Nancy Lu
Rosenheim
Instructor, Graphic Design and Foundations
Art + Design
College of Arts and Sciences
Expertise
Rosenheim’s projects span sculpture, works on paper, painting and printmaking. Her fictional landscapes and hybrid beasts explore themes of environmental degradation, aging and the flesh.
Courses Taught
Image
Drawing III
Drawing IV
Two-Dimensional Design
Research Interests
My fictions reside where the grotesque meets the flamboyant, where beasts express human emotions and roam an earth in the throes of environmental collapse. My vision is decidedly imagist and steeped in material exploration.
I fashion beasts out of features borrowed from animal, human and mythological beings, to personify psychological and emotional attributes. I am drawn to the homeliest creatures – rodents, pigeons, and worms – for they embody the messy feelings, vulnerabilities and unleashed instincts that connect and humanize us.
I fashion beasts out of features borrowed from animal, human and mythological beings, to personify psychological and emotional attributes. I am drawn to the homeliest creatures – rodents, pigeons, and worms – for they embody the messy feelings, vulnerabilities and unleashed instincts that connect and humanize us.
Education
Master of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Selected Exhibitions
- Harpy· Human· Hybrid· Beast, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
- Gender Fluid: Evolving Identities, Studio 88 Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- CSI x ALMA, Alma Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Do Ostriches Really Bury their Heads in the Sand?, Dickson Window Project Space, Sugar Grove, IL
- Mystical, Mythical, Magical, Robert T. Wright Community Gallery of Art, Grayslake, IL
- Vivarium, Slow Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Painting at Night, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY
- Sculpture Invasion, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL
- Collectively Shifting, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
Additional Information
- Artforum Review
- Studio 88 Artists Residency, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Artist Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
- Center Program, Hyde park Art Center, Chicago, IL
- Founding Director of The Bike Room and TBR@, an artist-run project space and popup gallery. Over 50 artists exhibited.
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Office Hours
11:00 a.m.-Noon, M/W and by appointment
FA 106A (right next to the A+D office)
FA 106A (right next to the A+D office)
Main Campus
