, Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, Germany, December 2009 When Animals Talk, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, Oct 16-Nov 28 2009 On Paper, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY Sept 10-Oct 17 2009 Italian and American Artists on Paper, Thaddeus C Gallery, Laporte, IN Sep12-Oct10 2009 The Blab Show, Copro Nason Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Aug 8-29 2009 Midwestern Blab! A&D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago IL, June/July 2009 West Coast Drawings VIII, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA, July 11-Aug 28 2009 Summer in Wisconsin, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, July 17-Sept 5 2009 Selections from the Helen and Robert Weber Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, June – July 2009 High Honors: An Exhibition of Artwork by the 2008 Wisconsin Arts Board Visual Arts Fellows, James Watrous Gallery, Madison, WI, March 2008 2008 Twisted, Landfall Press Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Four Faces of Foofaraw, Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, Germany 2008 Blab! , The Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 2008 Flesh, Metal, Ink, Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI 2008 In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz School, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA 2008 Looky See: a Summer Show , Ben Maltz Gallery , Otis Institute of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2008 Twenty/08, Philip Slein Gallery, St.Louis, MO 2008 Border, Priebe Gallery, UW Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI 2008 40 Artists: Small Scale Works, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2008 25th Anniversaty Show, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2008 Workbooks, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 2007 Don’t Wake Daddy 2, Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, Germany 2007 Question the War, Cory Helford Gallery, Culver City, CA 2007 The BLAB Show, Copro Nason Gallery, Los Angeles & Philip Slein Gallery, St.Louis 2007 The Exquisite Snake,Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 2007 Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI 2007 Circus Acts, Suspending Disbelief, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI 2006 Work on Paper, Howard Scott Gallery, New York 2006 The BLAB Show, Copro/Nason Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 The New Collage, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Summer in the City, Philip Slein Gallery, St.Louis, MO 2006 Summertime, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, I 2006 Tooth and Claw, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2005 The Blab Show, Copro/Nason Gallery, Los Angeles,CA 2005 The Animal Within, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Le Papier, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Out of the Suitcase, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design 2005 National Biennial Watercolor Invitational, Parkland College, Champaign, IL, and Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL 2004 Strange Presence, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2004 The Reflected/Refracted Self, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 The Artist as Collector, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, IN 2004 Time Travel, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003 Wisconsin Landscape: Artistic Interpretations, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI 2002 Living in the Presence of the Buddha, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 2002 The Elements, Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI 2002 Drawings VI, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Pasted On, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Fundamentals, Eyre/Moore Gallery, Seattle, WA 2001 Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Contemporary Devotion, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 2001 Smaller, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Italianate, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 2000 Self Portraits 2000, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL 2000 The Great Novels Exhibit, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA 