My work as an artist has to do with expressing the ineffable in a way that reaches people.
American University, M.Ed. in Special Education
University of Pennsylvania, B.A. in Economics
Austria, studied painting with Kokoschka
Paris, studied etching with Hayter
Santa Fe, studied encaustic painting with Richard Frumess and Pamela Blum
Atelier Desjobert in Paris, studied lithography
Mildred Lachman Chapin has been painting for many decades, exhibiting in Europe, Turkey and in many museums, public buildings and galleries in the United States. She has studied with numerous masters in painting, print-making and encaustic painting. She spent ten years living abroad in Rome, Paris, and Ankara, Turkey, studying and exhibiting in each place.
Focusing on a subject that intrigues her, she produces a body of work over a period of a year or more. Beginning in 1958 with a group show at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, her first series, Trees of Rome, was also exhibited in Rome in 1960. Recent bodies of works have been exhibited in Paris, Washington, DC, Chicago, IL and in various venues in Arizona.
She works primarily with oils on canvas, but has produced a number of monotypes. Some of these are reproduced in the book of her paintings and poetry entitled \"Reverberations - Mothers and Daughters\". She recently published a book of small haiku paintings called "Haiku, Painted and Written" in which the paintings are accompanied by haiku poems which she wrote.
Mildred's other art related career has been in art therapy, where she has practiced, taught, and contributed significant writing to the field. Her most recent teaching and training of graduate students was at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2001 she was given an Honorary Life Member award by the American Art Therapy Association.
She now devotes herself exclusively to her work as an artist.
Mildred Lachman Chapin speaks to her viewers in the language of art, communicating with the energy of her color palettes, the expressiveness of her brush strokes and the rhythm of her bold lines. These paintings immediately invite introspection, asking the viewer to bring their own experiences to the interpretation.
