Deb Sokolow is a Chicago-based artist. Her studio is located in Chicago's west loop area.
She graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996, and received her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004 .
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.
Her works are maps which diagram a story in a narrative flow chart....
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Deb Sokolow is a Chicago-based artist. Her studio is located in Chicago's west loop area.
She graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996, and received her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004 .
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.
Her works are maps which diagram a story in a narrative flow chart. Her work has an office drone aesthetic, reminiscent of Office Space or The Office. Her preferred materials are common to office supply closets, highlighter, pen, correction fluid, pencil, thumbtacks, etc.
Sokolow's 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...
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