Painting

1992

Professor, graduate residency, Lacoste School of the Arts, Lacoste, France; chair, painting department, SCAD; visiting artist, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio; administrative staff, Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, Savannah, Georgia

Twenty-six international exhibitions (solo and group); seven solo U.S. exhibitions; 30 U.S. group exhibitions; International Young Art Auction at Sotheby's, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Collections: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Plaza Hotel, New York City, and others

New American Paintings; Open Studio Press, Southern Edition; Who's Who Among America's Teachers; travel grants; Guinness Book of World Records, Southern Arts Revival Artist Collaborative, project coordinator, World's Largest Painting: 76,726 square feet, Tybee Island, Georgia

National Council of Art Administrators, College Art Association, SECAC

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." - Carl Jung

• PNTG 312 Mixed Media
• PNTG 325 Narrative Painting
• PNTG 330 Large-format Painting
• PNTG 366 Conceptual Art Practice
• PNTG 409 Advanced Painting
• PNTG 415 Painting Senior Seminar
• PNTG 503 Graduate Advanced Painting
• PNTG 708 Graduate Drawing
• PNTG 704 Formal Aspects of Painting
• PNTG 766 Conceptual Art Practice
• SFIN 413 Professional Practices in Fine Arts
• SFIN 716 Theory and Practices I
• SFIN 745 Fine Art M.F.A. Self-promotion

Carson draws inspiration and insight from a variety of theological and literary sources, seeking dialogue with mythical and archetypal meanings in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Carson's recent work explores reflections on such themes as faith, suffering, loss, compassion and unconditional love.

denise-carson.com

2005

Chair of painting department, professor of painting, professor of foundation studies, Savannah College of Art and Design; gallery director, adjunct professor, Broward College, Davie, Florida

SCAD Presidential Fellowship; The Sixth Open Studios Midwest Competition. "New American Paintings"; Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching

Exhibitions

• "Year of the Rabbit," Moot Gallery, Hong Kong, China, 2011
• "Horse Power: Matt Blackwell and Gregory Eltringham," Gallery See, Atlanta, Georgia, 2010
• "You," Union College, Arts Atrium Gallery / Visual Arts Department, Schenectady, New York, 2009
• "Wishing You Were Here," d.o.c.s. Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2008

"My own experience as a student was a motivating factor for my decision to pursue a career in teaching. I enjoy the classroom environment and the way it serves as a laboratory for ideas. My continued interaction with students, the dialogue generated in the classroom, and the dedicated research necessary to keep me informed and relevant as a professor all serve to keep things fresh, and they play a valuable role in the development of my studio practice. "

• DRAW 708 Graduate Drawing
• PNTG 203 Oil-based Media Exploration
• PNTG 302 Intermediate Painting
• PNTG 310 Life Painting
• PNTG 321 Portrait Painting
• PNTG 325 Narrative Painting
• PNTG 330 Large-format Painting
• PNTG 331 Landscape Painting
• PNTG 332 Advanced Portrait Painting
• PNTG 341 Painting: Developing a Sense of Place
• PNTG 409 Advanced Painting
• PNTG 410 Advanced Life Painting
• PNTG 431 Advanced Landscape Painting
• PNTG 704 Formal Aspects of Painting
• PNTG 728 Painting Studio I
• PNTG 738 Painting Studio II
• PNTG 741 Painting: Directed Project
• PNTG 758 Painting Studio III
• PNTG 762 Life Painting
• PNTG 764 Narrative Painting
• PNTG 768 Painting Studio IV
• PNTG 775 Advanced Painting Studio Analysis
• SFIN 716 Theories and Processes I
• SFIN 756 Theories and Processes II

"My primary artistic output centers around painting, although I do participate in collaborative activities outside of my regular practice, most notably through my continuing involvement with the sound-based project The Tenderloin Trio. My painting practice continues to evolve and change, generated and influenced by continuous research through my teaching and my travels."

gregoryeltringham.com

2007

Internationally exhibited painter, years of experience showing in and working for various New York City galleries

