All
lectures will take place at 11:00 a.m. in Viewing room 1 in the basement of
White Hall
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
Robert
Berlind: Robert Berlind was educated at Yale University, where he
received a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. in painting, and at Columbia University,
where he received a B.A. in Art History. He has been actively exhibiting an
abstraction based, painterly realism for over 30 years, with individual and
group shows at Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York, the 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.
Thursday, September 25, 2003
Marjorie Portnow: Marjorie Portnow, one of
the best known painters of landscape in the United States, received a BA in
art history from Case Western Reserve University and an MFA in painting from
Brooklyn College. Ms. Portnow's paintings represent her keen observation of
nature and the sense of the passing moment. A painter who works in situ,
often selecting a high vantage point, Portnow tends "to choose places with
large, panoramic, unobstructed views, without development, houses, or
people." Her work has been exhibited widely, in solo exhibits at the
University of California, Santa Cruz; the Fishbach Gallery in New York City,
and the Harcus-Krakow Gallery in Boston; and in permanent collections
throughout the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Albany Museum of Art, and the Gibbs Museum of Art. She
is the recipient of two Ingram Merrill Grants, two Bunting (Radcliffe
Institute) Institute Grants, two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, two
Tiffany Foundation Grants and is a member of the National Academy of Design
and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Ms. Portnow will speak on
different approaches to landscape painting.
Tuesday, October 7, 2003
James Warhola: James
Warhola has a B.F.A. from Carnegie-Mellon University and did post-graduate
work at the Art Students League. He has created over 300 covers for
science-fiction and fantasy books, and has illustrated more than 20
children's books, three of which have won a state award for Best Children's
Book of the Year. He has also been an active contributor to Mad Magazine for
over 20 years. His work has been exhibited extensively at the Museum of
American Illustration as well as the Salamagundi Club, the World Fantasy
Convention, the World Science Fiction Convention, the Canton Museum of Art,
the Patterson Museum of Art, and the Delaware Art Museum. Mr. Warhola's
latest publication is the first story he has written; a delightful record of
his relationship with his famous uncle, Andy Warhol. Writing in the
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Harry Schwaib says, "Uncle Andy's" should
not-repeat not-be confined to the Young Reader's shelf. It belongs in the
Art History section as well. "Uncle Andy's" is a remarkable look at life
under the Warhol roof during one weekend in 1962, the breakthrough year for
Pop Arts most famous practitioner. This was the year Warhol painted his
first Campbell's Soup Cans, Elvises and Marilyns; made his first
photo-screens; and got ready for his first major exhibitions in Los Angeles
and New York." Mr. Warhola lives and works in Tivoli, New York.
October 21, 2003
Ruth Miller: 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 matchher work never
ceases to inspire, challenge and delight-rewarding my gazea 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.
November 4, 2003
Michael Whelan: Over the last 24 years, Mr.
Whelan has gained a reputation as the premier science fiction and fantasy
illustrator in the genre. He is a thirteen-time HUGO (World Science Fiction)
Award winner and three-time winner of the HOWARD (World Fantasy) Award for
Best Artist. He was also awarded the "Super Hugo" for Best Professional
Artist of the last 50 years. Many publications have named Whelan as one of
the 100 most influential people in the field. In 1994, he won a Grumbacher
Gold Medal and in 1997, he was awarded a Gold Medal from the Society of
Illustrators and an A ward for Excellence in the Communication Arts Annual.
Mr. Whelan is a member of the Advisory Board of the M.F.A. program at
WestConn.
November 18, 2003
Susanna Coffey: Susanna
Coffey received a B.F.A. from the University of Connecticut and an M.F.A.
from Yale University. Her intense, highly focused and compelling
self-portraits have given a unique originality and a new vitality to this
classical artistic tradition. 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 guisesby 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," Friday,
January 22, 1999
December 2, 2003
Tom Kidd: Tom Kidd, an award-winning
illustrator, received a scholarship to Syracuse University, for his fantasy
illustrations. After attending for two years, he left for New York, where he
pursued illustration full time. He has since worked for a number of
publishers: William Morrow, Random House, Warner Books, Doubleday, Marvel
Comics, St. Martins Press, and Tor Books. He has illustrated two books: "The
Three Musketeers" and "War of the Worlds," and there is a book of his art,
"The Tom Kidd Sketchbook." There are even trading cards and a screen saver
on his paintings. His publishing work has won him three Chesley Awards, on
Anlab, and a Golden Pagoda, as well as garnering him four Hugo nominations.
Kidd has also done design work for film, theme parks, entertainment
products, and figurines for such clients as Walt Disney Feature Animation,
Rhythm and Hues, Universal Studios, Franklin Mint, Danbury Mint, Buddy-L
Toys, Mayfair Games, and Second Nature Software. His work has been displayed
in a wide array of venues, including the Delaware Art Museum, The Society of
Illustrators, The Canton Museum of Art, and The NASA Future Art Expedition.
He currently resides in New Milford, Connecticut. |
