AIB MFA in Visual Arts Faculty
Faculty Artwork Gallery
Anthony Apesos
Anthony Apesos is a painter who studied at Vassar College (BA), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Certificate), and the Milton Avery Graduate School of Fine Arts at Bard College (MFA). Selected one-person shows: Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston; F.A.N. Gallery, Philadelphia; More Gallery, Philadelphia; Villanova University Art Gallery; Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco. Selected group shows: Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania; Amos Eno Gallery, New York; Artists' Choice Museum, New York; Philadelphia Sketch Club, Art Alliance, Philadelphia. He was a critic for the New Art Examiner. Apesos was chair of the fine arts department at the Art Institute and was the founding director of the AIB MFA program in Visual Arts. He is currently Professor in the Fine Arts Department at AIB. Awards include Kress Traveling Fellowship from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia; grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts.
Jan Avgikos
Jan Avgikos is an art critic and historian who is based in New York City. She is a Contributing Editor with Artforum International magazine, where she regularly publishes reviews. She is widely published and her writings appear internationally in magazines, museum catalogues, and anthologies of critical writing. Recent and forthcoming texts include a monograph on Katy Grannan (Aperture Books) and essay on Roni Horn for Dia’s ongoing series of collected lectures from the Robert Lehman series. Recent and forthcoming catalogue essays include Lili Dujourie (for the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels) and Matts Leiderstam (for the Magasin in Stockholm). She is a recipient of the Frank Jewett Mather, awarded by the College Art Association for distinction in arts criticism, and was a Mellon Fellow in graduate studies in art history at Columbia University. Ms. Avgikos is an adjunct member of the faculty for the graduate visual arts program at Columbia University and the graduate visual arts program at NYU. She is also a professor at the School for the Visual Arts in Manhattan. In addition, she lectures regularly for the Dia Foundation for contemporary arts and at Sotheby’s in their graduate American Art program.
Hannah Barrett
Hannah Barrett’s paintings gaze back, sometimes with humor, at other times with menace, and even at times with four eyes. Drawing on the techniques of collage and oil painting to fuse and to invent, Barrett creates a detailed world of androgynous characters that are familiar yet unreal. She has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in “Traveling Scholars” in 2006 and has had solo shows at Howard Yezerski Gallery in 2006 and 2007 and Clifford Smith Gallery in 2003. Barrett is a recipient of an Artadia Award in 2007. Hannah Barrett’s art training started at Wellesley College in etching, followed by a diploma in painting from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, continued on a year long fellowship at the School for Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and finished with an MFA from Boston University. She has taught at the Art Institute of Boston since 1999, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston College and the College of Fine Art at Boston University.
Judith Barry
Judith Barry is an artist and writer whose work crosses a number of disciplines: performance, installation, sculpture, architecture, photography and new media. She has exhibited internationally at such venues as the Berlin Biennale, Venice Biennale of Art/Architecture, Sao Paolo Biennale, Nagoya Biennale, Carnegie International, Whitney Biennale, and Australian Biennale, among others. In 2000 she won the Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts, and in 2001 she was awarded "Best Pavilion" at the Cairo Biennale. Public Fantasy, a collection of Barry’s essays, was published by the ICA in London (1991). Recent publications include Projections: mise en abyme (1997) and the catalogue for The Study for the Mirror and Garden in Granada, Spain (2003). She has taught and lectured extensively in the USA, Japan, and Europe. Recent full-time teaching positions include the VAP department at MIT in Boston (2002-2003) and the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany (2003–2004). In 2008, a survey of her work will begin at the Domus Atrium 2 in Salamanca, Spain and tour in Europe. Visit: www.rosamundfelsen.com/barry/index.html
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Deborah Davidson
Deborah received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University in 1992 and her BA from Binghamton University. She currently teaches Visual Books at the Art Institute of Boston and is also part of the core faculty in the MFA program. She is also the curator for the newly formed New Center for Arts and Culture, Boston. She exhibits widely, including solo shows at the William Scott Gallery in Boston and Provincetown, Plum Gallery, Williamstown, Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester, and Tufts University Art Gallery. She showed her work at Montserrat College of Art and at G.A.S.P., Brookline in 2005. She was the featured artist in the 2005 issue of Agni, the BU literary magazine. Deborah's work is in many private and public collections, including Yale University, Wellesley College, Boston Public Library, Museum of Fine Arts, and the Houghton Library, Harvard University. Most recently, Deborah curated an exhibit for the AIB Gallery entitled, Exploding/Exploiting The Book. She will be included in an exhibition at the Danforth Museum in 2007.
