Meet Our
Sculpture Faculty
Associate Professor, Program Head of Sculpture and Director of Graduate Studies
Glass, Sculpture
Sharyn O’Mara
- Email: sharyn.omara@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9128
- Office: Tyler 130J
- Website: www.sharynomara.com
Sharyn O’Mara is an artist and educator whose interdisciplinary works explore the marks of language and the language of marks. Her practice is comprised of drawing, sculpture, glass, printmaking and installation.
O’Mara’s current work involves reflections on empathy and longing while living in a media-possessed culture that so often feels devoid of intimacy and trust. Deeply connected to her dogs, in one body of mixed-media works, she works with the residue of their existence—nose prints, shed hair, cremains—taking otherwise overlooked materials and phenomena and...- Read More
Assistant Professor
Sculpture
C.T. Jasper
- Email: ctom@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9176
- Office: Tyler 130K
ON LEAVE, FALL 2024 & SPRING 2025
C.T. Jasper’s practice comprises various media, concentrating principally on video art, sound, film, sculpture, installation, collage and manipulative interventions within already existing films. These media form a threshold through which Jasper explores the dissonance between imaginary and fragmented cinematic space and the physical experience of architecture, as well as the excavation of history through postcolonial and experimental anthropological lenses.
From 1996 to 2013, he worked under different...- Read More
Professor
Sculpture
Karyn Olivier
- Email: kolivier@temple.edu
- Phone: 918-750-16207
- Website: www.karynolivier.com
KARYN OLIVIER, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, creates sculptures, installations and public art. This year, Olivier is participating in the Whitney Biennial (NY, NY), Prospect.6 Triennial (New Orleans, LA), and the Malta Biennale (Valleta, Malta.) A memorial at historic Stenton House, honoring a formerly enslaved servant, was recently unveiled. In 2025, Olivier will unveil another Philadelphia memorial, commemorating more than 5,000 African Americans buried at Bethel Burying Ground. Last year Olivier presented her second solo show at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. In 2022 Olivier...
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Associate Professor of Instruction and Program Head, Visual Studies
Sculpture, Visual Studies
Andrea Ray, PhD
- Email: andrea.ray0002@temple.edu
- Website: http://www.andrearay.net
Andrea Ray has an interdisciplinary practice that often include sculpture, sound installations, writing, and digital objects. Ray's practice approaches the subjects of kinship, attachment, and care, attempting to repair an alienated subjectivity through what Ray terms expanded affinities. By focusing on the possibility of creating folds in time through affective contact between history and people, Ray conceives of cross-temporal conversations that create new bonds and...
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Adjunct Professor
Sculpture
Nicolo Gentile
- Email: nicolo.gentile@temple.edu
- Website: http://www.nicologentile.com
Nicolo Gentile is a Philadelphia-based artist, writer and fabricator. Composed of leather, latex, iron and steel, his work slips between recognizable materials of kink, industry, and sport to address the oscillating power dynamics of desire, gender, and masculinities.
MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BFA, Pacific Northwest College of Art
Adjunct Professor
Sculpture
Charlotte G. Chin Greene
- Email: charlotte.greene@temple.edu
- Website: http://www.cgcg.online
Charlotte G. Chin Greene (they/them) is an artist and curator based in Philadelphia, PA. Utilizing digital fabrication tools, their research-driven practice studies time, virtuality, machines, modes of sensing and perceiving, and the global flow of raw material.
MFA, Sculpture, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
BA, Art History, Kenyon College
Adjunct Professor
Sculpture
Jacob Hammes
- Email: jacob.christopher.hammes@temple.edu
- Website: http://stopgostop.com/jacobchammes/projects.html
Jacob C. Hammes is an interdisciplinary artist, arts organizer and educator based in Philadelphia. Working primarily in sculpture, drawing and sound, Hammes approaches art as a form of serious play, exploring themes of late capitalist anxieties and how we constitute ourselves as individuals within a backdrop of time/labor precarity.
MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Adjunct Professor
Sculpture
Rachel Hsu
- Email: rachel.hsu@temple.edu
- Website: https://www.rachelhsustudio.com/
Rachel Hsu is an interdisciplinary artist who works with visual art, language, and poetry. Her work has been exhibited nationally, in including in Philadelphia and New York, and her writing has been published in literary magazines including Honey Literary.
Her public sculpture The Weight of Our Living was commissioned by the Association for Public Art and the Parkway Council as the inaugural artwork for the annual arts initiative Art on the Parkway in Philadelphia. Originally from Seattle, WA, she is currently based in Philadelphia.
MFA, Sculpture, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
BFA, Sculpture, Western Washington University.Instagram: @rs_hsu
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Foundations, Sculpture, Glass
Brynn Hurlstone
- Email: Brynn.hurlstone@temple.edu
- Phone: 419-266-3096
- Website: http://www.brynnhurlstone.com
Brynn Hurlstone is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and fabricator who creates consumptive, sensorial objects and environments that invite engagement. She considers trauma and its relationship to precarity, unspeakability, isolation, connection, and release by allowing material reactivity and subjective experience to speak reciprocally through her work.
Hurlstone is the owner of Second Generation Glassworks, the co-founder of the Glass Impact nonprofit coalition, and the former Director of Operations of Public Glass in San Francisco. She has exhibited nationally in group and solo exhibitions, including the prestigious Wind Challenge, Art of the State at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, and the recent national exhibition Through a Glass Darkly at Delaware Contemporary Museum, which was hailed as the “new guard of glassmakers” in Glass Magazine.
MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture 2023
BFA, Bowling Green State University 2008
Laura Carnell Professor Emerita
Sculpture
Winifred Lutz
- Website: www.winifredlutz.com
Winifred Ann Lutz is an American sculptor, fiber artist, and environmental artist known for her site-integrated installations and handmade papermaking. She is recognized as a key innovator in the field of hand papermaking as art form.
Past locations of her installations have included MoMA PS1, the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, OH and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT. Her permanent projects include the Garden for The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh.
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art
BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art
Professor Emerita
Sculpture
Jude Tallichet
- Website: www.judetallichetstudio.com
Jude Tallichet has had six solo exhibitions at Sara Meltzer Gallery, NYC, since 2000. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as the Konsthallen in Gothenburg, Sweden, The Shanghai Biennial in China, The Busan Biennial in Korea, The Tirana Biennial in Albania, the “Officina America” exhibition in Bologna, Italy, and at Periogi Gallery in Liepzig, Germany, among others. She also participated in the inaugural Greater New York Show at PS1 MOMA, the “Treble” exhibition at Sculpture Center, and the “Brooklyn Next” exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
In 1996, Tallichet spent a year in Brazil as a Senior Fullbright Fellow. She has received fellowship grants in sculpture from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She participated in the International Sculpture Biennial in Boras, Sweden in 2016.
Image courtesy of www.judetallichetstudio.com.