Christine Tarkowski is an artist working in a variety of formats including the making of permanent public sculptures, propositional drawings, cast glass models, and textile yardage. She will give a presentation of her current works which pursue the abstract, draw on history, craft tectonics, and archetypes. She employs methods of dimensional abstraction to evolve narrative elements that refer to dissolution of order through processes of alchemy or heat.

She has been commissioned to create public works by; University of Illinois Chicago, Millennium Park, City of Chicago, Socrates Sculpture Park; Manilow Sculpture Park at Governors State University. She has exhibited works at; Corning Museum of Glass, Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, Arts Club Chicago, RISD Museum, The Renaissance Society, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Devening Projects, Priska Juschka Fine Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center. Her awards include; Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media Columbia College Chicago/3 Arts Fellow, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Individual Artist Award, Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, Franconia Sculpture Park Grant Jerome Foundation, and Creative Capital Foundation.

Tarkowski is a Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she’s the Chair of Fiber and Material Studies.