Langdon Quin

Painter

Langdon Quin will give a slide lecture on his work, Tuesday, March 4, 2008 in Bixler Art and Music Building, room 154 at 4:30 pm.

Quin is a consummate painter who moves effortlessly among the traditions of landscape, figurative and still-life painting.  Approaching his subjects with perceptual clarity, he often walks a delicate line – combining essential representation character with the penetrating order of abstraction.

“Quin lays in his paint with the slow deliberation of a builder. Unhurried accumulations of limpid color, married to careful drawing, lend an aristocratic calm to figures, landscape, the occasional still life. Grace notes abound.

His color sense recalls fresco cycles on church walls in the Italy that he paints with obvious love. “

Maureen Mullarkey, Langdon Quin at Kraushaar Galleries, Studio Matters & Commentary.  November 2002

Langdon Quin holds a BA from Washington & Lee University, and an MFA in Painting from Yale University.  He has taught in a range of programs including BU, Cornell University, Vassar Collage, SUNY at Albany, Skidmore College, New York Academy of Art and since 1998, his current position of Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of New Hampshire at Durham.

His honors include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.

He has compiled a lengthy list of group shows, visiting artist invitations, public lectures and panel participations. His numerous one-person shows include many in New England, California and several at Kraushaar Galleries in New York, where he has been represented since 1995.

The lecture on March 4^th, sponsored by the Colby College Department of Art, and the Arts Lecture Fund, is free and open to the public.

Arnold Chang

Painting Demonstration, Mar. 4

Arnold Chang (Zhang Hong), the acclaimed Chinese-American painter, will present a demonstration of traditional Chinese ink painting at Colby on March 4 at 4:30 pm in Bixler 84. All are invited to attend.

Holland Cotter of The New York Times says: “The work by Mr. Zhang has the intimacy of a sustained conversation, intellectually stimulating and emotionally nuanced.”

For more information on Arnold Chang, visit his webpage: www.mrchinesepainting.com

Andrew Jaspersohn

Printmaker

Printmaker and Colby grad Andrew Jaspersohn ’02 will be back on campus March 5, 2009 to show slides and lecture about his work. The lecture will take place in room 154 of the Bixler Art and Music Building and will begin at 4:30 pm. Since leaving Colby, Andrew has led a full life as a Printmaker. From 2003 to 2004 he apprenticed himself to Master Printer Sarah Amos at the Vermont Studio School. That led him back to Maine where he earned a baccalaureate certification in Art Education (June 2008) from the Maine College of Art. Andrew now teaches at the University of New England as an Adjunct Professor. He is also Co-President of Peregrine Press, Portland, Maine. Jaspersohn’s talk, which is sponsored by the Colby College Department of Art and supported by funds from the Arts Lecture Fund, is open to the public without charge. A reception will follow the talk allowing guests to meet the artist.

Merrill Shatzman

Printmaker

Associate Professor of the Practice of Visual Arts at Duke University, will present a slide lecture on her work Thursday April 6, 2006 at 4:30 p.m. in room 154 of the Bixler Art and Music Building at Colby College.

Professor Shatzman earned her B.F.A degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and her M.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.  Before coming to Duke in 1985, Professor Shatzman taught at Sonoma State University and at California State University Long Beach.  At Duke, she teaches Printmaking, Graphic Design and Drawing.  Also this semester, Professor Shatzman is involved in a multi-disciplinary course called “Image, Text & Visual Poetics”, jointly taught by Professor Deborah Pope of Duke’s English Department.

Professor Shatzman’a work is abstract and primarily involved with the printmaking processes of etching, woodcut, lithography and silkscreen, with branches into drawing and painting.  She has been in numerous exhibitions on the International, National, and Regional levels.

Merrill Shatzman’a talk, which is sponsored by the Colby College Art Department and supported by funds from the Arts Lecture Fund, is open to the public without charge.

Photographer, Liv Kristin Robinson, will present a lecture on her work on Monday,

November 14, 2005 at 4:30 p.m. in room 154 in the Bixler Art and Music Building at Colby College.

