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Swain: A Creative Community
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April 15 - May 3, 2014
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April 15 - May 3, 2014
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2014
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2014
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University Art Gallery (UMass Dartmouth Galleries)
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Allison J. Cywin
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Allison J. Cywin
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Dr. Anna Dempsey
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Dr. Anna Dempsey
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Artists in Exhibition: Joseph Edwards Alexander, Mark Barry, Donald Beal, Nancy Carrozza CaraDonna, Diane Cournoyer, Peter Dickison, David Fontaine, Susan Gilmore, Severin Haines, Susan Hamlet, Charles A. Hauk, Mark LaRiviere, Clayton Lewis, Eric Lintala, Sandra Magsamen, Jesse McCloskey, David Paulson, Michael Pietragalla, Francisco Rapoza, Marc St. Pierre, David Loeffler Smith, and Don Wilkinson.A
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Artists in Exhibition: Joseph Edwards Alexander, Mark Barry, Donald Beal, Nancy Carrozza CaraDonna, Diane Cournoyer, Peter Dickison, David Fontaine, Susan Gilmore, Severin Haines, Susan Hamlet, Charles A. Hauk, Mark LaRiviere, Clayton Lewis, Eric Lintala, Sandra Magsamen, Jesse McCloskey, David Paulson, Michael Pietragalla, Francisco Rapoza, Marc St. Pierre, David Loeffler Smith, and Don Wilkinson.A
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woods
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COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: Under the direction of the Visual Resource Center digital collections are made available to the UMass Dartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of classroom instruction and study in accordance U.S. Copyright Laws . All other uses are prohibited and are subject to copyright infringements.
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COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: Under the direction of the Visual Resource Center digital collections are made available to the UMass Dartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of classroom instruction and study in accordance U.S. Copyright Laws . All other uses are prohibited and are subject to copyright infringements.
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UMass Dartmouth Art Galleries
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Don Wilkinson
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Don Wilkinson
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Wilkinson , Don
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American
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American
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Don Wilkinson, born in New Bedford to a blue-collar family, attended the Swain School of Design from 1979 to 1982. Somewhat surprisingly, he was one of the college's few undergraduates from New Bedord. At the time, most local students instead attended Southeaster Massachusetts University (SMU). Initially Wilkinson thought that he wanted to be a graphic designer. He dreamed of creating jingles and advertisements for a New York Madison Avenue "Mad Men" firm. However, he soon realized that working with clients was not all that interesting to him. Instead, Wilsonson gravitated toward printmaking He liked the technical aspects associated with woodcut engraving, etching, lithography, and screen-printing. Initially, the screen-printing process irritated him. Wilkinson recalled, "I once put my foot throught a screen in frustration." Over time, he grew to enjoy screen-priniting, and has now been working in this technique for over thirty years.
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Don Wilkinson, born in New Bedford to a blue-collar family, attended the Swain School of Design from 1979 to 1982. Somewhat surprisingly, he was one of the college's few undergraduates from New Bedord. At the time, most local students instead attended Southeaster Massachusetts University (SMU). Initially Wilkinson thought that he wanted to be a graphic designer. He dreamed of creating jingles and advertisements for a New York Madison Avenue "Mad Men" firm. However, he soon realized that working with clients was not all that interesting to him. Instead, Wilsonson gravitated toward printmaking He liked the technical aspects associated with woodcut engraving, etching, lithography, and screen-printing. Initially, the screen-printing process irritated him. Wilkinson recalled, "I once put my foot throught a screen in frustration." Over time, he grew to enjoy screen-priniting, and has now been working in this technique for over thirty years.
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Swain: A Creative Community catalog
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Swain: A Creative Community catalog
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David Loeffler Smith
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David Loeffler Smith
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Smith , David Loeffler
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Smith , David Loeffler
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American
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American
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1928 - 2012
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1928 - 2012
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Born May 1, 1928 to Adele (Loeffler) Smith and highly regarded American painter Jacob Getlar Smith, he was raised and educated in New York City. After attending Little Red Schoolhouse and the High School of Music and Art, Smith earned his BA from Bard College in 1950 and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1952. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War 1952-54. Having studied painting with his father and Stephan Hirsh, Hans Hofmann and Raphael Soyer, Smith embarked on his own career as a painter and teacher of painting. He was accomplished and distinguished in both endeavors. His teaching career began at Chatham College in Pittsburgh, PA. He moved to New Bedford to assume the Director's position at Swain in 1962. During his tenure there, Smith was the motivation behind overhauling the curriculum, doubling of the enrollment, and initiating the steps which led to a degree program in the Fine Arts. In 1966 he left the Director's position in order to get back to teaching and to focus more time on his own painting. He remained at Swain, receiving the Swain Medal in 1980 for his outstanding service and contributions. Swain eventually merged with U Mass-Dartmouth, and Smith continued to teach there until his retirement in 1992.
artist_biographical_note
Born May 1, 1928 to Adele (Loeffler) Smith and highly regarded American painter Jacob Getlar Smith, he was raised and educated in New York City. After attending Little Red Schoolhouse and the High School of Music and Art, Smith earned his BA from Bard College in 1950 and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1952. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War 1952-54. Having studied painting with his father and Stephan Hirsh, Hans Hofmann and Raphael Soyer, Smith embarked on his own career as a painter and teacher of painting. He was accomplished and distinguished in both endeavors. His teaching career began at Chatham College in Pittsburgh, PA. He moved to New Bedford to assume the Director's position at Swain in 1962. During his tenure there, Smith was the motivation behind overhauling the curriculum, doubling of the enrollment, and initiating the steps which led to a degree program in the Fine Arts. In 1966 he left the Director's position in order to get back to teaching and to focus more time on his own painting. He remained at Swain, receiving the Swain Medal in 1980 for his outstanding service and contributions. Swain eventually merged with U Mass-Dartmouth, and Smith continued to teach there until his retirement in 1992.
