Field-Of-Study: Fine Arts

Judith Simonian is a painter living and working in New York City. With more than thirty solo exhibitions and site installations, and numerous group shows, her work has garnered critical attention in publications that include Flash Art, Art in America, ARTNews, Arts Magazine, Arts and Architecture, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times. She is

Artist David Sandlin was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1956, and has lived in the United States since 1972. He has been painting, printmaking, and creating installations professionally since moving to New York City in 1980. He is also a teacher at the School of Visual Arts. His paintings, prints, books, and installations have

The daughter of a medical research scientist in the United States Air Force, Lynn Aldrich was born in Bryan, Texas, but grew up “everywhere” – ten different states — before moving to Los Angeles where she now lives and works.  After receiving a B.A. in English Literature from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,

Susan Wanklyn was born and grew up in Montreal. Her paintings have been exhibited in France and the United States, predominantly in New York. She lives and works in Brooklyn. Please refer to her website for images and more information.  

I was born in Chicago, and after a childhood spent moving around the United States, I returned there and received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I now live and work in New York City, and teach painting at the School of Visual Arts. In addition, I also spend a

Born in 1960 in Van Nuys, California, Patrick Nickell received a B.A. in Art from Linfield College in 1983 and his M.F.A. in sculpture from Claremont Graduate University in 1985.   In 2003 a traveling mid-career survey of his work curated by Julie Joyce, titled Patrick Nickell, Built for Speed, A Sculpture Survey, chronicled his

Young Min Moon immigrated to Canada as a teen in the 1980s, and divides his time between Massachusetts and Seoul, Korea. Moon’s practice of art and writing is informed by his experience of migration across cultures and the hybridized nature of identities in the context of the historical and political relationship between modern Asia and

Artist Chris Sollars work revolves around the reclamation and subversion of public space through interventions and performance. The results are documented using photographs, sculpture, and video that are integrated into mixed-media installations. In 1996 Sollars’ studio practice moved into the street to have direct and immediate interaction with a public audience. His interdisciplinary work navigates

Dean Snyder was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received a B.FA. in photography and sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1974. In 1975–1976 Snyder received a British Arts Council Fellowship for postgraduate work in sculpture at Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry, UK. He completed his M.F.A. work in sculpture in 1978 at The School of

Painter Tracy Miller was born in Storm Lake, Iowa, in 1966 and studied at the University of Iowa, the University of California at Berkeley, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her large-scale still life paintings of food have been included in nine solo shows and more than forty group shows throughout the United States

In her paintings Elena Sisto uses the structuring ideas of abstraction to mine content that relates to her interest in how people define their own identity and present themselves. The combination of abstract means and figurative content often results in imagery that has a simplified or slightly cartoonish cast. Sisto uses the economy of cartooning

William Lamson is an interdisciplinary artist whose diverse practice involves working with elemental forces to create durational performative actions.   Set in landscapes as varied as New York’s East River and Chile’s Atacama Desert, his projects reveal the invisible systems and forces at play within these sites.  In some works he is the subject, directly performing

I went to PS 161 on Crown Street in Brooklyn, New York. In the sixth grade my teacher was Mrs. Evelyn Weiss.  We made a lot of art and she was terrific.  When I was old enough to cross streets on my own I spent much time at the Brooklyn Museum. Next I went to

Ann Pibal’s acrylic on aluminum paintings are at once brainy and open-ended, hard-edged and intimate. Without privileging one source over another, her work alludes to the robust history of abstract painting, architecture, and graphic design, as well as landscape and the sublime. She is primarily interested in painting as a way of thinking; in all

William Outcault is a New York based artist born in New Jersey. He received a B.F.A. in sculpture and metalsmithing from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and an M.F.A in sculpture from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Since 1991 he has collaborated with Lilla LoCurto in producing interactive installations, sculpture, photographs, prints, and video animations. Their imagery

Patti Oleon is a painter who lives and works in San Francisco. Her work is about light and the tenuous nature of appearances.  She works from photographs she takes in public interior spaces, devoid of human presence, manipulating and layering them digitally to use as a blueprint to create haunting and amorphous paintings.  The final

Carrie Moyer is a painter and writer who has shown her work in the U.S. and Europe since 1993. She has been the subject of sixteen solo exhibitions and participated in over 110 group shows. Carrie Moyer: Pirate Jenny, a solo exhibition of new paintings, opened at Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College in January

David McDonald was born in Liverpool, England, and raised in England, Canada, Brazil, and Venezuela.  He came to the United States to attend college and graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in Film and Broadcasting.  After graduation his focus gradually shifted to art and he attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts,