Artists-in-Residence

Katrina Bello: Artist-in-Residence THIRTEEN

(March 21 - May 2, 2019)

Born in Davao City, Philippines, Katrina Bello is a visual artist whose practice is devoted to drawing. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and the Philippines: Rowan University Art Gallery, El Museo Cultural, West Gallery, Trestle Gallery, Neon Heater Gallery, Gallery Aferro, The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster among others. She has been awarded residencies at the Art & History Museums in Maitland, Florida and the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in Eastport, Maine, USA. Bello is the founder and operator of North Willow, an informal artist-run attic exhibition space in Montclair, New Jersey, USA. She lives and works in New Jersey, USA and Metro Manila, Philippines.

Carole D'Inverno: Artist-in-Residence TWELVE

(January 8 - February 16, 2019)

Carole d’Inverno is a self-taught artist. She was born in 1956 and grew up in Italy and Belgium. She moved to the United States in 1979 and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. d’Inverno has had numerous solo and group shows in the United States. Recent solo shows include “Massillon and Ohio,” at the Massillon Museum of Art and History, Massillon, Ohio; “Appalachia: an Abstraction,” at the Western Carolina University Art Center; “A Way of Saying,” at SUNY Rochester Monroe College, Rochester, NY.

d’Inverno is the recipient of "The Art of Ivy Side, National Competition Winner," PENN State Altoona, PA; she has been accepted into the historical Artist Lab at Rokeby Museum, VT, and has been awarded Fellowships and Residencies at the Art and History Museums, Maitland, Florida, the Studios at Key West, La Playa, Summer Lake (OR,)  Willapa Bay AIR, Willapa (WA), the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson (VT), the BAU Institute, Otranto (Italy,) Starry Night, Truth or Consequences (NM,) and the Wassard Elia Center, Ascea, (Italy.)

Her work is in the public collections of the Microsoft Art Collection, Kirkland, WA; Group Health Headquarters, Seattle; Swedish Hospital, Seattle; Seattle University, Seattle; Art and History Museums - Maitland, and in private collections across the US and Europe.

Barbara Marks: Artist-in-Residence ELEVEN

(February 7 - 28, 2018)

A child of the sixties, I fell into graphic design and established my own studio specializing in book design. In 2001, I left that behind to study painting at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts (BFA 2005), and Brooklyn College CUNY (MFA 2008). I’ve been awarded artist residencies in Italy, France, and across the United States and have shown my work throughout the Northeast.

Barbara Marks has been a resident artist at Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fowler Dune Shack (Cape Cod), MIRA (Martignano, Italy), Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (WY), Jentel Foundation (WY), L.A. Summer Residency at Otis College of Art and Design (CA), The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (GA), The Research Studio at Art & History Museums-Maitland (FL), Monson Arts (ME), Edward F. Albee Foundation (NY), and Moulin à Nef (Auvillar, France). She has twice been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. Barbara’s work has been shown at the Cape Cod Museum of Art (MA); Providence Art Club (RI); Painting Center, First Street Gallery, and Atlantic Gallery (NYC); Ground Floor Gallery (Brooklyn), Drawing Rooms (NJ); New Britain Museum of American Art; DaSilva Gallery, Silvermine Arts Center, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, Whitney Center, Serendipity Gallery, The Loft Gallery, Five Points Gallery, and The Chase Family Gallery (CT); McLanahan Gallery at Penn State Altoona (PA); The Affordable Art Fair (NYC); and Artist-Run at Satellite (Miami). Barbara is an artist member of The Painting Center (NY); New York Artists Circle (NY); and a Guild Artist at Silvermine Arts Center, (CT). Her work on paper is represented in the flatfile at Artspace New Haven. She is a Trustee of the Vermont Studio Center and a former board member of Artspace New Haven. Barbara divides her time between Connecticut and NYC.

Nikki Painter: Artist-in-Residence TEN

(February 7 - March 21, 2017)
Nikki Painter has been making drawings for as long as she can remember, and she is most interested in the idea that artmaking is a way to create a new world. She thinks of all the drawings, paintings, and installations she makes as being part of one world -- they are all just fragments of this place, sometimes from different phases of its cycle (like seasons of the year). For the last several years, Painter has been working with more architectural imagery, dealing with themes of construction and destruction, but more recently, she has gotten into plant-sourced imagery, thinking about concepts of growth and renewal.

Elizabeth Condon: Artist-in-Residence NINE

(January 10-31, 2017)
Elisabeth Condon grew up in Los Angeles, down the street from a canyon. This landscape comprises her most vivid recollections, dissolving form in flows of light and color. Visual memory conflates the Asian influenced décor of her childhood home with the canyon, as if plum blossom wallpaper formed the backdrop for its riverbeds and rocks. LA’s glam rock nightclubs, travel to Asia and the Grand Canyon sharpen her desire to paint synthetic landscapes that appear equally fantastic and real. Lately, combining wallpapers and fabrics with pours of paint recreate the ‘dance’ of elements found in Chinese ink painting, replacing calligraphy with stylized plant forms and birds. Condon’s love to travel, strong sense of place and passion for Chinese culture past and present lead her to the intersection of architecture and nature via décor.

