Monday March 6th, 2023
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST (Zoom)
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.
David Anselm Turner was born on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico and grew up in the USA and Europe. He earned a BA in Art at Middlebury College where he studied Japanese. He was then awarded a scholarship to study at Kansai University. Here he discovered Japanese theater, film and the dynamic work of Kazuo Shiraga. He then set up a studio in Hong Kong where he earned his living painting murals and designing film and theatre sets.
Turner then went to study painting at the Escola Massana in Barcelona where his interest in the notions of fragility of cultural identity, human relations, immigration and memory took hold. It was also during this time he became interested in the process and perception, using gestural applications and correction of paint. Fascinated with the storytelling potential in film, Turner wrote short scripts and drew storyboards for independent filmmakers and commercial directors. Meanwhile had his first solo exhibition in Paris as well as exhibiting in numerous salons.
Soon after he studied film and theater directing at the Polish National Film School in Łodz. His films have screened at major festivals around the world, including Toronto, Cannes, Venice, New York and Los Angeles. Meanwhile his long obsession with painting and drawing permanently took hold. He has shown work in Barcelona, Paris and Hong Kong. He has won grants from the Kosciuszko Foundation, The French Consulate and he has done a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Turner currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
https://davidanselmturner.com/index.php/paintings/
Heidi Lanino was born in New York City and raised on the south shore of Long Island. As one of four recipients of a full-tuition merit scholarship, Lanino studied drawing and painting at Pratt Institute. For several years she worked as an art director for L’Oréal. She is also a passionate educator of the arts, who understands the importance of bringing art and the creative process to young people and the community at large.
Lanino’s work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions including Flatiron Prow Art Space, New York, NY; A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, NJ; Mindy Ross Gallery, Newburgh, NY: Storm King Tavern, Cornwall, NY; Chris Davidson Gallery Newburgh, NY; Gibbs Museum, Charleston, SC; and Albert Wisner Library Sculpture Park, Warwick, NY.
Her work is included in several public and private and corporate collections including The Carlyle Hotel, NY; ACLU, NY; HBO, NY; Orange County Trust, White Plains, NY; Orange Regional Medical Center, Middletown NY; Thang Long TLE Group, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam; The Cheval Hotel, London; Hotel Avalon, Beverly Hills, LA and The Hyatt Regency in FL and KT.
The artist is currently based out of Tuxedo Park, NY.
IG: https://www.instagram.com/heidilanino/
Website: https://heidilanino.com/
Kathy Goodell was born in San Francisco and attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where she received both her BFA and MFA in sculpture. Her professors included Jay Defeo, and Jim Nutt. Goodell has been the recipient of grants and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, (2021 emergency grant for Infra-loop), a retrospective exhibition at the Samuel Dorsky Museum, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2013, the BAU Institute, the Camargo Foundation (2014), The David and Julia White Artist’s Colony, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, as well as receiving a Fulbright Fellowship to Romania. She has exhibited extensively, both nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New York Public Library, The Queens Arts Center, the Berkeley Museum, the Paul Anglim Gallery and has been included in major group exhibitions at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, the Boise Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Mendel Art Museum, and the Drawing Center, NY. She exhibited with Willoughby Sharp Gallery, a gallery located at 8 Spring Street in The Bowery, that ran from 1988-1991, and was part of a scene of artists that included the likes of Hannah Wilke, Judith Linhares, Elizabeth King, and Robert Crumb. Goodell’s work has been reviewed in the Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, White Hot Magazine, Juxtapoz Magazine, the New York Times, Arts Magazine, artforum.com, Kathy Goodell: InfraLoop and Avalanche Magazine, an epochal artist journal published from 1970-1976 that included the work of Joseph Beuys, Vito Acconci, and many of the artists we now consider to be historical figures. Her work is represented in several books, including International Glass Art (Schiffer Press), Art in the San Francisco Bay Area (University of California Press), and Bay Area Painting and Sculpture (Squeezer Press). She was also included in the award-winning documentary film “Crumb” directed by Terry Zwigoff, 1995. Goodell is also an educator, having taught at the University of California, Davis; San Francisco State University; the San Francisco Art Institute; Moore College of Art; and the School of Visual Arts. She is presently a Professor at the State University of New York, in New Paltz, where she lives and works.