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Marc St. Pierre
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Marc St. Pierre
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St. Pierre , Marc
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Canadian - American
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Canadian - American
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Marc St. Pierre received his BFA in Painting from the Université Laval, Québec in 1976 and his MFA in Printmaking from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in 1979. He has studied printmaking with S.W. Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris and, at the Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine in Switzerland during 1976-77 under a grant from the government of Québec. He teaches printmaking and alternative photographic techniques in the department of Fine Arts. He maintains a studio in New Bedford, Massachusetts where he produces work in pinhole photography, printmaking, drawing and most recently in encaustic and collage. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Canadian Art Bank, the Cabinet des Estampes in Switzerland, and several public and private collections.
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Marc St. Pierre received his BFA in Painting from the Université Laval, Québec in 1976 and his MFA in Printmaking from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in 1979. He has studied printmaking with S.W. Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris and, at the Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine in Switzerland during 1976-77 under a grant from the government of Québec. He teaches printmaking and alternative photographic techniques in the department of Fine Arts. He maintains a studio in New Bedford, Massachusetts where he produces work in pinhole photography, printmaking, drawing and most recently in encaustic and collage. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Canadian Art Bank, the Cabinet des Estampes in Switzerland, and several public and private collections.
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Francisco Rapoza
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Francisco Rapoza
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Rapoza , Francisco
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Rapoza , Francisco
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Faculty member at Swain School of Design in 1955.
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Faculty member at Swain School of Design in 1955.
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artist name:
Michael Pietragalla
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Michael Pietragalla
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Pietragalla , Michael
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Pietragalla , Michael
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American
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American
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1950 -
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1950 -
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Born in Fiarhaven, Massachusetts in 1950, Mike Pietragalla's passion for art started early. His father was a well-known hairstylist and his grandfather before him a shoemaker. Thus, even though these men did not produce conventional art, they were creators nonetheless. Pietragalla bielieves working his his head and hands was in his genes. His interest in the fine arts, however, began when he attended Saturday classes at the Swain School of Design in the late 1950s. Despite his father's wishes that he join the family business, Pietragalla knew that art was his passion. He hoped to leave the New Bedford area and attend an art or music school in New York or Boston. Nevertheless, he decided to apply to the Swain School of Design and was acccepted. He matriculated in 1969 and remained at the school until 1972. Pietragalla has no regrets about his choice; Swain was an eye-opening experience for him. Creative energy simply seemed to flow between faculty and students as though they were part of singular creative "family." Everyone worked together, During his last year at Swain, Pietragalla helped with new student orientation and taught Saturday classes as a work-study student.
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Born in Fiarhaven, Massachusetts in 1950, Mike Pietragalla's passion for art started early. His father was a well-known hairstylist and his grandfather before him a shoemaker. Thus, even though these men did not produce conventional art, they were creators nonetheless. Pietragalla bielieves working his his head and hands was in his genes. His interest in the fine arts, however, began when he attended Saturday classes at the Swain School of Design in the late 1950s. Despite his father's wishes that he join the family business, Pietragalla knew that art was his passion. He hoped to leave the New Bedford area and attend an art or music school in New York or Boston. Nevertheless, he decided to apply to the Swain School of Design and was acccepted. He matriculated in 1969 and remained at the school until 1972. Pietragalla has no regrets about his choice; Swain was an eye-opening experience for him. Creative energy simply seemed to flow between faculty and students as though they were part of singular creative "family." Everyone worked together, During his last year at Swain, Pietragalla helped with new student orientation and taught Saturday classes as a work-study student.
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Swain: A Creative Community catalog
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David Paulson
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David Paulson
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Paulson , David
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Paulson , David
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American
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American
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1955 -
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1955 -
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David Paulson was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1955. He is an alumnus of the Swain School of Design and the Parson's School of Design Graduate Program for Painting. While at Parson's, Paulson studied with Leland Bell and Paul Resika, both of whom were strongly influenced by Hans Hoffman's work. Paulson's work was also strongly influenced by David L. Smith, who was a student of Hoffman's in the 50's. During his fifteen years in NYC, Paulson made hundreds of visits to view the great paintings housed in the City's museums. He engaged exclusively in figurative painting. He taught at the Swain School of Design, New York Studio School, Parson's School of Design, Sarah Lawrence College, New York Studio School, and IS183 Eventually, the desire for a physical change from the campus of NYC led Paulson to the Hudson Valley region in 1994. Paulson was recently awarded the Purchase Prize for Painting at the National Academy of Arts and Letters in March, 2014. He now lives and paints in Ghent, NY.
artist_biographical_note
David Paulson was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1955. He is an alumnus of the Swain School of Design and the Parson's School of Design Graduate Program for Painting. While at Parson's, Paulson studied with Leland Bell and Paul Resika, both of whom were strongly influenced by Hans Hoffman's work. Paulson's work was also strongly influenced by David L. Smith, who was a student of Hoffman's in the 50's. During his fifteen years in NYC, Paulson made hundreds of visits to view the great paintings housed in the City's museums. He engaged exclusively in figurative painting. He taught at the Swain School of Design, New York Studio School, Parson's School of Design, Sarah Lawrence College, New York Studio School, and IS183 Eventually, the desire for a physical change from the campus of NYC led Paulson to the Hudson Valley region in 1994. Paulson was recently awarded the Purchase Prize for Painting at the National Academy of Arts and Letters in March, 2014. He now lives and paints in Ghent, NY.
