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Angelo Ippolito
Painter
Angelo Ippolito was born in St. Arsenio, Italy. He has had solo exhibitions at Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Binghamton University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Cleveland Art Institute, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, Tanager Gallery, and Galleria della Rotonda in Bergamo, Italy. He has shown in group exhibitions in New York, West Berlin, Rotterdam, the Sao Paolo Bienale, Rome, Milan, London, and in several European tours. Among his awards are a Tiffany Foundation Award in Painting, a Childe Hassam Fund Purchase Award, a Ford Foundation Grant, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Florence, Italy. For more than 20 years, Mr. Ippolito has taught painting at Binghamton University. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Joseph Hirshhorn Museum, Phillips Gallery, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., in other museums, and in numerous corporate, university and private collections in Europe and the U.S.
An exhibiton of works by Angelo Ippolito.
Judy Koon
Painter
Judy Koon received her MFA at Yale University, having earlier studied at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and at the New York Studio School. In Taiwan, she studied traditional Chinese painting. Ms. Koon has been a visiting artist at Knox College and the Glasgow School of Art. She is currently an assistant professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has been teaching since 1986. Her awards and grants include the Faculty Enrichment Grant from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Ragdale Foundation Residence and Stipend, and the Helen Winternitz Award from Yale University. Ms. Koon has had solo exhibitions in Chicago at the Knox College Gallery, Artemesia Gallery, and the University Club Gallery, and has participated in group exhibitions in Chicago, New York and Connecticut.
Irving Kriesberg
Painter
Irving Kriesberg studied at the Chicago Art Institute and at New York University. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright grant, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, NY State, Ford Foundation, Gottleib Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He has had solo exhibitions at Graham Modern Gallery, Dintenfass Gallery, Ingber Gallery, Kumar Gallery (India), the Cincinnati Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Chicago Art Institute, the Everson Museum, Yale Museum of Art, the Rose Art Museum, and the Jewish Museum. His work is in the Museum of Modern Art, Detroit Institute, Corcoran Gallery, Whitney Museum, Cincinnati Museum and Baltimore Museum. Mr. Kriesberg has taught at Skidmore College, Yale, Columbia, and Washington Universities, and was Director of the State-wide Honors Studio Program of the State University of New York. He has written three books: Looking at Pictures; Art, The Visual Experience; and Working With Color.
Elizabeth Lyons
Painter
Elizabeth Lyons has had solo exhibitions at Ripley Art Centre, and in London at Tudor Barn, Art Space Gallery, Woodlands Art Gallery, and Jablonski Gallery. She has shown in numerous group exhibitions throughout England, including Royal Academy of Arts, Falmouth Art Gallery, Histon Gallery, Bakehouse Gallery, Royal College of Art, and Louise Hallet Gallery. Her work was chosen by Sandra Blow for the "Royal Academician's Choice" exhibition, touring London and Bristol. Her work is in collections in England and abroad, including the Mahler Collection and the Fischer-Verlag Collection. Ms. Lyons has been interviewed on BBC Radio. She has been an artist-in-residence and visiting lecturer at the International School of Art in Umbria, Italy, at Falmouth College of Art, and at Goldsmith's College of Art in London. Elizabeth Lyons passed away in 1994.
James McGarrell
Painter
James McGarrell Studied painting at Indiana University and at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He received his M.A. at the University of California, Los Angeles, and also worked at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. He has received the Fulbright Grant, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Citation and Grant, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts Grant. In 1970 he was elected a Correspondent Member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts de L'Institute de France.
Prof. McGarrell has works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Centre National d'art et de Culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the St. Louis Art Museum. Until 1994, James McGarrell was a professor of painting at Washington University, St. Louis.
Knox Martin
Painter
Knox Martin studied at the Art Students League. He has won a Longview Fellowship, a National Foundation for the Arts grant, and a C.A.P.S. grant. Mr. Martin has had solo exhibitions at Egan Gallery, Jack Gallery, River Gallery, Ingber Gallery, Dubelle Gallery, Grenillon Gallery, Fischbach Gallery, Avant Garde Gallery, Holland-Goldberg Gallery, Gallery Bonino, Arras Gallery, CDS Gallery, and Ken Kalleba Gallery. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Museum, Byer Museum, and at major art fairs throughout Europe. Mr. Martin's commissions include large exterior wall paintings and murals in New York and abroad. He has taught at Yale University, New York University and the Art Students League.
Ruth Miller
Painter
Ruth Miller graduated from the University of Missouri with a major in painting. She has taught at Queens College, the University of Hartford, Yale University School of Art at Norfolk, and Parsons School of Design MFA painting program. Since 1973 she has taught painting and drawing at the New York Studio School. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Delaware Art Museum, , and in private collections in the United States and Europe. Ms. Miller has won two Ingram Merrill Awards. She has had solo exhibitions in Delaware, Connecticut and New York, most recently at the New York Studio School and at Bowery Gallery. She has shown in invitational exhibitions at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Design and at Maxwell Davidson Gallery in New York, at the North Dakota Museum of Art, and in group exhibitions around the United States.
