Post-Digital Landscapes: Curtis Anthony Bozif, Ruth Lantz, & Jonathan Worcester
@ ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
Clark Arts Center, 5050 E State St, Rockford, IL 61108
Opening Friday, November 21st, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, December 12th
Curtis Anthony Bozif is a Chicago-based visual artist and art writer. He was born in 1982 in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned his BFA in Painting and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2006. That same year, he moved to Chicago where, in 2008, he earned his MFA from the Department of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University. His art has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in numerous private collections throughout the country. To date, his art criticism has been featured in Newcity, Bridge,and the Reader. His work has been exhibited at Real Tinsel (Milwaukee, WI), 65GRAND (Chicago, IL), Oliva Gallery, (Chicago, IL), the Evanston Art Center (Evanston, IL), Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art, (Berlin, Germany), the Block Museum of Art (Evanston, IL), the Emily & Todd Voth Artspace (Kansas City, MO), and the Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City, MO), among others. This spring, his work will be the subject of a solo exhibition at the Peninsula School of Art (Fish Creek, Wisconsin).
Ruth Lantz, an Urbana, IL based artist, received her Masters in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in Portland, OR in 2010. Her work has been featured nationally at numerous galleries and institutions, including the Rockford Art Museum (Rockford, IL), Russo Lee Gallery (Portland, OR) Disjecta (Portland, OR), Washington State University Vancouver (Vancouver, WA), Governors State University (University Park, IL), St. Louis Artist’s Guild (St. Louis, MO), Northern Illinois University (Dekalb, IL) and Indianapolis Art Center (Indianapolis, IN). Her work was featured at the Portland International Airport and she was a presenter in the “Making a Better Painting” Symposium at the Hoffman Gallery at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR. Lantz is the founder of Crit Connection, a project providing networking opportunities and resources to emerging and mid-career artists.
Jonathan Worcester lives and works in Chicago, IL. He received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2024, and his BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2015. He is the Departmental Specialist in the Applied Arts of Europe Department at the Art Institute of Chicago and currently a Teaching Fellow in Painting and Drawing at SAIC.
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