Marjorie Mikasen
| Marjorie Mikasen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | The University of Minnesota |
| Known for | abstract, geometric, hard-edge acrylic painter |
| Spouse(s) | Mark Griep |
| Awards | Individual Artist Fellowship Award, Nebraska Arts Council |
| Website | www |
| Elected | Nebraska Women's Caucus for Art President |
Marjorie Mikasen (born 1959) is an abstract, geometric, hard-edge acrylic painter working in Lincoln, Nebraska. She has a degree in studio arts from The University of Minnesota. She is co-author with Mark Griep of the nonfiction book Re'Action!' Chemistry in the Movies.
Mikasen was from Chicago, Illinois, but grew up in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. She is of Serbian descent. She attended The University of Minnesota, is a Phi Beta Kappa, and in 1981 received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Arts.
Mikasen is married to Mark Griep, chemistry professor at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
In 1986 she lived and worked as a full-time artist in Denver, Colorado. Mikasen moved in 1990 to Lincoln, Nebraska, where she is an "abstract, geometric, hard-edge acrylic painter."
She received an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the Nebraska Arts Council in 2007. In 2013, she was awarded the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital's Artistic Achievement Award in the Visual Arts, and one of her works was included that year in the "Nebraska Arts Council Awardees" exhibition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
Her works have been exhibited in the United States, Canada, Hungary and the United Kingdom in more than 100 group exhibitions. In Nebraska, her works have been shown in solo exhibitions. Mikasen's works are in private and public collections, including the University of Minnesota's Regis Center for Art and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
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