I was five years old when my family and I fled my birthplace of Baghdad, Iraq, and immigrated to Israel via Iran. It was in Tel-Aviv where I spent my adolescence and graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in 1970. Following a solo exhibition as a young artist, the America Israel Cultural Foundation awarded me a scholarship to study abroad. I arrived in California and enrolled in California College of Art in Oakland and San Francisco State University. After graduating and receiving my MFA, I set off for the East Coast and have been living and working in SoHo, …
If there is a problem that needs to be solved; if there something that I need to understand more clearly; if there is something that is broken and needs fixing… these are the things that attract me and permeate my work. I look between the lines to find connections. I look for glue to put the broken pieces back together. My work focuses on social and political issues. My response to these questions takes form after a period of research and reflection; and I use whatever means or media seem to work ranging from installation to single-channel video, from audio …
Amaranth Ehrenhalt is one of the last living members of the second generation of the New York School Abstract-Expressionist painters. She grew up in the Philadelphia area, schooled at the prestigious Barnes Foundation and found a place in New York in the late 40s, bringing her creativity to Paris in the early 50s. Yet her openness to new influences and to new friendships, including those with artists Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miller, assured her crucial role in the evolution of Abstract-Expressionism dialogue in the 50s and 60s Paris.
Celebrating four decades and 55 solo exhibitions, FeBland exhibits world wide in major invitationals. 10 museum collections include Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institute; State of Hawaii "Art In Public Places" and Grounds For Sculpture Museum, etc. She is past President of both NY Artist Equity and American Society Of Contemporary Artists and served as Secretary for the American Art Committee at the United Nations from 1978-81. Born and educated in N.Y. she later lived abroad in England and France for 11 years. The Harriet FeBland Art Workshop was founded upon her return where for 30 years she taught advanced painting …
Arlene Gottfried (deceased), born in Brooklyn, graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and worked as a photographer at an ad agency before freelancing for top publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Life, and The Independent in London. Gottfried has exhibited at the Leica Gallery in New York and in Tokyo, and at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., among others. Her photographs can be found in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. She is the recipient of numerous …
Barbara Hammer is a visual artist primarily working in film and video. Her work reveals and celebrates marginalized peoples whose stories have not been told. Her cinema is multi-leveled and engages an audience viscerally and intellectually with the goal of activating them to make social change. She has been honored with 5 retrospectives in the last 3 years: The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Tate Modern in London, Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Toronto International Film Festival and Kunsthalle Oslo in Norway. Her book Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life was published in 2010 …
New Jersey born, Morton Kaish earned his BFA degree at Syracuse University. He continued his studies at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, the Istituto d’Arte in Florence, and the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Rome. He has been awarded The National Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award and Syracuse University’s Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement in the Fine Arts. Among museum collections are The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The National Museum of Art Smithsonian Institution, The Brooklyn Museum, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, The New Britain Museum …
Mary Miss has reshaped the boundaries between sculpture, architecture, landscape design and installation art by articulating a vision of the public sphere where it is possible for an artist to address the issues of our time. Social, cultural and environmental sustainability are the focus of installations that allow the visitor to become aware of history, ecology or aspects of the site that have gone unnoticed. Miss is currently developing a project to transform Broadway into the new ‘green’ corridor of New York City. Recently she completed a project in Indianapolis, FLOW (Can you see the River?), focusing on a 6-mile …
Photographer and visual artist, Marilyn Schwartz, is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her photographs were often produced in series; The Halloween Series, explored children in costume creating their own fantasies…this led to the Fantasy Series, where she spoke with the people involved to bring their fantasies to light, they became actors choosing much of what appeared in the photographs. In contrast was the New York Trap Rock Series noted for its architectural feeling and rich prints of the buildings and decay along the waterfront, now a beautiful park. In 1978 Schwartz was selected as …
