UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:

“INSIDE OUT”

School of the Museum of Fine Arts
230 The Fenway
Boston, MA, 02115
(617)267-6100

__________________________________________________________________

CURRENT  EXHIBITIONS:

“EVOLUTION OF A SHARED VISION:THE DAVID AND BARBARA STAHL COLLECTION”

Currier Museum of Art
150 Ash Street
Manchester, NH, 03104
(603)699-6144

Press:
“Two critical eyes are better than one”, Boston Globe, Oct. 18, 2009
“Stahl Collection on view at Currier Musem of Art”, Nashua Telegraph, Oct. 4, 2009
“Black on White, Ink on Paper”, Yankee Magazine, “Just Looking” blog, Sept. 24, 2009

Conversation with the Collector: Sun., Oct. 4, 3:00-4:00pm, featuring Dr. David Stahl and Associate Curator Kurt Sundstrom
Exhibit Dates: September 26, 2009-January 3, 2010
Museum Hours: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday-Friday 11am-5pm,  Saturday 10am - 5pm

This fall the extraordinary collection of prints and drawings carefully assembled over a 50-year period by long-time New Hampshire residents David and Barbara Stahl will be on view for the first time at the Currier.

The earliest prints are by some of the most important old master print-makers including Dürer, Rembrandt, and Callot. The strength of the collection is in American twentieth-century prints and drawings by internationally-known artists such as Edward Hopper, John Sloan, and Reginald Marsh. Also notable is an exquisite group of impressions by German Expressionist artists George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Max Beckmann, and Emil Nolde.

As young collectors in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Barbara and David Stahl sought out the sage advice of Charles Buckley, director of the Currier from 1955 through 1964. The union of Mr.Buckley’s art historical knowledge and academic acumen and the Stahls’ passion for the arts and willingness to learn were the guiding forces from which this distinguished collection was formed. The Stahls’ rise to erudite connoisseurs was hastened through impassioned study and frequent trips to galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe. With the first major museum presentation of their collection, the Currier celebrates the extraordinary life of Barbara and David Stahl as collectors and patrons of the arts.

__________________________________________________________________

PAST EXHIBITIONS & NEWS:

“WHERE ARE WE?”

Julie Gearan
Clara Lieu
Brian O’Malley
Eric Sung

Chazan Gallery
Wheeler School
228 Angell Street
Providence, RI, 02906
(401)421-9230

Press:
“Four artists emerge in quirky exhibit at the Wheeler School” Providence Journal, Oct. 29, 2009

Opening Reception: Thursday October 15, 5-7pm
Exhibit Dates: October 15-November 4, 2009
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12-5pm, Sunday 3-5pm

__________________________________________________________________

“DRAWINGS THAT WORK: 21st DRAWING SHOW”

Juried by Andrew Raftery

Mills Gallery
Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont Street
Boston, MA, 02116
(617)426-5000

Press:
“Back to the Drawing Board”, Boston Globe, Oct. 7, 2009
“Weather Reports”, Boston Phoenix, Oct. 7, 2009

Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 10, 4:45-6pm
Curator Talk: Wednesday, Sept. 30, 6:30pm
Exhibit dates: Sept. 11-Oct. 25, 2009
Gallery Hours: Wed. 12-5pm, Thurs.-Sat. 12-9pm, Sun. 12-5pm

Juror’s statement:
Drawing practices are often used as a preparatory phase for finished work. Artists and designers make drawings to respond to the requirements of particular projects, developing specialized forms of drawing to carry the information needed for diverse media ranging from traditional to experimental. Art historians identify various types of drawing – sketch, study, modello, cartoon – in terms of the function they serve in the artistic process. Are these categories still useful today? What new types of preparatory drawing are developing in response to the needs of contemporary visual culture? What is the “work” that drawing does and how does it get accomplished?

__________________________________________________________________

“PULP”
Works on Paper by the Studio Art Faculty

Judith Black, Carlos Dorrien, Bunny Harvey, Clara Lieu, Phyllis McGibbon, Salem Mekuria, Andrew Mowbray, David Olsen, Daniela Rivera, Christine Rogers, Katherine McCanless Ruffin

Jewett Art Gallery at Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA, 02481

Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 10, 4:45-6pm
Exhibit dates: Sept. 5-Oct. 1, 2009
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:15am-7pm, Weekends 12-5pm

__________________________________________________________________

“UNSEEN & UNKNOWN”

Bromfield Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA, 02118
(617)451-3605

Exhibition Dates: April 1-25, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, April 3, 5:30-7:30pm
Gallery Hours: Wed.-Sat., 12-5pm

“Unseen & Unknown” features a series of seven drawings made with lithographic crayon on layered sheets of sanded Dura-Lar. Groups of figures are depicted wading in an undefined and infinite body of water. In these drawings, the experience of loneliness and isolation is visually portrayed as being unseen and unknown within a group context.

__________________________________________________________________

“RISD FACULTY BIENNIAL”

RISD Museum of Art, Chace Center
2 College Street
Providence, RI, 02903

Exhibition Dates: Feb. 20-March 15, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, Feb. 19, 6-8pm
Museum Hours: Tues.-Sunday, 10am-5pm

“ARRIVALS/DEPARTURE“

Clara Lieu, Andrew Mowbray, David T. Olsen, Daniela Rivera, Christine Rogers, and Jim Turbert

Jewett Art Gallery at Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA, 02481

Read the Press Release

Opening Reception: Wednesday, Sept. 3rd, 4:30-6pm
Exhibit dates: Sept. 1-Sept. 28, 2008
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:15am-7pm, Weekends 12-5pm

__________________________________________________________________

July 18, 2008

An ink drawing from the Waiting Series has been published on the cover of Boston University Professor Robert Chodat’s book “Worldly Acts and Sentient Things” by Cornell University Press. Visit the Amazon page and the Cornell University Press page.

__________________________________________________________________

May 6, 2008

An intaglio print from the Digging Series, “Line” has been acquired by the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College.

__________________________________________________________________

April 8, 2008

Fritz Drury and Joanne Stryker, two of my colleagues at RISD have published a book titled “Drawing: Structure and Vision .” Two drawings I did as an undergraduate are in the book. Visit the Amazon page here.