2008 – 2009 Visiting Artists
Glen Goldberg
An artist who lives and works in New York City where he pursues his painting career and teaches at Cooper Union School of Art, Glenn Goldberg is a painter of richly colored, luminous decorative designs and objects in both abstract and realist styles. Many of his works are geometric and resemble kaleidoscopes, stained glass, or “fantastic flowers”. It has been suggested that his work “tickles” the eye.
He was born in the Bronx, studied at the New York Studio School, and earned an MFA from Queens College and has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Glenn Goldberg, artist. MFA, Queens College, NY. Awards: Edward Albee Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim Fellowship. Selected shows: Charles Cowles Gallery, NYC; Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL; Knoedler & Co., NYC; Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA; Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA; Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany. Selected collections: Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Dan Boyarski
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Naijun Zhang
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Chaz Maviyane-Davies
Chaz Maviyane-Davies has been described by the UK’s Design magazine as “the guerrilla of graphic design”. For more than two decades the award-winning, controversial Zimbabwean designer’s powerful work has taken on issues of consumerism, health, nutrition, social responsibility, the environment and human rights. His credentials include an MA in Graphic Design (with distinction) from the Central School of Art and Design in London, and an Advanced Diploma in Postgraduate Film-making from the Central St. Martins School of Art and Design London.
He also spent a year in Japan studying three-dimensional design and ten months in Malaysia working on various world-reaching design projects for the International Organization of Consumers Unions and JUST World Trust.
His design work experience in London includes time with Fulcrum (Design Consultants), Newell and Sorrell Design Ltd., as well as a stint in the Department of Graphic Design of BBC Television.
From 1983 until recently he ran the renowned design studio in Harare called The Maviyane-Project. As a result of the social, humane and confrontational nature of his work, he felt compelled to temporarily leave his homeland because of the adverse political climate there. He is presently Professor of Design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.
Films written, directed and produced by Chaz include ‘After the Wax – a personal view of nationality and identity’ (1991.17 min,16 mm in colour). This work has been screened at several film festivals and television channels around the world where it has won several awards and accolades.
As well as being published in numerous International magazines and newspapers, his work has also been acknowledged in ‘Who’s Who in Graphic Design’, ‘First Choice: Leading International Designers’, ‘Graphic Agitation 1 & 2’, ‘Graphic Design Timeline: A Century of Design Milestones’, ‘Celebrating Poster Design’, ‘AREA: 100 graphic designers’, ‘International Poster Excellence’, ‘On Edge: breaking the boundaries of graphic design’, ‘World Graphic Design’, ‘A History of Graphic Design’ and was included in the list ‘ID Forty” ID magazine’s annual honours list profiling leading-edge designers from around the world. New York 1998.
In 2003 he was recognised by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with an award for outstanding innovator in his commitment to the struggle to transform society and create a just future. That year he was Honour laureate at the 13th Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition and also gave the prestigious Dwiggins lecture, sponsored by the Society of Printers and the Boston Public Library. Last year he became the first recipient of the Anthon Beeke International design award in Amsterdam.
Besides extensive individual and group exhibitions worldwide, his design work has been represented in most of the largest international graphic, invitational and poster exhibitions from 1980 to the present time, while he has also been invited to judge several International exhibitions and competitions.
His work is included in several international permanent collections in various galleries.
Claire Sherwood
Claire Sherwood was born in Troy, NY where she spent her childhood exploring the gravel pits and concrete plant around her home. She received her MFA from the University of Maryland in 2003 and is currently an assistant professor and the Foundations Program Coordinator at Marshall University in Huntington, WV.
Her work has been exhibited in venues such as, the U.S. Smithsonian National Botanic Garden, the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, and Grounds for Sculpture, in Hamilton, NJ. Her work is included in the David C. Driskell Collection and the State of West Virginia Museum of Culture and History. Sherwood has won numerous grants and awards for her work and in the summer 2006 received an artist in the community residence at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE.
While in residency, Sherwood worked with the Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution creating a group installation/video with 15 woman inmates addressing issues of women’s domestic spaces and non-traditional roles of women. This project was sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the State of West Virginia, Division of Culture and History.
Tom Ockerse
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Peter HappelChristian
Peter HappelChristian is an artist whose work exists somewhere between photography, performance art, and sculpture. In 1999 he received a BFA in photography from the University of Iowa and in 2003 he received an MFA in photography from the University of Oregon. In 2007 he was awarded a Research Professorship and University Research Council grant from Youngstown State University for his project “Near The Point of Beginning” and he is a 2008 recipient of an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council for Interdisciplinary/Performance Art. Peter has shown his work across the United States and it is in the permanent collections of the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ and the Tucson Museum of Art. Currently, Peter is an assistant professor of photography at Youngstown State University in northeast Ohio.
Ellen Lupton
Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking. As curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum since 1992, she has produced numerous exhibitions and books, including Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office (1993), Mixing Messages: Graphic Design and Contemporary Culture (1996), Letters from the Avant-Garde (1996), and Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002).
She recently has focused on bringing design awareness to broader audiences. Her book Thinking with Type (2004) is a basic guide to typography directed at everyone who works with words. D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself (2006), co-authored with her graduate students at MICA, explains design processes to a general audience. D.I.Y. Kids (October 2007), co-authored with Julia Lupton, is a design book for children illustrated with kids’ art. “It’s never too early,” they explain, “to talk to your child about design.”
Her most recent book is Graphic Design: The New Basics (with Jennifer Cole Phillips, 2008). She is the co-author with Abbott Miller of several books, including The Bathroom, the Bathroom, and the Aesthetics of Waste (1992), Design Writing Research (1996), and Swarm (2006).
Lupton is a 2007 recipient of the AIGA Gold Medal, one of the highest honors given to a graphic designer or design educator in the U.S.
Ellen Lupton has contributed to various design magazines, including Print, Eye, I.D., and Metropolis. She has a regular column, “The El Word,” in Readymade magazine. Her editorial illustrations have been published in The New York Times. A frequent lecturer around the U.S. and the world, Lupton will speak about design to anyone who will listen.
Other exhibitions she has curated and co-curated include the National Design Triennial series (2000, 2003, 2006), Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500–2005 (2006), Solos: New Design from Israel (2006), and Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age (1999), all at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
Mark Klett
Mark Klett was born in Albany, New York, in 1952. His education was first in geology (B. S. from St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, in 1974) and later in photography (M.F.A. from State University of New York, Buffalo, Program at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York). His earliest jobs were as a photographer with the U.S. Geologic Survey.
His work received early recognition, with an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979. Since that time, he has received many other awards including selection for the 1986 Awards in the Visual Arts, Photographer of the Year from Friends of Photography and a Japan/U.S. Creative Artist Fellowship from the Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission in 1993. In 2001, he was named a Regents Professor at Arizona State University.
His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art; University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma; the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Portfolio Gallery, Antwerp, the Netherlands; Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan; Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; Etherton/Stern Gallery, Tucson; Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles; and Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona.
His work has been included in many group exhibitions, among which are Breathless! Photography and Time, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Shifting Ground: Transformed Views of the American Landscape, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 To the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Edweard Muybridge et le Panorama Photographique de San Francisco, Musée Carnavalet, Paris; Tradition and the Unpredictable, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Legacy of Light, International Center for Photography, New York; Visions of the West: Two Views from Two Centuries, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; American Dreams, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, and Fundación Juan Miró, Barcelona, Spain. His work is included in major collections in the United States and internationally.
Chris Wildrick
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J. Bernard Schultz
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Jennifer Allen
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