Adele Shtern was born in Montreal and received her BA in Design from Concordia University. She was awarded a Design Canada grant to study Graphic Design in the MFA program at Yale University. She has been a Professor of Art at the Tyler School of Art, the University of Bridgeport, FIT, and Baruch College/CUNY. She is currently an adjunct Professor in the Music & Art Department at BMCC/CUNY. She lives in Long Island City, NY where she continues to be an active artist. She is the co-author of an oral history book entitled Nicky D from LIC. Shtern is considered …
Alonzo J. Davis' career as an artist spans four decades. A native of Tuskegee, Alabama, Davis moved with his family to Los Angeles in his early teens. After acquiring an undergraduate degree at Pepperdine College he earned an MFA in Printmaking and Design at Otis Art Institute. Influenced early on by the assemblagists, Davis soon took wing and began to experiment with a variety of mediums, techniques and themes. At the suggestion of artist and former professor, Charles White, Davis began to produce prints and paintings in series. While he was inspired by travel to Africa, the Caribbean and American …
Cheryl D. Edwards was born in Miami Beach, Florida. She has exhibited widely in museums, university galleries, and galleries nationally and internationally. While practicing law in New York City, she began her art career by enrolling in the Art Student League and studied under Ernest Crichlow for a period of two years. She has been painting for over 25 years. Her medium is oil, ink, and mixed media. She is currently represented by Wohlfarth Galleries (Washington! DC); Artisan Direct, LLC (Rochester, NY); and Susanne Junggeburth Gallery (Germany) (website, http://www.us-arts.de). Edwards is most noted for artwork series, which focus on cultural …
Having had a dual career as a practicing artist and an Art educator has had its advantages. My work is my expanded vision the world I inhabit and teaching has immersed me into that world and provided me many opportunities to observe, reflect and record. I was an art Education major at Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis) graduating with the BS in 1966. Soon after graduation I moved to New York, which was, for me, an expanded classroom. I took advantage of the museums, especially MOMA where I was schooled in Abstract Expressionism, and Art Student League …
Fragione has lived and worked in the Washington, DC area since 2001, her studio is at 52 O Street NW, DC. However, she studied art in San Francisco, where she had the opportunity to work with a number of artists associated with the beat and funk movements there. She received her MFA in 1987, in Painting/Mixed Media at Fiberworks Center of the Arts, John F. Kennedy University, in Berkeley, receiving a fellowship. Cianne was an Artist-in-Residence at DVI State Prison in Tracy, CA from 1980-1983 with a project co-funded by the California Arts Council, Sacramento and Williams James Association, Santa …
The hand pulled print has been my medium of expression for the last 36 years. I am founder of the Graphic Workshop where most of my work is created and co-founder of the Washington Printmakers Gallery. My works are in several private collections as well as solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. In 2014 I was selected for a 7 month exhibition at the Houston Holocaust Museum; this body of work will be shown again November 2015 at the Washington Printmakers Gallery in DC. Throughout the school year I am a guest lecturer at private and public schools on …
My art practice expands six decades creating sculptor, metal work, textiles, painting, printmaking, photography and mixed media. As an advocate for the arts and artists in the position of Senior Officer, Cultural Program Division of the US State Department, I developed and coordinated more than 50 national and international art exhibitions. Since retiring in 2008 I have focused primarily on painting and printmaking continuing to create art and exhibit today. My current work is an exploration of geometric shapes, texture and color informed by life-long memories of personal experiences and cultural connections.
Annette Polan is known internationally as a portrait artist. She has photographed and painted the official portraits of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and other leaders of industry and government. In addition to painting, Ms. Polan is Professor Emerita at the Corcoran College of Art + Design at George Washington University and Principal of Insight Institute, a non-profit that promotes innovation, cititical thinking and creative problem solving through art-based initiatives in a variety of educational and professional contexts from medical training to business management. Professor Polan has taught and lectured on her work and contemporary American portraiture in Europe, Asia, and …
Brief Bio. Terry Svat Throughout my adult life, art was my vocation and avocation. After graduating with a BFA from Kent State University, I worked in commercial art in Ohio, Minnesota, and the Washington, D.C. area. When my family began living and working abroad, I studied, taught, and worked in many art related fields in the former Soviet Union, Chile, Argentina, Panama and Germany. For twelve years abroad, I was exposed to the cultural currents in Russia, Latin America and Europe. I produced, exhibited and sold my work in most of the countries in which we lived. My one-person shows …
