Visiting Artists
John Bankston
John Bankston lives and works in San Francisco. He was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, and received his M.F.A. in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his A.B. from the University of Chicago. In addition to solo exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, the de Young Museum in San Francisco and the Atlanta College of Art, Georgia, he has participated in many significant group shows, including Freestyle (the Studio Museum in Harlem); Thirty Americans (The Rubell Family Collection, Miami); Splat, Boom, Pow (Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston); Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol (The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh), and Comic Release (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh). Among his numerous awards are an Outstanding Ford Foundation Fellowship, a SECA Art Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. His works are represented in a number of public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the de Young Museum, San Francisco; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University; the Miami Art Museum; the Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica; the Rubell Family Collection, Miami; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Art; the University of Illinois, Chicago; and the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford.
Ian Berry
Ian Berry is Associate Director and Malloy Curator at The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. Berry has curated over sixty museum exhibitions including The Jewel Thief (with Jessica Stockholder, 2010); Amazement Park: Stan, Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek (2009); Twice Drawn (with Jack Shear, 2006); Living with Duchamp (2003); and solo presentations of works by Nayland Blake, Kathy Butterly, Jim Hodges, Martin Kersels, Los Carpinteros, Amy Sillman, and Kara Walker. His recent publications include Fred Tomaselli (Prestel, 2009), Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History (MIT Press, 2009), and Lives of the Hudson (Prestel, 2010).
Phyllis Bramson
Phyllis Bramson received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute in 1973. Bramson is a recipient of three National Endowments, a Senior Fulbight Scholar, Guggenheim Fellowship, Marie Walsh Sharpe NY Studio Grant, Rockefeller Foundation Grant, Artadia: the Fund for Art and Dialog Jury Award and Anonymous Was a Woman 2009 and the 2012 Distinguished Artist Award . Over thirty one person exhibitions including: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Cultural Center of Chicago, Boulder Art Museum and Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago ( mid-career survey).
She is represented in many collections including the Hirshorn, Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Orlando Musuem of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Smart Museum.
Bramson is represented by Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago and Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis.
Huey Copeland
July 24- July 30, 2011
Week 8
Huey Copeland (Ph.D., History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, 2006) is an Assistant Professor of Art History and Affiliated Faculty in African American Studies at Northwestern University. His work focuses on modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on articulations of blackness in the visual field. Copeland’s writing has appeared in Artforum, Art Journal, and Qui Parle as well as in several international catalogues and critical volumes, most recently, Modern Women: Women at the Museum of Modern Art. Copeland’s first book, The Blackness of Things: Art, Slavery, and the Radical Imagination is currently under advanced contract with the University of Chicago Press and was recently awarded an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation Arts Writers Grant. This project is the product of his research in theories of subject formation, twentieth-century sculpture, histories of slavery, and African-American cultural politics, interests that are also reflected in his course offerings, which range from the freshman seminar “‘A’ is for Afrofuturism,” to the advanced undergraduate survey “Sites of Subjection.” In addition to his work as a teacher, critic, and scholar, Copeland is an occasional organizer of exhibitions such as Interstellar Low Ways, co-curated with Anthony Elms for the Hyde Park Art Center, and Big House/Disclosure, an intermedia suite by Mendi+Keith Obadike co-curated with Lane Relyea at Northwestern. An alumnus of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Copeland’s work has been supported by institutions such as the American Council of Learned Societies and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center for American Modernism. In 2011, he will be a fellow at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, where he will continue to work on a new manuscript exploring the visual profile of the negress, a key figure within Western representation from the 19th century to the present.
Cristina Córdova
Originally from Puerto Rico, Cristina Córdova received her BA from the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez and continued to earn an MFA in Ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.Upon graduation in 2002 she is selected for a a three year artists residency at Penland School of Crafts where she later serves as a trustee from 2006 to 2010. Some of Cristina Córdova's recognitions include an American Crafts Council Emerging Artist Grant,a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Grant ,a Virginia Groot Foundation Recognition Grant and several International Association of Art Critics Awards.Cristina has taught at Penland School of Crafts(NC), Haystack Mountain School (ME), Santa Fe Clay(NM), Mudfire(GA) and Odyssey Center(NC) and Anderson Ranch(CO).Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Fuller Craft Museum,(MA),Mobile Museum of Art,the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico(MAC),the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico ( MAPR),the Mint Museum of Craft and Design (NC) and the Joseph -Schein Museum in NY.She currently lives and works in Penland, NC.
