Spring / Summer 2006 Faculty
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Jane Dickson is a painter living and working in New York City. Born in Chicago, She graduated from the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard University. Her work, now represented through Marlborough Gallery, examines social and cultural themes is included in many public collections such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art , the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art , and the Library of Congress.
Stephen Westfall is an abstract painter who lives and works in New York. His paintings have been described as "having the ability to hold, simple and silent, a thought." His current appointment is as Chair of the Painting department at Bard College, Milton Avery School of the Arts. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts awards and two grants from the New York State Council on the Arts. Westfall's recent solo exhibitions include museums and galleries in San Francisco, New York, Santa Fe, Philadelphia, Munich, and Paris.
Barbara Grossman is a painter who resides and works in Connecticut. She has exhibited nationally for over 25 years and recently was awarded a visual arts fellowship by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. A Fulbright Scholar (Germany), Grossman is a member of the National Academy Museum and has twice received the Academy’s Award in Painting. She has held teaching positons at the University of Pennsylvania, Vermont Studio Center, Chautauqua Institution and Yale University. Most recently she was the Artist-in-Residence at Hollins University and Dartmouth College. Currently she serves on the graduate faculty at Yale School of Art.
Dan Jocz - Daniel Jocz has been called the bad boy
of contemporary jewelry design. He incorporates aspects of architecture,
sculpture, painting, drawing within the decorative arts. Trained as
a sculptor and draughtsman, based in Cambridge Mass, Jocz has gained
international prominence in the metalsmithing field. www.joczstudio.com
George Hildrew - Brooklyn based figurative and abstract
painter, George Hildrew has exhibited in New York at Poindexter Gallery,
Luise Ross Gallery and E.M. Donahue Gallery. His Work has been described
as mannered conceptualism within a contemporary folk tradition. He has
been a Fulbright Scholar to Italy.
Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer and associate professor in the Visual Arts Division of Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988. She is the author of English is Broken Here (The New Press,1995), The Bodies That Were Not Ours and Other Writings (Routledge/inIVA, 2001) and the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (Routledge, 1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (Abrams, 2003). Fusco is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts.Fusco's works have been included in such events as The Whitney Biennial, Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The Kwangju Biennale, The London International Theatre Festival, and VideoBrasil.
Spring / Summer 2005 Faculty
Judy Glantzman - A figurative painter based in New
York City. She has received a Guggenheim Foundation Grant, Pollock Krasner
Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Grant & others. http://www.dactyl.org/art/artists/glantz/glantz_2003.html
Barbara Grossman
Margaret Lanzetta - A New York based painter who recently
was included in the Queens international at the Queens Museum. Her solo
show in 2005 will be at the ATP Gallery in London & 1006 at theKenise
Barnes Gallery in New York. www.margaretlanzetta.com
David Cohen - David is the art critic for the New York
Sun and editor of the online publication artcritical.com. He is also
gallery director of the New York Studio School.
David Packer - British Born Ceramic Sculptor, David
Packer, lives and works in New York. His recent shows have been with
Garth Clark Galleries in New York. His solo show spring of 2005 was
at Enoch Pratt Gallery in Baltimore. www.packerdavid.com
George Hildrew
Carolyn Zick - Carolyn Zick is a west coast painter based in
Seatle, who received her MFA from SUNY Albany. She is one of the most
well respected "art bloggers" in the US. Fall of 2005, she
will be an artist in residence in Akureyri, Iceland. www.dangerouschunky.com
Elena Sisto - Elena Sisto is a New York based painter
who shows at Littlejohn Contemporary (NY). Her paintings of single figures
are both emotionally and plastically charged. She has been the recipient
of two National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowships. www.elenasisto.com
Dan Jocz
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