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...

ON ROME CAMPUS, SPRING 2022 & FALL 2022
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...

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 phenomena and giving them significance through...

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

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

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...

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.

MFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University

PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

BFA, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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

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. 

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. 

We deeply mourn the loss of Professor Emeritus of Painting Susan Moore, who passed away on September 29.

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 BaderFund Fellowship; four Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships; a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Mid-Atlantic NEA. Moore’s work is in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; The Pennsylvania Convention Center and the New York Public Library. She had a major retrospective at Denison University in Ohio in 2019, which included 40 years of work and over 60 paintings and drawings.

Mark Shetabi, Associate Professor of Painting and Director of Tyler at Temple Rome, writes, "Susan was a great artist, dear friend, strong colleague, and an insightful and impactful teacher in Tyler’s painting program for many decades. Her presence and fast and wicked sense of humor are fondly remembered. Susan’s large figurative drawings and paintings, with heavily worked surfaces and sumptuous color passages, explored themes of intimacy and distance. Her confident drawing was always a mainstay in her work."

There will be a memorial service on November 13 in Philadelphia. Details to come.
 
MFA, University of California at UC Davis, 1979
BFA, Indiana University, 1977

Selected Awards
Bader Fund Fellowship (2003)

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1989)

Selected Award
Moore, S. (2019). Susan Moore: A Portrait Retrospective 1980-2019. Denison University 
     Artspace, Newark, OH, February 1–March 8, 2019.

Moore, S. (2014). Sub Rosa and Double Persona. Spazio Galleria Aquadro, Rome, Italy,
     May 13–May 26, 2014.

Image credit: Stephanie Price

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