2000 Anniversary Show, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 2000 Drawings V, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2000 Wisconsin Classics, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI 2000 Singular Visions, Wisconsin Academy, Madison, WI 2000 The Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL 2000 Carl Hammer 2000, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Storytellers, The Art Institute at Southern California at Laguna Beach, CA 1999 The End Is Near: Portfolio 99’, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 Twenty Six Americans, Campo & Campo, Antwerp 1999 Collectors Choice, Galerie van der Straeten, Amsterdam 1999 Drawings, M13 Gallery, New York 1999 Cats and Dogs, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago 1999 Milwaukee Love, Union Art Gallery, UW Milwaukee 1999 New Religion, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA 1999 Formerly Known As Something Else, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 1998 Small Works: The Sequel, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 1998 What’s Hot at Shark, Foster Gallery at University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire 1998 Surreal Wisconsin, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI 1998 Drawings IV, Caplan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 Fever, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 1998 Art as Collaboration, Crossman Gallery, UW Whitewater 1997 Small Works, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 1997 A Game of Chance, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL 1997 Small Wonders, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL 1997 The Enigmatic Landscape, Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, WI 1997 Devotional Rescue, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti, OH 1997 Salvation Damnation, Crossman Gallery, UW Whitewater 1997 4 x 4:Painters Choose Painters Herron Gallery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN 1996 BIRDS!, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN 1996 Great Balls of Art, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA 1996 Hearts, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL 1996 Ten Year Anniversary Exhibit, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 1996 In the Light of Goya, University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, and University Art Gallery, Cal State Hayward 1995 Heroic Influences, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 1995 Pulp Fictions, Gallery A, Chicago, IL 1995 Daydreams, Capitol Arts Alliance, Bowling Green, KY 1995 Dreams and Visions, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI 1995 Self As Subject, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN 1995 Frame of Reference, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA 1994 Historic References, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 1994 Suspended Landscapes, M-13 Gallery, New York, NY 1994 Small Works, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 1994 New To the Gallery, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 1994 One Hand Clapping, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA 1994 Summer Exhibition, Caplan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1993 Visceral Landscapes, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL 1993 Winter Introductions, Caplan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1993 Landscape As Object, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN 1993 A Loose Form of Narrative, Gallery A, Chicago, IL 1993 Summer Exhibition, Caplan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1993 The Animal In Art, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN 1993 Multum In Parvo, Caplan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1993 The Face Not Only A Parent Could Love, Triplex Gallery, Manhattan Community College, New York, NY 1992 Small Works, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 1991 Source Material, Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1991 Ghosts: Spells of the Past in Contemporary Art, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1991 Works on Paper, M-13 Gallery, New York, NY 1991 Six Pence, Pence Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1991 