at the University of Illinois at Chicago, until retiring in 2007. Life and career Bramson was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1941 to parents who ran an auto parts wholesale business. She earned a BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1962) and an MA in Painting at the University of Wisconsin (1964), where she created paintings influenced by the Bay Area Figurative Movement.Medina, Ben. "Silly, Difficult, and Not Easily Ignored: an Interview With Phyllis Bramson," Method Magazine, November 7, 2016. Retrieved May 15, 2018. After getting married, she and her husband settled in Glenview, Illinois in 1966; Bramson found work as a window designer, creating the highly visible, theatrical displays downtown at Marshall Field's, then Chicago's most prominent department store. In the late 1960s, she taught at the Chicago Academy of Art and Columbia College and enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she earned an MFA in 1973. After graduating, she helped co-found Artemisia Gallery with artists including Margaret Wharton, Mary Stoppert, Joy Poe, Barbara Grad, Phyllis McDonald, and Vera Klement.Taft, Maggie and Robert Cozzolino, Ed. Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018, p. 394, n. 30. In the mid-1980s, Bramson gained recognition for her paintings through solo exhibitions at the New Museum and Monique Knowlton Gallery in New York City,Raynor, Vivian. "Phyllis Bramson," New York Times, May 23, 1986. the Marianne Deson and Dart galleries (Chicago),Taylor, Sue. "Bramson's Subjects Tred in a Tangle of Relationships," Chicago Sun-Times, April 3, 1986, p. 64. Gallerie Farideh Cadot (Paris), and a mid-career survey at Chicago's Renaissance Society (1986). She also appeared in major group shows at the MCA, Art Institute of Chicago, Madison Art Center, and Hyde Park Art Center. In 1985, Bramson joined the art faculty at the University of Illinois in Chicago, teaching until 2007, when she retired as Professor Emerita. Throughout that time, she exhibited regularly at Phyllis Kind, Carl Hammer, Printworks and Zolla/Lieberman in Chicago, and Littlejohn Contemporary and Claire Oliver in New York, among others. Since 2007, she has advised MFA students at the School of the Art Institute and continues to work in Chicago. Art work Bramson has worked in painting, drawing, collage and assemblage. Her approach, influences and themes, however, have remained relatively consistent. She works intuitively, without plans or sketches, an organic process