Jesseca Ferguson
MFA, Tufts University; BFA, Massachusetts College of Art; AB (magna cum laude), Harvard University. Currently working in 19th Century photographic processes and collage. Work included in solo and group exhibitions in the US, Poland, France, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, the Czech Republic, and England. Public collections holding her work include Bibliothèque nationale de France; Museet fur Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark; Muzeum Historii Fotografii, Krakow, Poland; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Polaroid Collection, Waltham, MA.
In 2006, Ferguson received two grants to support an exhibition of work by seven contemporary Polish pinhole photographers, which she co-curated with fellow Boston-based pinhole photographer and art educator, Walter Crump. Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography is scheduled for January 29–March 4, 2007 in the Main Gallery of The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. A grant from the LEF Foundation will support publication of a bilingual, illustrated catalogue to accompany the exhibition. Funding from Fort Point Arts Community, Inc. will assist in bringing all seven of the Polish artists to Boston for a week of cultural and artistic exchange.
John Kramer
John Kramer is an artist and graphic designer. His first solo show (digital photography) was recently exhibited at HallSpace Gallery (Boston) and DNA Gallery (Provincetown). Previously he has shown monotypes (HallSpace and a traveling exhibition entitled Adversary), video (film/video festivals in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco), and a post-it note installation (ICA, Boston). He currently runs his own design business, John Kramer Design, and has worked extensively in corporate and academic environments as an electronic prepress specialist and trainer. His art and design backgrounds overlap with his interest in the performing arts, for which he has done sets, props, and costumes. He has taught conventional black and white photography and graphic design, and besides AIB's MFA program, is also a member of its BFA faculty in Graphic Design.
Jack Lueders-Booth
Born in 1935, Jack Lueders-Booth left a business career at age 35 to pursue overriding interests in photography. He taught photography at Harvard University from 1970 to 1998, where he received numerous teaching awards. He has since taught at Rhode Island School of Design, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts College of Art, The Art Institute of Boston, and Tufts University. His documentary projects have included Women Prisoners, 1978–1985; The Orange Line (refugees of Boston’s expanding public transportation system), 1985–1987; the Library of Congress Lowell Folklife Project, 1987–1989; American Motorcycling Culture, 1985–present; Inherit the Land (the barrio settlements that surround the landfills that are the municipal dumps of Tijuana, Mexico), 1990–1998, and The Last Corner Store (the end of the neighborhood convenience store), 2000–present. Lueders-Booth’s photographs have been widely exhibited and published, and are included in the collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, the DeCordova Museum, the Fogg Art Museum, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, including awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, the Artists Foundation, the Rowland Foundation, the Polaroid Foundation, the Maine Photographic Workshops, and the Library of Congress. He was Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College and Visiting Artist at Yale University. He and Luis Alberto Urrea were twice nominated for the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize. Lueders-Booth’s photographs of people living in and out of the dumps of Tijuana were published in Inherit the Land in 2005. It was chosen among the 10 best books in American Photo in 2006.
Adam McEwen received his BFA from Oxford University (1984-87) and continued his studies at the California Institute of the Arts (1989-91). Through a broad range of media, the artist explores society's perception of human progress and its realities, as demonstrated in his obituaries of living luminaries and his recent chewing gum-dotted paintings, which refer to desecrated post-war German landscapes. McEwen has had solo exhibitions at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, Galerie Art: Concept, Paris and Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco. His work was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and is held in the permanent collections of the Solomon M. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum and the Arts Council of Great Britain. McEwen has also curated the recent exhibitions: Beneath the Underdog, (with Nate Lowman) Gagosian Gallery, New York (2007), Interstate, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery (2005), and Power, Corruption and Lies, (with Neville Wakefield) Roth Horowitz, New York, (2004).