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artist name:
Jesse McCloskey
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Jesse McCloskey
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McCloskey , Jesse
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American
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American
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McCloskey grew up in Plympton, Massachusetts and studied at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, with David Loeffler Smith, before getting his MFA from Parsons School of Design, where he studied with Paul Resika, Leland Bell, John Heliker, and Anne Tabachnick. He has been a Yaddo resident and recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant. His work is represented by Claire Oliver Gallery, where he had a solo exhibition in 2011, reviewed by Christopher Hart Chambers in Flash Art International.
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McCloskey grew up in Plympton, Massachusetts and studied at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, with David Loeffler Smith, before getting his MFA from Parsons School of Design, where he studied with Paul Resika, Leland Bell, John Heliker, and Anne Tabachnick. He has been a Yaddo resident and recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant. His work is represented by Claire Oliver Gallery, where he had a solo exhibition in 2011, reviewed by Christopher Hart Chambers in Flash Art International.
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Magsamen , Sandra
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Magsamen , Sandra
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Sandra Magsamen
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Sandra Magsamen
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American
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American
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1959 -
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1959 -
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Sandra earned a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts from the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and holds a Masters Degree in Expressive Art Therapy from Goucher College. She lives artfully with her family in the Maryland town in which she grew up.
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Sandra earned a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts from the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and holds a Masters Degree in Expressive Art Therapy from Goucher College. She lives artfully with her family in the Maryland town in which she grew up.
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Eric Lintala
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Eric Lintala
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Lintala , Eric
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American
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American
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1953 -
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1953 -
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Eric Lintala received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees in Sculpture from Kent State University. He is a Professor in the Fine Arts Department, in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Lintala's most recent exhibitions include: Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Mill Brook Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Concord, New Hampshire, Multisensory: Visual Responses to Memory and Synesthesia, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, Rhode Island, What Artists Collect, The New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Sculpture Path, Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts, Site specific work in public collections: A Healing Place, Row Conference Center, Row, Massachusetts, Marks of Remembrance, Town of Carlisle, Carlisle, Massachusetts Inscription Rock, The Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts. He has received numerous awards, grants, and commissions including the Holocaust Memorial for Buttonwood Park in New Bedford, the Silver Medal for Sculpture at the International Art Competition-L.A. Summer Olympics, a Sculpture Fellowship from the Artists Foundation in Boston, Certificate of Excellence International Art Competition in New York City, and several research grants from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Lintala has traveled extensively throughout the United States recording and researching pre-historic Rock Art, petroglyphs and pictographs, which has had a profound influence on his work. Concentrating his research in the southwest, he made a major discovery in 1994 of a rock art panel not yet recorded, located in Salt Creek Canyon, south central Utah.
artist_biographical_note
Eric Lintala received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees in Sculpture from Kent State University. He is a Professor in the Fine Arts Department, in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Lintala's most recent exhibitions include: Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Mill Brook Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Concord, New Hampshire, Multisensory: Visual Responses to Memory and Synesthesia, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, Rhode Island, What Artists Collect, The New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Sculpture Path, Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts, Site specific work in public collections: A Healing Place, Row Conference Center, Row, Massachusetts, Marks of Remembrance, Town of Carlisle, Carlisle, Massachusetts Inscription Rock, The Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts. He has received numerous awards, grants, and commissions including the Holocaust Memorial for Buttonwood Park in New Bedford, the Silver Medal for Sculpture at the International Art Competition-L.A. Summer Olympics, a Sculpture Fellowship from the Artists Foundation in Boston, Certificate of Excellence International Art Competition in New York City, and several research grants from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Lintala has traveled extensively throughout the United States recording and researching pre-historic Rock Art, petroglyphs and pictographs, which has had a profound influence on his work. Concentrating his research in the southwest, he made a major discovery in 1994 of a rock art panel not yet recorded, located in Salt Creek Canyon, south central Utah.
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Clayton Lewis
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Clayton Lewis
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Lewis , Clayton
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Lewis , Clayton
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American
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American
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1958 -
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1958 -
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I hold a B.F.A. from Swain School of Design (1982) and an M.F.A. from Parson School of Design (1985). I worked as adjunct faculty to the University of Michigan School of Art and in the field of commercial printing before becoming the first Curator of Graphic Materials at the Clements in 2002. I'm author of numerous articles and curator of exhibits on various historical subjects including vernacular photography, early racial satire, popular and patriotic music, wartime art, and American leisure travel.
artist_biographical_note
I hold a B.F.A. from Swain School of Design (1982) and an M.F.A. from Parson School of Design (1985). I worked as adjunct faculty to the University of Michigan School of Art and in the field of commercial printing before becoming the first Curator of Graphic Materials at the Clements in 2002. I'm author of numerous articles and curator of exhibits on various historical subjects including vernacular photography, early racial satire, popular and patriotic music, wartime art, and American leisure travel.
