Elizabeth Flood
Elizabeth Flood (b. 1992) lives and works in Beacon, NY and is originally from Virginia. She earned her MFA in Painting from Boston University, her BA in History and Religious Studies from the University of Virginia, and studied at the Mt. Gretna School Of Art. In 2019, Flood was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was an artist-in-residence at the Studios at MASS MoCA. She was awarded two Visual Arts Fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in 2021 and 2022. Flood is the recipient of several grants and awards including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant which helped fund this exhibition, the Real Art Award, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Graduate Fellowship, and the Boston University John Walker Alumni Award. Flood teaches painting at Purchase College.
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Michiko Itatani
Michiko Itatani (b. 1948, Osaka, Japan) is a Chicago-based painter. Itatani studied literature and philosophy in her youth before relocating to the US in the 1970's, where she studied visual art at the School of Art Institute of Chicago. She has shown paintings and installation work in a great range of exhibitions since 1973, and remains active as a prolific artist and professor emeritus at the Painting and Drawing department at the SAIC since 1979. Itatani currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.
Michiko Itatani's work has been shown in more than 100 one-person and group exhibitions locally, nationally, and internationally. The largest of these exhibitions were at Rockford Art Museum, Illinois (1987); Musée du Quebec, Canada, (1988); Chicago Cultural Center (1992); Tokoha Museum, Shizuoka, Japan (1998); Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany(2000); University of Wyoming Art Museum (2022-3), Wrightwood 659, IL (2022-3). Museum and institutional collections include the Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museu D’art Contemporani (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain; Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; and many more.
Itatani has received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Marie Sharp Walsh New York Studio Grant and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship among others. She was selected by the Women’s Caucus for a Lifetime Achievement Award 2020.
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Carolyn Oberst
Carolyn Oberst (b. 1946) is a visual artist whose colorful work is influenced by the different, yet interconnected worlds around her. Whether it is the current, contemporary world, the world she creates for herself in her studio, or her internal world of dreams, intuitions, and memory, these aspects infuse her work. Oberst is an interdisciplinary artist, working across painting, drawing, mixed media, wood relief, and video animation. Currently, Oberst’s focus has returned to the directness of oil paint on canvas. Drawing is an important part of her process, as it provides the foundation from which her image making always begins.
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Jeff Way
Jeff Way (b. 1942) has lived and worked in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City since 1969. After his arrival in New York, Way was featured in the Whitney Museum of American Art at their 1973 Biennial curated by Marcia Tucker, and again the following year in a solo exhibition. Since then, Way’s work has been included in various exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston, TX), the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, NY), the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, PA), as well as other museums and galleries. Way’s works have been added to the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum through a gift by Larry Aldrich, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Way began his Chalk Line Painting series in the late 1960s to explore the use of the grid through pigment and acrylic medium. These paintings are constructed using raw pigment snapped onto the canvas in single lines that layer together to form dimensional shapes. He returns to his use of the grid in his most recent series of paintings, Eccentric Squares. Composed again with his distinctive lines, Way uses intersecting color to create a sequence of bold, de-centered squares. The paintings present an immediate dichotomy between the flatness of the surface and the depth of colors and forms on the constructed grid.
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