Carrie Moyer
Carrie Moyer is a New York-based painter. Her work has been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally, including such venues as PS1/Institute on Contemporary Art, the Palm Beach ICA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Weatherspoon, Cooper-Hewitt and Tang Museums, Shedhalle (Zurich), Le Magasin (Grenoble) and the Project Centre (Dublin), among others. Moyer was also the founder of the public art project, Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!). Between 1991–2004, DAM!’s culture-jamming campaigns dissected mainstream visual culture by inserting lesbian images into recognizably commercial contexts. Moyer’s work has been reviewed in such publications as Art in America, Art Forum, Flash Art, Contemporary and The New York Times. She has received funding from Pennies From Heaven, Creative Capital, the New York Council on the Arts, Franklin Furnace and the Peter Norton Family Foundation. Moyer received her BFA from Pratt Institute and MFA from Bard College. She currently teaches at Yale, Rutgers University, and Pratt Institute.
Michael Newman
Michael Newman is Associate Professor in Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He holds degrees in Literature and Art History, and a doctorate in Philosophy from the Katholeike Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He has written extensively on contemporary art, including essays on James Coleman, Jeff Wall, Alfred Jensen, Hanne Darboven and Joëlle Tuerlinckx. He has curated several exhibitions, including Tacita Dean at the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (2000), on whom his essays have been published by Tate Britain (2001) and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2003). His book Richard Prince: Untitled (couple) (Afterall and MIT) was published in 2006 and his monograph Jeff Wall: Works and Writings (Poligrafia) will be published in June 2007. He is co-editor of Re-Writing Conceptual Art (London, Reaktion Books, 1999). In philosophy he has published essays on Kant, Nietzsche, Derrida, Levinas, and Blanchot, and is currently writing a book on the trace.
Tim Norris
Tim is a lecturer, writer, theorist, and multi-media performance artist. A PhD candidate at Birmingham University, England, Norris received a MA in Aesthetics and Art Theory, from Middlesex University, England, a MSM in Arts Administration from Lesley University. Norris recently recorded the sound work, Falling Ships. He has presented The Acoustics of War at the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association, in 2003, and The Ghosts of Communication and The History of Static at the Philosophy/Interpretation/Culture Conference, Binghamton University, NY, in 2003. His recent projects include Strangers on a Train, Hegel and Hitchcock, presented at the eleventh Performance Studies International Conference, at Brown University, 2005.
Oscar Palacio
Oscar Palacio is a Columbian-born, Boston-based photographer. He received his MFA in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art + Design in 1998 and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami in 1992. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, and the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover. His work has been exhibited at Smith College Museum of Art, Julie Saul Gallery, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, Howard Yezerski Gallery and Elias Fine Art among others. His work has been reviewed in publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, Tema Celeste, ArtNexus and Art on Paper. In 2004 and 2005, he was Edward E. Elson artist–in–residence at the Addison Gallery of American Art where he had his first solo museum exhibition, Unfamiliar Territory, in the fall of 2005. He is an adjunct professor in Studio Foundations at the Massachusetts College of Art + Design. Recent exhibitions include History Re-visited at the Mills Gallery in Boston. In August 2008, he will be artist-in-residence at Light Work, Syracuse University. For more information, visit: http://www.oscarpalacio.net
Constanze Ruhm
Constanze Ruhm is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna and Berlin. Her films and installations have been exhibited internationally at the Busan Biennale, Korea, 3rd Berlin Biennale, and the Venice Biennale among many other venues. In 2004, she had a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle, Bern. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Museo de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Engholm Gallery and Generali Foundation, Vienna; and 57 Berlinale, Berlin. She has also curated a number of exhibitions and film screening programs for Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; Secession Vienna; Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany to mention just a few. She has been a Professor for Film and Video at Merz Academy Stuttgart and currently is Professor for Art and Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. To see her work, visit her web site: www.constanzeruhm.net
Sunanda K. Sanyal
Originally from India, Sunanda K. Sanyal is an art historian with a MFA in Visual Arts from UCSD, a MFA in Art History from Ohio University and a PhD in Art History from Emory University. He has been teaching at the Art Institute of Boston since 1999, and has chaired panels on contemporary artists of color at various conferences, including the College Art Association, the African Studies Association, and the Arts Council of the African Studies Association. Sanyal’s recent publications include: Teaching Art History at an Art School: Far behind the 'Frontline'? (forthcoming in a collection of essays) Spectacle of Simulacra: Reinventing Tradition in a Religio-Cultural Festival (documentary film in progress) Kabiito Richard’s Paintings: A Local Reinvention in a Global Perspective (African Arts Summer 2004); The Local and Beyond: Francis Nnaggenda’s Sculptural Innovations (NKA Spring/Summer 2003); Transgressing Borders, Shaping an Art History: Rose Kirumira and Makerere’s Legacy (In Tobias Doering, ed. African Art, Visual Culture and the Museum: Sights/Sites of Creativity and Conflict); and Art Training in Kenya and Tanzania (In Jean Loup Pivin and N’Gone Fall, eds. An Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century).
