Audrey Mandelbaum School of the Art Institute of Chicago Audrey Mandelbaum is an artist and writer living in Chicago.  She received a BA in Liberal Arts from the Evergreen State College in 1989, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996, where she worked primarily with photography and computers.  Her current work documents loneliness and longing in the text of personal ads and online chat rooms in the interest of exploring the qualities of seductiveness and alienation that speak to a broader cultural condition.  Her work has most recently taken a sculptural turn, grounded in a desire to treat photographs not just as images, but objects.