Word As Image, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI: Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, OK, and Contemporary Arts 1991 Museum, Houston, TX 1990 Monster Paintings, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN 1990 Faces, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1990 Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI 1989 Victoria, Pence Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1989 Telling N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL 1989 From Impulse to Obsession Madison Art Center, Madison, WI 1988 100 Years of Wisconsin Art Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI 1988 After the Drought: Bountiful Harvest Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1988 The Power of Drawing Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1987 Wisconsin Triennial Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, 1986 Romanticism and Cynicism in Contemporary Art , Made In America: The Great Lakes States, Alternative Museum, New York, NY, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH 1986 Gallery Artists Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1984 Annual Small Works Competition Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, NY 1984 New Talent Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1983 Gallery Artists Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1982 Eight in Eighty- Two, Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS ON THE WORK OF FRED STONEHOUSE 2012 Review: Fred Stonehouse at Tory Folliard, Art City, Mary Louise Schumacher, January 13 2012 The Mysterious World of Fred Stonehouse, Express Milwaukee, Kevin Lynch, January 3 2012 Fred Stonehouse at Tory Folliard: Captured Dreams, Third Coast Digest, Kat Murell, Jan 10 2012 The Strange, Imaginary World of Fred Stonehouse, Cortney Heimerl, AV Club Milwaukee, January 6, 2012 2012 A Spirited Discussion: Fred Stonehouse at the Tory Folliard Gallery, Jason Altobelli, January 9, 2012 2012 Speaking Art, Nan Bialek, Interview for Marschmeister , M Magazine, January 2012 2012 Fred Stonehouse: A Field Guide, Exhibition Catalog Essay, Michael Jay McClure, January 2011 Marshland, Exhibition Catalog, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago 2011 2010 Barnes, Steve, Review for Howard Scott’s 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Art News, November 2010 I annaccone, James, Essay, In the Garden of Pomona, Anchor Graphics, Spring, Volume 4, No.1 2010 North, Bill, Catalogue Essay, Fred Stonehouse at Howard Scott Gallery 2010 Smithers, Murray, Essay, Outside Influences, Mike Noland and Fred Stonehouse, Gallery at UTA 2009 Baran, Jessica, Review: Fred Stonehouse: Den of Secrets Riverfront Times, Oct 22 2009 Cooper, Ivy, Review: Step into this ‘Den of Secrets’, St Louis Beacon, October 11 2009 North, Bill, Blab’s Midwestern Rootedness, (catalog essay), A&D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL 2008 Ollman, Leah, A Sprawling, Satisfying Show, (review) LA Times, Aug. 22 2008 Tynes, Teri, With a Wall, (catalog essay) Allen Priebe Art Gallery, UW Oshkosh 2007 Beall, Dickson, The Good, The Bad, & The Freaky, West End Word, Oct 10 2007 Rump, von Gerhard Charles, Die seltsamen Welten des Fred Stonehouse, (review), Die Welt, June 23 2007 Thibodeaux, Julianna, Mr. Tomatohead, (review), NUVO, February 7 2006 North, Bill, Artist-in-Resonance, (catalogue essay), INOVA , University of Wisconsin/ Milwaukee 2006 Bonetti, David, Philip Slein Gallery Focuses on Nearby Artists, (review), St.Louis Post Dispatch, June 22 2006 Camper, Fred, The Blue Collar Surrealist, (review), Chicago Reader 2005 Baker, R.C., Fred Stonehouse at Howard Scott (review),The Village Voice, November 16-22 2005 Mankowski, Sarah, Art Muscle, (Interview), Riverwest Currents, May 2005 Wild, Matt, The Devil and Me,(review), Vital Source 2005 Schumacher, Mary Louise, Suitcase Fund, review, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Aug, 28 2004 Schumacher, Mary Louise, Floating Above Gallery Night Fluff,(review),Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 2003 Auer, James, Irony of self-absorption, social analysis, makes ‘Dope’ addictive, (review), Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Aug. 27 2002 Hawkins, Margaret, Creativity Unfurled,(review) Chicago Sun Times, Sept. 27 2001 Pagel, David, Painter