About The Artist

Awards

Pfizer Purchase Award, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, 2004

Exhibition History and Resume
2007

Artist’s  Quadrant, Chicago, Illinois 2007

Block Fine Art Gallery, New Buffalo, Michigan 2007

Regional Juried Art Exhibition, Lubeznik Center For The Arts, Michigan City, Indiana 2007

Vickers Theatre Gallery, Three Oaks, Michigan 2007

2006


Irwin Union Bank, Kalamazoo, Michigan 2006
Oakton Community College, Midwest Women’s Caucus Art Show, Des Plaines, Illinois 2006
Vickers Theater Gallery, Three Oaks Michigan 2006

2005

Artist’s Quadrant, Chicago, Illinois 2005
Regional Juried Art Exhibition, Lubeznik Center For The Arts, Michigan City, Indiana 2005
Michiana Annual Art Competition, St. Joseph, Michigan 2005
Tall Grass Gallery Juried Show, Park Forest, Illinois, 2005

2004

Gallery Northwest, Indiana University Northwest, 2004
Women’s Caucus for Art Show, ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2004
West Michigan Area Show, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, 2004
Norris Gallery of Art, St. Charles, Illinois, 2004
Gallery 107, Three Oaks, Michigan, 2004
Wilmette Arts Guild Show, Wilmette Public Library, Wilmette, Illinois, 2004

2003

Union Street Gallery, Art and Industry Show, Chicago Heights, Illinois, 2003
Michiana Annual Art Competition, St. Joseph, Michigan, 2003
Gaia Gallery, New Buffalo, Michigan, 2003
Scarlet Macaw Gallery, Sawyer, Michigan, 2003
Vickers Theater, Three Oaks, Michigan, 2003
Tall Grass Gallery, Park Forest, Illinois, 2003
Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan, 2003
Box Factory for the Arts, St. Joseph, Michigan, 2003

2002

Chicago Artist Coalition Members Show, Chicago, Illinois, 2002
North Shore Members Show, Winnetka, Illinois, 2002
Tall Grass Gallery, Park Forest, Illinois 2002

2001

Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan, 2001
Box Factory for the Arts, St. Joseph, Michigan, 2001
Pilliard Studio, Cregol, France, 2001

Collections

Braswell Fine Art, Chicago and Paris
Irwin Union Bank and Trust, Columbus, Indiana
Pfizer Corporation, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Memberships:

Berrien Artist Guild
Chicago Artist Coalition
North Shore Art League
Wilmette Arts Guild
Women’s Caucus for Art

 

Personal Statement

My work is abstract in the sense that it depicts no single thing or place or person, but my experiencing and magnifying some prehistoric remains, some artifact of nature, a stone, a piece of bark, a tree branch, or some larger landscape, some rock formations or geological lakebed on earth, close up or at a satellite distance.

New scientific exploration of the Martian landscape provide more inspiration for my art, as my work explores connections between the exterior world of nature and the interior world of emotion, from the levels of a magnifying glass to images brought to earth by telescope and Nasa’s rover transmissions.

These explorations on nature as an abstraction are highlighted by my exploration of varied surfaces and mediums -- watercolor, earth pigments, resin, ink, wax and acrylic on paper, mylar and workable transparencies. The work is often layered and riveted or sewn together, inviting the viewer to see the work in many dimensions.






Maureen at the Union Street Gallery juried show




Maureen Sylvia Lighthall


At the Kalamazoo Art Institute with the Pfizer Purchase Award painting


Artist with her family

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