To see more of Cristina's work, please visit her website cristinacordova.com
Jim Drain
July 10-16, 2011
Week 6
B.F.A. 1998, Rhode Island School of Design, Sculpture
Solo Exhibitions: Locust Projects, Miami, Workspace at the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, peres projects, Los Angeles
Group exhibitions: O.H.W.O.W., Miami, The Hole, NYC, Simon Lee Gallery, London, Depart Foundation; Rome, Italy, Deitch Projects, New York, North Miami MOCA, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, Gallery HYUNDAI, Beijing, China, Gagosian Gallery, New York, The RISD Museum, Providence, Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, Serpentine Gallery, London; Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland; Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson; Herning Art Museum, Denmark, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway, The Moore Space, Miami, The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Awards: Baloise prize, 2005, Cultural Consortium, 2009
Lectures: Yale University, University of Vermont, USC, RISD, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Co-director of The Bas Fisher Invitational (Miami).
Residencies: Headlands Center for the Arts, Mattress Factory.
Jeanne Dunning
Jeanne Dunning's work has been shown extensively throughout the United States and Europe since the mid-1980s. It has been included in major group exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial, the Sydney Biennale, and the Venice Biennale. She has had one person shows at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Konstmuseet in Malmö, Sweden and the Berkeley Art Museum, and she completed a web-based work for the Dia Center for the Arts in New York in 2002. Her work is represented by Donald Young Gallery in Chicago.
Corin Hewitt
BA, Oberlin College 1993; MFA, Bard College, 2007
Select Solo Exhibitions: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, Taxter and Spengemann Gallery, New York, Laurel Gitlen Gallery, New York, Fleming Museum at University of Vermont,
Group Exhibitions: Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway, Wanas Foundation, Sweden, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, Sao Paolo Biennial, Sao Paolo, Brazil, , P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Public Art Fund, NY, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, Recess Activities, New York, Museum 52, London, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, Santa Barbara Contemporary, Taxter and Spengemann Gallery, New York, D'Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, Laurel Gitlen Gallery, New York,
Awards: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 2011, Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant 2010, Project Recipient, Public Art Fund in the Public Realm
Hewitt is currently an assistant professor of Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.
James Hyde
Abstract painter James Hyde has lived and worked in Brooklyn over the last 30 years. Hyde’s recent works are predominantly paintings on photographic prints of varying size and media. Over the years Hyde has reimagined painting as contemporary frescos, pillows, vitrines, large-scale installations, photography, and furniture design. Mr. Hyde has lectured as a visiting professor at a number of institutions, including Yale, the Art Institute of Chicago, Skowhegan and Bard College.
Mr. Hyde has received Guggenheim Foundation and Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowships. Mr. Hyde's pieces are included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, MoMA and the French National Collection.
Anissa Mack
Anissa Mack is New York-based artist whose work includes sculpture, photography, and performance. Recent solo exhibitions include Laurel Gitlen, New York, the Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, and the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, PS1 MOMA, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, the Queens Museum of Art, and Kate Werble Gallery. Mack received a BA from Wesleyan University, an MFA from Tyler School of Art, and was a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999.
Duncan MacKenzie
Duncan MacKenzie is an Artist, Pundit, Educator and a Founding Member/Producer of Bad at Sports podcast and website. Bad At Sports is a unique weekly podcast, one of the Internet’s largest independent art sites, and represents a 300 hour archive of artist interviews. Focused around contemporary art and founded in 2005, the podcast series presents the practices of artists, curators, critics, dealers and arts professionals through an online audio format. Some of his interviewees have included Rodney Graham, Kerry James Marshall, Francesco Bonami, Luc Tuymans, James Elkins, David Robbins, Carol Becker, James Rondeau, Jeff Wall, and Gavin Turk. Duncan has worked as a correspondent for Big, Red and Shiny, Octopus, Lumpen, Proximity, New City, and Time Out Chicago and shows art work internationally with his collaborator Christian Kuras. He is an Assistant Professor in the Art + Design Department at Columbia College Chicago.
