Field-Of-Study: Fine Arts

Charles Hinman was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1932. His interest and talent in art were apparent from a very early age. He was encouraged by his mother and his teachers to draw and to paint. He joined art classes as a child at the Everson Museum in Syracuse and continued them through high

Chitra Ganesh’s drawing-based practice seeks to excavate buried narratives typically excluded from official canons of history, literature, and art. Her installation, text-based work, and collaborations dissect mythologies and layer disparate visual languages, inviting the viewer to consider alternate narratives of femininity, sexuality, and power as untold stories rise to the surface. Ganesh’s works harness a

Jacci Den Hartog is an artist living in Los Angeles.  In her sculpture she draws on the intangible, unstable, and fleeting qualities of landscape as both subject and metaphor to address ideas of memory, history, and culture. Den Hartog is represented by the Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Santa Monica, California.   She received her M.F.A. from

Matt Connors is a New York–based artist who uses painting and abstraction to pursue an open-ended and informal dialogue between form, style, material, and meaning; exploring questions, problems (and problem solving), and propositions rather than assertions or solutions. Drawing from the history of painting as well as from non–fine art fields of language, music, and

Jeff Colson grew up near the oil fields just north of Bakersfield, California.  His father was a social worker whose do-it-yourself aesthetic, making everything from toys to homemade life jackets, informed Colson’s own identity as a “crackpot tinkerer.”  In his sculpture, Colson refers to both that quirky, by-the-seat-of-your-pants decision-making process and Modernism’s purist grid.  The

Juan William Chavez (born in Lima, Peru) is an artist and cultural activist whose studio practice focuses on the potential of space by developing creative initiatives that address community and cultural issues. He has exhibited at venues such as Art in General, Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, White Flag Projects and Van Abbenmuseum. From 2006-2010,

Nayland Blake is an artist and educator who was born in New York City and lives there still. His sculptures, video, and performances reconfigure everyday objects and occurrences into charged and unsettling encounters.   

Louise Belcourt is a painter. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1961 and has resided in New York City since 1984. Called a “Physical Abstractionist” by Roberta Smith for The New York Times in 1996, her work has evolved from pure abstraction, through a form of narrative representation, to a personal iconography that combines

Eve Aschheim is an abstract painter/draftsperson who seeks to create dynamic abstract structures that exist between categories of thought.  Her interests do not fall under the categories of image, object, or design. She is after something more elusive and less stable—implied motion, states in the midst of change, and a fictive reality that exists between

Michael Arcega is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installation. Though visual, his art revolves largely around language. Directly informed by historic events, material significance, and the format of jokes, his subject matter deals with sociopolitical circumstances where power relations are unbalanced.   As a naturalized American, there is a geographic dimension to

Recent solo exhibitions include All Those Vanished Engines, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2011-2016); A Bell For Every Minute, The High Line, NYC (2010-2011); More Songs About Buildings and Bells, Museum 52, New York (2011); and Stephen Vitiello, The Project, New York (2006). He has participated in such group exhibitions as September 11, PS 1/MoMA,