Deb Sokolow

Deb Sokolow is a Chicago-based artist.^[1]

Biography

Deb Sokolow graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996, and received her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004.^[2] She has exhibited at several galleries in Chicago, and was the August 2005 featured artist in the 12 x 12 series at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Sokolow's works take the style of maps which diagram a story in a narrative flow chart. Her preferred materials are common to office supply closets such as highlighter, pen, correction fluid, pencil and thumbtacks. Her large-scale drawings feature a nameless, paranoid narrator who uncovers sinister plots. The main story thread is black ink, representing the voice of this narrator. The narrator's doubts and paranoia are represented in other colors, which branch off from the main story thread. She usually works with three distinct voices, which all interact and disagree with each other.^[3] Her work has been compared to the work of Mark Lombardi, who was known for his pencil diagrams of crime and conspiracy networks.^{[citation needed]}

Descriptions of works

• Someone Tell Mayor Daley, the Pirates are Coming is a single sheet of blue paper which maps out the narrator's suspicions that pirates have infiltrated your Chicago office. The narration is second person, and you suspect something is wrong when all of your co-workers are wearing bandannas and chunky gold earrings. As you delve further into the plot, you realize that the pirates are after Mayor Richard M. Daley's treasure buried at the former site of Meigs Field.

References

1. ^ "Art Theory and Practice". North Western University. 2008. http://www.art.northwestern.edu/programs/faculty/sokolow.html. Retrieved 14 November 2010. 
2. ^ Foumberg, Jason (19 December 2006). "Portrait of the Artist: Deb Sokolow". Newcity Chigago. http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/6016.html. Retrieved 14 November 2010. 
3. ^ Hinkel, Joanne (August 13, 2006). "Deb Sokolow Draws Chicago In: Visual Arts". CenterstageChicago.com. http://www.centerstagechicago.com/art/articles/debsokolow.html. Retrieved 14 November 2010. 

External links

Biography portal

• Personal website
• Biography at Western Exhibitions
• Chicago Magazine profile
• Museum of Contemporary Art: Work in Progress (March 4, 2009)

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