Jillian McDonald
July 31- August 6, 2011
Week 9
Jillian McDonald is a Canadian artist, living in New York since 1996. Recent solo shows and projects include The Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, Moti Hasson Gallery and Jack the Pelican Presents in New York, and the Rosenthal Gallery in San Francisco, among many others. Group exhibitions and festivals featuring her work include The Whitney Museum's Artport, Year Zero One in Toronto, Manifestation d'Art Internationale de Québec, 404 International Festival of Electronic Art in Argentina, The Sundance Online Film Festival in Utah, La Biennale de Montréal, and the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie in France. McDonald received grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Canada Council for the Arts, Soil New Media, NYSCA, The Experimental Television Center, Thirdplace.org, and Pace University. Mcdonald's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Flash Art, Border Crossings, Art Papers, The Globe and Mail, and The Toronto Star, among others. A discussion of her work appears in several books including Stalking by Bran Nicol, Art and the Subway by Tracy Fitzpatrick, and the forthcoming Better Off Dead edited by Sarah Laura.
Shana Moulton
Shana Moulton (b. 1976, Oakhurst, California, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a BFA from University of California, Berkeley, an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and De Ateliers, Amsterdam. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Harvestworks, New York, and has received grants and fellowships from Harvestworks, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Experimental Television Center. Moulton has exhibited and performed at venues such as The New Museum, The Wexner Center, Migros Museum, MoMA P.S.1, The Kitchen, Performa 09, Electronic Arts Intermix, the Andy Warhol Museum, Art in General, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Performa 2009, Participant INC, The Ljubljana Biennial, Migrating Forms, Impakt Festival, Rencontres Internationales, European Media Arts Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Socrates Sculpture Park. Her work has been reviewed in the Village Voice, Artforum, the Brooklyn Rail, the New York Times, Artnet Magazine, Frieze Magazine and Flash Art.
Robyn O'Neil
August 7- 13, 2011
Week 10
Cora Bliss Taylor Fellow for Distinguished Painters
underwritten by the Warnock Family
Robyn O’Neil [Omaha, Nebraska, 1977] lives and works in Houston, Texas. Her work was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. O’Neil has been the featured artist in several solo museum exhibitions including a show of her most important works to date at The Des Moines Art Center in 2010, and a solo museum exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. O'Neil has been included in numerous acclaimed group exhibitions throughout the US and internationally. Some of the venues in which she has exhibited include the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, American University Museum in Washington, DC, and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Tampa, Florida. Gallery shows O'Neil has participated in have included such cities as Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Paris, Copenhagen, Shanghai, NYC, Los Angles, Miami, Chicago, and Seattle, to name a few. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2008 and the Hunting Prize in 2009. Her work is represented by Praz-Delavellade Gallery in Paris, France and Berlin, Germany, Susan Inglett Gallery in New York City, and Dunn and Brown Contemporary in Dallas, Texas. O'Neil is currently working on the production of THE TOWER, an opera she wrote while at Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School in Los Angeles. She also received a grant from the Irish Film Board and is in pre-production on an animated short based on her drawings and the stories behind them.
Paul Pfeiffer
Borrowing footage from television, movies, and sports events that serve as raw material and building blocks for his work, Paul Pfeiffer creates video, sculpture, and installations. Using iconic images of spectacles and celebrities, he plays with the canonization of memory and history, as in a digitally erased Marilyn Monroe or ghostly image of Muhammad Ali fighting in the ring ask viewers to question their own spectatorship and desire. Informed by, among others, Francis Bacon, Warhol and DaVinci¹s Vitruvian Man, his large-scale pieces wrestle with notions of power while the miniature works evoke intimacy. In a recent colossal production, he recorded a hired crowd of 1,000 men to re-create the sounds of 100,000 fans cheering during a World Cup match. In all of his work, from a lush, sunrise and sunset shot, and shown, in real time, to a twenty-four hour a day, seventy-five day long piece, where New York commuters could watch a video of a nest full of eggs hatching and then growing into chickens, Pfeiffer is saying: pay attention. One critic summed up his body of work, "One can feel the deepening of love -- and the holes left open by need."
