Alumni Gallery

Nancy Breslin AS ’01M, of Newark, Del., psychiatrist turned fine art photographer, specializes in black and white images of amusement parks and in photographs taken with a pinhole camera. Her work has been seen in more than 40 group shows and in many solo shows. Her photos will be on exhibit at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts in Wilmington through June 4.

Helen Mason AS ’84M, of Hockessin, Del., is a sculptor who has worked with a variety of media. Her metal sculptures and jewelry have been exhibited and are held in private collections in the U.S., Japan, Korea and Germany. Chair of the Tatnall School art department, she acts as an education resource artist for grades 1-12. Influenced by her devotion to minimalism, her work displays “the simplicity and order of the arts of Japan and the stability and refinement of geometric forms.” Although she worked for many years with jewelry, she has changed her focus to sculpting with recycled rubber “using the wonderful textures and patterns of the material.”

Deborah Stelling AS ’78, ’84M, of Newark, Del., creates in a variety of media—silk-screening, sculpture, drawing and painting. Stelling is a visual artist who enjoys using a palette of bright colors. She attended Columbus College of Art and Design and the Illustration Foundation and received fellowships from the state of Brandenburg, Germany; the MacDowell Colony; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; and artist residencies. Stelling also acts as an education resource artist helping to determine the best way to use art as a teaching tool for such subjects as social studies, English, theatre and dance.

 Aimee Miller AS ’04M, of Atlanta, describes herself as “an abstractionist painter” and was the first Spelman College student to enter UD’s Master of Fine Arts program under an agreement creating educational opportunities at both schools through UD’s Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art. Miller’s work has been exhibited in venues across the U.S. and can be found in a number of private collections. She describes her work as “defining, in paint, a place that lingers between the conscious and subconscious, the real and surreal, the imaginable and the unimaginable, action and inaction.”

Bryan Davis AS ’05, of Hockessin, Del., an illustrator and recent UD graduate, had his work included in the upcoming student exhibition of 122 pieces at the Society of Illustrators in New York City in competition with several thousand entries. Davis considers himself “a painter working in the business of illustration,” a concept reinforced by his work. He has exhibited at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts and won a Silver Award from the Advertising Club of Delaware.

 Rick Rothrock AS ’78M, of Wilmington, Del., has been a sculptor and art advocate in the Wilmington arts community for 27 years. He has exhibited all over the world and helped found the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts and SYNE, a regional group of exhibiting artists. His commissioned sculptures can be seen throughout the region. For the past decade, Rothrock has worked mostly in stone. “I use various stones in my palette for color, texture and aesthetic effect. With its vocabulary of geometry and composition, my work is intended to be a poetic description of the physical realm of nature and our connection to it.

 

 

 

 

 

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