BCCDHHHJKNPPRSSW: Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition

BCCDHHHJKNPPRSSW, an exhibition of works by 16 artists on the Visual Arts faculty at Columbia University.

Included are works by four eminent artists who have joined the Columbia full-time faculty this year: Stuart Diamond, Judy Pfaff, Reeva Potoff and Archie Rand. Mr. Diamond is represented by "Progress Is a Better Flush," a painting in egg tempera and oil, Ms. Pfaff by a large sculpture and Ms. Potoff by an installation employing 12-foot-long branches and flourescent lights. Mr. Rand's "Sandy Town," an acrylic on canvas, will be on view.

Also on display are watercolor and casein paintings by Elena Sisto, oils by Michael Board, David Chow, Allan Hacklin, Luise Kaish and Elke Solomon, sculpture by Pier Consagra and Tony Harrison, and assemblages by Bill Norton. Don Hazlitt and Suzanne Joelson are represented by works using wood with other materials, and Suzy Winkler with a charcoal and gouache on paper.

The first group show of the faculty to be held at Columbia, it "celebrates an enlarged commitment by the University to the visual arts," said Allan Hacklin, chairman of the division. A new emphasis on instruction in visual arts for undergraduates is part of the new focus.

"This is a truly contemporary show," said Professor Hacklin. "The work, which ranges from installation to depictive painting, reflects in the best way what is occurring today in the art world."

Following is information about the Columbia faculty artists:

Michael Board, adjunct assistant professor, has exhibited his paintings and drawings in solo shows in Houston, Dallas, and Syracuse and at the University of Wisconsin, Marshfield, and in group shows, including three in his native England. He holds the B.A. from West Surrey College of Art and Design (England) and the M. F.A. from Syracuse University. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Jackson Pollock/Lee Krasner Foundation, the Core Fellowship of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Ford Foundation.

David Chow, adjunct assistant professor, has had a one-person exhibition of his paintings at the Amy Lipton Gallery in New York in 1991 and has shown in group exhibitions in New York city and in California in Los Angeles, Newport Beach and Valencia. He holds two degrees from the California Institute of the Arts, the B. F. A. and the M.F.A., and did graduate work in art history at Columbia. In 1980 he was a teaching assistant to Stephan Von Huene (guest of Berliner Kunstler program DAAD). He is a native of Hong Kong.

Pier Consagra, adjunct assistant professor, has had one-person shows of his sculpture and paintings in New York at the Barbara Toll Fine Arts Gallery (another will be in 1993) and the Wolff Gallery and at the Smith College Art Museum in Northampton, Mass. His work has been included in groups shows in New York, at the Cummings Art Center of Connecticut College, at the Rhode Island School of Design, and in Italy in Torino and Rome. A native of Rome, he attended the Rhode Island School of Design and earned the B.A. from Brown University. He has received NEA and New York Foundation for the Arts grants.

Stuart Diamond, adjunct associate professor, has had numerous solo exhibitions of paintings and drawings at David McKee Gallery in New York, most recently in 1991. He has taken part in many group exhibitions in galleries and museums in and around New York, as well as in shows in Bennington, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus, Richmond, Santa Barbara and in Waterville and Rockport, Maine. He has been represented in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Biennial of Contemporary American Art (1973) and in the New York/Beijing Art Exhibition. He has received Guggenheim, NEA and Yaddo fellowships and a Creative Artist Public Service Program (CAPS) grant. He holds the B.F.A. from Pratt Institute.

Allan Hacklin, professor and chairman, has had many solo exhibitions in Houston and others in Dallas, New York, Cleveland and in major cities in Germany. His paintings have been included in numerous group shows in Houston and New York, including two at the Whitney Museum, and abroad in Canada, France, Italy and Germany. He joined Columbia as chairman and professor in 1989 after seven years as director of the Glassell School of Art in Houston. He taught at California Institute of the Arts for seven years (1970-77). He has received three NEA fellowships and a Yaddo fellowship. A native New Yorker, he earned the B.F.A. at Pratt.

Tony Harrison, senior lecturer, is a painter and printmaker whose work extends to three dimensional pieces. English-born, he has shown in London at St. George's, Picadilly, and Kaplan Galleries. since emigrating to the United States in the 1960's, he has exhibited in New York at the Soho Center for the Visual Arts and at the Bertha Schaeffer Gallery. His work is in the permanent collections of museums in London, Tubingen, Germany, Dallas, Houston and New York (Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum and New York University.) He has received NEA fellowships and New Jersey State Council on the Arts and CAPS grants. He studied in London at the Chelsea School of Art and Central School of the Arts.