Julia Scher (on leave SP/08)
Julia Scher is a video, photo, and installation artist who often works with surveillance. Surveillance as art began for her with an investigation into the sets, sounds, and systems of the image of closed circuit television. She began to include cameras with the paintings in pieces such as Hardly Feel It Going In, 1985. She began to conceptualize this as landscape under control: dangerous and seductive. Increasingly, she saw surveillance as implanted in social space. The “eyes” of camera systems demand space and their inhabitants “open up” for electronic observation and consumption. Scher reminds us of the fact that we are often unaware of the dangers constituted by the increasingly omnipresent surveillance systems, constantly monitoring us in the public space and in our private rooms. Security By Julia, started in 1988, combines interactive surveillance apparatuses with fake guards, where ordinary people play the role of artist-on-alert. Her work has been widely exhibited in Europe, Asia and North America. Her books include Tell Me When You’re Ready, PFM Publishers, 2002 and Julia Scher: Always There, Lukas and Sternberg Publishers, 2002. For more information, visit her online profile through MIT's Visual Arts Program.
Laurel Sparks
Laurel Sparks is a Boston-based painter who received her MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Art at Bard College (’04) and BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University (’95). Her recent painting awards include an SMFA Alumni Traveling Scholarship, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, an Elaine de Kooning Fellowship and a Boston Cultural Council Grant. She is represented by Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include the DeCordova, Museum, Lincoln MA; Hessel Museum at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. She has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Massachusetts College of Art, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA; and the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley College MFA Program.
Stuart Steck
During the past decade, Stuart Steck has worked as both a curator and an academic. Although he was originally trained in the field of decorative arts, his current interests focus on postwar art and critical theory. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the Art Institute of Boston since 1998. In addition to serving on the faculty at AIB, he has held teaching positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, Boston University, and Suffolk University. Most recently, Steck has published essays on Ellsworth Kelly and Sung Ho Kim (forthcoming), with whom he recently collaborated on an architectural project. He has also received research grants from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Pittsburgh Foundation, and the Boston University Humanities Foundation. Steck received his BA in History from Cornell University and his MA and PhD in Art History from Boston University; his dissertation was entitled: Veiling the Subject: Ellsworth Kelly and the Discourses of Modernism. Steck is the producer of the Short Attention Span Digital Video Festival, www.sasdvf.org, and has taught Critical Theory in the MFA Program at AIB for the last four residencies.
Oliver Wasow
Photographer Oliver Wasow was born in Madison Wisconsin in 1960. His work is currently represented by the Kathleen Cullen Gallery in New York City. He has had a number of one person exhibitions, including shows at the Janet Borden Gallery, Tom Solomon Gallery in Los Angeles, The South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art in North Carolina, and Galerie De Poche in Paris, France. His work has also been included in numerous national and international group shows, including such benchmark exhibitions as Image World at the Whitney Museum of Art in NYC, and The Photography of Invention at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. His photographs are included in a number of private collections and are also represented in various prominent public collections, including The Whitney Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Reviews of his work have been featured in most major art publications, including, among others, Art Forum, ArtNews and The New York Times. He has been the recipient of various grants and awards including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant in 1999 and, in 2000, his second New York State Council on the Arts Grant.
Deb Todd Wheeler
Deb Todd Wheeler is a sculptor, inventor, and media artist. Her work concerns technology as a mediator for human interaction with the environment. The central focus of her work in the past few years has been to examine the role of science in relation to our human lives through a lens that encompasses the nineteenth century and cutting edge robotic technologies. Using the vernacular of the 19th century, a time when art and science were more closely linked, she investigates alternative avenues for power that reflect our growing concern with sustainability today. In her most recent exhibit, Live Experiments in Human Energy Exchange, she experiments with generators and bicycle power to provide electricity, wind, sound, and motion.
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