- Thomas Albrecht
- James Fossett
- Rena Leinberger
- Carmen Lizardo
- Itty Neuhaus
- Thomas Sarrantonio
- Suzanne Stokes
- Cheryl Wheat-Schmidt
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Thomas Albrecht |
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Thomas Albrecht received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. He went on to receive a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale University, where he served as the Menil Scholar at the Institute of Sacred Music. He received his MFA in Painting from the University of Washington in Seattle.
Mr. Albrecht’s work has historically focused on the vulnerability of the human body -- particularly the male body -- as it explores the visceral nature of tissue and bone, as well as the ephemeral voice, utilizing varied strategies of production that span drawing, painting, video and performance. Recent work examines human action and its consequences in drawings and paintings where tension exists between what is pictured in terms of bodily record against the absence of any actual figure.
Thomas Albrecht has exhibited and performed in Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, Providence, and New York, as well as in the Czech Republic, and he has lectured both nationally and internationally on topics ranging from teaching pedagogy to contemporary visual practices. He most recently had a one-person exhibition in Spring 2008 at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City.
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James Fossett |
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James Fossett is a visual artist who works in both still and moving images, performance, public art and installation. He is a founding member of the multi-disciplinary performance group, Cave Dogs (cavedogs.org). Fossett received his MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in association with Tufts University. He recently completed a fellowship at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland. Fossett has received commissions for public installations from the Cambridge (MA) Community Arts Group and from The Arlington (MA) Arts Council. His work is shown both nationally and internationally. He currently lives and works in New York’s Hudson Valley.
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Rena Leinberger |
Rena Leinberger is a multidisciplinary artist. Currently, she investigates the erasure and reconstruction of architectures in states of disaster and collapse, and ways in which images mediate the experience of disaster. Her work has been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Gallery 400 at University of Illinois of Chicago and Zg Gallery; she has been included in group exhibitions at the Queens Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts and CUE Art Foundation in New York, among others. She was selected for a fellowship in the Bronx Museum's AIM Program and is also a recipient of a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She was also selected for a residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York.
Rena Leinberger earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been reviewed in numerous publications, including Sculpture Magazine, FiberArts, Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Reader and the Brooklyn Rail.
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Carmen Lizardo |
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Carmen Lizardo’s work investigates the relationship that exists between issues of race, immigration and identity. This subject matter extends upon the studio work she has been developing in last seven years. Namely, the cultivation of complex, layered photographic/mixed media work addressing issues of citizenship, womanhood, cultural adaptation and the historical contradiction that exists in this country. Generated as autobiographical portraiture, her work extents to broadly portray intercultural challenges, regionalism, displacement and disenfranchisement. Through it, she seeks to discern the relevance and consequence of melding, hybridizing, or preserving aspects of otherness.
Carmen Lizardo was born La Romana, a small town in the Dominican Republic. She immigrated to the US age of nineteen. Lizardo holds a BFA in Photography and MFA in Digital Media from Pratt Institute. In her work she integrates Printmaking, Photography Painting and Video. Carmen Lizardo has been is an Associate Professor of Drawing and Design for the Foundation Program in the Art Department.
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Itty Neuhaus |
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Itty Neuhaus is a sculptural installation artist who has had solo shows at SculptureCenter in New York City and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY. She has been in numerous outdoor public sculpture exhibits, gallery and museum shows, including The Aldrich Museum, ExitArt Gallery, The Kitchen, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, and PS1 Contemporary Art Center. She has attended artists' residencies on a yearly basis including Strammür Art Colony in Iceland, Yaddo in New York, and Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center on Cape Cod. Her awards include funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for the 2001 Hallwalls project, and a 1994 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She has taught sculpture, drawing and computer arts at Rhode Island School of Design, New York University, Pratt Institute, and The University of the Arts. Before teaching she worked in the film industry doing special effects, on such thrillers as Toxic Avenger and Alphabet City and for design firms doing computer graphics. She received a BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute, attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received an MFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art.
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Thomas Sarrantonio |
Thomas Sarrantonio holds degrees in Biology (Fordham University) and English (University of Pennsylvania) in addition to Art. He studied Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and received his MFA from SUNY College at New Paltz. His subject matter derives from Nature and he produces many small paintings directly from Nature in an attempt to capture the perceptual effects of light, color and atmosphere. Large paintings are studio works produced from studies, memory and imagination and tend to be more conceptual in mediating between realism and abstraction. He has exhibited widely and is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and the Thayer Fellowship in the Fine Arts.
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Suzanne Stokes |
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Suzanne Stokes is an Associate Professor of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Prior to this position she was the Outreach Director and faculty member for numerous and extensive K-12 Art Programs at MassArt in Boston, MA. She received her MFA (1991) from SUNY New Paltz and her BFA (1986) from Kent State University, OH.
Stokes is the artistic director of the collaborative performance troupe Cave Dogs, which she created in 1992. She also independently shows her work in galleries, as installations, sound pieces and prints and at film festivals and cyber venues.
Through Cave Dogs, Stokes brings together visual artists, musicians, dancers, and writers in the spirit of experimental inter-disciplinary collaboration. The performances consist of innovative, large-scale shadow projections cast onto a scrim from sculptures, props, and the human body, which move in concert with projected video imagery, spoken narrative, and an original soundtrack. Working with a variety of artistic mediums, they tell stories, create multilayered visual tableaus, and produce effects that conjure the dreamlike quality of early experimental film and the humor of contemporary animation. The text, visual imagery, and sounds weave together to create a rich multi-media artifact that documents, preserves, and celebrates important cultural voices and stories.
Cave Dogs have performed throughout the United States at venues such as P.S. 122, NYC, Henry Street Settlement, NYC, HERE, NYC, Mobius, MA, Cambridge Multicultural Art Center, MA and The Center For Contemporary Art, NM. The work of Cave Dogs was featured both on WGBH –Boston’s PBS affiliate and WBUR –Boston’s NPR affiliate. They have received grants from The Jim Henson Foundation (NYC), The NLT Foundation (Boston, MA), and Franklin Furnace (NYC).
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Cheryl Wheat-Schmidt |
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Cheryl Wheat’s large-scale work maintains a mythic view of human experience. The work has a sense of the timelessness of beauty in an ephemeral world. The drawings and sculptures create a visual language like that of poetry, where the distance from the real world is great and sensibilities heightened.
Cheryl Wheat has recently returned from the American Academy in Rome where she was a Visiting Artist. Her work is currently on view at the Morris Museum, in New Jersey, as part of the exhibition, Timeless: The Art of Drawing.
She has exhibited at The Bayley Museum, in Charlottesville, and in New York at the Neuberger Museum, at Edward Hopper House, the Sculpture Center, the D& D Building, Lizan Tops, and Philips de Pury.
Cheryl studied sculpture at the Academia de belle Arti, in Rome and received an MFA degree from Brooklyn College, where she received a Graduate Fellowship. Cheryl has been a scholarship recipient from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the National Academy of Design and received a National Endowment for the Arts CETA Arts Grant. Cheryl has worked with the post modern architect Michael Graves on projects involving sculpture and architecture which have appeared in publications including, The Classicist, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Clos Pegase Competition.
Cheryl has taught at Bard College, The Cooper Union, Brooklyn College, the Graduate School of the New York Academy of Art, and New York University. Cheryl Wheat’s artwork can be viewed at www.cherylwheat.com.
