FACULTY AND VISITING ARTISTS

Director​

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​Kevin Wixted His paintings have appeared nationally and internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions. His shows have been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, ArtNews, The New York Times, Boston Globe, New York Observer, and the Hudson Review among others. . Wixted has been awarded two Pollock-Krasner Grants, a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, an International Fellowship Faculty Grant and Excellence in Teaching awards from Alfred University. His residency awards include the Cite Internationale des Arts Paris, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, MacDowell Colony, and the Patrick Allen Frazier of Hospitalfield Foundation Scotland. His work is represented in public collections including the State Museum of Pennsylvania, Mississippi Museum of Art, Chase Manhattan Bank, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, Noruma Securities, Societe Generale, and Time Warner. He is co-founder of the Alfred/Düsseldorf MFA in Painting Program, and Umbria Contemporary Arts. He is Professor Emeritus of Painting in the School of Art and Design at Alfred University.

www.kevinwixted.net

Painting

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Glenn Goldberg, artist. MFA, Queens College, NY. Awards: Edward Albee Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim Fellowship. Selected shows: Charles Cowles Gallery, NYC; Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL; Knoedler and Co., NYC; Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA; Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA; Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany. Selected collections: Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

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Ro Lohin received a BFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro,

studied at the New York Studio School, and earned an MFA from Parsons School

of Design.  She was Assistant to the Dean and taught drawing at the New York Studio School and has taught painting at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University, Western Carolina University, and the Chautauqua Institution.  She also was owner/director of the influential Lohin Geduld Gallery in New York City.

Lohin’s paintings and drawings have been exhibited internationally.  Her awards include artist residencies at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center and the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris. Lohin divides her time painting in New York, the Hudson Valley, and Yucatan Mexico.

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Stephanie McMahon lives and works in Alfred, NY. McMahon earned an MFA from The University of Texas at Austin and a BFA from The School of Art and Design at Alfred University. She has been included in exhibitions at Drawer, NY; Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL; Northern Illinois Art Museum; Tang Contemporary, Beijing, China; Gravity Gallery, North Adams, MA; and Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY among others. McMahon is recipient of the New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant, Memorial Art Gallery Award of Excellence and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Artist Grant. She recently completed an artist residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Her work has been reviewed and published in Art Maze Magazine, The Boston Globe, Hyperallergic, and New American Paintings Blog and Magazine, among others. McMahon is a Professor of Painting at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University, and co-founder of the Alfred/Dusseldorf MFA program.

www.stephmcmahon.com

Drawing and Painting

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Peter Hristoff  is a visual artist, teacher and curator, born in Istanbul, Turkey, currently living and working in NewYork City and Bethel, CT. Hristoff received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York  and his MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York. He has been exhibiting extensively since 1983 and is a professor of painting and drawing at his alma mater, the School of Visual Arts.
Exhibition venues have included The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Yapi Kredi Cultural Center Istanbul, The Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, The Hammond Museum, Duke House—NYU Graduate Center and Charles Moffett Gallery, New York. Hristoff was awarded a residency at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2015-16, his tenure culminating with rug project involving weavers from Aegean Turkey. His drawing marathons as well as his on-line drawing classes for the School of Visual Arts seamlessly combine his studio and teaching practices. Recent curatorial projects include “Design and Document: The Folly Cove Designers; “Paisley”, an exhibition on the history of the Paisley motif; Ex-Libris: German Bookplates from the early 20th Century and “The Wrong House” a collaboration with Portuguese novelist Goncalo Tavares. Recent lectures/talks have been at The Columbia Presbyterian Education Program, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Islamic Art Department), Alfred University and Columbia University Global Center. His “Arts Abroad” classes for SVA have been located in—over the years—Florence, Rome, Istanbul and Provence.

 

Painting

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 Jutta Haeckel lives and works in Dusseldorf, Germany. She studied at the Hfk Bremen with Katharina Grosse and Karin Kneffel and at the Goldsmith College, London

Her paintings were presented  in several galleries and museums in Europe and the US such as Museum Kunstpalast, Duesseldorf (G)*, Kunsthalle Lingen (G), Mathilden Höhe, Darmstadt (G)*, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (G)*, Museum Baden (G)*, Galerie der Stadt Remscheid(G)*, Kunstverein Hannover (G)*, salondergegenwart, Hamburg (G)*, Kunstverein Recklinghausen (S)*, Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst, Detmold (S), Galerie Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf (S), Hosfelt Gallery, New York (S), Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco (S), Next Level Galerie, Paris (S), Kunstverein Leverkusen (S)* Basedonart Gallery, Düsseldorf (S).

Her works are part of several public collections as Museum Kunstpalast, Duesseldorf. Kunsthalle Recklinhausen. Staedtische Galerie, Bremen. Sammlung Philara, Duesseldorf. Berkley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, CA (USA). Scott Olivet Collection, Orange County, CA (USA).