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LaRiviere , Mark
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LaRiviere , Mark
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Mark LaRiviere
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Mark LaRiviere
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American
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American
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Mark LaRiviere has had many exhibitions of paintings and has been invited to show work in many group shows. He was a member of the Bowery Gallery in New York, was invited to have a one person show and a two person show at the Painting Center in New York in 1994 and 1995. He has had paintings shown at the National Academy of Design and the National Arts Club in New York, as well as in various galleries in New York City. Mark LaRiviere have been painting steadily since completing graduate work in 1981, studying with Paul Resika, Leland Bell and John Heliker. He traveled to Italy in 1983 to study early and late Renaissance paintings. He returned to New York in 1984 to receive a Charles H. Revson Fellowship through the New York Studio School. LaRiviere spent five summers in France studying paintings in Paris and the Cave paintings in the Dordogne Region, before moving to upstate New York to spend his summers painting and gardening.
artist_biographical_note
Mark LaRiviere has had many exhibitions of paintings and has been invited to show work in many group shows. He was a member of the Bowery Gallery in New York, was invited to have a one person show and a two person show at the Painting Center in New York in 1994 and 1995. He has had paintings shown at the National Academy of Design and the National Arts Club in New York, as well as in various galleries in New York City. Mark LaRiviere have been painting steadily since completing graduate work in 1981, studying with Paul Resika, Leland Bell and John Heliker. He traveled to Italy in 1983 to study early and late Renaissance paintings. He returned to New York in 1984 to receive a Charles H. Revson Fellowship through the New York Studio School. LaRiviere spent five summers in France studying paintings in Paris and the Cave paintings in the Dordogne Region, before moving to upstate New York to spend his summers painting and gardening.
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Charles A. Hauck
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Charles A. Hauck
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Hauck , Charles A.
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American
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American
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I graduated from high school and moved to New Bedford in 1977, I then attended The Swain School of Design and received my BFA in Sculpture. I was a founding member of the "Second St. Art Exchange" (1983-87) located in the building behind Freestone's. I was also a founding member and first president of Gallery X (August 1990) where I remain a member. I was also first president and founding member of O.R.P.H. Inc. (since 2004) A non profit organization with plans to reopen and restore the historic "Orpheum Theatre" in New Bedford's south end. critter close-up | Chuck Hauck critter close-ups | Chuck Hauck I am still active showing my work at Gallery X along with many other venues. I am most influenced by early American folk art; weathervanes, whirligigs, etc., that I try and merge with my own influences. I have been involved with historic restoration since 1977. Projects I have worked on include restoration and painting of the First Unitarian Church's exterior and steeple, Trinity Methodist Church and steeple, Gallery X church and steeple, also the painting and plaster work on the interior of Tryworks, The Seth Russell house, The Abijah Hathaway, Station One, in Plymouth, and the 1718 Henry Howland house in Dartmouth among many others I also worked on classic yacht restoration with several businesses in the 1980s, specializing in finish carpentry, painting and varnishing etc. I am proud to say that I have collaborated and worked with many of the non profits in New Bedford at Gallery X over the years, I have worked on murals, clean ups, concerts, exhibitions, etc. and look forward to the bright future coming soon to New Bedford and want to be a part of it.
artist_biographical_note
I graduated from high school and moved to New Bedford in 1977, I then attended The Swain School of Design and received my BFA in Sculpture. I was a founding member of the "Second St. Art Exchange" (1983-87) located in the building behind Freestone's. I was also a founding member and first president of Gallery X (August 1990) where I remain a member. I was also first president and founding member of O.R.P.H. Inc. (since 2004) A non profit organization with plans to reopen and restore the historic "Orpheum Theatre" in New Bedford's south end. critter close-up | Chuck Hauck critter close-ups | Chuck Hauck I am still active showing my work at Gallery X along with many other venues. I am most influenced by early American folk art; weathervanes, whirligigs, etc., that I try and merge with my own influences. I have been involved with historic restoration since 1977. Projects I have worked on include restoration and painting of the First Unitarian Church's exterior and steeple, Trinity Methodist Church and steeple, Gallery X church and steeple, also the painting and plaster work on the interior of Tryworks, The Seth Russell house, The Abijah Hathaway, Station One, in Plymouth, and the 1718 Henry Howland house in Dartmouth among many others I also worked on classic yacht restoration with several businesses in the 1980s, specializing in finish carpentry, painting and varnishing etc. I am proud to say that I have collaborated and worked with many of the non profits in New Bedford at Gallery X over the years, I have worked on murals, clean ups, concerts, exhibitions, etc. and look forward to the bright future coming soon to New Bedford and want to be a part of it.
