Painting Faculty

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Painting Faculty

  • 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.

  • 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

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    Associate Professor
    Painting

    Jessica Vaughn

    • Email: jessica.vaughn@temple.edu
    • Office: 300D
    • Website: www.jessvaughn.com

    • ON LEAVE FALL 2024 & SPRING 2025

      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...

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    Adjunct Instructor
    Painting

    Miriam Angeles Arrey

    • Email: miriam.arrey@temple.edu

    • 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 transmission of intergenerational stories and meaning.

      MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture

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  • Adjunct Instructor
    Painting

    Shawn Beeks

    • Email: s.beeks@temple.edu
    • Website: www.slapstikskateboardart.com

    • 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 relations, social media, and mentoring artists of various ages and backgrounds.  

      MFA, University of the Arts
      BFA, University of Georgia
       

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    Associate Professor
    Painting

    Gerard Brown

    • Email: gbrown@temple.edu
    • Phone: 215-850-9997
    • Office: Tyler 300D

    • 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, 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, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, The Philadelphia Art Alliance and other galleries. His drawings have been shown at Gallery Joe...

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  • 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 Design

      Instagram: @ziuichen@yahoo.com

  • 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

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    Associate Professor and Program Head of Painting
    Painting

    Mark Thomas Gibson

    • Email: mark.gibson@temple.edu
    • Office: Tyler 300C
    • Website: www.markthomasgibson.com

    • 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 Wesleyan University. The exhibition was also reviewed by The...

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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

    • ON LEAVE, SPRING 2025

      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...

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  • 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. 

  • Adjunct Professor
    Painting

    Tyler Kline

    • Email: kline.tyler0001@temple.edu
    • Website: https://pinknoiseprojects.com/tyler-kline/

    • 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 from antiquity. Kline is a member of Pink Noise Projects in Philadelphia, and has an exhibition history that includes Flux Factory in Queens, The Painting Center in NYC, the ICA Philadelphia’s Open Video Call, and works featured in New American Paintings (Issue 81).

      MFA, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
      BA and BFA, Anthropology and Sculpture, Portland State University

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor
    Painting

    Stephanie Manzi

    • Email: stephanie.manzi@temple.edu

    • 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 coasts, including Philadelphia, Connecticut, New York and Southern California. She received the Award of Excellence at Conception Arts NYC, Faculty Committee Life Grant from PCA&D, and had work featured in Tinge Magazine and Friend of the Artist. She was a resident at Grand Marais Art Colony, Mount Gretna School of Art and ChaNorth Artist Residency.

  • 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

       

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    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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  • Adjunct Associate Professor
    Painting

     Samantha Nye

    • Email: samantha.nye@temple.edu

    • 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 The Arnhem Museum in the Netherlands and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has had several international large-scale video installations and paintings included in shows in London, Korea, and several cities in The Netherlands, and has had solo shows at Candice Madey Gallery and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

      MFA 2018, Columbia University

       

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    Professor
    Painting

    Odili Donald Odita

    • Email: ododita@temple.edu
    • Phone: 215-777-9176
    • Office: Tyler 300A
    • Website: https://www.davidkordanskygallery.com/artist/odili-donald-odita

    • ON LEAVE, FALL 2024

      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...

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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

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    Associate Professor
    Painting

    Mark Shetabi

    • Email: mark.shetabi@temple.edu
    • Phone: 215-777-9176
    • Office: Tyler 300D
    • Website: www.markshetabi.com

    • ON LEAVE, SPRING 2025

      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.;...

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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 is an artist who makes interactive VR, books and work on paper. She has a long history of painting on paper but is now making immersive interactive painted worlds in VR. Her work asks questions about empathy, artmaking and politics within the frame of a theatrical vision of the natural world.

      Simpson’s work has been shown nationally and internationally, and has been included in solo and two-person exhibitions at  the Rosewood Art Gallery, Firehouse Art Center, Firecat Projects; Gallery Joe; Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center; Tufts University; the Lawndale...

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  • 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 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 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