Trained as an artist and art historian in New York City, Robinson’s fine-art photographs have appeared in several national publications including Yankee Magazine and Popular Photography and internationally in the Swedish, Fotografisk, and have been shown in numerous galleries, museums and juried exhibitions throughout Maine, New England and nationally. Public Collections in Maine include: Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville; the Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland; and the Portland Museum of Art. In the Spring of 2002, her color photograph, “Massacre of the Innocent,” from her “Urban Sidewalk Series” was included in New York City’s Museum of Modern Art’s exhibit, “Life of the City.” More recently, one of her images was acquired by the New York Public Library and was included in New York City’s Museum of Modern Art’s 2002 exhibit, “Life of the City.”

While she is perhaps best known for the hand-painted, black and white, silver-print photographs from the 1980’s and 1990’s documenting Belfast’s industrial waterfront,  much of her most recent  (and little known) work, while still often explores industrial and other ‘marginal’ landscapes do so now with the new technology available from the digital world. “For me the photographic image is not an end but a starting point. Whether I apply layers of transparent oil pigment (as in hand-painting) or experiment using a digital camera and the tools of photoshop, I can still re-enter the scene and emotionally color both its content and context and thereby blur, to a degree, objective and subjective reality.”

Robinson’s talk, which is sponsored by the Colby College Art Department and supported by

funds from the Arts Lecture Fund, is open to the public without charge.

Linda J. Docherty

The Art of Isabella Stewart Gardner 

The Colby College Department of Art is proud to announce that the third James M. Carpenter lecture will be presented by Professor Linda J. Docherty.

Docherty is Associate Professor of Art at Bowdoin College, where she has taught since 1986. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for which she wrote a dissertation entitled “A Search for Identity: American Art Criticism and the Concept of the ‘Native School,’ 1876-1893.” Professor Docherty has been the recipient of many important awards, from the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and has published many essays on subjects ranging from portraiture to collecting, and on artists such as James McNeill Whistler, Winslow Homer, Edmund C. Tarbell, William Merritt Chase. She also has curated several exhibitions for both the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and at the Ackland Art Museum (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). She is currently working on a book-length study of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s museum design.

“The Art of Isabella Stewart Gardner”will examine the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as a place in which “to see beautiful things.” Professor Docherty will show how literary as well as visual sources informed Gardner’s public presentation of her art collections. She will discuss further how Gardner’s museum idea evolved in relation to a private spiritual journey.

The Carpenter lecture fund was established by Jacqueline K. Davidson, alumna of Colby College, to honor Professor Carpenter (1914-1992). It is Mrs. Davidson’s goal to recognize Professor Carpenter’s deep and lasting impact on her and on the College, as the founder and first Director of the Museum of Art and the first Chair of the Art Department; he was also the first to hold the Ellerton and Edith Jetté Professorship in Art.

This lecture, which is open to the public and without charge, will be presented in Keyes 105 at 7:30 p.m. on October 24, 2006. Please join us for this important occasion.

Internationally lauded as one of the leading photographers of her generation, Tenneson’s work has been published in books and major magazines worldwide.

As critic, Vicki Goldberg, states: “Tenneson possesses a unique vision which makes her photographs immediately recognizable.  She creates enigmatic and sensuous images that are timeless and haunting. Whether a classically draped nude or a mysterious portrait of a young child and an aged man, her photographs speak to the fragility of life, its poignant beauty – and its pain. The images are deeply affecting, often evoking forgotten memories.”

Tenneson is among the most respected photographers of our time.  Her work has been shown in exhibitions worldwide and is part of numerous private and museum collections.  Her photographs and portraits appear frequently on covers for magazines such as: Time, Life, Newsweek, Premiere, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine.

Tenneson is the author of twelve books including the best seller, Wise Women, which was featured in a six-part Today Show series.  She is also the recipient of many awards and in a recent poll conducted by American Photo Magazine readers voted Tenneson among the ten most influential women in the history of photography.

The Lucie Awards named Joyce Tenneson as Fine Art Photographer of the Year 2005.

Tenneson’s lecture at Colby College on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 4:30 pm will take place in Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Building.  It is open to the public free of charge.