Field-Of-Study: Fine Arts

Raised in Canada, Phyllis Green moved to California to pursue graduate studies in art. She received an M.F.A. from UCLA in 1981, and began her professional career as an artist, educator, and curator in Los Angeles. Her practice integrates gender politics, the sphere of craft, and influences of modernism. Green is primarily an object maker

Greg Drasler lives and works in New York City. His paintings have been the subject of sixteen one-person exhibitions and included in over thirty group shows. He was born and raised in Waukegan, Illinois, and moved to New York in 1983 after receiving a M.F.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  The first exhibition of

Nancy Davidson is an interdisciplinary artist, working primarily in sculpture and installation. Davidson grew up in Chicago and received a B.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1975 where she began her professional career, exhibiting in solo and group shows

Dorit Cypis was born in Israel, immigrated to Canada as a child and to the United States as a young adult. She currently lives in Los Angeles. Cypis is a visual artist as well as an innovative professional mediator. She has moved fluidly between studio practice, educator, mediator, and community builder since the 1980s. Her

Anna Conway lives and works in New York City, having received her B.F.A. from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and her M.F.A. from Columbia University. Conway’s work has been exhibited widely nationally and internationally at galleries and museums; for example, in New York at MOMA PS1; University Art Museum, Albany;

Pier Luigi Consagra was born in Rome, Italy, where he lived until attending Rhode Island School of Design, and then Brown University. Following graduation from Brown, Pier showed with the Jamie Wolff Gallery on the Lower East Side of New York City. He received an NEA and two NYFA awards—the first for painting, the second

Xavier Cha’s performance-based work revolves around modes of accessibility, exchange, and hierarchies of space and perception. Collaboration is often at play in her performances: Xavier has invited actors, dancers, musicians, programmers, cults, and clowns, among many other non-artist performers, to not only participate in her projects, but also to become protagonists in the work.  Through

Stephanie Syjuco creates large-scale spectacles of collected cultural objects, cumulative archives, and temporary vending installations, often with an active public component that invites viewers to directly participate as producers or distributors. Working primarily in sculpture and installation, her projects leverage open-source systems, shareware logic, and flows of capital, in order to investigate issues of economies

Kathy Butterly is an artist based in New York City. She considers her works to be both sculpture and painting. Standing on average four to eight inches tall, Butterly’s ceramic works have large personalities which command attention. Her approach to work is unique in that she fires each piece fifteen to forty times.  This allows

Ellen Berkenblit was born in 1958 in Paterson, New Jersey, and is an American painter. She received her B.F.A from The Cooper Union in 1980 and lives and works in New York City. She is represented by Anton Kern Gallery. Her paintings are made with a distinctive palette of vigorously mixed colors with assertive broad

Judith Belzer is painter who lives and works in Berkeley, California, where she moved from the East Coast in 2003.  Her current work explores places where the natural and built landscapes meet.  Belzer’s work is exhibited regularly around the country.  She received a degree in English from Barnard College and studied at the New York