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Hamlet , Susan
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Hamlet , Susan
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Susan Hamlet
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Susan Hamlet
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American
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American
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Susan Hamlet received a BA from Mount Holyoke College and MFA degree from Rochester Institute of Technology. Prior to teaching at UMass Dartmouth, she taught at Oklahoma State University, Skidmore College and Swain School of Design. Susan teaches Jewelry/Metals in Artisanry in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and presently serves as Graduate Program Director for the Artisanry Department. Susan received two Craftsman's Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979 and 1988, and the Society of Arts and Crafts Biennial Award in 1994. She's produced large scale metal commissions for AT&T in Washington DC, Bank One Center in Cleveland OH, and for David and Lynn Burkett of Monroe, Louisiana. Along with participating in national invitational exhibitions, Hamlet's work has been shown in group international exhibitions: Musee des Arts Decoratifs/Paris, Linzer Instut fur Gestaltung/Austria, Kulturhuset, Stockholm/Sweden, Museum Bellerive Zurich/Switzerland, Art Gallery of Western Australia/Perth, University of Central England Birmingham/UK, Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts/Canada, and International Craft Fair '07 Seoul/Korea. Her work is in the following selected private collections: Ronald Abramson, Washington DC, Malcolm and Sue Knapp NYC, Robert Pfannebecker Lancaster, PA, Gail Brown Philadelphia, PA, Karen Johnson Boyd Racine, WI, and Jeffrey Brown/Kathy Corwin Milton, MA. Pieces within public collections include: Coopers Lybrant Corp. Columbus, OH, Wichita Museum of Art Wichita, KS, Monmouth Art Museum Lincroft, NJ, Fuller Craft Museum Brockton, MA, Museum of Art and Design New York, Daphne Farago Collection/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Helen Williams Drutt Collection/Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and National Museum of Modern Art - Kyoto, Japan.
artist_biographical_note
Susan Hamlet received a BA from Mount Holyoke College and MFA degree from Rochester Institute of Technology. Prior to teaching at UMass Dartmouth, she taught at Oklahoma State University, Skidmore College and Swain School of Design. Susan teaches Jewelry/Metals in Artisanry in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and presently serves as Graduate Program Director for the Artisanry Department. Susan received two Craftsman's Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979 and 1988, and the Society of Arts and Crafts Biennial Award in 1994. She's produced large scale metal commissions for AT&T in Washington DC, Bank One Center in Cleveland OH, and for David and Lynn Burkett of Monroe, Louisiana. Along with participating in national invitational exhibitions, Hamlet's work has been shown in group international exhibitions: Musee des Arts Decoratifs/Paris, Linzer Instut fur Gestaltung/Austria, Kulturhuset, Stockholm/Sweden, Museum Bellerive Zurich/Switzerland, Art Gallery of Western Australia/Perth, University of Central England Birmingham/UK, Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts/Canada, and International Craft Fair '07 Seoul/Korea. Her work is in the following selected private collections: Ronald Abramson, Washington DC, Malcolm and Sue Knapp NYC, Robert Pfannebecker Lancaster, PA, Gail Brown Philadelphia, PA, Karen Johnson Boyd Racine, WI, and Jeffrey Brown/Kathy Corwin Milton, MA. Pieces within public collections include: Coopers Lybrant Corp. Columbus, OH, Wichita Museum of Art Wichita, KS, Monmouth Art Museum Lincroft, NJ, Fuller Craft Museum Brockton, MA, Museum of Art and Design New York, Daphne Farago Collection/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Helen Williams Drutt Collection/Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and National Museum of Modern Art - Kyoto, Japan.
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Haines , Severin
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Haines , Severin
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Severin Haines
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Severin Haines
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Norwegian-American
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Norwegian-American
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1946 -
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1946 -
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Severin Haines received a BFA from the Swain School of Design in 1968 and an MFA from Yale University's School of Art and Architecture in 1972. From 1975 until 1988 he taught as a member of the faculty of the Swain School of Design in New Bedford. He served as chairman of the Painting Department of the Swain School from 1979 until 1988. He began teaching at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth with the merger of the Swain School and the University in 1988. He later served as Graduate Director for the University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. He is presently holds the title of Professor Emeritus at UMass Dartmouth. He retired from the university in June of 2011 and now spends his time painting and working with his wife Cynthia in their garden. Since 1977, Haines has exhibited in the local area with numerous one-person shows at various venues including the Nemasket Gallery of Fairhaven, the Water Street Gallery of Mattapoisett, the Marion Art Center, Facets Gallery of Fall River and Crowells Gallery in New Bedford. He has also mounted a retrospective exhibition of his work at Keystone Junior College in Pennsylvania. He has exhibited in numerous one-person and group shows in Norway, New York, NY and Boston, MA. Haines is the recipient of two Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council grants for murals at the Nemasket Gallery and at the Leroy Wood School, both in Fairhaven. A third mural was produced together with the students of the Teen-Mural Program of Artworks in New Bedford on the wall of the Carter's Building in the New Bedford Historic District. He has also curated six major exhibitions for the New Bedford Art Museum. In January of 2008 he was honored with a one-person exhibition at the New Bedford Art Museum. This exhibition of landscapes of his native Norway entitled Skude 360 Degrees also traveled to the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle Washington in December of 2008 Haines is currently represented by Galleri Amare in Stavanger, Norway and Crowells Gallery in New Bedford, MA. In July of 2013 he is scheduled for an exhibition of his larger work at the Dedee Shattuck Gallery in Westport, MA
artist_biographical_note
