Being An Artist With Tom Judd – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Nicholas James Harris - a realist painter, and plein air master, can spend months on a single painting. Meticulous by nature, he combines old world painterly practices with contemporary technology, to create masterful paintings with impeccable attention to detail. Spending hours on the banks of the Wissahickon River in Philadelphia, he immerses himself in the subject matter of the landscape. This includes documenting the light and tracking the shadows as they change throughout the day.  It is a slow process that is the antithesis of our modern-day world. He also focuses on architecture, both interior and exterior, with an occasional portrait. In all cases, he takes his observations and artistic practices to a level not often seen anywhere in contemporary painting.

Syd Carpenter, known primarily as a Ceramicist/scluptor,  investigates the intersection of art and gardens, African American history, agriculture ,the land, and the human form. The scope and extraordinary range of her 50 year art career is being celebrated in an unprecedented retrospective that is being exhibited in 3 different museums….Woodmere Art Museum, the Maguire Art Museum at Saint Joseph's University, and the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College.  She is also the recipient of multiple fellowships including United States Artist Fellowship,Anonymous Was A Woman grant, Pew Fellowship and an NEA Fellowship. Carpenter's work is held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[4] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[21] and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

"I appreciate the Rococo for its extravagance and theatricality, as it appeals to my love of kitsch."- STUART NETSKY     

Netsky is a conceptual artist making paintings, mixed media sculptures, prints and other objects. An original voice and artist whose work jumps off the canvas and confronts us with the eclectic absurdity of our image inundated culture. A lover of the theatrical, mixed with his unique version of pop and Romantic master painting. 

His work is made in distinct series, creating a pictorial eclecticism that obscures our ability to make sense of the image, acting as a metaphor for the confusion and shifting dichotomies in social interactions.Digital images speak to our technologically driven world and reflect the temporal paradox in pop culture whereby the past is brought to the present, the present to the past. He digitally appropriates art and historical images with those from film and popular culture, juxtaposed with psychedelic and floral patterns and mixes them all together. His influences include Francois Boucher and Gerhard Richter, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Gene Davis, Bridget Riley, Nicholas Krushenick and Jean-Antoine Watteau, among others - the rococo and abstraction, op art and pop art, anime and realism, and the psychedelic all come together, layered, spliced and distorted, materials that evoke the psychosexual. He views his practice as a drag display operating within the  time he has lived in while embracing nostalgia and romanticism for their tender and universal  sensibilities.

He received a Master of Art in Art Education from Philadelphia College of Art in 1986 and went on to receive a Master of Fine Art in sculpture from Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA in 1990.

Netsky was an Adjunct Professor at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Jefferson University.

He has had solo exhibitions of his work at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Richard Anderson, NYC, Locks Gallery, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, and a retrospective at the Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts. He has also shown in innumerable group shows nationally and internationally. In 1995, he received the Pew Fellowship in the Arts. His work is in the collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Woodmere Art Museum, as well as the Johnson and Johnson Collection and many private collections. 

Donald Camp is a renowned Philadelphia artist and photographer known for his large scale images that explore the dignity and nobility that can be found in the human face.

Camp's unique printing methods are based on early 19th Century non-silver photographic processes. In 1990 Camp began his most acclaimed series, Dust Shaped Hearts. These large photographic monoprints are created with raw earth pigment and casein, and transmit haunting and intimate images of the human face.

He is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Guggenheim and Pew Grants.

His work is included in many important collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art , and the Simon Guggenheim Collection.

Dan Rizzie is an artist of the heart, whose work is playful yet sophisticated and combines a rich variety of medium and textures. His images and subject matter conjure a world of memory and symbols. 

