Alex Katz

Alex Katz is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation, most often associated with the Pop Art movement. Katz began exhibiting his work more than fifty years ago, and since that time has produced an impressively large body of work, including paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints. Katz has established himself as a preeminent painter of modern life, whose portraits and landscapes bear a flattened surface and economy of line, combining aspects of both abstraction and representation.

Julia Jacquette

Julia Jacquette is an American artist based in New York City and Amsterdam. Her work has been shown extensively at galleries and museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; The Museum of Fine Arts Boston; and The RISD Museum, Providence Rhode Island; among other institutions. Jacquette’s work was included in the first installment of PS1’s “Greater New York” exhibition, and was the subject of a retrospective at the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs, New York. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Princeton University, and is currently on the faculty at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

Bill Jacobson

Bill Jacobson is an American photographer most known for out of focus photographs. His art is included in many prestigious collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Chad Hunt

Chad Hunt is an award winning documentary photographer. Hunt’s professional career began 1999 when he landed a staff job as a photographer at Richmond, Virginia’s Style Weekly Magazine. In 2004 he moved to New York City. Hunt has made three journeys to Afghanistan as an embedded photographer with the U.S. Military.

David Hilliard

David Hilliard’s rich, saturated color photographs, usually presented as diptychs, triptychs or multi-panel pieces, present narratives that explore a range of themes and situations, from the awkwardness of adolescence to masculinity disarmed.

Rachel Harrison

Rachel Harrison is primarily known for her sculpture and assemblage pieces. Her work often incorporates elements of photography and found objects, sometimes layering abstract forms with industrially manufactured elements. Harrison lives and works in New York City.

Christopher Harris

Christopher Harris Resume

Christopher Harris’s devastatingly beautiful color photographs do not come easily. By means of crudely constructed, hand-made cameras of the artist’s own design in conjunction with the employment of “zone plates” rather than simple pinhole apertures, Harris expertly and lovingly records the landscape near where he resides. The resultant images are imbued with a richness of color and light, in addition to a wholly unique ethereality that is akin to a daydream or the imagination—someplace in the mind. However, the “Palouse Series,” much more than merely a series of pretty pictures, addresses not only Americans’ relationship to their land and its impact on the quality of their lives; the body of work also establishes a wonderful dialogue with the history of American photography in general, and with the tradition of American landscape painting quite specifically. While Harris’s inspiration for this body of work harks back to many of the same aims of American landscape painters of the late 19th century, so do his images manage to access a similar sense of wonder and sublimity. Harris’s photographs intelligently address the important issues of our day, but rather than focusing attention on the negative, the artist chooses to make his point through the depiction of that which he loves—the beauty that yet remains, the beauty that must be preserved.

Karen Gunderson

b. 1943

Karen Gunderson Resume

Karen Gunderson’s black paintings explore luminosity and push the limits of painterly gesture. Working exclusively in black oils, Gunderson focuses the act of painting on the relationship between brushstroke and light. “By using only blacks, I’m forcing the focus onto the brush strokes reflected by the light,” she says. “I paint a form, an image with black paint, and the light makes them visible, like magic.” Gunderson’s highly reflective surfaces cause the paintings to sparkle and shift as the viewer moves about the artwork.

Karen Gunderson was born in Racine, Wisconsin, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Wisconsin State University, Whitewater. She earned both a Master of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, in Painting and Intermedia, respectively. Gunderson has been the subject of numerous one-person shows in the United States, Spain, and Bulgaria. Shen has received numerous honors and awards, most notably a Lorenzo Magnifico Prize in Painting at the 2001 Florence Biennale (Italy), and has been named by noted critic Donald Kuspit as one of the “New Old Masters.”

April Gornik

April Gornik is most known for her paintings of American landscapes. Her realist yet dreamlike compositions embody oppositions and speak to America’s historically conflicted relationship with nature. Gornik is a passionate supporter of environmental causes and has said “I have no problem with people reading an ecological message into my work.”

David Goldes

The work of David Goldes examines historical scientific research and the nature of physical phenomena. His work is included in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Bush Foundation and the McKnight Foundation.