Paintings have been exhibited in museum and gallery exhibitions in Denver, Colorado; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Paris, Hong Kong, Berlin and elsewhere

Critic's Choice, Saatchi Online; Best Solo Show, Emerging Artist, Westword (Denver); numerous newspaper, magazine and blog reviews and articles worldwide

College Art Association

"Monoplex: The Intercodes of Art and Meaning: Art Theory for Accelerated Attention Spans," publication forthcoming, 2012

"To share and foster a love of knowledge and a love of learning. To help students understand the importance of the history and context in which their work is embedded so they can then push it further and make it their own."

• DRAW 100 Drawing I: Form and Space
• PNTG 206 Water-based Media Exploration
• PNTG 409 Advanced Painting
• PNTG 415 Painting Senior Seminar
• PNTG 779T Graduate Teaching Internship
• SFIN 716 Theories and Processes I

"My paintings result from a determination to make art that can stand up to the rigors of 'official' art world aesthetic judgment and critique, yet still possess enough visual impact and 'oomph' to engage the vernacular glance of the untrained eye. In other words, to make paintings that work within and contribute to the cultural context of 'fine art' while also being just plain cool enough to be worth looking at by the average person who, while not formally learned in contemporary art, is quite visually sophisticated from a lifetime of iconographic and logotypic training via mass media. Just as the early modernist painters had to deal with the perceptual changes wrought by the invention of the camera, I believe that today's painters have to address contemporary changes in perceptual processing speeds, information intake and attention span, and make these changes our own."

jason-hoelscher.com

1996

Professor of painting, SCAD; guest lecturer, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Children's Theatre Program; assistant professor/scenographer, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Modern Dance II; visiting studio lecturer, San Francisco State University, Women's Studies Department, "Women as Creative Agents"; chair, fine and performing arts, the Elliot Pope Preparatory School (Formerly Desert Sun School); University of Southern California, Idyllwild, School of Music and the Arts; visiting studio lecturer, painting, Stanford University; teacher of first and second grades, Los Angeles Public Schools; Watts Towers Art Center, Dance and Art; art instructor, kindergarten through eighth grade, St. Stephen's School, San Francisco, California; instructor of ballet, modern and jazz dance, The Academy of Dance, Fairbanks, Alaska

Select exhibitions, including: The Hammer Museum, Getty Research Institute, Danville Museum of Fine Art and History, Ferst Fine Arts Center, Parkersburg Art Center, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, The Albany Museum, Carnegie Art Museum; permanent collections: The Rumsey Indian Rancheria, Indianapolis Museum of Art, California Museum of African American Art

Outstanding Creative Achievement Award; Presidential Fellowship for SCAD Faculty Development; finalist, purchase award, Hermes Scarf Design Commission; Who's Who in American Art, Special Edition; Outstanding People of the Twentieth Century; Who's Who in the South and Southwest; Cave Canem Foundation Poetry Fellowship; Who's Who in the World of Women; Yale University Fellowships, Yale Repertory Theatre, School of Drama

• "L.A Rising: SoCal Artists Before 1980," The California/International Arts Foundation new encyclopedia, compiled by Lynn Kienholz, Getty Foundation, 2011
• "Gallery 32 and Its Circle," Loyola Marymount University catalogue, 2008
• "Marks From the Matrix," edited by Richard Finch and Veda M. Rives, Normal Editions Workshop, University of Illinois, 2007
• "Internationale Biennale fur bildende Kunst - Austria 2002" catalogue "African American Artists of Los Angeles: Suzanne Jackson," interview by Karen Anne Mason, Oral History Program, University of California at Los Angeles, 1998
• "Gumbo YaYa, Anthology of African American Women Artists," Midmarch Arts Press, 1995
• Cover story in Black Art, an International Quarterly, Vol. III. No. 4, 1981
• Contributions of Women Art, Dillon Press, 1977
• Contextures, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York, 1977
• Black Artists On Art, Vol. II, Ward Ritchie Press, 1970

"Student enthusiasm and creative enlightenment; challenges and progressive success become evident in their learning discoveries."