 Born in Poughkeepsie, NY  in 1951,  he grew up in India, Egypt, Jordan and Jamaica. Rizzie lives in Sag Harbor, New York.[1]

Dan  is a painter, printmaker, and collage artist. He attended Hendrix Collegein Conway, Arkansas under the mentorship of Don Marr and Bill Hawes.[2] At Hendrix he received his BFA in 1973.[2] In 2005, Rizzie was awarded Hendrix College's Distinguished Alumnus Award.Rizzie earned a MFA from Southern Methodist University's Meadow's School of Art in Dallas, Texas in 1975.[1][4]

Dan Rizzie is an artist of paradoxical qualities.  His independence is in contrast to his aesthetic conservatism.  And perhaps because of his unwillingness to be either revolutionary in his artistic approach, or as flamboyant in technique as he is patently capable of, his work hasn't been as accurately understood as it deserves to be.  Rizzie's extraordinary knowledge of art history informs his art deeply, but in off-beat, even eccentric ways. One is tempted to suggest that at times absorption in the art of others, subsumes his own passion to express a uniquely individual set of feelings.

Rizzie's art is represented by major galleries across the country and is included in many important collections, including the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and  the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,[4] the Dallas Museum of Art, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and collections at AT&T Corporate Center, Chicago, Illinois, Delta Air Lines, Parrish Art Museum, and the Mayo Clinic.

Sarah McEneaney's art is singular and unique in its focus on the everyday existence of the artist. Living in the middle of the very busy and complicated city of Philadelphia, she has created a lifestyle of almost monastic discipline as an artist. McEneaney is also an activist and community leader including the formation of the Callowhill Neighborhood Association in 2001, and the co-founding of the Reading Viaduct Project in 2003.

She works mostly in egg tempera, and her work is raw and direct, a slow moving autobiographic investigation of the nature of her life, and our life. In that way her paintings are very universal and profound. 

She has shown her work in major galleries and museums for the last 40 years, including an extensive retrospective in 2004 at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the university of Pennsylvania. She is included in major collections including Philadelphia Museum of Art,[2] Mills College Art Museum,[3] the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,[4] Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Woodmere Art Museum  in Philadelphia.

Judith Schaechter:  Stain glass artist that has redefined the scope of contemporary art in both materials and subject matter. She has created a startling body of work, using hi-tech and low tech, if not centuries-old techniques. She has chosen for her subject matter an equally archaic focus that seems to bring the suffering and story telling of ancient religious iconography into the 21st century. Her work can be seen all over the world in major museums and galleries including:  Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Schaechter's Bigtop Flophouse Bedspins appeared in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. She has artwork in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Hermitage Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art,

Gail Ann Dorsey, most famous for being David Bowie's bass player and collaborator, has, with her voice and stage presence, made an art of being a session player with other top bands and artists, bringing her unique sound to a long list of important bands and recordings, including Tears for Fears, The National, Lenny Kravitz, Bryan Ferry, Ani Difranco, to name a few.

She has written, recorded, and performed her own material as well, creating the 2004 lyrical masterwork, "I Used to Be." Originally from West Philadelphia, Dorsey, at the age of 22, moved to London to pursue her musical career, where she was in a musical collaboration with many bands, including her first high-profile job as a guest vocalist in the original lineup of The Charlie Watts Big Band and its 1985 premiere at London's famous West End jazz club. Dorsey went on to become a world-renowned session player, singer, and writer.

Stuart Rome, a world-renowned photographer, has produced one of the most eclectic and compelling bodies of work imaginable. He also established the photography department at Drexel University, exhibited his work in top galleries, and is featured in the collections of many major museums. Moreover, he has published books of his work and has been featured in numerous art publications. In 2015, he received the Simon Guggenheim Foundation Award for his current project, Oculus.

Mahogany L. Browne, poet, writer, and artist, is currently the executive director at Bowery Poetry Club and the artistic director at Urban Word NYC. She is also the author of several books, including children's books, stage plays, articles, and audio recordings. As the founder of Penmanship Books, Browne holds the distinction of being the first-ever poet-in-residence at New York City's Lincoln Center.