Don Hazlitt, adjunct assistant professor, was born and educated in California (B.A., Sonoma State College, M.A., California State University, Sacramento) and has taught at Columbia for more than 10 years. Among many solo exhibitions are, in New York, four at the Rosa Esman Gallery and two at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery, and, abroad, at the Halle Sud in Geneva, and the Musee de Toulon in France, as well as in numerous group exhibitions, including the 1975 Whitney Biennial. His work is in the Yale University Art Gallery, the Oakland Art Museum, the University Art Museum at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Vogel Collection of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Suzanne Joelson, adjunct assistant professor, has had solo exhibitions in New York at White Columns (1990) and Wolff Gallery (1988, 1986) as well as in Barcelona and Philadelphia and has participated in many group shows. She studied at Bennington College (B.A. 1973) and has taught in New York at the School of visual Arts, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Glassell School of Art in Houston and the University of Tennessee. She has designed costumes and lighting for dance and theater. She has written for various publications, including. Arts magazine and Bomb magazine. She is a guest editor of the fall issue of Tema Celeste.

Luise Kaish, professor, has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 1980 and was division chairman until 1986. Among solo shows are those at the Fine Arts Center at the University of Arkansas (1990), the Stampfli Gallery, New York (1988, 1984, 1981, 1968), the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, and the Jewish Museum in New York. She has received sculpture commissions from the Jewish Museum in New York, Continental Grain Company and Container Corporation of America, and others. Her work is in the collections of the National Museum of American Art in Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Minnesota Museum of Art, and the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. She holds the B.F.A. and M.F. A. from Syracuse University. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a Rome Prize Fellow. The recipient of the 1989 Arentz Pioneer Medal, she has served as a trustee of the American Academy in Rome and the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial of the National Park Service.

Bill Norton, adjunct assistant professor, has had a solo exhibition at Harm Bouckaert Gallery in New York and group exhibitions at the Soho Center for Visual Arts (1987), P.S. 1 (1979) and the Allentown Art Museum. His work is represented in private and corporate collections. He had a Pyramid Club performance in 1982. He holds the B.F.A. from the University of Texas, Austin, and has taught at Columbia for eight years.

Judy Pfaff, professor, sculptor, has annually exhibited her work in solo shows in cities around the country and in numerous group shows. Recent solo shows have included exhibitions at Max Protetch, Holly Solomon and John Weber Galleries in New York, the National Museum of Women in Arts in Washington, D.C., the St. Louis Art Museum, the Dana Art Center of Loyola University in New Orleans and the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. She was included in the 1975, 1981 and 1987 Whitney Biennials. Born in London, she holds the B.F.A. from Washington University and the M.F.A. from Yale University. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. She has received NEA and Guggenheim fellowships and a CAPS grant.

Reeva Potoff, associate professor, has had solo exhibitions of her sculpture and installations in New York at the Museum of Modern Art and the Louis Meisel Gallery and has shown her work at the Art Museum, Princeton University; the Snug Harbor Sculpture Festival, Staten Island; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn.; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and elsewhere. A graduate of Pratt (B.F.A.) and Yale University (M.F.A.), she has taught as adjunct professor at Columbia since 1989. She has received NEA, Rome Prize, Yaddo and Macdowell Colony fellowships and CAPS grants.

Archie Rand, professor, has had more than 30 solo exhibitions of his drawings, paintings and sculptures in galleries in major cities nationwide and will exhibit his works in 1993 at the Jewish Museum in New York. Other New York shows over the past 23 years have been at Pratt and at Tibor de Nagy, H.F. Manes, Phyllis Kind, Cone Editions and Scott Hanson galleries and Exit Art. He has exhibited in nearly a hundred group shows in New York and in other maior cities across the country, as well as in cities abroad from Paris to Tel Aviv. His work is in numerous public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Jewish Museum. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the NEA and the Engelhard Award.

Elena Sisto, adjunct assistant professor, has had solo exhibitions in New York at the Damon Brandt Gallery (1990) and Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery (1986, 1984) and has appeared in group shows at Leo Castelli Gallery (Greene Street) and at Germans Van Eck (1991), which represents her and where she will have a solo show this fall. She also had a solo show at the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts at Ohio State University and has been in group shows at the Winston Gallery in Washington and the Newark Museum, among others. She earned the B.A. at Brown University and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the New York studio School, where she has also taught.

Elke Solomon, adjunct assistant professor, holds the B.A. and M.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has served as lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of chicago, the Feminist Art Institute, the Parsons School of Design, City College of New York, and Princeton University. As a curator for the Whitney Museum, she helped organize the 1975 Biennial and Contemporary Drawings 1963-73, Louis Lozowick, among other exhibitions. Solo exhibitions of her paintings and drawings have been at the A.I.R. Gallery, New York; William Paterson College, and the University of Vermont. She has appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including Marian Goodman, Barbara Gladstone and the Portland Center for the Visual Arts. Her work is in the Brooklyn Museum, Weatherspoon Art Gallery at the University of North Carolina and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. She has received NEA and Brandywine Workshop fellowships and a CAPS grant.

Suzy Winkler, adjunct assistant professor, holds the B.F.A. from Kansas City Art Institute and the M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art. She has taught at Kansas City Art Institute and the Glassell School of Art. Her solo exhibitions include Queensboro Community College and Galveston Art Center, and she has been represented in group exhibitions at the Print Club, Philadelphia; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Occidental College, Los Angeles.