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Michelle Grabner, Untitled, 2017-18
Oil and acrylic on burlap panel
70 x 47 in.

For over 30 years, Michelle Grabner has created patterned-based work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, video and sculpture. She is best known for abstract paintings that use designs found within domestic settings such as tablecloths, bed linens, blankets, and spiderwebs. This gingham-patterned painting was exhibited in the recent exhibition IN THIS HOUSE in EAM's McCormick House, which received wide acclaim by press such as the Chicago Tribune. According to the critic Lori Waxman, "Large, meticulous paintings of gingham, achieved through the repetition of hundreds of pink, red and white squares, each the size of a single half-inch brushstroke on contrasting green burlap, hum with all the serenity of an Agnes Martin [grid painting]... The domestic has for decades provided Grabner with an arena in which to explore repetition and order, both in terms of the tactile patterns-such as gingham and knit - that outfit the traditional American home, and the experiential patterns - think of daily life with kids-according to which it runs." The artist donated the painting in support of the McCormick House renovations. It would make a wonderful promised gift to the museum's permanent collection.

Michelle Grabner is the Co-Artistic Director of FRONT International, the Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. In 2016, she curated the Portland Biennial and in 2014, co-curated the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, INOVA, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Ulrich Museum, and University Galleries at Illinois State University. She has been included in group exhibitions at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Tate St. Ives (UK) and Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland). Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC, the Walker Art Center, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, MUDAM (Luxembourg), the Milwaukee Art Museum, Madison's Museum of Contemporary Art, Daimler Contemporary (Berlin) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London).

Grabner holds an MA in Art History and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and an MFA in Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University. She joined the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996, and became Chair of its prestigious Painting and Drawing department in the fall of 2009. She is also a senior critic at Yale University in the Department of Painting and Printmaking. Her writing has been published in Artforum, Modern Painters, Frieze and Art Press, among others.