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Neoteric Art is adding the talents of Diane Thodos and Matthew Ballou to our staff. Both are accomplished artists and published writers/critics. We all look forward to more interesting interviews, articles and reviews…what you expect from Neoteric Art.

Diane Thodos
Diane’s work is represented on an international basis by the Paule Friedland and Alex Rivault Gallery in Paris. She has also studied with the New York art critic Donald Kuspit from 1987 to 1992 and focused much critical writing on Chicago art history and Expressionism with articles appearing in Art on Paper, the Chicago Artist’s Coalition News, and the New Art Examiner. Her work has been collected by The Milwaukee Museum of Art, The Smart Museum of Art in Chicago, The Block Museum in Evanston Illinois, The Koehnline Museum in the Chicago Area, and The Strake Jesuit Museum in Houston, Texas among many others.
http://web.me.com/dianethodos/Site/Home_page.html

Matthew Ballou
Matthew is an artist and writer originally from upstate New York. In 2007, after nearly ten years in Chicago, he took a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing position at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. His works have been recently exhibited at the Stedelijke Musea in Sint Niklaas, Belgium, the Elder Gallery of Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska, Ruschman Gallery in Indianapolis, IN, and have appeared in juried shows from Missouri to Maryland and Massachusetts over the last six months. His essay Second Horizon: The Changing Vision of Odd Nerdrum was the featured article in the Summer 2006 edition of Image Journal and he continues to pursue art theory and narrative writing. After starting his undergraduate career at Pratt, Ballou left for The School of the Art Institute of Chicago on a scholarship, earning a BFA in 2001. He would go on to receive an MFA from Indiana University-Bloomington in 2005.
www.eikonktizo.com