Eve Whitaker has lived near Austin, Texas
since 2003. Over the last twenty years she has been represented by Gruen
Galleries, Chicago; Joyce Petter Gallery, Michigan; and SOHO20/Chelsea Gallery,
NY. She received her BFA from Michigan State University and an MFA from Indiana
University – Bloomington in Printmaking. In addition to her studio work she has
worked for the Indiana University Art Museum, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
in Michigan, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibiting
her work early in regional and national competitions and invitational
exhibitions, as well as solo shows in Michigan and Chicago, Whitaker received
regional attention from the media, museum curators, and commercial galleries
immediately out of graduate school. A few years later she moved to Chicago and
was again immediately invited to have a solo show of new work at the
Contemporary Arts Workshop in Chicago; and was also sponsored by Joy Horwich in
a national traveling invitational “17th Annual Art & The Law”.
Whitaker
lived and worked in Chicago from 1991 to 2003, during which time she developed
“Women in the City”, a series of paintings observing the Chicago city scape.
She also developed there a series of large drawing/paintings called “Ancestral
Excavations”, which have been shown in solo and group venues around the
country. Currently some of this series are touring the country in a group
invitational organized by Jennifer Heath, “The Veil: Visible and Invisible
Spaces” until 2011. Whitaker's latest
solo show is scheduled for October 2010 here in Austin, entitled “Machines
& Creaking Carts”, a series about family connections.
