Master of Fine Arts
Thesis Exhibition Spring 2004

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Western Connecticut State University
Master of Fine Arts

  • RESIDENT FACULTY - Painting

Margaret Grimes, University of PA
WCSU MFA Coordinator

John Wallace, MFA Indiana University
WCSU MFA Co-Coordinator

Robert Alberetti, MFA AZ State University

Marjorie Portnow, MFA Brooklyn College

  • RESIDENT FACULTY - Illustration

Abe Echevarria, Society of Illustrators,
Chairman, WCSU Art Department

  • MFA ADVISORY BOARD

Darby Cardonsky
Constance Evans
Leonard Everett Fisher
Andrew Forge*
Hugh O'Donnell
Ruth Miller
Michael Whelan

  • VISITING ARTISTS - Painting

Vincent Arciliesi
John Arthur
Robert Berelind
Roger Boyce
Susanna Coffey
Vincent Desiderio
Lois Dodd
Bruce Dorfman
Constance Evans
Barbara Grossman
Nancy Hagin
Eric Holzman
Don Kimes
Stanley Lewis
James McGarrell
Ruth Miller
Hugh O'Donnell
Marjorie Portnow
Susan Shatter
Paul Smith
Bill Sullivan

  • VISITING ARTISTS - Illustration

Randoll Enos
Robert Giusti
Paul Calle
Bob Crofut
Leonard Everett Fisher
Charlie Gehm
Edward Little
Roger Kastel
Tom Kidd
Adam Niklewicz
Robert Andrew Parker
Lynn Sweat
James Warhola
Michael Whelan
Judy York

  • GUEST LECTURERS & PANELISTS

Charles Cajori
Darby Cardonsky
Michael Chelminski
Fielding Dawson*
Jane Goodall
Wolf Kahn

  • VISITING ARTISTS - Weir Farm Trust

Eric Aho
Emma Amos
William Bailey
Janet Fish
Audrey Flack
Andrew Forge*
Connie Fox
Yvonne Jacquette
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt
Graham Nickson

PAINTING
LEE CORDON
Title: Retrospect
40" x 30" Acrylic on Canvas
"What inspires my paintings is attempting to
transform space through shapes, color and light."

 

 

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ANNE FLYNN
Title: Self Portrait
with cupcake
66" x 34" Oil on Canvas
"For me, painting is a process of discovery about myself and the world around me.  My goal is to communicate my perceptions through careful looking and painting true to my experience."

HEAVEN LEE DARLING
Title: Unstable Rebecca Dims
68" x 96" Oil on Canvas
"I try, to fly, free, with kites tied to my knees.  Upside down and skinny, sunny, funny how things are, from a needle to a star.  Can I walk a mile in your shoes?  Glued to my seat, painting to the rhythm of my heart's beat."
BRIDGET EILEEN GRADY
Title: Swamp
30" x 24" Acrylic on Canvas
"Painting is the incantation that invokes the spirit of nature. It is a ritual act that allows one to participate in the creative forces in nature."
LAURIE MATHIESON
Title: Knotted Branch
81 1/2" x 106" Acrylic on Canvas and Paper
"Each painting is an experiment involving the close investigation and observation of a natural object. I want to recapture its life energy - 'to bring it back to life.'"

TONY ZATZICK
Title: Forms and Pathways
82" x 62" Oil on Paper
"To me painting is an alchemical process, which transforms base materials into something that speaks to the essence of human experiences. I seek to tap the heart of life, by exploring perception and reality from my unique point of view."
MOUNIRA GAREEVA STOTT
Title: 6TH Avenue
15 1/2" x 11" Oil on Paper
"I am especially fascinated by the modern city as a work of nature. Mankind paints a landscape to communicate his relationship with nature, but mankind paints a cityscape to communicate his relationship with himself."
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ILLUSTRATION

MICHAEL LAVOIE
Title: Hunting Oni
19" x 33" Acrylic on Panel

 

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