• PNTG 206 Water-based Media Exploration
• PNTG 415 Painting Senior Seminar
• PNTG 728 Painting Studio I
• PNTG 738 Painting Studio II
• PNTG 775 Advanced Painting Studio Analysis
• PNTG 790 Painting M.F.A. Thesis
• SFIN 413 Professional Practices in Fine Arts
• SCAD eLearning, Graduate Painting

"Very early work emphasized developing and reinterpreting images and symbols with implied visual impressions of thoughts, environments or existences from other times, other places. In later years, drawings, prints and paintings were responses to urban environments - mythical city spirits, peculiarities in opposition to deceptively poetic rural environments. Focus emanated from considering a woman's kind of spirit; nature in space and time, restructuring materials, canvas hung off stretcher.

"These earlier visions are being revisited as watercolor observations from nature, reflecting related Southern and Lowcountry tales, adventures, memories of people and events from other places.

"Recent works are a practiced application of graphite line, drawn or pinched into each painting, next to, or over watercolor or acrylic paint. Visual over-lapping in the works becomes abstracted-dimensional structure related to cultural confusion, translation, distraction and edited social language.

"Regionally different-but-related observations of coastal Lowcountry customs and history are strong recent influences."

• suzannefjackson.com
• http://www.myartspace.com/suzannejackson/
• arttraffic.co.uk/artists/614-suzanne-jackson

1992

Nineteen years of teaching graduate and undergraduate painting at university level; widely exhibited internationally, including New York, Beijing, Atlanta, London, Savannah; extensive publication record with 16 essays/articles

Developed and published a new painter's color wheel, "The Knudsen Dual Wheel," now used in many universities across the country; helped develop theartstory.org, a website dedicated to the history of Modern art and criticism; 20-year exhibition record showing internationally

SCAD Dean's List; SCAD Presidential Fellowship; chosen as SECAC lecturer; developed an eLearning graduate course and included10 original essays on narrative painting

SECAC, board member of a nonprofit foundation helping destitute children

Published essays by Knudsen are accessible via steveknudsen.com.

Presentations
SECAC conference. Lecture: "The Art of Critique," 2011

Articles

• "Michael Scoggins: Drawing Attention to his Art," Professional Artist Magazine, 2011
• "Student Made Textbooks: How to Boost Learning and Enthusiasm in the Classroom," Art Calendar Magazine, September 2009
• "The Fourth Dimension Of Color and the Knudsen Dual Color Wheel," Art Calendar Magazine, March 2010

"Working in an environment where people with vastly different views still truly listen to one other and help each other."

• PNTG 101 Painting Basics for the Non-major
• PNTG 210 Color and the Painted Image
• PNTG 310 Life Painting
• PNTG 410 Advanced Life Painting
• PNTG 758 Painting Studio III

"My paintings are about yearning for a perfect state, one half-imagined and unattainable. My yearning to make the paintings perfect is also only half-imagined. They do make me feel good, sometimes even happy. At its best, moving paint is like a walk in pristine wilds or in a summer garden where the colors of a labor seem to have appeared almost effortlessly, by some magic germination of nature going through its motions in bold growth, signaling shifting sensations and perceptions in the psyche."

steveknudsen.com

2005

Mijatovic has exhibited internationally in solo and invitational exhibitions such as CUE Art Foundation, New York; "Moderne Kunst Aus Montenegro" (Contemporary Montenegrin Art), Vienna, Austria; 50th Venice Biennial, Utopia Station, Italy; and is represented in the Art in Embassies program of the U.S. State Department.

