Meet Our
Painting Faculty
Associate Professor and Program Head of Painting
Painting
Gerard Brown
- Email: gbrown@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9713
- Office: Tyler 210U
Gerard Brown is interested in secrets. His creative and scholarly work, which encompasses studio processes such as painting, drawing, printmaking and other forms, examines the use of writing to camouflage and conceal messages in the public sphere.
As a writer, Brown has contributed essays to Ceramics: Art & Perception, Philadelphia Weekly and Juxtapoz, among other magazines. He is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Visual Art Criticism. He has organized exhibits for the Levy Gallery at Moore College of Art & Design...- Read More
Assistant Professor
Painting
Mark Thomas Gibson
- Email: mark.gibson@temple.edu
- Office: Tyler 300C
- Website: www.markthomasgibson.com
ON LEAVE, FALL 2023 & SPRING 2024
Mark Thomas Gibson is an artist who uses modes of caricature, pop, fantasy and narrative to reflect on current American history. The work most often takes the form of drawing, painting and books.
As a graduate student at Yale University, Gibson was the recipient of the Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Fund Award in 2013. In 2016, Gibson co-curated the exhibition Black Pulp! with William Villalongo, which has traveled from Yale to the International Print Center New York (IPCNY), University of South Florida and...
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Associate Professor of Aesthetics and Critical Studies
Painting, Art History
Philip Glahn, PhD
- Email: phglahn@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9176
- Office: Tyler 300B
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 and new social formations, radio and the public sphere, as well as other topics have appeared in publications including Art Journal, Afterimage, The Brooklyn Rail, Parallax, Panorama and PUBLIC, as well as several anthologies.
His research has been supported by several grants including a Fulbright Fellowship and a Helena Rubinstein Fellowship...
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Professor
Painting
Odili Donald Odita
- Email: ododita@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9176
- Office: Tyler 300A
- Website: www.jackshainman.com/artists/odili-donald-odita
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 installations including Newark Museum (2017); Nasher Museum of Art, Durham (2015); Mural Arts Philadelphia (2016); Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (2015); Savannah College of Art and Design (2012) and the United States Mission to the United Nations, New York (2011).
Odita has had several exhibitions in museums and institutions across the...- Read More
Associate Professor
Painting
Mark Shetabi
- Email: mark.shetabi@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9176
- Office: Tyler 300D
- Website: www.markshetabi.com
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, Iran for five years, returning to the United States on the eve of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The experience of straddling two cultures often in conflict is an enduring subtext of his work.
Shetabi has exhibited in venues such as White Columns in New York; the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.; Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, Aidekman Art...
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Associate Professor
Foundations, Painting, Visual Studies
Samantha Simpson
- Email: samantha.simpson@temple.edu
- Phone: 215-777-9151
- Office: Tyler 230C
- Website: www.samanthasimpson.com
Samantha Simpson makes paintings and drawings that reference cartooning, 14th century woodcuts and the history of modernist painting. Her recent pieces specifically address the uneasy juxtaposition of the everyday and the political.
Simpson’s work has been shown nationally and internationally and has been included in solo and two-person exhibitions at Firecat Projects; Gallery Joe; Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center; Tufts University; the Lawndale Art Center in Houston; Slugfest Printmaking Workshop in Austin, Texas and Gallerie Michael Rasche in Fribourg, Germany. Her art has...
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Associate Professor
Painting
Jessica Vaughn
- Email: jessica.vaughn@temple.edu
- Office: 300D
- Website: www.jessvaughn.com
Jessica Vaughn is an artist whose practice encompasses working with discarded and mass-produced materials and images to create artworks that convey complex histories of place, production and use.
