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Joseph DiGiorgio, Maine Birches, oil on canvas
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Joseph "Joe" DiGiorgio (1930-2000) was a Brooklyn-born landscape painter of Italian ancestry. He studied art at Cooper Union during the 1950's, where he began to develop his distinctive style of painting. Diorgio's first solo show took place at the Michael Walls Gallery in Soho in 1975. | |
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Dorothy Gillespie, Primitive Theme, oil on canvas
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Dorothy Gillespie (1920-2012) was an American sculptor and installation artist from Roanoke, Virginia. She studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art, relocating shortly after to New York City where she participated in the Art Students League and Atelier 17. Gillespie served as Distinguished Professor of Art at Radford College from 1997-1999, as well as being on the Board of Trustees at her alma mater | |
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Elizabeth Murray, Wishing for the Farm, oil on canvas on wood structure
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Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007) was an American sculptor and painter. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1962, and MFA from Mills College in 1964. After having taught at Daeman College for two years, Murray's artwork was exhibited at the 1971 annual exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work is included in the collections of numerous celebrated artistic institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. | |
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Rebecca Purdum, Scarab, oil on panel
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Rebecca Purdum was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho and lives and works in Ripton, Vermont. She earned her BFA from Syracruse University in 1981. Purdum has been a visiting artist at several institutions, including at Middlebury College in 1999, and as an artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College. Her work is featured in the permanent collections of the Fort Worth Art Museum, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, and the Chase Manhattan Bank | |
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Alexis Rockman, Forest for the Trees, oil and acrylic on wood
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Alexis Rockman is an American painter most known for his futuristic landscapes depicting the potential impact of climate change on the natural world. He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1985. Rockman's work has been exhibited both in the United States and abroad since the late 1980's, including at the Brooklyn Museum. He splits his time between New York City and Conneticut. | |
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David Slivka, Untitled, ink on paper
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David Slivka (1914-2010) was one of the last remaining members of the first generation of American Abstract Expressionist artists. Known as both a painter and sculptor, he worked in a variety of mediums, from ink, crayon, and watercolor, to clay, granite, bronze, and wood.
In the early 1960s, Slivka did a series of rapid ink paintings. In the 1970s, he continued this work in ink, creating a series of large, organic, curvilinear abstract paintings. Some are in vivid tones; others in graphic black and white. Several of the pieces from this era were sold to the New York Port Authority and some were destroyed in the Twin Towers bombing on 9/11.
Slivka was born in Chicago and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He spent most of his adult life living and working in Greenwich Village, in New York City, where he met and married his wife Rose, a writer, and the two engaged actively as part of what came to be known as the New York School, along with Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Motherwell, and many others. During the 1950s, he and Rose made their way to the Springs, on the East End of Long Island, joining other abstract expressionists such as Pollock and de Kooning who had migrated from the Village. Slivka’s deep connection to nature and art would fuse with this area for the next sixty years.
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Donna Marxer, Everglades
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Donna Marxer (1934-2018) was a painter working primarily in New York, New York. She served as executive director of Artists Talk on Art and served on the boards of many arts organizations.
A lifelong humanist, Donna was for many years Treasurer of the Secular Humanist Society of New York. "A secular humanist," she said, "is an atheist with good manners”. She served on the SHSNY board alongside her husband, writer and president John Rafferty, whom she married in 1981. An arts activist as well, Donna served as Executive Director of Artists Talk On Art in New York 1997-2003, and on the boards of New York Artists Equity and the Organization of Independent Artists. She was on the board, too, of the Rebecca Kelly Ballet Company.
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