BARBARA YOUNG BIO
Barbara Young, b. 1934, graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1957, B.S. in Design. Later she studied printmaking at Edgecliff College, Cincinnati, CO. Her works are in the collections of Cincinnati Bell, Dracket Co., Linclay Corp. and Prudential Insurance Co. of Chicago, as well as many other private, corporate and museum collections in the United States, Europe, and Mexico.
SELECTED GALLERY EXHIBITIONS:
2007 “Monotypes,” B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY
“Time and Place,” Malton Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2005 “New Works on Paper,” B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY
2003 “Works on Paper,” B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY
2002 B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY
“We Dream in Color,” Malton Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2000 Editions Limited, Indianapolis, IN
2001-99 B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY
Malton Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (1995, 92, 89, 85, 82, 79,77)
Steinway Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC (1996, 94)
Cooper Gallery, Lewisburg, WV
Fitton Center for the Arts, “Crit Group” Exhibition, Hamilton, OH
1995 Swearingen Gallery, Louisville, KY (1994, 92, 90, 85, 82, 77)
Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY
Aaron Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1988 Corporate Art Source, Chicago, IL
Clair Spitler Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI (1980)
1981 J. Barrett Galleries, Toledo, OH
1979 Atelier J. Luckacs, International Print Show, Montreal, Canada
1978 Yolanda, Inc., Chicago, IL
Tamarack Gallery, Omena, MI
Gallery 200, Columbus, OH
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Community Health Services, Nashville, TN
Miami University Art Museum
Wintrust Financial, Chicago, IL
Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, OH
Goldberg & Simpson, Louisville, KY
North Western Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
Brown-Forman Corporation, Louisville, KY
Sanwa Bank, Chicago, IL
Stites & Harbison, Louisville, KY
Keebler Cookie Company, Elm Hurst, IL
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
UNC School of Library Computer Science,
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Chapel Hill, NC
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Indianapolis Colts, Indianapolis, IN
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Delta Faucet, Indianapolis, IN
Fisher College of Business, Ohio State
PNC Art Collection, Cincinnati, OH
University, Columbus, OH
University Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
University of Michigan Cardiovascular Community Health Center, Ann Arbor, MI
PUBLICATIONS:
1998 Show interview Video with Madelyn Whiting for C. C. V.
1993 Printmaking Techniques by Julia Ayres. Features Young’s Woodcuts & Collagraphs. Published by Watson-Guptill.
1985 Artists Magazine- “Mastering the Art of Woodcuts” August
1977 Cincinnati Enquirer- “Exploring Art Prints: The Ancient Woodcut” by Owen Findsen, September
SELECTED JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1989-93 Viewpoint -First Prize ’89 – Painting, Cincinnati Art Club
Landscape – Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center
All-Ohio Print File Exhibition, Linclay Corp. Purchase Award
1983 Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences 31st Annual Print and Drawing Exhibit, Evansville, IN
Boston Printmakers National Exhibition, De Cordova Museum, Boston, MA
16th Annual Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition
International Print Show, Atelier J. Lukas, Montreal, Canada
1978 Gallery of Artists, Cincinnati, OH. First Prize Graphics Award
SELECTED INVITATIONALS:
2007 Tiger Lily Press Print Show, YMCA Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Women Artists of Cincinnati, YWCA
Cincinnati Printmakers, Miami University Print Exhibition, Oxford, OH
1986 Cincinnati Contemporary Printmakers Exhibition, Linclay Corp.
Southwestern Ohio Women Printmakers Invitational Traveling Exhibition
2nd Annual Women’s Invitational, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
COMMISSIONS:
1992 Northwest Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL 26 monoprint/collage prints
1990 Forethought Group, Batesville, Indiana (A subsidiary of Hillenbrand Industries) 3 panel painting
Therma Tru, Toledo, Ohio, Entire edition of 20 woodcuts/Collagraphs
Mid-States Cinemas, Columbus, Painting
Artist’s Statement
My love affair with the art world began with my first box of crayons and has continued with few stops for some 60 plus years.
After having painted portraits and landscapes for many years, in mid-career, I jumped headlong into traditional printmaking with all of its disciplines. This led me to the exploration of the collagraph and the monotype mediums. The possibilities were endless.
Every medium that I embrace offers the opportunity of discovery, which sets off the creative energy that we artists seek. The passion that drives us all is the hope that we will get better, not just older. But true creativity is elusive. It leads us on with the promise of immortality. If we are very, very good we will be remembered. That is enough.
