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ArtistAndrea Belag

Public Reading/Slide Talk Date: 11/14/2008

Andrea Belag is an abstract painter who lives and works in New York. Her work has been shown at Bill Maynes, and in 2007 at Mike Weiss. Her work is in the collections of the Newark Museum, The New Jersey State Museum, The Mead Museum at Amherst College, and the Jersey City Museum, among others. She has been included in group shows The Continuous Mark: 40 Years of the New York Studio School at the NY Studio School and Women and Geometric Abstraction at Pratt. Her awards include a Guggenheim grant, and several fellowships at Yaddo residency. Belag describes her work as follows:

"Slowly, I begin to put paint on canvas. I follow the light and look for a previously undisclosed structure. Painted marks become forms in space and colors create a chord. I am tracking something I have not seen before. The painting stays open until the end. When it's finished it is always a surprise. If not, I start over."

Andrea Belag at Bill Maynes
Art in America, Dec, 1998, by Stephen Westfall

Andrea Belag: New Paintings
Brooklyn Rail, Apr, 2007, by Craig Olsen

NARI WARD

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist, 08/12/2008

Nari Ward (b. Jamaica, 1963) received a BA from Hunter College in 1991 and an MFA from Brooklyn College 1992. Exhibitions include two Whitney Biennials, Venice Biennale, and Documenta XI. Ward has also received commissions from the United Nations, and the World Health Organization, and has collaborated with Ralph Lemon, Bill T. Jones and Toni Morrison. Grants include American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts,New York Foundation for the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim and Pollock Krasner Foundations. Ward currently lives in New York, and teaches at Hunter College.

LEONARDO DREW

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist

(b. 1969), BFA Cooper Union in 1985. Drew has shown in institutions such as the Hirschhorn, the Smithsonian, the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, Art Institute of Chicago, Miami Art Museum, and St. Louis Art Museum. He has also collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has participated in artist residencies at ArtPace, San Antonio, The Studio Museum of Harlem, and the Vermont Studio Center, in the spring of 1990. He divides his time between New York and Texas.