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Artists-in-Residence 2007-08 (visual arts)
Brett Baker / Matthew Delegate / Ying Li / Shazzi Thomas / Justine Reyes /Susie Nielson /Amparo Carvajal-Hufschmid / Erick Hufschmid
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Brett Baker, painting Brett Baker is an abstract painter who lives and works in New York City and Worcester, NY. He earned a BA in Fine Arts from the College of William and Mary, a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Painting from Brandeis University and an MFA in Painting (1999) from Boston University where he studied with John Walker, John Moore, and Alfred Leslie. His work has won numerous awards including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting (2002) and a Juror's Prize from the eminent art historian and painter Andrew Forge (1999). From 1999-2001 he was Visiting Lecturer of Drawing at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Brett has exhibited work in group shows nationally, including Sideshow Gallery (Brooklyn), The Painting Center (NY), Sherman Gallery (Boston), New Bedford Art Museum (MA), Erector Square Gallery (CT), and Bowery Gallery (NY). Upcoming exhibitions include a Two Person exhibition at The Painting Center, NY (January 2008). In conjunction with his Artist House residency, Brett will exhibit new work at the Boyden Gallery (June 4 -22, 2007) and teach an Introduction to Drawing course at St. Mary's. For more information about Brett's work visit http://www.brettbakerpaintings.com / |
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Ying Li, painting Born in Beijing, China, painter Ying Li studied at Anhui Teachers University and earned an MFA from Parsons School of Design, NY. She is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Fine Arts Department, Haverford College. She has been on the summer faculty of the International School of Art, Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy, since 1999. She has been a visiting artist and critic at the MFA program, University of Pennsylvania; the MFA program, Brooklyn College; the MFA program, Syracuse University; Maryland Institute College of Art; Swarthmore college; Dartmouth college; Bates College; Western Carolina University, among others. Her one-person exhibitions include The Painter Center, NY; Elisabeth Harris Gallery, NY; the ISA Gallery, Italy; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College; Marie Salant Neuberger Campus Center Gallery, Bryn Mawr College; Bowery Gallery, NY; and Enterprise House, Ireland. Group exhibitions include the Museum of National Academy, NY; Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY; Lori Bookstein Fine Arts, NY; Chris Naptune Fine Arts, NY; Korous Gallery, NY; Denise Bibro Gallery; The Westbeth Gallery, NY; Museum of Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France; Pennsylvania Academy of Art; List Gallery, Swarthmore College; Hermitage Foundation Museum, VA. Ying Li is the recipient of the Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize for painting in 2004 from the National Academy Museum, New York; two Vermont Studio Center Fellowships; Art Colony Fellowship, Enterprise House, Ireland; a French Government Art Grant, Rochefort-en-Terre; an Aspen Institute Scholarship; and a Lindback Faculty Research Grant. Her work has been reviewed in New York Times , The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America, The New York Sun, Art Cricital.com , and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Ying Li works in the zone where abstraction and representation shade off into each other, using bold colors, earthy textures, and calligraphic lines. Her training in Chinese painting and calligraphy helps her to form a brushwork that is both free and disciplined. Color is the core of her painting. She uses it to convey mood and memory and to express particular feelings and a sense of place and time. Ying Li's work has been summarized by the New York art critic and curator David Cohen: " She has a touch to die for in terms of bravura painthandling and innate good taste. In her best works, she manages to endow brushstroke with the power of metaphor. Different brushes and their tips sometimes converge in a single canvas in a Dionysian orgy of painterliness . . . Ms. Li's best paintings pulsate with emotional and pictorial complexity." |
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Justine Reyes Justine Reyes lives and works in New York. In 2004 she received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her BFA from Syracuse University in 2000. Reyes's work revolves around current issues of war, terrorism and identity (both national and individual) and utilizes a range of mediums including photography, installation and video. Reyes has shown her work both nationally and internationally. She participated in Proyecto Circo at the 8th Havana Bienal in Havana, Cuba and the exhibition Fragments of Contemporary Urban Experience , which traveled from San Francisco City Hall to the Michaelis Gallery in South Africa. In 2006 Reyes participated in Surveillance , an exhibition at the Jersey City Museum, which included her recent body of work The Usual Suspects.
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Susie Nielson Susie Nielsen is an artist, graphic designer and educator whose work
explores the undefined spaces between people and their environment.
Originally from New York, she received her MFA from Rhode Island School
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Amparo Carvajal-Hufschmid
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