Joan Mitchell Foundation, M.F.A. Grant; Faculty Excellence Award from Savannah College of Art and Design; Center For Contemporary Art Award in Podgorica, Montenegro; and Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (residency)

Association of Fine Artists of Montenegro, College Art Association, St. John of Damascus

Artwork reproduced and interviews published in various magazines and newspapers in Yugoslavia, Austria, France and the United States such as Art Crowd, Der Standard, Glas Crnogoraca, New American Paintings, Philadelphia Weekly and many others

"I want to inspire my students to think differently, to see that the subjects that concern us in studio art are not hermetically insulated but engage manifold questions in the world at large. We are also colleagues and collaborators, and my foremost goal is to initiate my students to the world of sharing, enriching and inspiring the community with their gift."

• DRAW 502 Drawing Methods Studio
• DRAW 708 Graduate Drawing
• PNTG 203 Oil-based Media Exploration
• PNTG 302 Intermediate Painting
• PNTG 409 Advanced Painting
• PNTG 502 Graduate Painting Methods Studio
• PNTG 704 Formal Aspects of Painting
• PNTG 728 Painting Studio I
• PNTG 738 Painting Studio II
• PNTG 741 Painting: Directed Project
• PNTG 758 Painting Studio III
• PNTG 768 Painting Studio IV
• PNTG 775 Advanced Painting Studio Analysis

"The general theme of my work is the industrial landscape, my recurrent interest in manmade structures and objects defined by the quiet void of human presence. My approach is an amalgam of extracting visual shapes from their logical setting (electric power plants, wiring systems, factory interiors), taken out of the context yet realistically rendered, and juxtaposing them against flat or sub-spatial backgrounds."

natalijamijatovic.com

2007

Instructor, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; visiting artist, Northwestern University, Ox-Bow, University of Chicago; visiting lecturer, DePaul University, Grand Valley College, Northern Illinois University

"Having my first solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and having my work in the collection of three museums."

International Council of Fine Arts Deans Fellowship; SCAD Presidential Fellowship; Community Arts Assistance Program Grant; Union League Civic Arts Foundation

College Art Association, SECAC

Exhibitions

• "The Thick Of It," Hall Street Gallery, Savannah, Georgia, 2010
• "Another Again," sixspace, Los Angeles, California, 2007
• "in the deep end," Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2006
• "Someone Like You," Centro de Arte Internacionale de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, 2003
• "Another Side of You," Feigen Contemporary, New York, New York, 2002

"I get to spend the day talking about what I love and what means the most to me with curious students."

• PNTG 409 Advanced Painting
• PNTG 704 Formal Aspects of Painting
• SFIN 413 Professional Practices in Fine Arts

"I am investigating the space of the canvas by experimenting with abstracted forms that function with an awareness of their history. Using contemporary iconography drawn from the visual world, forms inspired from nature, textiles and design act as a common language to provide a point of entry. With a cacophony of imagery, the work looks to find a calm amidst the chaos."

lauramosquera.com

1993

Taught more than 35 different topics at SCAD, including online, honors and Lacoste courses; studio research focuses on urban plein air landscape painting and companion portraits; exhibited series of work at the DePree Center of Hope College in Holland, Michigan; staged 11 solo shows, including one at the LaGrange Art Museum, Georgia; taught at Georgetown University and the Smithsonian Institution Resident Associate Program

Work is in the permanent collection of the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia; and the U.S. Navy Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Awards designated by Jeffrey Grove, Ivan Karp, Neal Benezra, Lisa Phillips and Francesco Bonami, including Juror's Award and Museum Purchase Prize; SCAD Presidential Fellowship

SECAC, College Art Association, Jepson Museum

• SECAC, Richmond, Virginia. Presentation: "Companion Portraiture and the Contemporary Family," 2010
• Speaker, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 2009
• Actress, "Untitled," with Evan Hewett, by Joseph Rubenstein, 2000
• Illustrations for and project administration of "The Savannah Sketchbook," Pelican Publishing, 1998

"My parents inspired me to teach, and professor Jules Kirschenbaum (painting) and professor Jon Ericson (communications) influenced my values as a professor."

