June Issue 2001
Tryon Center in Charlotte, NC, Announces Summer Artists-in-Residence
Tryon Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC, has announced the results of its Summer 2001 Artist-In-Residence program. Ten artists from the US and the United Kingdom will be working in Tryon Center's state-of-the art facility through July 30. The three-month residency gives artists the gift of time and space to explore their creative vision. These artists were identified through a nominating/jurying and a curating process. Tryon Center's new local affiliate artists, participating in 18-month studio programs, were also announced. They are Shaun Cassidy, sculptor, Peggy Rivers, painter, and Catherine Uehara, installation artist.
The artists in the Summer, 2001 session
will include:
Steven Andersen of Minneapolis, MN, is a master printmaker, founder
of Vermillion Editions Limited, and is well known as a leading
technical innovator. Many of Vermillion's prints are included
in renowned private and corporate collections and in leading museums
throughout the country. His present studio AKASHA is a fully equipped
facility and is one of the largest and best-appointed professional
print studios in the country.
After studies at Birmingham School of Art in the United Kingdom and Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris and teaching appointments at Stourbridge College of Art and Royal College of Art, painter John Walker of Boston, MA, came to the states under the Harkeness Fellowship in 1989. He has exhibited his work extensively in Europe and in the United States. He will be collaborating with fellow Artist-in-Residence, Steven Anderson.
Armed with an engineering degree from Caius
College, Cambridge, UK, Tim Hunkin, of the UK, apprenticed himself
to an industrial model maker and also drew the cartoon strip,
The Rudiments of Wisdom for 14 years. He has exhibited
at the ICA in London and various other galleries, written for
TV, including a series on the history and technology madness found
around the home and office. He also curates, designs, and builds
exhibits for science museums.
After making art for more than thirty years, Juan Logan, of Chapel
Hill, NC, returned to school at the Maryland Institute College
of Art in Baltimore where he received his MFA. He is a painter,
printmaker, and a sculptor. Logan's artwork has been featured
in over 250 solo and group exhibitions across the country, including
the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the North Carolina
Museum of Art in Raleigh.
Clarence Morgan of Minneapolis, MN, received his MFA degree from the University of Pennsylvania and he teaches studio art at the University of Minnesota. He has had thirty solo exhibitions since 1980 and fellowships to such agencies as Art Matters Inc., Southern Arts Federation, Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship and the Jerome Foundation Travel & Study Grant.
Paul DeMarinis of San Francisco, CA, has been working as a multimedia electronic artist since 1971 and has created numerous performance works, sound and computer installations and interactive electronic inventions. He has performed internationally and his recent public artworks include large-scale interactive installations at Park Tower Hall in Tokyo, at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and Expo 1998 in Lisbon. He will be collaborating with fellow Artist-in-Residence Dr. Randy Tagg.
Dr. Randy Tagg of Denver, CO, is an Associated
Professor at the University of Colorado, Denver in the Physics
Department. He is involved in researching chaotic dynamical systems
and fluid physics. He's also involved in developing methods for
advanced laboratory training for undergraduates.
Brooklyn, NY artist Sara Ching-Yu Sun received her MFA at Massachusetts
College of Art in Interrelated Media in 1998. Her multi-media
work has been displayed both nationally and internationally including
Artists Space in New York, Boston Center for the Arts, Multicultural
Arts Center in Boston and Ostranenie97: International Electronic
Media Forum in Oessau, Germany.
Thomas Thoune was born in California and has lived in Charlotte,
since 1984. He works as a textile designer at Springs Industry
and has been exploring painting and three-dimensional design for
the past fifteen years. He received a North Carolina Arts Council
Visual Arts Fellowship in 1997.
Gustavo Vazquez was born in Guadalajara and grew up in Tijuana, Mexico. He now makes his home in San Francisco, CA. As a filmmaker his work is a personal narrative that relates to his roots. As a guest curator for the Exploratorium, in San Francisco, he created the program Mexico Videoways, a three-month series of contemporary videos from Mexico. In 1993, he was the Festival Director of the 17th annual San Antonio Cine Festival, the longest running Chicano/Latino Film Festival in the US. He is a recipient of the Rockefeller Media Fellowship Award and the Eureka Visual Artist Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation.
The Affiliate Artists are participating
an the 18-month studio program are Shaun Cassidy, Peggy Rivers,
and Catherine Uehara.
Prior to joining the faculty at Winthrop University as an associate
professor
and Sculpture Program coordinator, Shaun Cassidy, now of Rock
Hill, SC, was an assistant professor at the Kansas City Art Institute,
and served on the faculty at Bennington College, VT from 1991
until 1996. He received his MVA at the University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Canada, in 1991. This summer he was an artist in residence
at
The Macdowell Colony, NH. Cassidy has been resident artist at
Franconia Sculpture Park, MN, Djerassi Resident Artist Program,
CA, Bemas Center for Contemporary Art, NE, Watershed Center for
Ceramic Arts, ME, and the Contemporary Arts Center, MA.
Currently from Rock Hill, SC, Peggy Rivers
was born in Reykjavik, Iceland. While attending Humboldt State
University in northern California, she made the decision to pursue
a BA in art and to become a working artist. She also holds an
MA in studio art from Humboldt and an MFA in painting from Columbia
University. She has steadily pursued making art since her undergraduate
years while teaching art and art history on the university and
college level. Her all has encompassed many themes expressed in
distinctive bodies of work and has been figurative as well as
abstract. Currently she is a full-time instructor at Gaston College
in NC. She also directs the Gaston College Gallery and manages
the art slide library
Now of Charlotte, NC, Catherine Uehara was born and raised in
Northern California. She received her BA in 1995 from the University
of California at Davis, and her MFA in 1999 from Hunter College
in New York City. Her work is uneasy with quick categorization.
It encompasses painting, sculpture, photography and installation
She has shown in Charlotte, NC, California and New York.
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