Duke Riley
Duke Riley’s (b. Boston, MA 1972) signature style interweaves historical and contemporary events with elements of fiction and myth to create allegorical histories. His re-imagined narratives comment on a range of issues from the cultural impact of over-development and gentrification of waterfront communities to contradictions within political ideologies as well as commerce and the role of the artist in society and at war. Each exhibition, or project, is presented in a museum-like setting. Artifacts of questionable provenance and mock documentaries are presented alongside drawings, printmaking, mosaics and performative interventions which he has become well-known for.
Riley received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a MFA from Pratt Institute. His exhibitions and projects over the past several years have garnered much praise including solo shows at Cleveland MOCA; Philagrafika at the Philadelphia Historical Society, and Those About to Die Salute You at the Queens Museum of Art which won AICA’s second place for “Best Project in Public Space”2010. In 2009 Riley held the First St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Havana, Cuba and was the recipient of an Art Matters. Most recently, Duke was the recipient for the smART Power grant and the Pollack Krasner Foundation grant.
Judith Rodenbeck
June 26- July 2, 2011
Week 4
Judith Rodenbeck holds the Noble Foundation Chair in Art and Cultural History at Sarah Lawrence College, where she teaches modern and contemporary art. Her writing on contemporary art has appeared in magazines such as Grey Room, Artforum, and Modern Painters; she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Art Journal from 2007-2009. A specialist in the neo-avant-gardes of the 1950s and 1960s, she has written and lectured extensively on participatory and open art; her book, Radical Prototypes: Allan Kaprow and the Invention of Happenings, is forthcoming from MIT Press.
Anders Ruhwald
June 12- 18, 2011
Week 2
Anders Ruhwald (born 1974, Denmark) lives and works in Detroit, USA. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2005. Solo exhibitions include “The state of things” at The Museum of Art and Design in Copenhagen, “You in Between” at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art in the UK, several gallery solo-shows in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Stockholm, London, Copenhagen and Brussels and numerous group exhibitions around the world. His work is represented in the collections of The Victoria and Albert Museum, The British Crafts Council, The National Museum of Decorative Art (Norway), The National Museum (Sweden), The Swedish Arts Council, The Museum of Art and Design (Denmark), The Yingge Ceramics Museum, (Taiwan) and several other public and private collections. He was awarded the Danish Art Foundation three year working-stipend this year and the Sotheby’s Prize in the United Kingdom in 2007. Ruhwald has lectured and taught at many universities and colleges around Europe and North-America and has held an associate professorship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently he is the Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Ceramics Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, USA.
Jered Sprecher
July 3- July 9, 2011
BA, Concordia University, 1999; MFA, The University of Iowa, 2002
Sprecher taught at Princeton University and Cornell University and currently teaches at The University of Tennessee.
Select solo exhibitions: Kinkead Contemporary, CA; VoltaNY; Jeff Bailey Gallery, NY; Steven Zevitas Gallery, MA; The Art Gallery of Knoxville, TN; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland; and Wendy Cooper Gallery, IL
Select group exhibitions: Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY; The Drawing Center, NY; Devening Projects, IL; Knoxville Museum of Art, TN; Arthouse, TX; Edward Thorp Gallery, NY; CTRL Gallery, TX; University of Indiana; Cheekwood Museum of Art, TN; ArtLA; Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, MI; and the Des Moines Art Center, IA
Awards include John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Program, and Irish Museum of Modern Art Artist in Residence.
Jan Verwoert
Jan Verwoert is a critic and writer on contemporary art and cultural theory, based in Berlin. He is a contributing editor of frieze magazine, his writing has appeared in different journals, anthologies and monographs. He teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam, the de Appel curatorial programme and the Ha’Midrasha School of Art, Tel Aviv. He is the author of Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous, MIT Press/Afterall Books 2006 and the essay collection Tell Me What You Want What You Really Really Want, Sternberg Press/Piet Zwart Institute 2010. He plays bass and sings in La Stampa (Staatsakt/Berlin).