Audrey Ushenko

Audrey Ushenko (born in 1945) is an American realist figurative painter who usually works in oils. She is Professor of Drawing/Painting at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne.

Early life and education Ushenko was born in Princeton, New Jersey.

Work Ushenko has had more than 20 solo shows and participated in numerous group exhibitions. The art critic Gerrit Henry called Ushenko "a master chronicler of realities small and large," noting that she enlivens even inanimate objects. Ushenko sometimes uses herself as a model, as do many artists; she has stated that this is mostly out of convenience, not autobiography. In her painting at the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals, she was so inspired by the "magnitude of the ongoing human drama being quietly played out day after day" in the hospital that she wanted to create a work to display it. Patients and staff were able to watch Ushenko paint and many were incorporated into the three-story monument.