Ceramics

 

Jason Green received his MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University in 1998 and returned to Alfred in 2009 to live and work. Green was recently hired as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Alfred and teaches classes in Ceramics and Freshman Foundation. He has exhibited and taught mold making and tile making workshops nationally and internationally. Green is interested in exploring the intersections and opportunities found between traditional methods of making and digital design and fabrication technologies. His work has been published in: Electric Kiln Ceramics, Glaze: The Ultimate Ceramic Artists Guide to Glaze and Color, Tile Envy, 500 Tiles and Ceramics Monthly. He has been a collaborator and participant in the Architectural Ceramics Assemblies Workshop sponsored by Boston Valley Terra Cotta in Buffalo, NY. Recently, Green received the Annalorre Dostal Memorial Sculpture Award for his artwork in the NY Southern Tier Biennial.
Instagram: @jas

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Keith White has exhibited at museums, cultural centers, and galleries across the United States and in Germany and his works are in collections across the US.

 

He has served as Director on the Board of the Artist Community Federal Credit Union (NYFA),  and as a Trustee on the Board of The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (Studio School). Recently he joined the Board of the Minerva Durham's Spring Street Studio, where he is a requested drawing instructor.  Keith hasalso taught applications of artificial intelligence methods to data visualization at Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business.

A selected list of Keith's studies and awards includes the following: Primarily a painter, Keith earned a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College, where he studied poetry with Richard Eberhart, who awarded him a citation for distinguished work.  He has a Master of Science from Boston University, where he was the first student to successfullycomplete the probability platform by rewriting the module. He was awarded a post graduate certificate in drawing, painting and sculpturefrom the Studio School.  At the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan he  conducted research under the auspices of the Library of Sacred Geometry.  Keith also studied portraiture with Mikhail Alexandrovich Werboff and has taken classes at the Arts Students League, where his figure drawings were consistently cited for distinction, in addition to the National Academy of Design School, and Julliard extension. 

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Interdisciplinary Arts

 

Emily Lanctot lives and works in Marquette, Michigan. Lanctot is an Artist, Professor, and the Director and Curator of the Northern Michigan University DeVos Art Museum. Her curatorial work focuses on notions of place and the everyday. Lanctot’s multimedia practice employs painting, collage, and performance to examine practices of looking, the everyday, the slipperiness of language, memory, and the archive. As a Contingent Professor at Northern Michigan University’s School of Art and Design, Lanctot teaches courses in art theory, methodology, and the social impact of Art & Design. Lanctot’s work has been featured in solo and group shows in museums and galleries in the U.S. and abroad. She has participated in artist residencies at the ICA in Monte Castello di Vibio and in Dusseldorf, Germany, hosted by Alfred University. 

 

Lanctot earned a BFA in Drawing and Painting from Northern Michigan University and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts. In 2020, she completed Copyright X through Harvard Law School. Lanctot is a Michigan Museum Association board member and has previously served on the Friends of Public Art in Marquette, the Marquette Art Advisory Committee, and the Marquette Public Art Commission, where she helped create policies to support the expansion and longevity of public art. In 2023, Lanctot founded Observation Club to share her observation-based practice with community members. She is the illustrator of the forthcoming book, UP Dream Days, by Breesa Culver

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​Noreen Naughton was born in Schenectady, New York. She studied at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she received a BA in studio art and the MFA in painting. She has done graduate work at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, and post-graduate work at the International School of Art in Umbria, Italy. While attending the University of Hawaiʻi, she was also a professional cellist with the Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra. Noreen has recently retired as Professor Emerita of Art from Kapiʻolani Community College, University of Hawaiʻi, where she taught drawing and painting. She was awarded the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents' Excellence in Teaching Award in 1994.  Currently Noreen is a full-time artist, painting in her studio overlooking Kāneʻohe Bay, Hawai‘i. Noreen has had numerous solo exhibitions in Hawai'i and is represented in local, national and international collections, including the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and the Honolulu Museum of Art. In 2015, with Martica Sawin, Noreen was invited to present a lecture at the New York Studio School, titled: The Art and Teachings of Nicolas Carone, based on her manuscript: The Teachings of Nicolas Carone, Master Artist: Narratives, Critiques, and Conversations From 1969 to 2010. Recently she was Artist-in-Residence at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park in 2016, and in January 2018 had an exhibition at the Koa Gallery, Kapiʻolani Community College, titled: “Nicolas Carone/Noreen Naughton: Sharing the Knowledge”, as part of the Centennial Celebration of Nicolas Carone.

