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The UD/ART Faculty represent a wide range of artistic approaches, skills and creative practice. Each is a prolific contributor to their field of research and creative scholarship. Within the people listed below is a goldmine of influence. |
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Virginia Bradley Virginia received her MFA in Painting from the University of South Florida and a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Miami. Virginia has been the recipient of several fellowships, including a McKnight Foundation Fellowship in Painting, Arts MIdwest NEA Fellowship for Painting and two Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowships in Painting and Drawing. Virginia has also been a fellow at Yaddo, Sanskriti Kendra, Valpariso, Ragdale and the Virginia Center of Creative Arts. Prior to coming to the University of Delaware in 2003, she was a Professor of Art at St. Cloud State University and previously taught at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. I am a traveler and a collector. I synthesize my experiences through the use of mixed media painting. I endeavor to create a dialogue between images from my own experiences that are tangental to appropriated, collected and documentation materials that I collect and record through travel. Simultaneously I am particularly interested in the sixth sense that animals possess, as well as their purity and sense of beauty. Animal images are often source of departure in my process. Making work for me is about questioning, searching and continually arriving. |
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David Brinley A graduate with distinction from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, David is an industry award winning painter and illustrator represented by NYC agency Gerald & Cullen Rapp. An artist member of the Society of Illustrators, his characteristic work has been showcased by many leading national publishers including: Rolling Stone, GQ, SPIN, VIBE, New York Times magazine, Los Angeles Times magazine, Newsweek, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, and many other leading national and international publications. Recent illustrations have been published in juried annual competitions including: American Illustration, Communication Arts, Society of Illustrators (New York and Los Angeles), and the Society of Publication Designers. Gallery works include group and solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and New York. Recent works were exhibited at the Society of Illustrators and La Luz de Jesus and Mendenhall Sobieski galleries in Los Angeles. |
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Hilton Brown, painter, educator, author, curator and gay rights advocate was born in 1938 in Momence, Illinois, a small farming town about fifty miles south of Chicago and five miles west of the Indiana border. Since 1977 the subject of his art has been the male body as anexpression and exploration of his life as a gay man. Before that year he spent the previous twenty years as a painter attempting to hide his sexual identity by exploring abstract and non-representational visual ideas. "Making art is both personal and cultural expression. It it also, like speach, political." |
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Martha Carothers Martha Carothers has taught graphic design and book arts in the Visual Communications program since 1981. Carothers was Chair of the Department of Art from 1992-2001 and is currently Associate Director of the Office of Undergraduate Studies. Carothers was graduated from Penn State’s School of Visual Arts: BA 1977 and MFA 1980. Book arts began in graduate school researching the design and production of children's pop-up and movable books. As a book artist, Carothers has exhibited nationally and internationally, with bookworks included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Library of Congress, and Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry, Miami, FL. Her bookworks incorporate letterpress printing and handbinding along with computer design and printing. Carothers was awarded Delaware State Arts Council Emerging and Established Artist grants. She has made many book arts presentations and offered workshops at Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC, Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD, and the Center for Book Arts, New York, NY. Carothers’ graphic design and student work emphasizing multi-page and poster design has been recognized by Graphis, Print, University and College Designers Association, AIGA, American Association of Museums, HOW, and the Art Directors Club. |
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William Deering William Deering currently teaches photographic design in the Department of Art at the University of Delaware, directs Raven Press (Letter Press facility), the study abroad program to London, England, The Black Maria Film Festival and the Internship program for Visual Communications. His photography project’s have taken him throughout the United States, Europe and the Far East, an his clients have included: Philadelphia Style Magazine, Lowe / Lintas Advertising, British Airways, Ritz Carlton Hotels, Gyro Advertising Worldwide and Running Press, for which he has just completed the Black Forest Cook Book. His many awards over the years have included: the American Institute of Graphic Arts, The Art Directors Club of New York, Communication Arts; Print, The One Club, and the Society of Publication Designers. Bill is represented worldwide by Juniper Pictures and Getty Images International, in New York, Settle, London and Paris and is currently working on a photographic project on “Terrorism” to be installed in the Eckersley Gallery at the University of the Arts in London in January. Bill is the past director of the Cape May Center for Photography, Cape May, NJ, and a past Chairman of the education committee, AIGA / Philadelphia, and lives and maintains a studio home in Wilmington, Delaware. |
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Abby Donovan Abby Donovan's work often investigates the abstract materiality of language and symbols. Prior to coming to the University of Delaware, she had lived and worked in the Pacific NorthWest for six years. Donovan has shown in a variety of venues, such as the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art. She has been a visiting artist and been awarded residencies at a number of institutions, including: Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cleveland Institute of Art, the College of Santa Fe, University of the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Watershed, and Sculpture Space. In 2006 Donovan was one of 100 US artists nominated for an Art Matters Grant. In 2007 she performed "It's not the moment to tell a lie" at the University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany. In 2008 she will present "Only This Now: Literature in the Studio" at the College Art Association Annual Conference in Dallas, TX. Donovan received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and her BA from Swarthmore College. |
