Miriam Angeles Arrey is an artist who engages merged processes of painting and resist dye to explore how memory and material traces intersect over time. Their work links marks made by Earth’s constant shifting on rigid, everyday structures to the…
Shawn Beeks is a teaching artist and entrepreneur making drawings and paintings reflecting his research in crime and psychology. The founder and director of Slapstik Skateboard Art, Shawn is experienced in art logistics, curating, public…
Gerard brown teaches in Foundations and Painting. He also teaches Graduate Seminar in Teaching in Higher Education.
As a writer, Brown has contributed essays to Ceramics: Art & Perception, Philadelphia Weekly and Juxtapoz…
Ziui Chen Vance integrates motion tracking, virtual materiality, and visual narratives into screen-based immersive environments that expand the boundaries of digital craft and experience. Working across emerging media and extended reality, she…
Jazmyn Crosby is an interdisciplinary artist whose work investigates communication, technology and ecological resilience.
Born and raised in New Mexico, Jazmyn lives in Philadelphia where she received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art and…
Kati Gegenheimer was born in Bucks County, PA, in 1984 and lives and works in Philadelphia, where she is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She received an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University…
Professor of Aesthetics and Critical Studies and Chair of Art
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Philip Glahn’s research and teaching focus on the histories, theories and practices of art as technology, labor and activism.
His writings on the legacies of avant-garde strategies, the politics of drawing, digital media…
Simona Josan is an immigrant artist whose research interests concern ideas of displacement and memory.
Her work often deals with the creation and fetishism of objects that are stand-ins for past experiences and function as material storytelling…
Tyler Kline is an educator, artist, and curator living in Philadelphia. Kline creates in a multidisciplinary mode, structuring work that conceptually braids and blends notions of emergence, somatics, affect theory, generative media, and techniques…
Alicia Link’s work offers a type of expanded painting that manifests itself across disciplines.
Using fantasy and humor to explore the relationship between loss, love and the body, she often lingers in a space that draws attention to the…
Stephanie Manzi is a painter and educator who studies ecology through color, pattern and material. She received her MFA at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2022 and her BFA from SUNY Purchase in 2014. Her work has been shown on both…
Samantha Nye is a painter, and video and installation artist currently living in Philadelphia. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in filmmaking and had a solo booth of paintings at the Armory Fair that same year. Her work is in the collections of…
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Odili Donald Odita is an abstract painter exploring color both in the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense.
In recent years, Odita was commissioned to paint several large-scale wall…
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Mark Shetabi is an artist whose work examines a disjointed and subjective overview of history through concurrent bodies of work in painting, sculpture and installation.
Born in New York, as a child he lived in Tehran,…
Maria Stracke is an artist and educator whose material-based investigations in painting, drawing, mixed media and ceramics consider notions of nostalgia, home, place and family. Interrogating constructions of "Asian Americanness," in relation to…
Joni Sullivan is a painter, educator, and writer living in Princeton, NJ. She received her MFA from Boston University and her BHA (Bachelor of Humanities and Arts) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Lauren Whearty is a Philadelphia-based painter, curator and teacher.
She is also a co-director of an artist-run curatorial collective, Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY. Whearty's paintings investigate personal identity…
Professor Holsing’s work has been included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts among others. Her paintings and work on paper have been shown at MIT, the…
Margolis is the recipient of numerous awards including two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, New York State Council on the Arts Grant, Yaddo and Mac Dowell Residency Grants. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at at Brooke…
Keith Anthony Morrison is an artist, art educator, curator, art critic and administrator. His native country of Jamaica awarded him the national title, Commander in the Order of Distinction (CD) and also selected him to represent…
Professor Emerita Dona Nelson is an influential American painter and educator best known for immersive, gestural abstract works employing unorthodox materials, processes and formats to disrupt conventional ideas of painting and viewership. She…
Charles Schmidt has had 26 solo exhibitons of his paintings in America and Europe. His work can be found in over 50 museum and public collections.
MFA, Cranbrook Academy
BFA, Carnegie Mellon University
Drawing influence from a range of sources, including Abstract Expressionism and his African-American heritage, but hewing to none, Stanley Whitney produces abstract paintings focused on color. In inexhaustible variations, Whitney organizes blocks of…