Severin Haines received a BFA from the Swain School of Design in 1968 and an MFA from Yale University's School of Art and Architecture in 1972. From 1975 until 1988 he taught as a member of the faculty of the Swain School of Design in New Bedford. He served as chairman of the Painting Department of the Swain School from 1979 until 1988. He began teaching at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth with the merger of the Swain School and the University in 1988. He later served as Graduate Director for the University's College of Visual and Performing Arts. He is presently holds the title of Professor Emeritus at UMass Dartmouth. He retired from the university in June of 2011 and now spends his time painting and working with his wife Cynthia in their garden. Since 1977, Haines has exhibited in the local area with numerous one-person shows at various venues including the Nemasket Gallery of Fairhaven, the Water Street Gallery of Mattapoisett, the Marion Art Center, Facets Gallery of Fall River and Crowells Gallery in New Bedford. He has also mounted a retrospective exhibition of his work at Keystone Junior College in Pennsylvania. He has exhibited in numerous one-person and group shows in Norway, New York, NY and Boston, MA. Haines is the recipient of two Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council grants for murals at the Nemasket Gallery and at the Leroy Wood School, both in Fairhaven. A third mural was produced together with the students of the Teen-Mural Program of Artworks in New Bedford on the wall of the Carter's Building in the New Bedford Historic District. He has also curated six major exhibitions for the New Bedford Art Museum. In January of 2008 he was honored with a one-person exhibition at the New Bedford Art Museum. This exhibition of landscapes of his native Norway entitled Skude 360 Degrees also traveled to the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle Washington in December of 2008 Haines is currently represented by Galleri Amare in Stavanger, Norway and Crowells Gallery in New Bedford, MA. In July of 2013 he is scheduled for an exhibition of his larger work at the Dedee Shattuck Gallery in Westport, MA
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artist name:
Gilmore , Susan
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Gilmore , Susan
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Susan Gilmore
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Susan Gilmore
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American
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American
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1958 -
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1958 -
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http://www.susangilmoreart.com/
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Swain: A Creative Community catalog
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Swain: A Creative Community catalog
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artist name:
David Fontaine
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David Fontaine
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Fontaine , David
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Fontaine , David
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American
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American
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1956 -
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1956 -
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Swain: A Creative Community catalog
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Swain: A Creative Community catalog
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Dickison , Peter
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Dickison , Peter
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Peter Dickison
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Peter Dickison
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American
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American
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A native of Rhode Island, Peter Dickison first began to paint pictures of Newport in his teens. He studied painting at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, graduating with a BFA degree in 1982, and attended the Yale University Summer School for Art in 1980 with a full scholarship. After Swain, Peter attended the Parson's School of Design Graduate Program in Painting. Dickison was a studio assistant from 1983 to 1985 for the artist Nell Blaine (1922-1996), traveling with her between New York City and Gloucester, Massachusetts, including a painting trip to Austria, Switzerland and Italy. Blaine was a former student of Hans Hoffman and was influenced by modernists such as Mondrian, Leger and Hélion and by jazz music. Dickison lived in France in 1989 while working for the Cleveland Institute of Art in Lacoste. There he assisted drawing professor Leonard Stokes, taught landscape and figure drawing, and painted prolifically in the landscape. After returning from France, he lived in the Hudson River Valley north of New York City, where he painted landscapes of the region often populated with human figures merging into the natural forms of their surroundings. Since returning to Newport in 2003, his paintings have continued with landscape and figurative themes, expressing his evolving vision of human understanding of nature. The ambience and structures of Newport have returned to his work, a homecoming that has enhanced his compositions. Many canvases make use of narrative literary and mythological subjects from the canon of European painting. Dickison lives with his family in Newport and is on the faculty of the Newport Art Museum. Exhibitions of his work have been mounted at the Prince Street Gallery in New York City, the Newport Art Museum, SUNY Purchase Art Gallery, Crowell's Fine Art in New Bedford and Deblois Gallery in Newport.
artist_biographical_note
A native of Rhode Island, Peter Dickison first began to paint pictures of Newport in his teens. He studied painting at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, graduating with a BFA degree in 1982, and attended the Yale University Summer School for Art in 1980 with a full scholarship. After Swain, Peter attended the Parson's School of Design Graduate Program in Painting. Dickison was a studio assistant from 1983 to 1985 for the artist Nell Blaine (1922-1996), traveling with her between New York City and Gloucester, Massachusetts, including a painting trip to Austria, Switzerland and Italy. Blaine was a former student of Hans Hoffman and was influenced by modernists such as Mondrian, Leger and Hélion and by jazz music. Dickison lived in France in 1989 while working for the Cleveland Institute of Art in Lacoste. There he assisted drawing professor Leonard Stokes, taught landscape and figure drawing, and painted prolifically in the landscape. After returning from France, he lived in the Hudson River Valley north of New York City, where he painted landscapes of the region often populated with human figures merging into the natural forms of their surroundings. Since returning to Newport in 2003, his paintings have continued with landscape and figurative themes, expressing his evolving vision of human understanding of nature. The ambience and structures of Newport have returned to his work, a homecoming that has enhanced his compositions. Many canvases make use of narrative literary and mythological subjects from the canon of European painting. Dickison lives with his family in Newport and is on the faculty of the Newport Art Museum. Exhibitions of his work have been mounted at the Prince Street Gallery in New York City, the Newport Art Museum, SUNY Purchase Art Gallery, Crowell's Fine Art in New Bedford and Deblois Gallery in Newport.
