Moderator: Doug Sheer
Doug Sheer is the only child of two painters who were WPA artists, Artist Union members and Hans Hofmann students in NYC and Provincetown and he grew up in New York's Greenwich Village. He was educated in NYC including Rhodes School where Pop artist Jim Dine was his art teacher and at Rhode Island School of Design.
A painter, he was a pioneering video artist who ran the Egg Store video facility in Tribeca in the 1970s and served fellow video artists including Nam-June Paik, Charlotte Moorman,Twyla Tharp, Bill Viola, Merce Cunningham, Carolee Schneemann and Yoko Ono. Some of his recent paintings can be seen at www.douglasisheer.com and background on his art life and the history of Artists Talk on Art can be viewed on the Woodstock Library YouTube channel in a talk delivered on October 29th, 2022. Just visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXisevryJgQ to watch it.
In 1974 he was a co-founder of Artists Talk on Art, www.atoanyc.org the art world's preeminent forum which has featured 8,500 artists in over 1,000 recorded panels and dialogues. He was board chairman and became chairman emeritus in 2019. He currently serves as its president. The ATOA archive resides at Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution of which Sheer was archivist. https://www.aaa.si.edu/search/collections?edan_q=ATOA
He has shown his abstract paintings widely. He has served as a board member of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and currently serves on its exhibition committee. He is also a member of the education committee of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. He created and ran the Byrdcliffe Forum during the pandemic period and was the producer of its Zoom programs including its ten part "Woodstock Masters" series events (found on the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild channel on YouTube) and curated an exhibit of those artists called "Sense of Place" in August and September of 2022.
Panelist: Shelley Parriott
International artist Shelley Parriott has degrees from The Rhode Island School of Design and Boston University. Her work has been exhibited and commissioned in New York City, throughout the Hudson Valley, New York, and at galleries, museums and various locations in the USA and Europe. She has received numerous honors and awards including a grant from the US Embassy related to “New York Meets Berlin”, an invitational exhibition at The Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, and won “Best in Show” at the Silvermine Guild Art Center’s National Juried Competition, Art of the Northeast, in New Canaan, CT, and The New York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts grants, and a Lorenzo il Magnifico Medallion at the Biennale Internazionale Dell’ Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy. She was recently represented in The Venice Biennale, 2022.
From miniature interior wall pieces to large-scale installations, Parriott’s concept begins with our passage through existence: “existence is the medium through which every aspect of being is transformed.” Overlapping layers of experience translate into sheer sculptural layers that interact with each other, the participant, and the environment.
Panelist: Victoria Palermo
Victoria Palermo has exhibited two- and three-dimensional work in art venues across the country with reviews in national media including Sculpture magazine, the New York Times, and Two Coats of Paint. Solo installations and two-person exhibits include Flomation at Williams College Museum; Nature Park at Kidspace, MASS MoCA; Procrustes at Collarworks, Troy; Flubber at Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Texas; several one-person shows at the former John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY; an early exhibition in Marseille, France and two solo shows at the Courthouse Gallery in Lake George, NY.
Sculpture grounds at The Fields at Art Omi in Ghent NY, Chesterwood in Stockbridge MA, and Salem Art Works in Salem NY have sited Palermo’s outdoor work. Site-specific public works include Up and Down for Albany International Airport, a bus shelter sponsored by MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, and Camp Iris for the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, NY.
She has been a NYSCA/ NYFA fellow (twice), a resident at Yaddo, and has served as a NYFA panelist. She lives and works in Glens Falls, NY and the Adirondack Mountains. Her education includes a BS in Art from Skidmore College and an MFA from Bennington College.
Panelist: Mario Quilles
Mario Quilles has worked as a NYC art director for several organizations and attended the HS of Industrial Arts, The Cooper Union, and Glendale Community College where he studied clay chemistry and hand building before working in raku firing.
He creates clay sculptures by focusing on rolling out clay on rubber mats, as slabs with texture from canal rubs, and then hand builds and controls texture on the outside. With his love of color and airbrush finishes always being reflected in his work, he ends with glazes of airbrush gradations, blending various colors, and works from the inside out with homemade hammers.
Quilles has exhibited at Red Dot Gallery, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Morgan Gallery,
East/West Gallery, and Lever Bros Building Gallery.
