February 3: Tirtzah Bassel
Tirtzah Bassel is an Israeli artist based in New York. Her drawings, paintings and site- responsive duct tape installations explore the permeable borders separating public and private domains, specifically in airport security zones, border crossings and IKEA. Tirtzah has exhibited her work nationally and internationally with recent installations created on site in Harlem, New York and El Paso, Texas. Tirtzah studied drawing and painting at the Jerusalem Studio School in Israel and she earned a master’s degree in fine arts from Boston University. Her work been reviewed in Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, Arts in Bushwick, New York Daily Report and The Forward. Tirtzah is represented by Slag Gallery in New York and currently serves as a resident artist of the Chashama Visual Arts Program in Brooklyn.
February 12: Maria Walker
Maria Walker grounds her painting practice in the consideration of wood, canvas, and paint—the basic materials of painting. This approach to the painting object allows for a focused, lively studio practice in which the paintings may grow, reroute, flip, curve, and stand, each pursuing its own specific question, reaching towards life and a better understanding of painting.
Maria Walker received her MFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art and her BA in Visual Art from Brown University, where she also completed a Capstone Project in Poetry. She attended the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture in 2011, and received an Individual Grant from the Belle Foundation for Cultural Development in 2013. Walker has exhibited in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Berlin, Montreal, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Diego, Seattle, and Provincetown. Walker’s work has been published in the Smithsonian Magazine and reviewed as a Critic’s Pick on Artforum.com, as well as in the Brooklyn Rail, New American Paintings, Beautiful Decay, and Two Coats of Paint. Recent exhibitions include Impossible Atmosphere at Sgorbati Projects in New York; this fall Walker will have a solo show of her paintings at Projekt722 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
February 19: Bill Saylor
Bill lives and works in Brooklyn N.Y. and Upper Black Eddy PA. Bill Saylor has exhibited extensively internationally and has been included in sucshows as "LIFE" The Journal Gallery at Venus over Manhattan, "The Peanut Gallery", curated by Joe Bradley, Journal Gallery, Brooklyn NY, Bill Saylor /Josh Smith , Hiromi Yoshi Gallery , Tokyo , Japan. "Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies", Yerba Buena Art Center, San Francisco,CA., and "Contemporary Painters"; curated by Alex Katz, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME. In 2010 he was selected for the Artist in Residence program at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa TX.
March 5: Amy Feldman
Amy Feldman (b.1981) resides in Brooklyn. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Rutgers University. Upcoming exhibitions include the Kunstmuseum Bonn and Arndt Singapore. Recent solo exhibitions include High Sign, Blackston, New York, NY (2014); Gray Area, Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels, Belgium (2014); Stark Types, Anna Elle Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (2013). Recent select group exhibitions include This One’s Optimistic: Pin Cushion, curated by Cary Smith, New Britain Museum of American Art (2014); Perfume, curated by Elena Brugnano, Jan Kaps, Cologne, Germany (2014); The New York Moment, curated by Lorand Hegyi, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, St. Etienne, France (2014); Brian Belott, Paul DeMuro & Amy Feldman, Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France (2014); Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition, The Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (2013). Feldman’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Art in America, Time Out New York, BOMB Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, NY Arts Magazine, Le Quotidien del’Art, The Art Economist, Saatchi Online Magazine, among other publications. She was selected as the Robert Motherwell Fellow at The MacDowell Colony. Feldman received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2013. Shehas also been awarded a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant, and has received fellowships from VCUArts and the Fountainhead Foundation, The Henry Street Settlement at the Abrons Art Center, Yaddo, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago.
March 12: Elizabeth Huey
Elizabeth Huey's paintings and collages reflect a broad spectrum of quandaries surrounding humanity and healing. Luminous pairs exchange intimate caresses while individuals immerse themselves in remedies and recreation. Myriad forces - nature, architecture, and society - impact the minds and perceptions of each protagonist. . Excavating imagery from a diverse array of sources, Huey continually draws from her own photographs as well as her ever- expanding collection of found photos. Born in Virginia, Huey presently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Before earning her MFA from Yale University, Huey obtained a BA in Psychology from George Washington University and studied painting at both the Marchutz School in Aix-en-Provence, France and the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture in New York City. She has been awarded an Artist Research Fellowship from the Smithsonian Institution, a travel fellowship to Italy through Johns Hopkins University, a Terra Foundation of American Art Fellowship and Residency in Giverny, France and most recently, the Alma B.C. Schapiro Artist Residency at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY.
April 2: Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung was born in 1975 in Los Gatos, CA, and lives and works in Chicago. She received her MFA in 2007 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is included in the collections of The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL); and the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL). Recent exhibitions include include the Whitney Biennial 2014 and a solo show, Violet Fogs Azure Snot at Corbett vs. Dempsey (Chicago, IL), Painter, Painter at the Walker Art Center, (Minneapolis, MN); The Program at ReMap4 (Athens, Greece); and Shakti at Brand New Gallery (Milan, Italy). In 2013 she won a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. She teaches part time at The School of the Art Institute's Low Residency MFA program and Yale University.
April 9: Robert Bordo
Robert Bordo (born 1949 in Montreal) has lived in New York since 1972. He is an Associate Professor of Art at The Cooper Union, New York, where he leads the painting program. In 2003, he was a visiting critic for the MFA program at Yale University and the Glasgow School of Art as well as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. In 2007 he was awarded a Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation grant. Since the mid-1980s, Robert Bordo has shown his paintings internationally in numerous one-person exhibitions and collaborated with choreographer Mark Morris in designing the sets and costumes for “Dido and Aeneas” (performed in 1989 in Brussels, in 1998 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and as part of the ‘Mostly Mozart’ Festival at Lincoln Center in 2013.) His most recent one-person exhibition was at Alexander and Bonin, New York, in 2013. He has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and a recipient of Canada Council Art Grants and a grant from the Tesuque Foundation.
April 16: Harriet Korman
Harriet Korman was born in 1947 and studied at Queens College and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Her early exhibitions took place at the Galerie Ricke in Cologne, Lo Guidice Gallery in New York, Claire Copley Gallery in Los Angeles and the Daniel Weinberg Gallery in San Francisco. Her work was featured in the Ten Young Artists- Theodoron Awards at the Guggenheim Museum (1971) and in the Whitney Annual (1972) and Whitney Biennial (1973 and 1995). Further gallery exhibitions took place at the Willard Gallery in New York from the mid 1970s through the late eighties and Korman has had eight solo exhibition at Lennon, Weinberg since 1992. Her work was included in High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-75, an exhibition organized by Katy Siegel and David Reed and circulated by Independent Curators International to museum venues in the United States, Germany and Mexico (2006-2008). In 2007, a curated selection of recent works was shown at PS1 in New York.
Works by Harriet Korman are included in the collections of the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina; Maier Museum, Lynchburg, Virginia; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California and the Blanton Museum in Austin, Texas.
Korman has received grants and awards from the Guggenheim Museum (1971), the National Endowment for the Arts (1974, 1987, 1993), Yaddo Residency (1996), the Edward Albee Foundation (1997), the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2003), the National Academy Museum (2006) of which she is also a member, the Pollock Krasner Foundation (2008) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2013).
Since 1989, Korman has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the Fashion Institute of Technology.