Vaughn has had several exhibitions in museums and institutions, including Working Thought, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (2022); Lost in America, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Nbk) (2021), Berlin, DE; Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art (2018); and Fore Studio Museum in Harlem (2012). In 2021, Vaughn had a...- Read More
Adjunct Professor
Painting
Julia Clift
- Email: Julia.Clift@temple.edu
Julia Clift's paintings reflect on current American culture while imagining new, reconfigured worlds. Her work has been exhibited in numerous locations, including Massey Klein Gallery, Pentimenti Gallery, Gross McCleaf Gallery, University City Arts League, Fleisher Art Memorial, and Arnot Art Museum, and is held in the permanent collection of Wythe Hotel (Brooklyn, NY). A passionate teacher, she has taught art at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Penn State University, West Chester University, and Jefferson University. Julia received her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. She additionally studied under the painter Odd Nerdrum from 2009-2010.
Adjunct Professor
Painting
Anthony Coplan
- Email: anthony.coplan@temple.edu
- Website: www.anthonycoplan.com
Anthony Coplan’s work focuses on process, repetition and reflection through visual anecdotes. His work has been exhibited in The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s Fleet Week exhibition as well as several other institutions.
MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BFA, Montclair State University
Adjunct Professor
Painting, Visual Studies
Jazmyn Crosby
- Email: jazmynmay@gmail.com
- Website: www.jazmyncrosby.com
Jazmyn Crosby works in a wide range of media. Her work explores distances mediated by technology. She engages with the possibilities waiting to be gleaned from everyday discarded objects asking, what can be generated from waste? In addition to making art, she is an organizer, a musician and a founding member of the GRAFT gallery/collective.
MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BFA, The University of New Mexico
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Painting
Carmel Dor
- Email: carmeldor@temple.edu
- Website: http://www.carmeldor.com
Carmel Dor (they/them) is a Philadelphia-based artist, educator, and poet. Through paintings, sculptures, and zines, Dor untangles the quality of time in moments where decisions have no known precedent, and one must build their own framework. How does time grow, shrink, or transform during different stages of change? What are the qualities of memory, futurity, and presence throughout a transition? Their work honors the liminal space where experience informs and reforms the self.
Adjunct Professor
Painting
Kati Gegenheimer
- Email: kati@temple.edu
- Website: www.katigegenheimer.com
Kati Gegenheimer is a Philadelphia-based artist working primarily in painting and drawing. Her paintings serve as an ongoing visual diary exploring ideas around feminism, emotional labor and 'women's work' through symbolism, landscape and language. She has a strong interest in researching decorative and folk arts as they relate to painting, installation, heritage and domestic environments.
MFA Yale University School of Art
BFA Tyler School of Art
Adjunct Professor
Painting
Mary Henderson
- Email: Mary.henderson.0003@temple.edu
Mary Henderson is a Philadelphia-based visual artist who is a member and former co-director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, the Philadelphia site of a nonprofit network of artist-run spaces. Her work has been shown throughout the United States, including the Delaware Contemporary Museum, the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, the Woodmere Museum, Lyons Wier Gallery and Wilding Cran Gallery. She has received grants and fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Joseph Robert Foundation, the Center for Emerging Artists, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and been awarded residencies at Soaring Gardens, the Jentel Foundation and Hambidge Center (Nena Griffith Distinguished Fellow). Her work has been featured in publications including Harper's magazine, L’Espresso (Italy), New American Paintings, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Art in America. Her paintings can be found in collections including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Muskegon Museum of Art and the West Collection. She is represented by Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta.
MFA, University of Pennsylvania
AB, Amherst College
Adjunct Instructor
Foundations, Painting
Alicia Link
- Email: alicia.link@temple.edu
- Website: www.alicia-link.com
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 invisibility of trauma.
MFA, University of Texas at Austin
BFA, Boston University
Adjunct Associate Professor
Foundations, Painting
Sarah Roche
- Email: roches@temple.edu
MFA, University of Pennsylvania
BFA, Moore College of Art & Design
Adjunct Professor
Painting
Maria Stracke
- Email: maria.stracke@temple.edu
- Website: http://www.mariastracke.com
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 Korean shamanistic and folk art traditions, is also an evolving subtext of Maria's practice.
PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BFA, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Adjunct Professor
Painting
Ziui Chen Vance
- Email: ziui.vance@temple.edu
- Website: http://www.ziuichen.com
Ziui Chen Vance is a Chinese-born, Philadelphia-based painter and interdisciplinary artist. Ziui Chen's paintings reflect her growing up in China, particularly the social hierarchy of girls as little women. Her focus is on the aesthetics of play as characterizations of affection and dominance and catapult the representation of Asian women by Asian women within the Asian Diaspora in Western contemporary art.
MFA, University of Michigan, Stamps School of Art and Design
BA, Tsinghua University, Academy of Arts and DesignInstagram: @ziuichen@yahoo.com
Adjunct Professor
Painting
David Walsh
- Email: tua55699@temple.edu
- Website: www.davewalshgallery.com
Dave Walsh makes large-scale paintings that investigate American mythologies of nature in national parks and recreation spaces. He explores how history and culture have informed perceptions of landscape over time in the United States; utilizing fieldwork, research and memory to recreate environments using multiple perspectives.
MFA, Yale School of Art
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Adjunct Associate Professor
Painting, Foundations
Lauren A. Whearty
- Email: whearty@temple.edu
- Website: www.laurenwhearty.com
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 through memory, lived experience, the familiar objects of everyday life, a love of color and the material processes of painting and drawing which bring them all together.
MFA, Ohio State University
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
Professor Emerita
Painting
Marilyn Holsing
- Email: mholsing@temple.edu
- Website: www.marilynholsing.com
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 Institute of Contemporary Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Drawing Center, and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, as well as, galleries in New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer and many online publications, such as, the Huffington Post and the Artblog. Professor Holsing has received two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants, a National Endowment, a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation grant, and recently an Independence Foundation grant.
Professor Emerita
Painting
Margo Margolis
- Email: margom@temple.edu
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 Alexander Gallery, New York, Esso Gallery, New York, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston and included in group exhibitions at the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago Chicago, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, University Museum, Santa Barbara, California, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas Texas. Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Philadelphia Museum, Philadelpia, Zimmerli Archives, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York, General Mills, Minneapolis, MN, Estee Lauder Corporation, New York among other public collections.
Professor Emerita
Painting
Susan Moore
- Website: www.susan-moore.com
We deeply mourn the loss of Professor Emeritus of Painting Susan Moore, who passed away on September 29, 2022.
Susan Moore was a painter whose evolving group of portraits combined painting, photography and collage. Each portrait was painted individually and has a particular presence even as they related to each other, catching a distinct light and texture in their own space. Her works continued to explore the tensions, revelations, intersections and disconnects of individuality and anonymity.
Moore was the recipient of numerous grants including the...
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Professor Emeritus
Painting
Keith Morrison
- Email: keith.morrison@temple.edu
- Website: www.keithmorrison.com
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 Jamaica at the 2001 Venice Biennale.
His works are included in numerous private and public collections, including those of the Cincinnati Art Museum; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Corcoran Gallery of Art; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art, Monterrey, Mexico; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the National Gallery of Art, Jamaica. He has had solo exhibitions in galleries in New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington and San Francisco; and in such museums as the de Young Museum, San Francisco; the University of Delaware Museums; and the Alternative Museum, NYC.
MFA and BFA, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Professor Emerita
Painting
Dona Nelson
- Email: paint@temple.edu
- Website: www.donanelson.com
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 worked at Tyler School of Art and Architecture mentoring hundreds of aspiring artists for more than 30 years, until her retirement in December 2023.
Nelson has had twenty solo exhibitions of her work, primarily in New York City. In 2014, she was included in the Whitney Biennial. In 2018, she had a large survey show of her paintings at the...
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Professor Emeritus
Painting
Charles Schmidt
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
Professor Emeritus
Painting
Stanley Whitney
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 colors into grids that fill the canvas. He likens his process to the call and response flow of traditional African-American music, explaining: “I start at the top and work down. That gets into call and response. One color calls forth another. Color dictates the structure, not the other way around.”
MFA, Yale University
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute