Background
Mikasen was from Chicago, Illinois, but grew up in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Marjorie Mikasen
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She attended The University of Minnesota, is a Phi Beta Kappa, and in 1981 received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Arts.
Career
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. She is of Serbian descent.
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." 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 New York
She was president of the Nebraska Women"s Caucus for Art (NWCA) in 1997. University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, 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 lieutenant has been shown at international and national film festivals. Mikasen has said her work draws on geometric shapes that 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.
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