Clayton Merrell has a solo exhibit at NAP Space (New Arts Program) in Kutztown, PA, opening January 27 - March 10. http://www.napconnection.com.

Andrew Johnson exhibits in After, in conjunction with the College Art Association’s (CAA) Annual Conference, at the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, MA, February 3 - March 19, 2006. http://www.bcaonline.org/.

Golan Levin will perform at the Age of Simulation Conference, Linz, Austria, on January 12. He will participate in Software Art at DeCordova Museum, Boston, MA, January 28 - April 16. The opening reception is Friday, January 27, 6-9 pm. His work will also appear at the ARCO Artfair in the exhibition Digital Transit, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain, from February 7 - March 26. Levin was also named one of the Most Innovative Individuals in Science and Technology by the World Technology Network. http://lisa.aec.at/simulation/de/sprecher.php; http://www.decordova.org/decordova/exhibit/2006/softwareart.html; http://www.bundeskanzleramt.at/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4838&Alias=arco_en; http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/nov/1205710.htm.

Kim Beck will participate in Smack Mellon's Site 92, an exhibition of work that responds to the gallery's new home in Brooklyn, NY. The show opens January 21and runs through March 5. More information at smackmellon.org.

Elaine A. King's review of Tara Donavan 's installation entitled Haze, which traveled to Museums of Contemporary Art in San Diego/La Jolla and Cleveland, appeared in the November issue of Sculpture.

Grisha Coleman, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Fellow and recent Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Art, has accepted a two year teaching position with the dance program at the University of Limerick in Ireland.

Philip Pearlstein (A '49) has a solo exhibit, Philip Pearlstein, American Master. Part One: paintings, watercolors and studio objects. at Lehigh University's Zoellner Gallery in Bethlehem, PA, January 25 - April 23. He will lecture there at 4:40pm on February 10 before the opening reception from 6-8pm. His recent solo exhibit at Betty Cuningham was reviewed by Stephen Maine in the January 2006 Art in America. http://www.luag.org/pages/viewfull.cfm?ElementID=195.

Andy Warhol's (A '49) works are included in Photography, Video, Film: Constructing Realities at Pace Wildenstein, 32 E.57th Street, NYC, January 6 - February 4. Warhol exhibits in Hiding in the Light, a group show curated by Neville Wakefield at Mary Boone Gallery, 541 W. 24th Street, January 27 - February 25. His work is also included in a solo exhibit, Warhol's World at Hauser & Wirth London, January 27 - March 11. http://www.pacewildenstein.com;
http://www.maryboonegallery.com/exhibitions/2005-2006/index.html; http://www.hauserwirth.com.

Nancy Hagin (BFA '62) exhibited in Contemporary Still Lifes through December 31 at Stageworks Hudson in Hudson, NY.
http://www.stageworkshudson.org/newsite/Gallery/ Contemporary_Still_Lifes_dec05.htm.

Joyce Kozloff (A '64) joined co-panelists Robbie Conal, Erika Rothenberg, and Paul Zaloom for a discussion on January 6 at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica, CA, following a pre-panel screening of Disarming Images, a multi-channel video projection by Artists Against the War.

James Welling (A '69-'71) has a solo exhibit at Xavier Hufkens in Brussels, Belgium, March 2 through April 8. His work is also included in The Los Angeles Art Scene, 1955-1985 at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, opening March 8 through July 17. http://www.xavierhufkens.com/.

Celia Reisman (BFA '71) is represented by Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia. She is also part-time Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA.
http://www.grossmccleaf.com/artistpages/reismanpage.htm.

Patricia Burson (BFA '71) concluded a two-person show this December at Gallery AA/B (Art Advisory/Boston). http://www.artadvisoryboston.com/exhibitions.htm.

Linsley Lambert (BFA '75) exhibits in Primarily Red, a group show organized by Southern California Women's Caucus for Art at I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, January 7-29. http://www.breweryartwalk.com/directions.html.