• PNTG 203 Oil-based Media Exploration
• PNTG 415 Painting Senior Seminar
• PNTG 479 Undergraduate Internship
• PNTG 485 Undergraduate Independent Study
• PNTG 779T Graduate Teaching Internship

"I experience the sensations of the city directly as I stand in its midst, painting from street corners and medians. I find myself attracted to sites at the fringe of the historic district, where the tug of war between urban decay and urban renewal is palpable. My process embraces vulnerability and the passage of time. Developed through gentle paint layers, the image accumulates much like pollen on a rooftop or dust on a window sill."

sandrareedfineart.com

2001

Adjunct instructor, University of the Incarnate Word; adjunct instructor, adult program painting and drawing/youth art programs, Southwest School of Art and Craft; resident artist, teenage mothers painting instructor, San Antonio Housing Authority: Sutton Homes

Artist Fellowship Inc. Grant Award, SCAD Presidential Fellowship, Telfair Museum of Art Special Guest Artist, CAAP Grant: City of Chicago Artist Assistance Program, Board of Trustees Full Academic Achievement Fellowship, University of Chicago

College Art Association, SECAC, University of Chicago Alumni Association, University of California Berkeley Alumni Association

• Catalog: "Between the Lines: Paintings by Morgan Santander." Funded by Instituto de Mexico: San Antonio, Texas, 1995
• Catalog: "Sculpture Gardens and Other Paintings: Morgan Santander." Funded by the SCAD Presidential Fellowship, 2002
  
• Catalog: "Beyond Reconstitution: The Collages: Morgan Santander." Funded by the SCAD Presidential Fellowship, 2006

"Help others achieve creative goals. Love of the arts."

• DRAW 502 Drawing Methods Studio
• PNTG 302 Intermediate Painting
• PNTG 312 Mixed Media
• PNTG 409 Advanced Painting
• PNTG 738 Painting Studio II
• PNTG 758 Painting Studio III

Throughout his painting career, Morgan Santander has explored many diverse interests and aesthetic approaches to image making, painting and drawing. Santander's current work, "Beyond Reconstitution," examines the irrational nature of mankind as seen through the distorted eye of cultural and social history. This body of work plunders from the exotic, reaps all the benefits of the traditional, embezzles the foreign, and robs all past shamelessly. In doing so, "Beyond Reconstitution" seeks to create, for today's eager art audience, a new fast-paced and entertaining narrative.

morgansantander.com

2005

Taught art, drawing and design at Kent State University and Oberlin College in Ohio; freelance artist, art installation, studio manager, New York City

Todd Schroeder has exhibited his work in venues including New York City, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Atlanta, Oberlin, Denver, Savannah, Hong Kong, Belgrade and Novi Sad in Serbia, Podgorica, Budva, Bar, Herceg Novi and Kotor in Montenegro, and SCAD Lacoste in France.

Full scholarship and teaching assistantship, Kent State University; Margaret Brown Krecker Prize; purchase prize by Trisolini Gallery, Ohio University; Murray P. Stern Memorial Scholarship, Dean's Scholarship, School of Fine Arts Scholarship, Ohio University

Board of directors, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio

Schroeder's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, TimeOut/New York magazine, Savannah Magazine and many other publications.

Schroeder is inspired by being engaged in the world of ideas and serving as a catalyst for students to expand their approach to thinking about art and its possibilities. The problem-solving side of production also inspires him, working with students to figure out how to make things.

• PNTG 203 Oil-based Media Exploration
• PNTG 206 Water-based Media Exploration
• PNTG 302 Intermediate Painting
• PNTG 366 Conceptual Art Practice
• PNTG 401 Alternative Media Exploration
• PNTG 404 Abstract Painting
• PNTG 409 Advanced Painting
• PNTG 415 Painting Senior Seminar
• PNTG 502 Graduate Painting Methods Studio
• PNTG 503 Graduate Advanced Painting
• PNTG 704 Formal Aspects of Painting
• PNTG 741 Painting: Directed Project
• PNTG 768 Painting Studio IV
• PNTG 775 Advanced Painting Studio Analysis
• PNTG 790 Painting M.F.A. Thesis

"I try not to kill urge and impulse. I like to tell myself that I don't care about clarity. I tend toward the sparse. Anxiety, usually about the inevitable and the uncontrollable, prompts me to work."