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http://www.peterdickison.com/
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http://www.peterdickison.com/wp/about
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Cournoyer , Diane
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Cournoyer , Diane
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Diane Cournoyer
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Diane Cournoyer
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false
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American
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American
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Diane Cournoyer earned her BFA at New Bedford's Swain School of Design studying with painters Ben Martinez and David Loeffler Smith. There she exhibited her desire to create with canvas and paint just as she envisioned from a young age. Graduate work followed at Parsons School of Design (New York) exposing her to a slice of the art world in the 80's. Continuing to crave artist comradery and wanting to absorb more information Ms Cournoyer also attended the Vermont Studio School and the Studio School of the Aegean. She even indulged herself in a bit of independent study abroad. Exhibiting in various galleries throughout New England and New York Ms. Cournoyer was an original founding member of Gallery X of New Bedford. She also sat on the local Massachusetts Cultural Council in Fall River in the late 90's. Presently living in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Diane is still playing with the imagery that has preoccupied her thoughts from early days. Manifesting in landscape, figure and still life it's the construction, shapes, and lyrical lines that often capture her eye.
artist_biographical_note
Diane Cournoyer earned her BFA at New Bedford's Swain School of Design studying with painters Ben Martinez and David Loeffler Smith. There she exhibited her desire to create with canvas and paint just as she envisioned from a young age. Graduate work followed at Parsons School of Design (New York) exposing her to a slice of the art world in the 80's. Continuing to crave artist comradery and wanting to absorb more information Ms Cournoyer also attended the Vermont Studio School and the Studio School of the Aegean. She even indulged herself in a bit of independent study abroad. Exhibiting in various galleries throughout New England and New York Ms. Cournoyer was an original founding member of Gallery X of New Bedford. She also sat on the local Massachusetts Cultural Council in Fall River in the late 90's. Presently living in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Diane is still playing with the imagery that has preoccupied her thoughts from early days. Manifesting in landscape, figure and still life it's the construction, shapes, and lyrical lines that often capture her eye.
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http://www.dianecournoyer.com/
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http://www.crowellsfineart.com/artists/diane_cournoyer.html
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CaraDonna , Nancy Carrozza
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CaraDonna , Nancy Carrozza
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Nancy Carrozza CaraDonna
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Nancy Carrozza CaraDonna
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https://www.facebook.com/nancy.carrozzacaradonna
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Swain: A Creative Community catalog
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Swain: A Creative Community catalog
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artist name:
Beal , Donald
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Beal , Donald
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artist name:
Donald Beal
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Donald Beal
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false
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American
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American
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false
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1959 -
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1959 -
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false
artist_biographical note:
Donald Beal was born on January 2, 1959 in Syracuse, New York, and grew up in Westford, Massachusetts. He studied painting at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York, and received an MFA from Parsons School of Design in 1983. In 1985 he moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he married photographer Khristine Hopkins. They have a son, Max. Donald Beal has been a Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts in North Dartmouth since 1999. He continues to live and paint in Provincetown.
artist_biographical_note
Donald Beal was born on January 2, 1959 in Syracuse, New York, and grew up in Westford, Massachusetts. He studied painting at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York, and received an MFA from Parsons School of Design in 1983. In 1985 he moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he married photographer Khristine Hopkins. They have a son, Max. Donald Beal has been a Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts in North Dartmouth since 1999. He continues to live and paint in Provincetown.
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http://donaldbeal.macmate.me
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http://donaldbeal.macmate.me/donaldbeal.macmate.me/Information.html
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Barry , Mark
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Barry , Mark
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artist name:
Mark Barry
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Mark Barry
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false
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American
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American
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false
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1955 -
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1955 -
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false
artist_biographical note:
Mark Barry, a 1981 Swain graduate (painting), lives with his wife, Sandra Magsamen, and family near Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to entering Swain, Barry had no formal art instruction. He chose to apply the small New bebford school after he received its admissions brochure in the mail. The beautifully designed brochure caught his attention. And, something about Barry's unusual application caught the eye of David Loeffler Smith, who invited him for an interview. During this interview, Barry showed Smith a "little notebook of drawings." Smith's response: "I think I'll take a chance on you." Barry chose to attend Swain because he was "looking to belong somewhere," specifically, to a serious art community with a strong work ethic. Barry remembers Swain as a "small, intimate place" where faculty and students were "serious about making art." Students had to be serious if they wished to "join the good conversation" with their "accomplished" mentors. To do so, they had to spend countless hours in the studio. They were also required to carefully study the historical texts, artworks, and literature that provide the intellectual frameworks for the making of art. For Barry, "the intertwining of what [students] were doing in the studio" with academic learning was important for their creative development.
artist_biographical_note
Mark Barry, a 1981 Swain graduate (painting), lives with his wife, Sandra Magsamen, and family near Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to entering Swain, Barry had no formal art instruction. He chose to apply the small New bebford school after he received its admissions brochure in the mail. The beautifully designed brochure caught his attention. And, something about Barry's unusual application caught the eye of David Loeffler Smith, who invited him for an interview. During this interview, Barry showed Smith a "little notebook of drawings." Smith's response: "I think I'll take a chance on you." Barry chose to attend Swain because he was "looking to belong somewhere," specifically, to a serious art community with a strong work ethic. Barry remembers Swain as a "small, intimate place" where faculty and students were "serious about making art." Students had to be serious if they wished to "join the good conversation" with their "accomplished" mentors. To do so, they had to spend countless hours in the studio. They were also required to carefully study the historical texts, artworks, and literature that provide the intellectual frameworks for the making of art. For Barry, "the intertwining of what [students] were doing in the studio" with academic learning was important for their creative development.
