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...

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 has worked at Tyler School of Art and Architecture since 1991. 

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 Tang Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, which was comprised of thirty large...

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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, 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...

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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, she works with the residue of their existence—nose prints, shed hair, cremains—taking otherwise overlooked materials and...

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...

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

Brooke Lanier uses art to search for patterns and logic in scenes that seem impossibly complex. She creates nuanced, collage-based paintings that explore architectural interjections into the natural environment, particularly areas near water.

MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Dana Lok is a Brooklyn-based artist who works in painting and drawing. Her work imagines speech, knowledge and the passage of time as activities that happen on a stage, not unlike tricks in a magic show.

MFA, Columbia University
BFA, Carnegie Mellon University

Riley Strom is a painter and educator based in Philadelphia. In her painting, she investigates the relationship between image and lived experience by means of figuration and abstraction. She co-directed the artist-run gallery 99 Cent Plus Gallery in Brooklyn, NY from 2013–2016.

MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
BFA, Sarah Lawrence College 

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

Originally from the South, Misha Wyllie is a Philadelphia-based artist and teacher with a commitment to art creating space for dialogue. Her interests include education, language, ecology and theories of representation, appropriation and the politics at work in them. With a background in making objects, she approaches writing and 2D work through sculptural concerns.

MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
BFA, New College of Florida
BFA, School of Visual Arts

We mourn the loss of Richard Cramer who passed away on April 10, 2020. Richard Cramer taught at Tyler School of Art and Architecture from 1966 to 2003. He developed two unique courses during his time at Tyler: Urban Industrial Landscape and Color. Upon his retirement, he established The Richard Cramer Color Award in Painting for which we are most grateful. Read his obituary by his wife, Carol Markel.

Early in his career, Cramer developed a proprietary color mixing system to create thousands of nuanced colors for use in his color-field paintings. This work was shown widely in New York and across the country and at both the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in a one-person exhibition in 1978. After this body of work, Cramer went on to create drawings and paintings in an abstract-figurative style.

MFA and MS, University of Wisconsin
BS, University of Wisconsin
BFA, Layton School of Art

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.

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

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

Chris Riddle is an artist interested in camouflage as a conceptual and pictorial apparatus. Through painting and drawing, Riddle explores how camouflage acts as a stand-in for painting itself: simultaneously and paradoxically covering while revealing underlying meaning and intention. Riddle's paintings often explore ideas surrounding the ubiquitous nature of reproduction and mimicry in the natural world as well as within the artistic process. Photography, found objects, and language play key roles in these investigations of uncovering that which hides in plain sight.

Riddle has...