• toddschroeder.blogspot.com/
• flickr.com/photos/toddschroeder/sets/

2000

Taught at the University of Dayton, Sinclair Community College, North Central College

Artwork chosen for U.S. State Department Art in Embassies program

Ohio Arts Council Grant; Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant; SCAD Presidential Fellowship; residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center; Graduate Fellowship, Brooklyn College

College Art Association

Artwork in "Developing Ideas in Artwork" by M. Stephen Doherty, Watson Guptil Publishers; artwork included in "Watermedia Techniques for Releasing the Creative Spirit" by Marilyn H. Phillis, Watson Guptil Publishers, lectures at various places, including docent lecture tours at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City and the Springfield Art Museum in Springfield, Ohio

"The wonderful examples of professors who I have studied under inspired me to teach, including Lennart Anderson, Lee Bontecou, Lois Dodd, Diane Fitch and Kim Kiser."

• PNTG 101 Painting Basics for the Non-major
• PNTG 203 Oil-based Media Exploration
• PNTG 206 Water-based Media Exploration
• PNTG 210 Color and the Painted Image
• PNTG 302 Intermediate Painting
• PNTG 310 Life Painting
• PNTG 321 Portrait Painting
• PNTG 325 Narrative Painting
• PNTG 331 Landscape Painting
• PNTG 410 Advanced Life Painting
• Graduate Painting Studios

"Middle American environments interest me. These are commonplace yet potentially emotional settings. In my landscapes and figure work, I aspire to convey a sense of time and place. I work toward giving my audience a mirror of our human experience (the mundane and the sublime) to affirm what it means to be human. I am a realist. Therefore, rather than paint the exotic or the fantastic, I choose to paint subjects from my immediate experience in a straightforward way."

rogerwalton.com

1993

Since coming to America, Yu has had 22 solo exhibitions and more than 60 group exhibitions at galleries and museums around the world. He has had lectures and presentations in many universities including the University of Ohio, Harvard University and Shanghai University.

In 1999, Yu's "Tao of Bamboo" installation was presented the Gold Award by the Forte Cup 20th Century Asian Pacific Art Competition at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

• "Taiwan in the 21st Century" (chapter of book)
• "The Influence of Chinese Traditional Art on Post-Modernism"
• "A Key to Understand Chinese Painting"
• "How to Establish a Successful Art Gallery"
• "The Meaning and Function of Chinese Brush Strokes"

• PNTG 206 Water-based Media Exploration
• PNTG 302 Intermediate Painting
• PNTG 312 Mixed Media
• PNTG 334 Chinese Painting
• PNTG 409 Advanced Painting
• PNTG 728 Painting Studio I
• PNTG 738 Painting Studio II

"I grew up in a scholar's family in China where the bamboo has always played a key role in culture and art. I express myself with bamboo and figure images to explore aspects of the harmony of Tao with human being and spirit of nature."

1998

Numerous solo and group exhibitions and art fairs throughout the world; gallery representation at Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, California; Distinction Gallery, Escondido, California; Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra, California; Roq La Rue, Seattle, Washington; permanent collections of Sir Elton John and Whoopi Goldberg

Solo exhibitions

• "New Work," Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 2010
• "PURITY," Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, California, 2005
• "New Delights," Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, New York, 2002

Publications

• Planet Illogica
• "New American Paintings," 1997, 2000
• Guinness Book of World Records

"I have long believed that I have a debt to pay to a few very inspirational people in my life."