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Colette Gaiter has worked with computers since 1982 and in interactive multimedia since 1990. She has a BFA in graphic design from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and an MA from Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. She has exhibited her work internationally at the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), SIGGRAPH, and in numerous galleries, museums, and public institutions in the United States. To support her multimedia work, she has received several grants and awards. After working as a graphic designer in Pittsburgh, Washington, DC, and New York City, Gaiter began teaching at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1986. Since then she has taught at Columbia College in Chicago, and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. |
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Vera Kaminski first came to the UD Art Department faculty in 1974 with her BS in Art Education from Moore College of Art and a MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. Wearing many different professional hats servicing the threefold charge of teaching, research and service Vera started teaching art to Education of Elementary Education and Art Majors while simultaneously building fine art curriculum concentration in Fibers. Because of important links creative use of industrial methods played in textiles, Kaminski lobbied to build a Computer Art Site into UD studios expanding fine art media offerings to include use of new technologies like computers and digital media as a creative tool, Most recently, Vera Kaminski has played a professorial role in interdisciplinary and mixed media training of undergraduate artists within the Freshman Foundation Program. In her own creative work, Vera chooses to focuses on space shaping aspects of Design and enjoys the ongoing artistic challenge of matching new techniques and media to communicate her expressive and conceptual ideas. This Spring Kaminski will begin to teach interested non-art majors about the dynamics of visual aesthetics. In Design in the Visual Arts, Kaminski will introduce prospective Art Minors to strategic ways artists and designers use art elements and organizing principles to effectively engage the attention of their prospective clients and viewing audiences. |
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René Marquez René Marquez's work examines the material image and its roles in signifying place. Born in the Philippines, he explores issues of migration, travel/tourism, and domestication through drawing, painting, and, most recently, video. He is particularly interested in popular culture's constructions of ethnicity relative to immigration and colonial history. Past exhibitions include the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the International Center of Photography, University of California-Irvine, College of William and Mary, the Delaware Biennial, and the Ayala Museum in Manila, the Philippines. He previously taught at Haverford College and in the Asian American Studies program at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a BA in Government and MA in Asian Studies from Cornell University and MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania. |
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David Meyer is an artist who's work explores many aspects of the human condition and the physical world. His work ranges from installational art and large-scale outdoor commissions to simple objects that compel the viewer to take a second look. He has had solo exhibitions in the United States including one at the Pennsylvania School of Art and Design and an installation at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts in 2001. Meyer was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in 2000 from the Delaware Division of the Arts for Emerging Professional artists. In that same year, he showed two works in the Delaware Art Museum's Biennial 2000 exhibition one of which was a time-based outdoor site-specific piece. He has been in numerous group exhibitions and most recently in Washington D.C. at the United States National Botanic Gardens and the Art Museum of the Americas. He has had two large-scale commissioned works completed in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Tribal Monument was conceived and constructed in 1989-1996, in which Meyer designed and developed an intersected circular earthwork in honor of the thirty-six tribal governments of Oklahoma on the North Mall of the Oklahoma State Capitol. The second substantial piece was the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial, which was commissioned 1996, by the regional Archdiocese of Oklahoma. |
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Robyn Phillips-Pendleton was born and raised in Hampton, Virginia. Following an innate passion for the visual arts, she pursued her Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree in Illustration and Graphic Design from Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond Virginia. While attending VCU, she was a graphic artist intern with USA TODAY newspaper, in the summer of 1988. This had a great impact on her career. After receiving her degree in 1989, she became a news graphic artist and illustrator for The Prince George’s Journal newspaper, in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and shortly after, the Daily Press Newspaper, in Newport News Virginia. In 1992, she decided to pursue a career path as that of a freelance illustrator, and a professor in higher education. She was accepted into the Master’s of Fine Arts in Illustration Program at Syracuse University. While a graduate student in the program, she taught several Freshman Foundations, and Illustration courses at the University, as well as being a full time junior graphic designer in the University Publications Department. Robyn received her MFA in Illustration in 1995, was a Master Teacher at the New York Summer School of the Arts in the summer of 1995, and in 1996 began teaching as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art, at the University of Delaware. She has created illustrations for colleges and universities, children’s CD covers, editorial magazines, and publishing companies. Her work has been featured in national and international juried shows such as the Society of Illustrators Annual 41, American Illustration Annual 18, American Illustration Online “Chosen” exhibition, and Aphrodosia, an annual publication celebrating the female form. Currently, Robyn is an Associate Professor of Art, and area coordinator of Illustration, in the Visual Communications Program, in the Department. She resides in Newark, Delaware with her husband and son. |
