BIOGRAPHY
Gina Litherland was born in Gary, Indiana. She has been active in the visual arts since the mid 1970s, exploring various media including photography, performance, and painting. From 1979 to 1982 she participated in weekly experimental multi-media performances at the Emergency Theatre in Chicago. She studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her paintings, drawings, and articles have been published worldwide in journals and periodicals associated with the international surrealist movement. Her essay on the connections between creative activity and the natural world, "Imagination & Wilderness," appears in Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, published by University of Texas Press. In 2008 she published a sereis of drawings accompanying Terri Kapsalis' texts in The Hysterical Alphabet (Whitewalls Press, Chicago).
Now living in southeastern Wisconsin, she has participated in many exhibitions, including the Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Art Center and a solo show titled "Queens and Vagabonds"at the Haggerty Museum in Milwaukee.
Gina Litherland is presently represented in the midwest by Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery in Chicago where she has had two solo shows inlcuding, most recently, "The Murmur of Pearls" in 2009.