• DRAW 708 Graduate Drawing
• PNTG 203 Oil-based Media Exploration
• PNTG 409 Advanced Painting
• PNTG 758 Painting Studio III
• PNTG 775 Advanced Painting Studio Analysis

"Purity.
That which is free of contamination,
and Plato points to the sky.
"As humans we believe that our intellectual capacity is great enough to overcome our animal instincts. Our desire for an ideal leads us to rationalize the various reasons we struggle to defeat our neighbor and establish rules. We create a variety of belief systems in order to establish class structures, economic structures, cognitive structures, and a desire for ultimate attainment. And still there is war, an impulse to fight. By applying the various modes we use to structure the world to an animal world, this work exposes the paucity of human intellect in the face of alpha animal instinct."

wix.com/pearlygreen/mikebrown

2006

Painting department professor, coordinator, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia; visiting professor, Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, Brittany, France; visiting professor, Professional Hand and Foot Painters International workshop, Atlanta

Exhibitions at venues including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Georgia Museum of Fine Art, Athens, Georgia; Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana; KLIM Galleries, Toronto, Canada; Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris; Palazzo di Venezia, Rome

• PNTG 404 Abstract Painting
• PNTG 738 Painting Studio II

"Interior spaces, landscape and the intertwining of flora and fauna provide the framework for my paintings. The canvases are vividly colored, intensely patterned and lavishly painted. My paintings are extremely physical, with layer upon layer of heavily bodied pigment. It is this celebration of paint that fuels my imagery. My palette is one of color as light. The large format allows for the inclusion of the viewer as a presence within the landscape. At first glance, the repetitive forms may be obscured by the complexity of the pattern, but upon close inspection images become clear and their meanings revealed."

tomfrancisart.com/

2003

Six years as a professional studio artist, Hollywood special effects miniature model maker, art materials company owner, professional theater lighting designer

"My painting ability, being a dean, working with Keith Richards, starting a company that is still flourishing."

Television and radio interviews, Marilyn Werby Scholarship, representation by six galleries

Flux Projects

• "About Face," The Atlantan, February 2008
• Hun Kyung, Art in Culture, review and reproduction, August 2003
• La Tempa, Susan, "Brett Eric Osborn," Art & Antiques, November 2002
• Los Angeles Times, Calendar section reproduction of "Bearing Thoughts of Fields" at Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Dec. 13, 2001

"I feel obligated to pass on the knowledge of painting."

SFIN 716 Theories and Processes I

"I am a polycontemporary artist and make work using different media depending upon the content of the work, such as video installation, sculptural installation, painting or performance. As a visual artist I began to question the efficacy of using only painting as a medium for addressing concepts that are in direct response to a post-modern era."

parishiltonpaintings.com

2009

Assistant professor of art, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, Ohio; adjunct professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia; adjunct professor, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta

"I have exhibited extensively for the past 32 years. My work is in numerous private and public collections. I have been a professional working artist most of my life."

Artist-in-residence Fellowship, Fundación Valparaiso, Mojácar, Spain; Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowships; Mayor's Fellowship in the Arts, City of Atlanta; Ford Foundation Fellowship

• Fox, Cathy, "Solo exhibitions that stand out," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Dec. 17, 2010: D7.
• "Georgia Masterpieces: Selected Works from Georgia's Museums," published by Georgia Council for the Arts, essay by Holly Koons McCullough, 2009: 69-71.
• Auslander, Philip, "Rocio Rodriguez," Artforum, XLVI No.9, May 2008: 387.
• Plante, Michael, "Report from New Orleans/ Southern Discomfort,"Art in America, March 1999, No.3, March 1999: 67.

"Sharing what I know with students, and watching them grow in their own work."

• PNTG 302 Intermediate Painting
• PNTG 404 Abstract Painting
• PNTG 415 Painting Senior Seminar
• PNTG 704 Formal Aspects of Painting

"Painting for me is open to all fictions and possibilities: stains, hard edges, loops, tangled scribbles, color as palpable space, architectural form mutating into biological structure. It is a space where discordant images and references combine to suggest a world where nothing is fixed and everything is in the process of becoming. During the past five years, my paintings have included a range of references from cellular structures to world maps, suggesting relationships between disparate systems such as the social, the physical and the political."

rociorodriguez.net