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Journie Cirdain

Journie Nikala Cirdain (born 1993, Santa Rosa, California) thinks of the drawing surface as a locus for thought, puns, personal narrative, scraps of information, remembered art history, daydreams, desires and other tangled remnants of everyday life to magically become visual. For Cirdain, drawing is the flower child of art; it’s non-aggressive, laid back, experimental, lascivious, and sometimes deceptive, at least to a less observant person.


Journie Cirdain has shown in exhibitions at The Green Gallery in Milwaukee, Leo Marchutz School in Aix-En-Provence, France and in Illinois at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Bridgeport Art Center and Patient Info. Her work in the 2023 Western Exhibitions Drawing Biennial was written about in Hyperallergic and Chicago Reader and her writing has appeared in Chicago Artist Writers and FNEWS Magazine. Cirdain received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was the recipient of the New Artist Society full merit scholarship, and currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.