Fashions a Thoughtful Commentary,(review) Los Angeles Times, June 29, 2001 2001 Berry, S.L., Milwaukee painter Enjoys Mimicking Life, Indianapolis Star, Oct. 5 2001 Faigin, Gary, (radio review), KUOW, Seattle 2000 Guequierre, Nathan, Tiny Gestures, Milwaukee Sheperd Express, Nov. 10 2000 Connors, Thomas, Fred, Jesus and the Devil, Milwaukee Magazine, September 2000 Cebulski, Frank, The Great Novels Exhibition at the Palo Alto Art Center, Artweek, September 2000 Auer, James, (review), The Surreal Mr. Stonehouse, Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, April 20 2000 Pascale, Mark, (catalog essay), The Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago 1999 Bell, Greg, (catalog essay), New Religion,Tacoma Art Museum 1999 Rodriguez, Jeanette with Fortier, Ted, (catalog essay), New Religion, Tacoma Art Museum 1999 Hawkins, Margaret, (review), Chicago Sun Times, Sept. 17 1999 Heartney, Eleanor, (review), Art in America, March 1999 Waswo, Richard, Sideshow Saints, In Step Magazine, March 10 1999 Parlin, Jerry, Childhood Impulse Still Inspires Artist’s Work, Lacrosse Tribune, February 1998 Auer, James, The Wisconsin Surrealist Gang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, August 27 1998 Ebony, David, (review), Ebony’s Top Ten, Art Net Magazine, May 1998 Cucio, Robert, (review), Culture Weekly/ Cover Magazine, May 1998 Johnson, Ken, (review) Art Guide Review, New York Times, April 24 1997 Kandel, Susan, Artful Illusions and Serial Masquerades Spring To Life, Los Angeles Times, April 4 1997 Rhea, Tom, 4 x 4 at the Herron Gallery, Nuvo Newsweekly, March 6 1997 Wiens, Ann, Review, New Art Examiner, Dec/Jan 1997 Hawkins, Margaret, Review, Chicago Sun Times, September 20 1997 Bucholz, Barbara, Review, Chicago Tribune, September 20 1995 Ebony, David, "Fred Stonehouse At M-13", Review, Art In America, December 1995 Guequirre, Nathan, An Eye for Figures, Review, Sheperd Express, November 1995 Vanesian, Kathleen, A Conversation with Fred Stonehouse, Interview, Lisa Sette Gallery Newsletter, September 1995 Knowles, Susan W., Fred Stonehouse, Review, Art Papers, October 1994 Holg, Garrett, Fred Stonehouse, Review, Art News, September 1994 Hawkins, Margaret, Stonehouse Mixes A Visual Potpourri, Review, Chicago Sun-Times, 5/6 1994 McCracken, David, Stonehouse Blends High and Low Sources Into Peculiar Stew, Chicago Tribune, May 6 1993 Kandell, Susan, Moondancing,, Los Angeles Times, October 14 1993 Iannaccone, Carmine, Fred Stonehouse, Review, Art Issues Magazine, November 1993 Auer, James, Stonehouse Raises Questions; Answers Are Up To Viewer, Milwaukee Journal, November 1993 Artner, Alan, Folk, Funk, Antique Look Fuse in Survey, Chicago Tribune, January 8 1992 Auer, James, Painter is Gifted Translator, Milwaukee Journal,November 8 1992 Heartney, Eleanor, The Fantastic Realism of Fred Stonehouse, Catalogue Essay, Madison Art Center 1992 Lewis, Frank, Tender Portraits of Survival, Milwaukee Magazine, October 1992 Pash, Ina, Fantasy, Painful Realism Mingle, Wisconsin State Journal, September 27 1992 Paine, Janice, A Rich and Vivid Retrospective, Milwaukee Sentinel, November 8 1992 Lynch, Kevin, Bean Head Art Disturbs, The Capital Times, September 10 1992 McCracken, David, Stonehouse's Weird Salad Proves Tasty, review, Chicago Tribune, 5/8 1990 Kapelke, Steven, Fred Stonehouse, review, New Art Examiner, January 1990 Auer, James, Stonehouse Works Evoke Symbolism, Pain, Sacrifice, Milwaukee Journal, November 15 1990 Paine, Janice, Stonehouse Expands His World, Milwaukee Sentinel, October 28 1990 Hawkins, Margaret, Studio is the Art in an Exhibition That Offers A Unique View, Chicago Sun Times, August 2 1990 Bowman, Russell, Word As Image, catalogue essay, Milwaukee Art Museum. 1990 Lewis, Frank, Inside the World of Fred Stonehouse, interview, Milwaukee 1990 Cook, Cathy, Fred Stonehouse, review, Los Angeles Times, January 26 1988 Sobel, Dean, Diablos, catalogue essay, Center for Contemporary Art 1988 Lewis, Frank, Characters Jell in Stonehouse Art, Milwaukee Sentinel, July 1 1988 Auer, James, Fred Stonehouse, Milwaukee Journal, July 10 1987 Bowman, Russell, Three Out Front, catalogue essay, Milwaukee Art Museum. 