Betty Winkler (BFA '76) teaches workshops at the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts in Summit, NY. She has taught at Kala Institute, CA; Manhattan Graphics Center; Montclair State, NJ; SUNY-New Paltz and is the owner and master printer of Yama Prints, NYC. 
http://www.biddingtons.com/content/creativewinkler.html.

Vivian Tsao's (MFA '76) essay The Boy on the Rocking Horse was recently printed on the literary page of the United Daily News, a major Chinese language paper in Taiwan. It explored the art and life of the rediscovered New York painter Eugene Speicher. The article introduced the artist to the Chinese public with four images related to his work.

Christopher Anselmo Priore (BFA '81) had a solo show of paintings at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas, TX.

Brett Reichman's (BFA '82) recent solo exhibit at PPOW was reviewed by Carl Little in the January 2006 Art in America.

Boris Bally (BFA '84) recently received the A&BC/RI Individual Achievement Award for the Visual Arts. http://www.artsandbusinessri.org/programs/encore.asp.

Michael Mangiafico (BFA '85) built a glass studio, FiG Studios: Forms in Glass, with his wife and partner, Joelle Levitt. He designs and creates sculptures and craft work in glass, specializing in glass insects. He's taught torchworking and glassblowing since 1993 and is currently teaching winter session at Brookfield Craft Center in Brookfield, CT. http://www.figstudios.com/.

John Lysak (MFA '88) had a solo exhibit of prints last month at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. http://www.stcloudstate.edu/art/gallery/visitingartists/2005-lasak-johnla.

Kelly Young (BFA '91 Design) exhibits Dancing with Colors, January 3-28 at World Fine Art Gallery, NYC. http://www.kellyyoung.us

Rachel Popowcer (BFA '92) exhibited in Weave, an online exhibit last May through June at Contemporary Albuquerque.com.
http://www.contemporaryalbuquerque.com/exhibits/2005/Popowcer.html.

Mia Brownell (BFA '93) and her partner, Martin Kruck, exhibit in Seven, a group show at Rockland Center for the Arts in West Nyack, NY, January 8 - February 19. http://www.rocklandartcenter.org/exhibits/seven06.html.

Christine Cocca (BFA '93) exhibited together with Deborah Nolan (Canadian) in RIPE: harvesting meaning from motherhood, in July 2005 at Bentara Budaya Yogyakarta in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The show travelled to Bentara Budaya Jakarta in Jakarta, Indonesia in October 2005 and included the work of Mella Jaarsma (Dutch).

Ryan McGinness (BFA '94 Design with Art Minor) has a solo exhibit, Mildly Subversive at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA, February 24 - April 5, 2006. His recent solo exhibits at Deitch Projects and Danziger projects were reviewed by Donald Kuspit in the January 2006 issue of Artforum. http://www.montserrat.edu/galleries/montserrat.shtml.

Lynn Lu (BFA '95) exhibits/performs in the 13th Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF'06), February 12 - 27 in Tokyo, Nagoya, Maebashi, and Nagano, Japan. She also has work included in National Psyche: Pandora Box, February 24 - March 11 at The LAB, San Francisco, with an opening reception on Friday, February 24, 6 - 9 PM.
http://nationalpsyche.blogspot.com/2005/12/pandora-box-dvd-co-collection-wednesdays.html.

Paul Vanouse (MFA '96) exhibited last fall in: Put On Your Blue Genes at Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany; the 26th Annual New Music and Art Festival at Bowling Green University in Ohio; and in X/Y, with Christina Hung (MFA '97) and others at Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD. http://www.blue-genes.de/index_en.html.

Nick Fox-Gieg (BFA '99) will exhibit in Speak/See, a group show with NewTown at Los Angeles' Redcat Theater in 2006.

