Michelle Grabner — American Artist born on December 30, 1962,

Michelle Grabner is an American painter and conceptual artist... (wikipedia)

Location is all about the efficiency of work for me.
The School of the Art Institute is an extraordinary teaching institution by the fact that it believes that active studio artists are good teachers. That may seem an obvious statement, but in higher education, it is often the student's course evaluations that win the day with administrators.
I am a huge fan of Sheila Hicks.
I need to be working with the art world in N.Y.C. as much as I need to be working in my studios in Chicago and rural Wisconsin.
Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it has become a lazy profession in regard to its relationship to the artists and the vigorous state of art making.