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Ashley John Pigford Ashley John Pigford is a designer and educator who works across a wide range of media including micro-electronics, letterpress, video, sculpture, installation and performance. His current employment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Delaware is paired with an active studio art practice. Ashley received his Masters Degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006 after a successful career as a proprietor of graphic design in Los Angeles, CA. Ashley’s current research, pedagogy and studio practice are focused on the discovery of new forms of communication media through active awareness of design and creative experience. Ashley’s career in commercial graphic design, as creative director of a design company he co-founded called “Meat and Potatoes”, included work with Universal Music Group, Fox, Mattel, MCA Records, Sammy Hagar, Princess Cruises, Liberty Media Group, Bonfire Snowboarding Company and Drug Policy Alliance. He currently maintains a select set of freelance clients including Artists Space Gallery in New York City, Zoic Studios in Los Angeles and the University of Delaware Art Department. Ashley’s work has been published in Creativity Magazine, Print Magazine, HOW Magazine, “Webworks Typography” by Rockport Publishing, and he worked on a video that was nominated for 2 MTV Music Video Awards. Ashley’s current work in hybrid-media has been exhibited at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Sound Experimental Film Festival, University of Delaware Museum Gallery, and he has performed at the Production Workshop at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (various venues). |
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Troy Richards Troy Richards received his MFA in 1997 from Cranbrook Art Academy in Bloomfield Hills, MI. He then lived in Philadelphia and Washington D.C. before moving to New York City Troy Richards has participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program and the Artists in the Marketplace Program at the Bronx Museum of Art. He has had solo exhibitions at Grand Arts in Kansas City, Duncan and Miller Gallery in Washington D.C., and a long-term installation at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA. His work has been included in group exhibits in New York City at P.S.1, White Columns, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, LFL Gallery and Gallery 67 among others. His art is included in the collections of the Cranbrook Art Museum and the Queens Museum of Art. |
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Priscilla Smith I work with photography as both location and studio photographer. I use the photographic medium as tool of expression, without arbitrary restrictions such as "fine-art" or "commercial". As in my very first experience in photography I am still captivated by a moment captured and interpreted through the artists sensibility. My work includes portraiture, surreal tableau, landscape, and documentary. I work with 35mm, medium and large-formats. My current projects embrace digital capture and large format printing. |
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Robert Straight has been a member of the faculty since
1980. As a painter he has exhibited throughout the United
States including; Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington, DE) Susquehanna Art Museum (Harrisburg, PA), The Noyes |
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Peter Williams is an artist and professor of painting with degree's from Maryland Institute College of Art (MFA 1987) and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (BFA 1975.) He has had 17 solo exhibitions, and has participated in over 80 group exhibitions nationally and internationally. His work can be found in many private and public collections including; the Walker Art Center, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Whitney Museum of Art. He has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships including the McKnight Foundation, The Ford Foundation and recently the Joan Mitchell Foundation - numerous state arts grants, most recently the Delaware Division of the Arts. His work has been reviewed in many national and international pbulications and newspapers such as; Art in America, Tema Celeste, The New Art Examiner, Art News, The Detroit Free Press to name but a few. He has lectured at many institutions; University of California, University of South Florida, University of Connecticut, Cranbrook Academy. His work engages issues of cultural identity through representation of and as the "other" through a variety of narrative formats. His work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Articles about Professor Williams: |
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Lance Winn Lance Winn taught at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Chicago prior to coming to the University of Delaware where he is the M.F.A. coordinator and works with Graduate and Undergraduate students in the Arts. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Cleveland Art Institute, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Penn State, the University of Alabama, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and Mt. Holyoke; and has presented papers at Delta College, the Southeastern College Art Association, and, in February, he hosted the panel "Painting and Plurality" at College Art Association Conference in New York City. In the field of art, Winn has published catalogue articles for "Reproduction" at Lemberg Gallery, in Detroit; an essay for Brian Bishop's solo show titled "Pause" at University of Delaware; and, most recently, the catalogue essay for a show that he curated at the University of Delaware Galleries called "InWords," that included an international group of artists who work with language as material. Winn's personal work led to his nomination for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award for painting last year and to his work being represented in an article on new forms of drawing that was published in Contemporary Magazine, out of London, in the Fall of 2006. Important shows include "Knock" at the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada; "Mediated" at Clarion University"; "Media City 11 International Festival of Experimental Film and Video Art" in Windsor, Ontario; "Machine Life" at the Davies Foundation and Samuel J. Zacks Galleries in York, Ontario; and "Violent Violence" at the Gallery Art et Amicitiae in Amsterdam, Holland. Winn has a five year survey of his work opening in November of 2007 at the Freedman Gallery at Albright College, and he and Simone Jones' most recent collaborative robotic video projection "Knock," which received funding to be produced and shown at the Banff Center for the Arts, will move the Montreal for its second full scale installation. |
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Professor Janet Hethorn, Chairperson |
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