Krista Connerly's (MFA '00) work has been featured in a range of international venues, including the WOW Women's International Film Festival in Sydney, Australia, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, the New Museum's online art community Rhizome and its Net Art News, The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Michigan, Cultronix, online journal of art and culture and the Next Wave Festival in Melbourne, Australia where it won a BifTek Wink Award. She has also done an interactive learning project for The Andy Warhol Museum and was a member of cyberfeminist group subRosa from 1999 - 2000. http://urbanintimacy.org/krista.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) exhibits in When Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid Body - an Exhibition about Sound, Performance and Sculpture at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, opening January 20. http://www.migrosmuseum.ch/home/.

Jina Valentine (BFA '01) exhibits in Frequency at the Studio Museum in Harlem, November 9 - March 12. She is Assistant Director of the Fleischer Ollman Gallery in Philadlephia.
http://www.studiomuseum.org/pr/frequency_pr.pdf.

Semi Ryu (MFA '02) presented Infinite Cemetery, a virtual reality and generative sound project made in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science, University of Rome, Italy, at the 8th International Conference on Generative Art in Milan, Italy, December 15-17.

Todd Pavlisko (MFA '02) exhibited in Pan/Sonic at Northern Illinois University's Chicago Gallery, November 11- December 17.

Lara Hoke (BFA '03) recently exhibited paintings in a two person show at Madarts Studios, Brooklyn, NY. http://www.offoffoff.com/art/2005/madartists.php.

Naomi Falk (MFA '03) has a solo exhibit at the Macomb Gallery in the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts in Clinton, Michigan, February 20 - March 21, 2006.

Fereshteh Toosi (MFA '04) has updated her website http://www.fereshteh.net.

Mario Marzan (MFA '05) has a solo exhibit at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill's Alcott Gallery, February 6 - March 9, 2006.

Jacob Ciocci (MFA Class of 2005) is exhibiting with Paper Rad in Breaking and Entering: Art and the Video Game at Pace Wildenstein, 545 W. 22nd Street, NYC, December 10, 2005 - January 28, 2006. They are also showing works in The Seed Market at Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery in Los Angeles, December 10 through January 14. Their book, B.J. and da Dogs was reviewed by Wired Magazine (November 2005 issue). Jacob also presents a solo exhibit at Foxy Production’s inaugural opening at its new location, 617 West 27th Street, NYC, January 12 - February 4. http://www.pacewildenstein.com;
http://www.lizabetholiveria.com/press_release.html; http://www.paperrad.org/info/.

William Cravis (MFA class of 2006) exhibits in The Family of Clay: CCACeramics
1950-2005 at the Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts. Dates of the exhibition are January 17- February 6. He was awarded $500 in support from the Graduate Student Assembly Conference Fund to attend the College Art Association 94th Annual Conference in Boston this February.

Takehito Etani (MFA class of 2006) has been at a VCCA (Virginia Center for Creative Arts) residency from December 22 - January 8.

Lauren Adams (MFA class of 2007) is installing a second version of Bread & Bullets in the group show titled Crosscurrents at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design in Charlotte, NC, a continuation of the same show from the NC Museum of Art in Raleigh. The show was reviewed by Ann Millet in the January/February issue of Artpapers. The show opens January 27 and continues through August 6. http://www.mintmuseum.org.

David Tinapple (MFA class of 2007) presents his collaborative piece with Professor Andrew Johnson, When Pulse becomes Pitch, on January 29 in the Tangible Frequencies installation series at Open Space for the Interactive Futures 06 conference, part of the Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival in British Columbia. He was awarded $500 in support of this work from the Graduate Student Assembly Conference Fund. http://cfisrv.finearts.uvic.ca/interactivefutures/;
http://cfisrv.finearts.uvic.ca/interactivefutures/tinapple.html.

David Halsell (MFA class of 2007) was awarded $500 in support from the Graduate Student Assembly Conference Fund to present his work in the Spark Festival, University of Minnesota, School of Music Conference in Minneapolis this February. http://spark.cla.umn.edu/.

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