Bio

Chicago based and California grown artist, Drew Ness, uses painting and sculpture to explore the deep entanglement of our world. She is in her fourth year of the BFA program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago focused in environmentalism and is passionate about arts administration and community spaces. Having moved from the mountains and foggy coastlines of California to Chicago city life, she has called on her childhood memories and education at SAIC to dive into interconnected cosmologies and reject alienation from the natural world. 

She has created three murals at The Center For Great Apes in Wauchula Florida and one at Hidden Villa in Los Altos California. She also worked as Artist Assistant to Sara Black, chair of sculpture at SAIC and the rest of the Untidy Objects team working on the living sculpture project on the University of Chicago campus. She is now visual communications intern at Urban Rivers, an organization creating artificial wetlands in the Chicago River.