Gestures W'06_07 FINAL 2.indd - Temple University
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ANNETTE KUSHEN, BFA Painting,<br />
81has recently had a gelatin silver<br />
photograph exhibited at New York<br />
<strong>University</strong>’s “Small Works Show 2006.”<br />
FRAN SIEGEL, BFA Painting,<br />
82 was granted an individual artist<br />
fellowship for the city of Los Angeles<br />
Department of Cultural Affairs. Siegel had an<br />
exhibition of three site-specific installations<br />
at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, in Los<br />
Angeles, California during April 2006.<br />
Siegel also had a solo exhibition at the<br />
Margaret Thatcher Projects in New York City<br />
during the month of September, 2006.<br />
E.B. LEWIS, BFA Graphic Design, was<br />
83a featured presenter at the Fleming<br />
County Reading Festival in late June. Lewis<br />
is a popular children’s book illustrator and<br />
spoke to the young audience of his desire<br />
for art and how he began illustrating books.<br />
ROSEANNE FIELDER (‘87) from her exhibition, Linear<br />
84<br />
Interference JOE at BEGONIA, the Painted Bride BFA Art Painting, Center had a<br />
solo exhibition “Blue, Period…etc.”<br />
at Larry Becker Contemporary Art in<br />
Philadelphia in June, 2006 and a group<br />
exhibition “The Art of Decoys, Revisited”<br />
at the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville,<br />
NJ from May through August, 2006.<br />
LISA YUSKAVAGE, BFA Painting,<br />
84recently had her debut as a<br />
member of the David Zwirner Galleries in<br />
New York. The two Zwirner Galleries, one<br />
in Chelsea and the other in Manhattan,<br />
had concurrent solo exhibitions featuring<br />
nearly 30 of Yuskavage’s oil paintings and<br />
drawings. The show received favorable<br />
remarks in The New York Times, Art in<br />
Review section, Friday, November 10, 2006.<br />
NICK CASSWAY BFA ’90, “SUPREME COURT<br />
DETAIL,” RUBBER STAMPINGS ON PAPER,<br />
NEXUS, 2002.<br />
ELIZABETH LEISTER, BFA Painting,<br />
86 had a show “Every Body is<br />
Everywhere and Nowhere” on exhibition<br />
at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts<br />
Morris Gallery from June 10 through<br />
August 20, 2006. This contemporary,<br />
multi-channel video installation features<br />
a daily Webcast performance from the<br />
artist’s Los Angeles studio exploring<br />
the alienation of placelessness and the<br />
changing definitions of body and self in<br />
contemporary life. The exhibition was<br />
made possible through the generous<br />
support of the William Penn Foundation.<br />
ROSEANNE FIEDLER, BFA Metals,<br />
87 is a costume designer/stylist<br />
working in the entertainment industry in<br />
Los Angeles and New York on everything<br />
from feature films and television to<br />
commercials and music videos. She had<br />
the pleasure recently of working with<br />
Robert Altman, Peter Farrelly, and the Coen<br />
brothers on various commercials. Her<br />
latest feature film, Clerks 2, directed by<br />
Kevin Smith, debuted this past summer.<br />
MICHAEL S. ILLES, BFA Painting, is a Los<br />
Angeles artist. His latest body of work is an<br />
intuitive struggle between light and dark,<br />
luminosity and opacity, and the collisions that<br />
occur when unexpected colors and textures<br />
meet. His Web site is www.illesgallery.com.<br />
His paintings are on display with corporate<br />
collectors such as Nordstrom, Macy’s, and<br />
Robinson May. Private account commissions<br />
can be viewed at www.neptima.net. He<br />
was a curator at Abbot’s Habit in Venice,<br />
CA from 1993 to1998 and is currently<br />
showing at the Canal Club, Venice, CA.<br />
VIRGINIA TYLER, MFA Sculpture,<br />
88 had her work displayed at the<br />
SOHO20 Gallery in New York City as part<br />
of the 2006 National Affiliates Exhibition.<br />
SOHO20 Gallery was founded in 1973 as<br />
one of the first women’s alternative galleries<br />
in Manhattan. It exists in Soho’s art district<br />
as a non-profit, artist-run organization<br />
devoted to increasing public awareness of<br />
the excellence and diversity of women’s art.<br />
TOM MAZZULLO BFA ’90, “WALNUT,” CONTE CRAYON<br />
ON PAPER, 30 X 22 INCHES, 2004.<br />
NICK CASSWAY, BFA Painting, is<br />
90the executive director of Nexus/<br />
Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia’s<br />
longest running artist collective dedicated<br />
to experimental art. Nick has also been<br />
appointed a full-time faculty position in<br />
Drexel <strong>University</strong>’s Design and Merchandising<br />
department where he teaches computer<br />
graphics and graphic design. Nick is also<br />
the co-curator of Dissentia Curatorial<br />
Services, an internationally reknowned<br />
independent curating group dedicated to<br />
public access to contemporary artwork and<br />
the role the viewer has in the appreciation<br />
of art. Dissentia is currently working on<br />
an infomercial. Visit www.dissentia.com.<br />
TOM MAZZULLO, BFA Printmaking, exhibited<br />
in the “2006 Everson Biennial: Beauty is<br />
in the Eye of the Artist” in Syracuse, New<br />
York from June 10 through August 20,<br />
2006. He also showed multiple pieces<br />
in “The Luster of Silver: Contemporary<br />
Metalpoint Drawings” at the Telfair<br />
Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia from<br />
June 7 through September 10, 2006. His<br />
work has been awarded the William D.<br />
Davis Award in Drawing for the exhibition,<br />
“Images 2006” at the Central Pennsylvania<br />
Festival of the Arts, Robeson Gallery at<br />
Pennsylvania State <strong>University</strong> from June<br />
14 through July 16, 2006. View his work<br />
online at www.tommazzullo.tripod.com.<br />
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