Marjorie Mikasen
{{Short description|American artist}}
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| birth_date = 1959
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| nationality = American
| spouse = Mark Griep
| known_for = abstract, geometric, hard-edge acrylic painter
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| alma_mater = The University of Minnesota
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| awards = Individual Artist Fellowship Award, Nebraska Arts Council
| elected = Nebraska Women's Caucus for Art President
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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.
Early and personal life
Mikasen was born in Chicago, Illinois, but grew up in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.{{cite web | url=http://www.artscene.org/maa-2013-marjorie-mikasen | archive-url=https://archive.today/20131228152428/http://www.artscene.org/maa-2013-marjorie-mikasen | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 28, 2013 | title=Marjorie Mikasen: Artistic Achievement Award - Visual Arts | publisher=Lincoln Arts Council | accessdate=December 28, 2013 }} She is of Serbian descent.{{cite web|title=Voice of America Interview|publisher=Marjorie Mikasen|year=2009|url=http://www.marjoriemikasen.com/MikPages/VOA2009.htm|quote=Serbian American author Marjorie Mikasen and her husband Mark Griep have written the book ReAction! Chemistry in the Movies}} 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.{{cite news | title=Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center will launch Griep's Chemistry in Movies Book | work=US Fed News Service, including US State News | publisher=The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd.| date= July 22, 2009 | accessdate=December 27, 2013 | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1799743231.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610193437/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1799743231.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=June 10, 2014}}
Artist
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."{{cite web | url=http://www.mtv.com/artists/marjorie/biography/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230231820/http://www.mtv.com/artists/marjorie/biography/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 30, 2013 | title=About Marjorie | publisher=MTV | accessdate=December 28, 2013}}
She received an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the Nebraska Arts Council in 2007.{{cite web | url=http://clatest.umn.edu/pdf/07ArtEFacts.pdf | title=Alumni Arts & Facts | publisher=Department of Art, University of Minnesota | accessdate=December 27, 2013 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228215353/http://clatest.umn.edu/pdf/07ArtEFacts.pdf | archivedate=December 28, 2013 | df=mdy-all }} In 2013, she was awarded the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital's Artistic Achievement Award in the Visual Arts,{{cite news | title=Tickets Available for Mayor's Arts Awards | work=US Fed News Service, including US State News | publisher=The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd.| date= May 22, 2013 | accessdate=December 27, 2013 | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2976954641.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610193441/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2976954641.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=June 10, 2014}} 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.{{cite news | title=Sheldon Connections 2 Opens August 10, features regional artists | work=US Fed News Service, including US State News | publisher=The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd. | date= July 19, 2007 | accessdate=December 27, 2013 | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1307370341.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610193449/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1307370341.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=June 10, 2014}}
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{{ cite news | author=Mary Abbe | title=Good vibes at the 'U'; Art-department alumni put on a good show at the University of Minnesota. (VARIETY / FREETIME) | work=Star Tribune | location=Minneapolis, MN | publisher=The Star Tribune Company | date= January 21, 2005 | accessdate=December 27, 2013 | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-127461615.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610193446/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-127461615.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 10, 2014 }} and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.{{cite web | url=http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/science-and-society?page=1 | title=Science and society | publisher=Mitochondrial Biology Unit | accessdate=December 28, 2013}}
She was president of the Nebraska Women's Caucus for Art (NWCA) in 1997. University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery,{{cite news | title=American Art, 19th century to present | work=US Fed News Service, including US State News | publisher=The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd.| date=July 18, 2006 | accessdate=December 27, 2013 | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1079531091.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610193439/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1079531091.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=June 10, 2014}} University of Nebraska Medical Center, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. Her work is shown and represented by Omaha, Nebraska's Modern Arts Midtown.
Mikasen is featured in the 2010 film Swimming in Nebraska by independent filmmaker Jon Jost. It has been shown at international and national film festivals. Mikasen has said her work draws on geometric shapes that she sees in the human body and other sources. She is "interested in what it means to have an intellect, instincts, and a spirit, and how these oppositions inherent in us come into balance." Mikasen is inspired by philosophy, psychology, myth, literature and scientific theory.{{ cite web|url=http://www.modernartsmidwest.com/collection/MarjorieMikasen |title=Marjorie Mikasen |accessdate=December 28, 2013 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820030119/http://www.modernartsmidwest.com/collection/MarjorieMikasen |archivedate=August 20, 2008 }}{{cite journal|title=Dancing the Yes; In the Swim of the Rose #2; Ariadne's Thread Marjorie L. Mikasen
| journal=Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies | volume= 21 | number=3 | year=2000 | pages=141–144 | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | jstor=3347115 | doi=10.2307/3347115}}
Author
Mikasen is the coauthor with chemist Mark Griep of the nonfiction book Re'Action!' Chemistry in the Movies,{{cite web|url=http://www.journalstar.com/lifestyles/article_fc6f3bc0-7c8b-11de-aa82-001cc4c03286.html |title=Book judges if movie chemistry makes the grade |date=July 29, 2009 | work=Lincoln Journal Star | accessdate=December 27, 2013}} which explores the political, social, and psychological aspects of chemistry of over 140 films and gives the perspectives of a scientist and artist on the "dark and bright sides" of the portrayal of chemistry in motion pictures.{{cite journal | author=Patrick R. Casey | title=ReAction!: Chemistry in the Movies. |journal=Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts | publisher=The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts | date=September 1, 2011 | accessdate=December 27, 2013 | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2574464691.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610193431/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2574464691.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 10, 2014 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Chemistry/?view=usa&ci=9780195326925 |publisher=Oxford University Press |title=ReAction! Chemistry in the Movies | accessdate=December 27, 2013}} She and Griep were awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant in the area of Public Understanding of Science to research and write the book.{{cite web |url=http://www.omaha.com/article/20090728/LIVING/707289925 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120906025544/http://www.omaha.com/article/20090728/LIVING/707289925 |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 6, 2012 |title=Book pairs science and movies |date=July 28, 2009 |work=Omaha World Herald |accessdate=December 27, 2013 }} Mikasen created a work entitled Jekyll & Hyde for the book. Its stereo pair format (see stereopsis) has two focal points, which mirrors the split Jekyll & Hyde character whose oppositional personalities.{{cite book|author1=Mark Griep|author2=Marjorie Mikasen|title=Reaction!: Chemistry in the Movies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wT97FGb3r6IC|year=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-532692-5 | pages=300–301}}
=Published works=
- {{cite book|author1=Mark Griep|author2=Marjorie Mikasen|title=Reaction!: Chemistry in the Movies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wT97FGb3r6IC|year=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-532692-5}}
- {{cite book|author1=Mark Griep|author2=Jon Jost|author3=Marjorie Mikasen|author4=William Wehrbein|title=Swimming in Nebraska|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c7yimwEACAAJ|year=2011|publisher=Jon Jost}}
References
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Further reading
- {{ cite journal | title=Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences, 2010 | journal=Isis | volume=101 | issue=S1 | date=December 2010 | page=I-305 | doi = 10.1086/660768 | s2cid=13335611 }}
External links
- [http://www.marjoriemikasen.com/ Official site]
- {{cite web | url=http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/netradio/.artsmain/article/17/283/1211577/Nebraska.Humanities.Features/Chemist,.Artist.explore.chemistry.in.the.movies | year=2008 | work=Nebraska Public Radio Interview | author=Jerry Johnston |title=Chemist, Artist Explore Chemistry in the Movies}}
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Category:University of Minnesota alumni
Category:American science writers
Category:Writers from Nebraska
Category:American people of Serbian descent
Category:21st-century American women painters