1988 Bamberger, Tom, Three Out Front, review, Art Muscle Magazine, July 1988 Auer, James, Three Out Front, review, Milwaukee Sentinel, July 24 1986 Lindemann, Julie and Shimon, John, Fred Stonehouse: Skeptical Romantic, profile, and On Viewing the Paintings of Fred Stonehouse, review, Art Muscle Magazine, September 1986 Caroll, Noel, Romanticism and Cynicism: Life In The Dead Zone, catalogue essay, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee 1986 Heartney, Eleanor, On Midwestern Art, catalogue essay, for Made In America: The Great Lakes States, Alternative Museum, NYC 1986 Wojno Kiefer, Geraldine, Feelings and Cerebrality: A New Regionalism, A New Power, catalogue essay for Made In America: The Great Lakes States, Alternative Museum, NYC 1986 Palmer, Laurie, Lisa Pines/Fred Stonehouse, New Art Examiner, March 1985 Auer, James, Stonehouse Shows He's A Painter With A Future, Milwaukee Journal, December 22 1985 Lewis, Frank, Into Some Dazzling Myths, Milwaukee Sentinel, December 6
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Spencer Art Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS San Jose Art Museum, San Jose, CA Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Madison Art Center, Madison, WI Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI University of Arizona Art Museum, Tuscon, AZ Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA Quad Graphics, WI First Bank Minneapolis, MN Kemper Insurance, IL Furlong Gallery, UW Stout, Menominee, WI Madonna Ciccione, Los Angeles, CA Christopher Ciccione, Los Angeles, CA Josh Mostel, New York, NY Paul Winfield, Los Angeles, CA Marcus Allen, Los Angeles, CA Bruce Vellick, New York, NY Mr & Mrs David Peoples, Berkeley, CA Howard & Donna Stone, Chicago, IL John Cartland, Chicago, IL Sheryl Crow, LosAngeles, CA
AWARDS Vilas Award 2012/2013 Domestic Conference Travel Grant 2011 Graduate School Research Grant 2009-2012 Graduate School and Provost Office Subvention Grant 2009 International Conference Travel Grant 2009 Mary Nohl Suitcase Grant 2010/2005/2003 Wisconsin Arts Board Grant 2008 Wisconsin Institute of Visual Arts Lifetime Achievement Award 2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation Individual Artist Grant 2005/2006 Mary Nohl Artist’s Fellowship 2005/2006 Milwaukee Artist’s Foundation Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Midwest Fellowship Penny McCall Foundation Grant
DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE SERVICE Faculty Search Committee for Metals position 2012/2013 Hilldale Award Nomination Committee for Professor Jack Damer Faculty Search Committee for Sculpture position 2010/2011 Visiting Artist Committee 2009-2013, served as committee chair 2009-2012 TA Selection Committee 2010-2012
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE SERVICE Faculty Senate 2008-2013
PUBLIC SERVICE AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO VISUAL CULTURE Exhibition Juror, Renewal, Drift Studios, Mt. Horeb, WI Assistant Curator for “These Old Blue Arms” exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum Curator for “The Beast Within, Animals in Art and Tattoo”, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI Public Lecture at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 3/19/13 Public Lecture/Critiques as visiting artist, St. Ambrose College, Davenport, IA, 3/1/13, in conjunction with solo exhibition at the Catich Gallery Public lecture at Adelphi University, Long Island, New York, 2/12/13 Public Lecture in conjunction with solo exhibition at Slugfest Gallery, University of Texas/Austin, 11/16/12 Public Lecture/Critiques as visiting artist, Augusta State University, Augusta, Georgia, 10/17/09-10/19/0 Gallery Talk on the work of Robert Lostutter, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 10/25/12 Gallery Talk on the subject of painting for docents, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 10/16/12 Public Lecture/Critiques as visiting artist, University of Kansas 9/12/09-9/14/09 Public Lecture/Critiques as visiting artist, University of Iowa, 3/29/12- 3/31/12 Public Lecture and Juror for annual student exhibit, UW Whitewater, 4/3/12- 4/4/12 Gallery Talk for Chicago Imagists Exhibition at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 10/27/11 Public Lecture/ artist presentation at the University of Alabama, in conjunction with “The Deacon’s Seat” exhibition at the Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama 10/20/11 Symposium panel member on International Art in a Regional City, Milwaukee