Harriet Gans

Celebration Series - Untitled

1987

Recently graduated from Pasadena’s legendary Art Center College of Design, Tom Baldwin created the series of inkjet prints Japanese Gardens in 1996 on his computer, using then-nascent graphics technology to "paint" his images on the computer screen. Baldwin embraced this technology and its accompanying printing process not just for the speed and ease of their use, but because the artist could achieve the absolute flatness that the principles of modernism preached but ultimately--because of the limitations of their tools--never reached. These colorful, semi-abstracted views of Japanese temple landscapes subtly, but radically redefine picture space. Baldwin shifts fore and backgrounds, giving equal weight to skies and hillsides. Endowing a lowly bush with a vibrant purple or orange might cause it to pop out of proportion, but ultimately lends balance and stability to the work itself, in short, returning the composition to its original, harmonious whole in keeping with the subject matter. these original prints employ a color scheme that seems more reminiscent of 1980s Japanese pop art beer advertisements...

After completing an MA in Political Studies at Queen’s University, focusing on identity politics and immigration, Cossette served in several public policy roles with the federal gove...

Only a Little While, 1980 Chromogenic print, from the portfolio "Vanitas" (1980) 25.7 x 33.1 cm (image); 27.8 x 35.6 cm (paper) Gretchen Garner was born in Minneapolis. In 1973–75, she studied photography at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. After graduating, she worked for some time as a press photographer at the Chicago Daily News. Apart from photography, Garner has also been a curator, writer and teacher – teaching photography and photo history at the Michigan Grand Valley State University and the University of Connecticut. In the 1980s, Garner devoted herself strongly to outdoor photography. The countryside around Chicago inspired her to travel around the USA and Europe for a decade, producing landscape portrayals that include Denmark, Sweden and France. EDUCATION: Photo credit: Bill Jay MFA (photography), School of the Art Institute, Chicago, l975 AB (art history, with general honors), University of Chicago, 1965 ACADEMIC POSITIONS: The Ohio State University, Columbus, 2003-2004-2005-2006-2007 (Visiting Artist and adjunct professor) Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, 1994-1997 (Academic Dean) University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1989-1994 (Professor, Department of Art, 1989-1994; Head, Department of Art, 1989-1992) Grand Valley State University, Michigan, 1987-1989 (Asst. and Associate Professor, School of Communications, Director, Calder Art Gallery) Saint Xavier College, Chicago, 1974-84 (Asst. and Assoc. Professor, Department of Art, Director, SXC Gallery, 1979-81, Chairperson, Department of Art, 1982-84) Columbia College, Chicago, 1978, 1982 (Visiting Instructor: Photographic Criticism, History of Photography) Institute of Design, IIT, Chicago, 1979 (Visiting Instructor: History of Photography) EXHIBITIONS: (one and two-person) Intimate Panoramas, Image House Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Feb-Mar 2001 Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Sept-Oct, 1994 Weir Farm National Historic Site, Wilton CT...

Reisinger was born in Kanjiža, Serbia, into a family of painters and decorators active in Austria-Hungary and the Balkans. Most family members died in the Holocaust, including his father. As a teenager, he became active in the Partisan Pioneer Brigade and, with his mother and stepfather, immigrated to Israel in 1949. Reisinger initially lived in a transit camp and then worked as a house painter in order to earn money from almost any source. In 1950 at age 16, he was accepted as a student—its youngest up to the time—at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, there to 1954. During mandatory service in the Israeli Air Force from 1954, he was the art director of its books and other publications. While there, he attended a class on postage-stamp design taught by Abram Games, who became his mentor and friend. Subsequently, he traveled, studied, and worked in Europe: from 1957 in Brussels and then onto London where, 1964–66, studied stage and three-dimensional design at the Central School of Art and Design, designed posters for Britain's Royal Mail, and worked for other clients while making intermittent visits to Israel. Then in 1966, he returned permanently to Israel and established a studio in Tel Aviv and today in Giv'atayim. His work has been included in numerous international group and one-person exhibitions. A large number of social-, political-, and cultural-theme posters and other graphic design, such as calendars, packaging, and more than 150 logos are superior to much of his fine art. He designed a new logo for El Al airlines (1972), and the 50-meter-long aluminum-cast relief (1978) of a biblical quotation in Hebrew on the exterior of the Yad Vashem, Israel's official museum/memorial to Holocaust victims, in Jerusalem. He has also designed logos for the Tel Aviv Museum of Arts, Tefen Museum of Arts, and Habima Theater (הבימה - התיאטרון הלאומי) and the symbol and posters of the 9th-15th Maccabiah Games (מַכַּבִּיָּה). His widely published self-produced “Again?” poster (1993) features a Nazi swastika (which Reisinger incorrectly made to face left) breaks apart to 5 pointed red Star of soviet union in reference to the possible dreaded repeat of the Holocaust. The influences on his work—itself more widely focused than solely on social and political issues—have come from colorists, Minimalists, Constructivists, and humorists. He claims one of his more significant contributions has been to stretch the visual and communicative possibilities of Hebrew letters through his symbols and logos. Reisinger is one of Israel's most-accomplished graphic designers; the others include Franz Kraus...

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