Art History

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Karen Wilkin was educated at Barnard College, NY and Columbia University, NY. She was a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and is a regular contributor to The New Criterion and The Wall Street Journal; contributing editor for Art, The Hudson Review. Publications include monographs on Paul Cezanne, Georges Braque, Giorgio Morandi, Stuart Davis, Anthony Caro and David Smith. Was Contributing Editor for the Stuart Davis Catalogue Raisonne. She is the Atelier Head of Art History at the New York Studio School. Other teaching experience has included the University of Toronto, Canada, and the State University of New York, Purchase. Has organized numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally on modern painters and sculptors, including Stuart Davis, Anthony Caro, David Smith, Hans Hofmann, Milton Avery, Judith Rothschild, and Helen Frankenthaler.

Ceramic Sculpture

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Elsa Sahal received her training at the National School of Fine Arts, Paris in 2000. She is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including the Georges Coulon Prize for Sculpture, awarded by the Institute de France (2013) and the National Manufactory of Sévres (2007-08). She has taught at the National School of ENSAV, Versailles, the School of Decorative Arts of Strasbourg, and Alfred University. Sahal has also shown extensively both nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Art and Design, New York (2013), the National Museum of Women in the arts, Washington DC (2018) the Bonnenfantenmuseum (2016), Maastricht and the Monnaie de Paris (2017), Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris (2021).

Drawing and Painting

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​Stanley Lewis was born in Somerville, New Jersey on October 31, 1941. He graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 1963 with a joint major in music and art.  His painting teacher was John Frazer. He graduated with high distinction. In the summer of 1962, he studied with William Bailey and Bernard Chaet  at the Yale Summer School of Art and Music.
He received a Danforth Fellowship for graduate study and received an MFA from Yale University in 1967. His main teachers there were Leland Bell and Nick Carone.
He began teaching at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1969 in the painting department, working under Wilbur Niewald for 17 years.  He joined the Bowery Gallery in NYC in 1986. 
Stanley taught at Smith College from 1986-1990 and then at American University from 1990-2002 working under department chairman Don Kimes. He retired from AU in 2002.
He has taught summers at the Chautauqua Institution’s School of Art since 1996 and was on the faculty at the New York Studio School until the end of 2011.
In Sept. 2004 he was in a two man show at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. A long-time member of the Bowery Gallery, his most recent shows there were in February, 2005 and March, 2008. He was then represented by Lohin Geduld Gallery and had a one man show there October 13- November 13, 2010. The gallery closed in December of 2011.
From Feb. 17 through April 8, 2007, he had a major retrospective at the Museum in the Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington, DC. There was a smaller version of that show at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, that spring. In 2005, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has been elected to membership in the National Academy.

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Drawing and Painting

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Gene Baldini is a painter, printmaker and educator born at Cherry, Illinois USA 1951. His first formal art training was with the sculptor and Benedictine monk Joseph Heyd at St. Bede Academy in Peru, Illinois. In 1974 he earned a BFA in painting from the University of Illinois. That same year, he was a finalist for the Prix de Rome Prize, being one of the youngest ever applicants to have received that consideration. In 1976 he completed an MFA (full scholarship) with honors from the Hoffberger School of Painting under the direction of Gace Hartigan and Salvatore Scarpitta at The Maryland Institute College of Art. After which, for 5 years Baldini worked part time as a bartender and waiter in Baltimore while maintaining a full-time commitment to painting. In1980, he received a combined grant from America the Beautiful Fund and New York State Council for the Arts to paint at Bear Mountain. In the spring of 1981, he was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to Italy. In 1983 he taught as an adjunct professor at The Kendal School of Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan before transferring permanently to Italy where he continued to teach at various American and European schools in Firenze and Siena. Enjoying the comediè of everyday life he often draws in public spaces such as museums, parks, beaches and so forth collecting potential subject matter. Being a basically old-fashioned approach his drawings however, shun “vedutista logic”, opting instead for illogical superimposition and spontaneity. In turn, the sketchbook work forms a basis for more thematic and conceptual resolutions. Baldini paints in diverse media but for accuracy, flexibility and luminosity prefers water-based material. His work has been exhibited extensively in Europe, U.S. and Asia.

Baldini lives in the hills outside Firenze with his wife Beatrice and their son Ezra.

Painting

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Erika b Hess is a painter, The Artistic Director of Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution, and creator of the art podcast- I Like Your Work.  Hess’s work has been exhibited internationally, including in New York City, Brooklyn, Detroit, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, and London. Hess has been featured in a range of publications and frequently delivers lectures at various colleges and universities, including American University, Wellesley College, Pratt, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, The University of Montana, among others.

 

Hess maintains an active studio practice in Columbus, OH, and keeps a selected inventory of work in Long Island City, NY. She is represented by Contemporary Art Matters in Columbus, OH. Hess received her BFA from Wright State University and her MFA from Boston University.