Posts by Andrea Callard
Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith Kiki is among the leading contemporary artists working in printmaking and she has worked collaboratively with many wonderful printmakers around the world. Kiki Smith: Prints, Books, and Things at the Museum of Modern Art in New York surveyed the artist’s extensive exploration of printed art with a catalog. Smith’s sculptures meditating on the…
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Tomie Arai Tomie Arai (she/her) is a public artist, born and raised in NYC. The stories of displaced and dislocated communities across the globe form the basis for her collaborations with historians, activists and cultural organizations. Through the framework of community-led collaborations, Arai uses public art, mixed media installations, and large-scale light projections as platforms…
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Jane Dickson Jane Dickson was active in COLAB. Since 1980, Dickson has exhibited paintings nationally and internationally. Her work appears in over a dozen museum collections including the Whitney Museum, NYC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, The Chicago Art Institute and The San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art. Her awards include a National Endowment…
Read MoreConrad Gleber
Conrad Gleber Conrad Gleber has had a long and distinguished career in art and design for communication. He exhibits digital artwork, sound and video installations. He collaborates on exhibitions of artists’ books such as one at the Baltic Contemporary Art Centre in Gateshead, England. Gleber and New York artist Duff Schweninger have produced “Dialogues with…
Read MoreRebecca Howland
Rebecca Howland Rebecca (Becky) Howland is a sculptor and painter based in New York City. She was born in Niagara Falls, NY and grew up outside of Buffalo. She is a graduate of Bard College (MFA, Painting 1998), Syracuse University (BFA, Sculpture 1973) and is an alumnus of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (1974-5).…
Read MoreBetti-Sue Hertz
Betti-Sue Hertz Almost Wallpaper 1989 screen print edition: 27 image: 30″h X 22″w Rives BFK In making this work I was attracted to the possibilities of overlapping organic forms unfixed and floating. It was an experiment in how forms that could be sculptural would unsettle on a flat surface. I wanted to conjure up the…
Read MorePeter Julian
Peter Julian Sun I Sun II In general, my images are created in the moment without preconception. For me, the image in two versions is an expression of spiritual self realization through harmony with the cycles of nature, the bounty of the Earth and the pleasure of sharing the fruits of one’s labor in this…
Read MoreDarra Keeton
Darra Keeton Darra Keeton, Professor Emeritus of Painting and Drawing, joined the faculty of Rice University’s former Department of Art and Art History in 1993. For more than 35 years, she exhibited paintings and was a beloved teacher and mentor of young artists, including 19 years at Rice. Keeton retired in 2012. Keeton’s work has…
Read MoreRachael Romero
Rachael Romero Born under the water sign and raised on an isolated farm in Australia during a five-year-drought, Rachael grew to revere water all her life. After fleeing home and refusing to return at 14, the welfare authorities forced her to work in silence for the minimum of a year in a thundering Magdalene Laundry, run by…
Read MoreClarissa Sligh
Clarissa Sligh Clarissa T. Sligh is an African-American book artist and photographer based in Asheville, North Carolina. At age 15, she was the lead plaintiff in a school desegregation case in Virginia. In 1988, she became a co-founder of Coast-to-Coast: A Women of Color National Artists’ Project, which focused on promoting works completed by women of color.…
Read MoreWhitfield Lovell
Whitfield Lovell The recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award in 2007, Whitfield Lovell has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, most recently Inbox: Whitfield Lovell at the Museum of Modern Art in 2017, Whitfield Lovell: Kin Series & Related Works at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC in 2016-17. The presentation was accompanied by…
Read MoreSarah G. Mecklem
Sarah G. Mecklem As a breadwinner for her family in New York City, Sarah G. Mecklem worked with artists producing editions of their work, moving on to develop community arts programs, murals and exhibitions at the same time carrying on her studio work. In addition to silkscreen printmaking she worked at drawing, oil painting and…
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