About
Neoteric Art was launched in 2008 by William Dolan and Norbert Marszalek to encourage open dialogue with painters concerning work, issues and the art world. Comments are welcome—let us know what you are thinking. Contact us at info@neotericart.com.
Neoteric Art Staff:
William Dolan
William is a Chicago-based painter. His work explores serenity and solitude one can find walking the streets at night. He has a BA in Studio Art from DePaul University and received a Smith Post-BA Scholorship for continued studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2004, he was nominated for a Grammy for album cover art. His career spans two decades and has work in several private collections.
www.dolanart.com
Norbert Marszalek
Norbert’s work most recently was part of a group show in the George Billis Gallery – Los Angeles. His work has also been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States, including the Holter Art Museum in Helena, Montana; the South Bend Regional Museum of Art in South Bend, Indiana; the Nathan D. Rosen Museum Gallery in Boca Raton, Florida; the Texas Artist Museum in Port Arthur, Texas; the International Museum of Art in El Paso, Texas; the Beverly Arts Center in Chicago; and the Bowery Gallery in New York City.
www.norbertmarszalek.com
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
Jeffery McNary
Jeffery McNary came of age in Chicago, Illinois. After a career in public service, including service as an Economic Development advisor to then Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, turned to journalism and writing. His work can be found in Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The Vineyard Gazette, the Boston Phoenix, Transition Magazine, and other outlets including Chicago Art Review. His poetry has been published in Iconoclast Magazine. Mr. McNary is currently crafting a screenplay, “Ro”, in which he captures the volatility and passion of socio-political in the 60’s and 70’. He is also currently composing a volume of poetry, “Simple Epistles”. Mr. McNary currently divides his time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Paris, France (and sometimes Chicago).
www.jefferymcnary.blogspot.com/
Vicki Schneider
Vicki teaches French and writes about art. Her current project explores the museum space and experiences within it. She is interested in the reflections of artists themselves on art (Rothko, Motherwell, Richter, Duchamp) and also gets voyeuristic pleasure reading correspondences of artists and writers. She believes, like Walter Benjamin, that the minutia of daily existence is as instructive as the large gasps and spasms of history. She is also passionate about the French Jura: the wine, the sausage, the clock makers, the wood choppers, the artists. She hopes to be the first to write a book about Jurassian painter Auguste Pointelin, a math teacher and friend of Louis Pasteur, who was painting haunting, almost abstract landscapes during the height of Realism. Don’t take her idea.
www.vschneider.wordpress.com