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false
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Swain: A Creative Community catalog
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Swain: A Creative Community catalog
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Alexander , Joseph Edwards
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Alexander , Joseph Edwards
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artist name:
Joseph Edwards Alexander
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Joseph Edwards Alexander
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false
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American
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American
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false
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1947 - 2008
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1947 - 2008
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false
artist_biographical note:
Joseph Edwards Alexander was the artistic grandson of the abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann and the biological grandson of a famous New Bedford Whaling captain, his namesake, Joseph Edwards, whose first command was the Charles W. Morgan. At the Swain School of Design in New Bedford (1967-1970), Joseph studied painting under the tutelage of David Loeffler Smith, a Hofmann protégé who directed the Swain School from 1962-1988. The influence of Hofmann and Loeffler-Smith is clear in Joseph's work as are a number of 20th century masters, from Francis Bacon to Howard Hodgkin. During his lifetime, Joseph exhibited his work in New Bedford and at the Ward Nasse Gallery and Gallerie Amadeus in Boston, The Wheeler Gallery in Providence, the Virginia Lynch Gallery in Tiverton, R.I., the Munson Gallery on Cape Cod and in juried shows at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum. Joseph's 40 year career was characterized by several major stylistic shifts. His early works range from Baconesque figuration to tonal New England landscapes of fields and buildings that evince a strong interest in geometry. After an early foray into surrealism, his palette brightened yielding a body of work where he focused on whimsical and sometimes historical figures in a style reminiscent of Loeffler-Smith. It was in abstraction that Joseph Alexander truly found his voice as a colorist. Here again, he would develop and explore a style in depth before making a significant transition. 'Dynamic' abstracted landscapes that focus on movement gave way to Hodgkinesque explorations of color and form. Alexander then began to paint organic forms where he delicately or roughly layered color on color creating interactions between adjacent and vertically stacked areas of color. Subsequently, boundaries blurred and brushwork loosened, as Joseph moved from a focus on color and form to color and light that would occupy the remaining years of his life. Textural shifts were an important component of Joseph's art, ranging from the silky smooth brush work of Hodgkin to scumbled surfaces reminiscent of Twachtman. Alongside his acrylic paintings, Joseph kept up a steady production of color felt-pen drawings. These were not preparatory sketches, but fully developed art works that features figures, forms and landscapes. Joseph's brother George described him as becoming increasingly reclusive in the years before his passing, retiring to his studio early in the evening, listening to Mozart, and painting deep into the night. Joseph Alexander lived most of his life in his family's home in New Bedford and died in Boston at age 61.
artist_biographical_note
Joseph Edwards Alexander was the artistic grandson of the abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann and the biological grandson of a famous New Bedford Whaling captain, his namesake, Joseph Edwards, whose first command was the Charles W. Morgan. At the Swain School of Design in New Bedford (1967-1970), Joseph studied painting under the tutelage of David Loeffler Smith, a Hofmann protégé who directed the Swain School from 1962-1988. The influence of Hofmann and Loeffler-Smith is clear in Joseph's work as are a number of 20th century masters, from Francis Bacon to Howard Hodgkin. During his lifetime, Joseph exhibited his work in New Bedford and at the Ward Nasse Gallery and Gallerie Amadeus in Boston, The Wheeler Gallery in Providence, the Virginia Lynch Gallery in Tiverton, R.I., the Munson Gallery on Cape Cod and in juried shows at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum. Joseph's 40 year career was characterized by several major stylistic shifts. His early works range from Baconesque figuration to tonal New England landscapes of fields and buildings that evince a strong interest in geometry. After an early foray into surrealism, his palette brightened yielding a body of work where he focused on whimsical and sometimes historical figures in a style reminiscent of Loeffler-Smith. It was in abstraction that Joseph Alexander truly found his voice as a colorist. Here again, he would develop and explore a style in depth before making a significant transition. 'Dynamic' abstracted landscapes that focus on movement gave way to Hodgkinesque explorations of color and form. Alexander then began to paint organic forms where he delicately or roughly layered color on color creating interactions between adjacent and vertically stacked areas of color. Subsequently, boundaries blurred and brushwork loosened, as Joseph moved from a focus on color and form to color and light that would occupy the remaining years of his life. Textural shifts were an important component of Joseph's art, ranging from the silky smooth brush work of Hodgkin to scumbled surfaces reminiscent of Twachtman. Alongside his acrylic paintings, Joseph kept up a steady production of color felt-pen drawings. These were not preparatory sketches, but fully developed art works that features figures, forms and landscapes. Joseph's brother George described him as becoming increasingly reclusive in the years before his passing, retiring to his studio early in the evening, listening to Mozart, and painting deep into the night. Joseph Alexander lived most of his life in his family's home in New Bedford and died in Boston at age 61.
artist_biographical note
false
artist_reference:
artist_reference
http://www.newbedfordopenstudios.org/artist-list/joseph-edwards-alexander-paintings/
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work_title:
Swain: A Creative Community
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Swain: A Creative Community
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work_date:
2014
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2014
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alumni work
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alumni work
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date_of_ record:
2014/08/08
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2014/08/08
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name_cataloger:
lwebster
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lwebster
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