Margaret Wharton is a Chicago-based artist who received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1975. She was a founding member of Artemisia Gallery, a cooperative for women artists. Ms. Wharton was the subject of a one-woman show at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art curated by Mary Jane Jacob in 1981. Represented by the Jean Albano Gallery since the mid 1990s, Wharton has had solo exhibits throughout the country.

Examples of Wharton's work are included in collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Milwaukee Art Museum, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, the Dallas Museum, and the Seattle Art Museum.

As Mary Jane Jacob wrote for her essay for the 1981 exhibit, “In her process of dis-assembly and reconstruction, as in an assemblage technique, Wharton alters a found object with a previous life and brings it into an art context. But unlike most assemblage constructions, Wharton’s art is not the joining together of disparate elements, but the restructuring of parts from a single source."

South Shore Arts premiered the Outstanding Midwest Artist Series in 2007 with Call of the Wild: Paintings by Michael Noland and presented the second in the series a year later with Excellent Hostess: Selected Paintings by Lorraine Peltz.

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