David Baskin,
Brooklyn, NY worked on a sculptural series to be shown at Ingalls and Associates in Miami in 2007 and at Black and White Gallery in New York in 2008.
Barbara Bernstein,
Sarasota, FL, investigated and developed new plans for installation projects and also initiated a series of drawings. She recently received a residency at the American Academy in Rome and has also been invited by the Cultural Magistrate of Salzburg for a residency in 2008.
Henry Brown,
New York, NY, painted a group of mechanically drawn geometric abstractions and completed works on paper. One of the paintings will be included in the group exhibition Continuum at St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, NJ, in 2007.
Miggy Buck,
New York, NY, modeled David, a pair of giant feet in the contrapposto stance, using concrete and steel. The pieces are to be installed in a sculpture park in Summit, NJ, in 2007. She also continued working on other pieces in her series focused on modernizing classical figurative sculptures.
Che Chen,
New York, NY, continued working on a series of large works on paper and began a new experimental nature film shot on the grounds and trails at MacDowell. He had a solo show in 2004 at Donkey Gallery in Albuquerque.
Adriane Colburn,
San Francisco, CA, began a research project on predictive mapping and global warming that will result in a large–scale light and paper installation to be exhibited in 2008.
Lisa Dahl,
New York, NY, worked on painting and video projects. Her work has recently been exhibited in New York at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, PS122 Gallery, and the New York Design Center.
Ellen Driscoll,
Brooklyn, NY, worked on Hunter-Gatherer, a solo exhibition for Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus. This is a 21-foot landscape made from reconfigured milk and water plastic cartons (from the Peterborough Town Recycling Center and the streets of Brooklyn).
Julie Evans,
New York, NY, worked on a new series of paintings to be shown in a solo exhibition at Julie Saul Gallery and at Irvine Contemporary in Washington, D.C., in 2007. She is the recent recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to India.
Nancy Fleischman,
Orland Park, IL, prepared an installation that includes sound and ceramic objects for a show at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.
Judy Fox,
New York, NY, worked on two pieces for her next installation, Snow White and the Seven Sins.
Linda Ganjian,
Queens, NY, began a new sculpture and a series of drawings inspired by decorative carpet patterning. She was selected for the Queens International 2006 exhibition and showed at Miami’s Aqua Art Fair in 2006.
Lilian Garcia-Roig,
Tallahassee, FL, created 20 on-site landscape paintings that focused on capturing the intense fall colors and ever-changing light found in the MacDowell woods. In 2005, she was the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in painting.
John Grade,
Seattle, WA, cast porous panels of ice and filmed ink running through them while they deteriorated. The video and casts of the ice will be transferred to vacuum formed sections in upcoming sculptural installations at the Bellevue Art Museum and Suyama Space in Seattle, WA.
Rashawn Griffin,
New York, NY, worked on a series of sculptures that dealt with the notion of time and place.
Denise Hawrysio,
London, England, completed a group of etchings for a solo exhibition at Simon Fraser University Gallery in Vancouver. The series attempts to invigorate traditional printmaking techniques by injecting them with conceptual energy and social consciousness.
James Huang,
Astoria, NY, worked on several new sculptures.
Gisela Insuaste,
Chicago, IL, worked on sculptural installations and drawings based on her recent travels to Puerto Rico and New Hampshire. In 2007, she will have solo shows at Bucket Rider Gallery and Northeastern Illinois University.
Bettina Johae,
Brooklyn, NY, worked on an online version of her project borough edges, nyc commissioned by the New York Public Library. She also extended her project artists’ locations and started a new series of works dealing with the absence of the urban.
Cassie Jones,
Princeton, NJ, continued a body of work that was first exhibited in the 2005 Portland Biennial and at Space Gallery in Portland, ME. She plans to pursue her painting further through her graduate studies at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Michelle Kloehn,
Brooklyn, NY, worked on pieces inspired by Daguerre and his dioramas done in the 1830s, using the MacDowell landscape and studio as subject matter.
Julia Kunin,
Brooklyn, NY, created ceramic pieces related to scholar’s rocks and the surreal landscape. Work she developed at MacDowell was featured at the Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in New York. She will be working on slip-cast ceramics while in residency at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in 2007.
Charles LaBelle,
New York, NY, completed work for three separate exhibitions: BLDGS ENTERED 1997–2007 at Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, CA; Sugar Hill Suite 2005–06 at Anna Kustera Gallery in New York; and The Uncertainty Principle at Northern Illinois University.
Elliott Levine,
New York, NY, continues making ceramic sculptures. His work was exhibited this year in two shows at Dinter Fine Art in New York. His sculptures were recently in a group show at Momenta in New York.
Marykate Maher,
Brooklyn, NY, started on a new body of work that included sculptures and drawings focused on the theme of genetic mutations.
Mary McDonnell, Eldred, NY, started work on large-scale abstract oil paintings on wood as well as a series of ink drawings on Japanese rice paper. The drawings and paintings will be shown at The James Graham and Sons Gallery in New York, and at the Miller Block Gallery in Boston.
Andy Ness,
New York, NY, focused on a series of drawings as well as a sculpture.
Tom Nussbaum,
Montclair, NJ, worked on drawings, paper cutouts, and sculptures that incorporate psychological themes in preparation for a one-person show at The Hunterdon Museum in Clinton, New Jersey.
Christa Parravani,
Northampton, MA, completed work on Whatever I Was in Life: Spoon River, which will be exhibited in a solo show at 31 Grand Gallery in New York and at Art Basel in Miami.
Lisa Robinson,
Jackson Heights, NY, spent much of her time in the snow and ice, making images for her photographic project Snowbound, which was exhibited at the Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY. Snowbound will be published by Kehrer Verlag in 2008.
Nikki Smith,
Sydney, Australia, completed a series of oil paintings to be shown in Sydney in 2006. She also worked on a series of pop-up books featuring fellow Colonists. She had shows at Sydney’s MOP Projects Gallery in 2004 and 2005.
Stefanie Victor,
Brooklyn, NY, completed two drawings as experiments. They were an extension of a series that was shown at the Drawing Center in New York in 2005.
O. Zhang,
New York, NY, finished editing photos for an art catalogue for a solo show at Pekin Fine Art Gallery in Beijing in 2007. She also started writing a memoir in Chinese for Shanghai Art and Literature Publishing House about her life as an artist living in London and New York.