SUNY New Paltz Printmaking

Rich Gere who works in sculpture, installation and paper has exhibited widely in the United States, Asia and Europe and is represented in numerous private and public collections in the United States and Europe. Gere received his MFA from the University of Tennessee and BFA from the University of Massachusetts. He is currently Professor and Director of Printmaking at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he authored the BFA, MA and MFA programs. Additionally, Gere manages print shops in Atlanta and Savannah GA, and Lacoste, France.

SUNY Printmaker at Dorsky Curatorial Program Alumni Exhibition
Dorsky Curatorial Programs will host an exhibition of SUNY New Paltz alumni Lauren Fensterstock, Dylan McManus and Justin Novak. Fensterstock, McManus and Novak are alumni of graduate programs at the State University of New York at New Paltz. The exhibition is organized by Assistant Professor Anat Shiftan on behalf of the Studio Art Department at the SUNY New Paltz. The three artists exhibiting were selected to represent the college’s programs in Metal, Ceramics and Printmaking. Each draws from the historical context and forms of their field to create messages for a contemporary world, expanding conventional notions of their media.

Victoria Verlichak presents Fotografía Plástic: The Uses of Photography in Latin America

American printmaker Carson Fox originates from the small Southern hometown of William Faulkner, and was named for novelist Carson McCullers. Her work is produced from a heritage of American Southern gothic tradition that relies heavily on the imprint that individual experience has on the artist. Fox received her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and her BFA from University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Working across media, Carson produces prints, installation, and sculpture.

She is represented by Claire Oliver gallery in New York, Linda Warren gallery in Chicago, and has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, with her work being found in the permanent collections of many major museums. Fox has received grants from the New Jersey Council on the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Foundation, the Mid Atlantic Art Foundation, a Willem Emil Cresson Award, and a New Jersey Print and Paper Fellowship at the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper.

Carson Fox works and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her teaching experience includes Harvard University, New York University, Rutgers University, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts before joining the faculty at Adelphi University. Carson Fox has lectured widely on printmaking and sculpture across the United States and abroad.

In an artist statement, Fox writes the following excerpt of her work. “By nature, printmaking lends itself well to the investment of labor, and my current prints support this edict, while stylistically referring to Victorian wood engravings. By scanning original images and extensively retooling them in Photoshop, I create bucolic landscapes of birds, butterflies, and flowers using the tropes of beauty, yet expressing an undercurrent of anxiety in the excesses and the crowding of the compositions. To compound this feeling, I have manipulated a number of these images by piercing them with thousands of holes, suggesting invisible routes made visible, a tangible history of my own industry, while transforming the paper into a lacy map. Other intaglio, screen print, and lithographic prints employ multiple layers of color printing, and were originally inspired in their use of straightforward, declarative text by illustration captions in the moralistic, “Royal Path of Life,” published in 1881.”

Printmaking Alum Dylan McManus recognized for the following international exhibitions:

"Now Art Now Future 2nd International Lithuanian Print Biennial", Solo Exhibition entitled "Let Us Eat Cakes", May 8th - June 8th, Kuanas Print Gallery, Kuanas, Lithuania

"Objetivos Moviles/ Moving Targets", public intervention on Friday February 29th, Proyecto'Ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina

"Experiencing the War in Iraq", March 6 - March 30, Machines and Magnets, Pawtucket RI, and April 5 - May 3 at the Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA

Curator, critic and author, Dr. Jeanette Zwingenberger will present a lecture titled The Human Landscape – the artistic visions of anthropomorphic landscapes as a dialogue between historical and contemporary artworks, exploring embodiment and the interaction between the human body and the natural environment.

Dr. Zwingenberger has organized several related exhibitions including Human-Landscape: Artistic Visions of Anthropomorphic Landscapes; and Transformations – Bodyspaces. Since 1998 she has written for several newspapers including Die Neue Züricher Zeitung, Die Welt and O’Oeil; and was a correspondent for France for ART Das Kunstmagazin. Dr. Zwingenberger’s publications include Hans Holbein the Younger: The Shadow of Death; Vanités; and Egon Schiele among others. She has also contributed to several exhibition catalogues. Dr. Zwingenberger has taught at universities in Europe and Chicago and recently organized the seminar, Bodies: Geography of the World, at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris.

The Art Lecture Series is sponsored by the Student Art Alliance, a funded member of the Student Association.