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White Hall)
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 John Arthur has been acknowledged internationally as the leading authority on contemporary American realism and figurative painting. His books and exhibition catalogues include Richard Estes: The Urban Landscape (Boston Museum of Fine Arts & Little Brown), Realist Drawings and Watercolors (NYGS-Little Brown) Realism/Photorealism (Philbrook Art Museum & University of Missouri Press), Robert Cottingham: The Complete Prints (Springfield Art Museum & University of Washington Press), Realists at Work: Studio Interviews and Working Methods of Ten Contemporary Realists (Watson Guptill), Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting & the American Tradition (Bulfinch-Little Brown), Richard Estes: Paintings and Prints (Pomegranate Artbooks), and Green Woods & Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition (Philbrook Museum and University of Washington Press).
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, the National Academy of Design, New York, the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, and the Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, Iowa. Writing in the New York Times, Roberta Smith comments, “The drama of his art emanates increasingly from the paint itself and from the play between depicted and real light and between depicted and real fluidity. The sense of the artist’s hand, mind and eyes increases, evoking oddly, both Willem de Kooning and John Singer Sargent. But Mr. Berlind anchors his increasingly bravura style in reality, where it is leavened by a palpable sense of nature’s power and inevitability.” Mr. Berlind is the recipient of an award in painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is represented by Tibor de Nagy gallery in New York.
Tuesday, October 4, 2005 Adam Niklewicz received a B.F.A. in 1989 from Washington University in St. Louis, and has since published on the
cover of Newsweek, Time, Business Week, Atlantic Monthly as well as book covers, art for such publishers as Random House, Dell, Doubleday, Bantam, Harper Collins, Viking/Penguin, St. Martins Press, and William Morrow. Other clients include Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Playboy and the Washington Post. He is the recipient of many awards from his work in illustration including those from the Society of Illustrators of New York, the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, American Illustration, The Society of Publication Designers, Print Magazine, and Communication Arts Magazine. Mr. Niklewicz has also had an active career as a conceptual artist. He has had a number of one-man exhibitions over the last ten years, including at the New Britain Museum of American Art, Silvermine Guild Galleries (where he received the Grumbacher Award), and Art Bank Galleries in London, England. His work has twice been selected for inclusion in group exhibitions at the Adrich Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. It has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Hartford Courant, The New Haven Register, and is in the collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art, the New York City Opera, Playboy Enterprises and the Smithsonian Institution. Adam Niklewicz is on the faculty of Central Connecticut State University, where he is an instructor in conceptual illustration. He is a frequent visitor to the M.F.A. program at Western. Tuesday, October 18, 2005 Ruth Miller was educated at the University of Missouri, the Arts Students League, and informally, through close association with Elaine de Kooning, Esteban Vicente and Jack Twarkov. Highly respected among artists, her sensitive and penetrating drawings and classical still life paintings have been exhibited regularly at the National Academy of Design, the New York Studio School and Bowery Gallery as well as in one-person and group exhibits at Denise Bibro Gallery, the North Dakota Museum of Fine Art, Dartmouth College, Bryn Mawr College, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Morris Museum, Colby College Museum, the Kansas City Art Institute and the Delaware Art Museum. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Delaware Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the National Academy of Design and Dartmouth College. She has taught at the New York Studio School, Parsons School of Design, Yale Norfolk Summer School and Queens College. Writing of her work, Graham Nickson, Dean of the Studio School says: “The drawings excrete passionate sensibility with a pictorial intelligence to match…her work never ceases to inspire, challenge and delight—rewarding my gaze…a painter’s painter, she draws as others think and breathe. She is a paradigm for young artists who believe in the relevance of painting and drawing and its continuum.” Ruth Miller is a member of the Advisory Board of the M.F.A. program at WestConn. Tuesday, November 1, 2005
Ms. Coffey is represented by Tibor de Nagy gallery in New York City where she shows regularly, and has also been shown at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy, D.C. Moore Gallery in New York, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and museums and University galleries across America and in Spain. Her work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Catherine T. and John D. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, the National Academy of Design, and the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts. She is the recipient of many awards and honors including a Guggenheim Foundation Award, several awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Award. “With delightful theatrical flair, Ms. Coffey appears in all sorts of guises…by turns, she looks like a medieval abbess, a scary goddess or a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. These are not revelations of the artist’s singular true self; they’re more like possibilities of selfhood or masks. It is the way the startlingly alive image of a human face inhabits the rich material fabric of the painting that makes these works so compelling.”
Ken Johnson, “New York Times, Tuesday, November15, 2005
Over the last 24 years, Mr.
Whelan has gained a reputation as the premier science fiction and fantasy
illustrator in Mr. Whelan is a member of the Advisory Board of the M.F.A. program at WestConn. Tuesday, November 29,
2005 Robert Birmelin is one of the most widely recognized figure painters in the country. Of his mysterious enigmatic paintings, he says “..my first task is to create a world that I, the artist, can believe in. The second is to fashion that world so that others can also enter into it. After all, art is, finally, a social act, a transaction between persons, real and depicted.” Mr. Birmelin has B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees from Yale University. He also attended Cooper Union Art School in New York and the Slade School of Art in London. He is the recipient of many grants, scholarships, and awards from many prestigious institutions, including the American Academy in Rome, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Louis Comport Tiffany Foundation, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Child Hassam Fund Purchase Award, and the Benjamin Altman Prize for Landscape Painting from the National Academy of Design. He has lectured widely on his work and taught for many years at Queens College. Robert Birmelin is represented by Peter Findley Gallery. |
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Sycamore,
2004