Irving Petlin
Painter
Irving Petlin studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and at Yale University. He has won a Cassandra Foundation grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has had solo exhibitions at Galerie du Dragon in Paris, Rolf Nelson Gallery, Odyssia Gallery, the Neuberger Museum, Marlborough Gallery, Kent Fine Art, Gallery Rebecca Cooper, and at galleries in London, Brussels, Rome, Turin, Milan, and at the Venice Biennale. Since the sixties, Mr. Petlin has been a leader in artists' political activism, from his role as a founder of Artists and Writers Against the War in Vietnam, to his participation in the Artists' Call Against the U.S. Inter-vention in Central America. He has taught at Dartmouth College, UCLA, Haifa University, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Paul Russotto
Painter
Paul Russotto has taught painting and drawing at Parsons School of Design MFA painting program, the New York Studio School and Albany Institute of Art, and has been a visiting artist at Vermont Studio School, Creative Arts Forum, Green Mountain College, and at the International School of Art. He has had solo exhibitions at Kouros and Ingber Galleries in New York, and in Washington DC, Albany NY, and California. He has participated in group and invitational exhibitions in New York, Chicago, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Barcelona and Hong Kong, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational and the National Academy of Design. His work is in the corporate collections of Ciba-Geigy, General Electric, A.P. Fritz in Zurich, Tokai Bank in Chicago, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum.
Ruggero Savinio
Painter
Ruggero Savinio was born in Torino, Italy, and lives in Rome. From his family (he is the son of Alberto Savinio and nephew of Giorgio De Chirico), he inherited more than the artistic inclination which soon became a vocation, but also wanderlust. He has lived in Rome, Paris and Milan. His first one-man show was in Milan in 1962. Since then he has exhibited in many cities in Italy and throughout the world. In 1986 he was awarded the Guggenheim Prize for an Italian artist, and in 1988 and 1995 he was invited to have a personal exhibition hall at the Venice Biennale. His writings and stories have been published individually and in collections, and include an autobiographical novel, Ombra Portata.
Ophrah Shemesh
Painter
Ophrah Shemesh studied with Joseph Hirsch at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. After a solo exhibition in Jerusalem, she came to New York, and studied painting with George McNeil and Nicolas Carone at the New York Studio School. She has shown paintings in three exhibitions there. For three years, Ms. Shemesh was the Program Director of the New York Studio School, where she now teaches drawing and painting.
Larry Steele
Sculptor
Larry Steele studied with George Spaventa, Philip Guston, David Hare and George McNeil at the New York Studio School. He is currently on the teaching staff of the Johnson Atelier School of Sculpture, where he has worked since 1982, specializing in Sand Foundry, Metal Chasing and Welding. He has also worked at Metal Works, in Maryland, a teaching foundry/metal shop. Mr. Steele has had exhibitions at Vicennes University, Rutgers University, the New Jersey State Museum, the International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art in Birmingham Alabama, ONE MAIN Sculpture Space, 14 Sculptors Gallery, the New York Studio School Gallery, Samuel S. Fleisher Foundation, and the Mellon Bank Building in Pennsylvania. His awards include the Herk Von Tongren Memorial Sculpture Fund Award, Individual Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial Challenge Series.
An exhibiton of works by Larry Steele.
Wayne Thiebaud
Painter
Wayne Thiebaud studied at California State College. He is currently a professor in the Department of Art at University of California at Davis, where he has taught since 1960. He has also taught at Sacramento Junior College, where he chaired the art department in the 1950's, at California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), Cornell University, University of Victoria, B.C., Rice University, Colorado State University, University of Utah, Stanford University, Skowhegan School, Laguna Beach School of Art, and the New York Studio School.
Mr. Thiebaud has had solo exhibitions at the Crocker Art Museum, Allan Stone Gallery, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Galleria Schwarz in Milan, Stanford Art Museum, Pasadena Art Museum, The Art Museum and Galleries of California State University, Phoenix Art Museum, USA, Walker Art Center, Dickinson College, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. He has been a jurist for the Prix de Rome Award Panel for painting, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been elected to the National Academy of Design, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He has received honorary doctorates from three colleges.
Among many other awards, Mr. Thiebaud has won the College Art Association of America's Most Distinguished Studio Teacher of the Year (1980-81) citation, an Award of Distinction from National Art Schools Association, The Cyril Magnin Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in the Arts from San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and is an Honoree of the American Academy of Achievement. His grants and awards from the University of California, Davis include the Golden Apple Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the Prize for Teaching and Scholarly Achievement.
Susan Walp
Painter
Susan Walp studied at Mount Holyoke College, Boston University School of Fine Arts, the New York Studio School, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Brooklyn College MFA Program. Her numerous awards include the Vermont Council on the Arts Grants for Individual Artists, Art Director's Club Award, American Institute of Graphic Arts Award, Society of Illustrators Award, American Illustration Award, New York Creative Arts Public Service Program (CAPS) Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Barklie McKee Henry Memorial Scholarship, and the Skowhegan Purchase Prize in Drawing. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Art at Vermont College of Norwich University, and Guest Lecturer at Concordia University, Montreal, and Goddard College. Susan Walp is represented by the Fischbach Gallery in New York.
Megan Williamson
Painter
Megan Williamson studied at Knox College and at the New York Studio School. She has exhibited in Chicago at Lyons-Wier Gallery, Phebra Gueche Gallery, NNWAC Gallery, the Harold Washington Library, Form and Function Gallery, and Gallery Great Lakes, in New York at Bowery Gallery and First Street Gallery, and in Umbria at the "Fiera e Festa" Exhibition, and at Galleria ISA. She was awarded a residency at the Ragdale Foundation. Ms. Williamson has lectured at the Massachusetts College of Art in Perugia. Megan Williamson has been a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
An exhibiton of works by Megan Williamson.
Jack Zajac
Sculptor
Jack Zajac has won the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has had over 50 solo exhibitions in Rome and Orvieto, London, Honolulu, New York, Boston, Chicago and California, and has shown in as many group exhibitions worldwide. Mr. Zajac's work is in the public collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Gallery, the Milwaukee Art Center, the Israel Museum, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts. He is currently represented by Steven Wirtz Gallery and teaches sculpture at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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