Deanna Morse: Artist-in-Residence EIGHT

Over the past thirty-five years, I have been working as a film/video artist, creating experimental and art films and videos, animations, installations, and interactive multimedia pieces. My films are visual poems, often revolving around a character exploring an environment or situation. This art-film-work has been screened in many different and varied venues: on cable, network and public television, in film and animation festivals, museums and schools. My films are represented in many international collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Australian National Film Library. I have also made films for children, including animations for Sesame Street.

Marie Yoho Dorsey: Artist-in-Residence SEVEN

Marie Dorsey works in multiple mediums including printmaking, photography and sculpture. Fascinated by the power of stories and the creation of myth her multidisciplinary practice reflects upon the nature and expectation of narrative as a means to explore ideas.  Dorsey studied at the Sogetsu School of Ikebana in Tokyo, and earned her MFA from the University of South Florida. She practices the of the art of Ikebana, the constant search for a balanced relationship between the sky, the earth and man: a parallel to her own personal, spiritual journey.

Sharon Lee Hart: Artist-in-Residence SIX

Sharon Hart is a DC born visual artist with a practice primarily focused on photography, works on paper, and a developing interest in book arts. She earned her BFA from Maine College of Art and MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hart maintains a studio in South Florida, where she is the Head of the Photography program and an Assistant Professor of Art at Florida Atlantic University.

Serge Marchetta and Masha Ryskin: Artists-in-Residence FIVE

After 18 years of service at Post Canada, Serge Marchetta quit in 1993 and started a new career as a visual artist. Graduating from Université du Québec à Montréal in 1995, Marchetta has participated in over than forty solo and group exhibitions in Montreal, Québec, Europe and United States.
Since 2010, in parallel with his individual practice, he has started to work in collaboration with Masha Ryskin.

Masha Ryskin is a Russian born artist currently based in Rochester, NY and Providence, RI. She received a classical art education in Moscow, Russia, followed by a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of Michigan. She uses a variety of media, including drawing and painting, printmaking, installation, and fibers. Her work is concerned with landscape and its elements as a metaphor for memory, history, and passage of time.
Masha's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She has participated in a number of artist residencies, both in the United States and abroad. She is a recipient of many grants and fellowships, including a Fulbright grant to Norway.

Marydorsey Wanless: Artist-in-Residence FOUR

Marydorsey Wanless is a visual artist and educator living in Topeka, Kansas. She is an Associate Professor Emerita of Photography at Washburn University Art Department, where she has taught sixteen years. She is currently retired and teaching workshops in photography.
Her art work is photo-based, using historical photographic alternative processes. It incorporates personal experiences combined with the photographic processes. She has exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally; and has received many awards, including the grand prize in the SoHo Gallery’s alternative photography show, The Krappy Kamera Exhibit 2009. She has exhibited in over 150 juried shows, in 32 invited group shows, and has had 25 solo shows of her photography.

Elysia Mann: Artist-in-Residence THREE

Elysia Mann is from St. Louis, where she earned her BFA in printmaking.  She later earned her MFA at the University of Tennessee, where she was a graduate teaching associate.  Mann’s work embraces doubt as a way of knowing and redundancy as a performance of doubt.  She has an interdisciplinary approach that includes printmaking, weaving, installation, and poetry. Areas of repeated focus in Mann’s work include language, time, the body, the body politic and repetition.

Leigh Tarentino: Artist-in-Residence TWO

Leigh Tarentino is from Rhode Island. She is an artist who makes paintings, works on paper and digital prints constructed from photographs of the built landscape. She is an Assistant Professor at Brown University.

Josette Urso: Artist-in-Residence ONE

Josette Urso makes paintings, drawings and collages working directly and urgently in response to her immediate environment. For Urso, space is a malleable substance that she delights in manipulating acrobatically in a kind of gymnasium of mark making and image collision all governed by intuitive leaps of scale, color, and a wayward geometry. Her approach involves “moment-to-moment” extrapolation where the contrasts and cross-fertilizations are cumulative, non-linear, free flowing and interpretive. She strives to discover and engage the known as well as the unknown in unforeseen ways.
Urso has shown widely in the United States and abroad in galleries, public institutions, and museums including the New York Public Library, the Drawing Center, and the Bronx Museum for the Arts. She has had numerous grants and residencies including those from the NEA, Basil H. Alkazzi and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation as well as the Camargo Foundation, Ucross and Yaddo.