Art Museum, 9/16/11 Gallery talk for “Inside Out, the Clayton Brothers”, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, 10/28/11 Rockford Art Museum, Lecture in advance of the exhibition “Alchemy and Image”, 4/16/10 University of Texas at Arlington, Public Lecture in conjunction with the exhibit “Outside Influences”, 3/25/10 Contributed forward to “These Old Blue Arms, the Life and Work of Amund Dietzel”, published Summer 2010 Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, gallery talk for the exhibition “Apple Pie: Symbols of Americana in MMoCA's Permanent Collection”, 2/18/10 University of Memphis, visiting artist/public lecture, 11/19/09 Fontbonne University, St. Louis, MO, visiting artist/public lecture, 10/22/09 Columbia College, Chicago, IL, public lecture, 6/17/09 Wisconsin Art Board, Union South Percent for Art selection committee, 2009 Guest Juror for the League of Milwaukee Artists Annual Exhibition, Schauer Art Center, Hartford, WI, 2008 Public lecture and student critiques as a Visiting Artist, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL, 2007 Gallery Talk, Galerie Tammen, 2007 Gallery Talk, Entre Estudio y Galleria, Puebla, Mexico, 2000
CHRONOLOGY OF TEACHING: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON (2006-PRESENT) Academic Year 2012-2013 FALL Art 312, 512,612: Intermediate and Advanced Drawing Art 699: Undergraduate Independent Study Art 922: Advanced Research-Graduate Painting Art 999: Graduate Independent Study SPRING Art 312, 512,612: Intermediate and Advanced Drawing Art 622: Advanced Undergraduate Painting Workshop Art 699: Undergraduate Independent Study Art 922: Advanced Research-Graduate Painting Art 999: Graduate Independent Study Academic Year 2011-2012 FALL Art 232,332,532,632, Beginning- Advanced Life Drawing Art 312, 512,612: Intermediate and Advanced Drawing Art 699: Undergraduate Independent Study Art 922: Advanced Research-Graduate Painting Art 999: Graduate Independent Study SPRING Art 222: Introduction to Painting Art 312, 512,612: Intermediate and Advanced Drawing Art 699: Undergraduate Independent Study Art 922: Advanced Research-Graduate Painting Art 999: Graduate Independent Study
Academic Year 2010-2011 FALL Art 312, 512,612: Intermediate and Advanced Drawing Art 622: Advanced Undergraduate Painting Workshop Art 699: Undergraduate Independent Study Art 922: Advanced Research-Graduate Painting Art 999: Graduate Independent Study SPRING Art 312, 512,612: Intermediate and Advanced Drawing Art 622: Advanced Undergraduate Painting Workshop Art 699: Undergraduate Independent Study Art 922: Advanced Research-Graduate Painting
Academic Year 2009-2010 FALL Art 312, 512,612: Intermediate and Advanced Drawing Art 699: Undergraduate Independent Study Art 922: Advanced Research-Graduate Painting Art 999: Graduate Independent Study SPRING Art 312, 512,612: Intermediate and Advanced Drawing Art 699: Undergraduate Independent Study Art 922: Advanced Research-Graduate Painting Art 999: Graduate Independent Study Academic Year 2008-2009 FALL Art 312, 512,612: Intermediate and Advanced Drawing Art 699: Undergraduate Independent Study Art 922: Advanced Research-Graduate Painting Art 999: Graduate Independent Study SPRING Art 312, 512,612: Intermediate and Advanced Drawing Art 699: Undergraduate Independent Study Art 922: Advanced Research-Graduate Painting Art 999: Graduate Independent Study
Academic Year 2007-2008 FALL Art 232,332,532,632, Beginning- Advanced Life Drawing Art 452, 552: Beginning-Advanced Concepts and Methodologies of Figuration Art 699: Undergraduate Independent Study Art 922: Advanced Research-Graduate Painting Art 999: Graduate Independent Study SPRING Art 232,332,532,632, Beginning- Advanced Life Drawing Art 222: Introduction to Painting Art 699: Undergraduate Independent Study Art 922: Advanced Research-Graduate Painting Art 999: Graduate Independent Study
Academic Year 2006-2007 FALL Art 232,332,532,632, Beginning- Advanced Life Drawing Art 222: Introduction to Painting Art 922: Advanced Research-Graduate Painting Art 999: Graduate Independent Study SPRING Art 232,332,532,632, Beginning- Advanced Life Drawing Art 222: Introduction to Painting Art 699: Undergraduate Independent Study Art 922: Advanced Research-Graduate Painting Art 999: Graduate Independent Study
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