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Victor Kord was
born in Romania and is Professor of Painting at Cornell University.
His teaching career spans over
forty years. He has shown
his work extensively throughout the country and internationally since
1967, at such venues as the Kathryn Sermas Gallery; Andre Emmerich
Gallery, New York, NY; and the Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT. He has
received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work
is in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum, Aldrich Museum,
and the Cleveland Museum of Art. He has been a mentor to Reni Gower,
both when she was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin and
as a colleague at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Sally Bowring,
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Richard Lazzaro is Emeritus Professor of
Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after having taught for
more than forty years. His work is in more
than 200 public and private collections in the United States, Canada,
England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, Ukraine, and Taiwan, and has
appeared in numerous exhibitions including those at the Taichung Culture
Center of Taiwan; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Seattle Museum of
Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Charles Allis Art
Museum, Milwaukee, WI; the Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL; the
Kathryn Sermas Gallery, Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY; the Jane
Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the Jack Pollack Gallery, Toronto;
and Galleria Tournaboni, Florence, Italy. He resides in Stoughton,
Wisconsin, where he and his wife Giovanna operate The Lazzaro Signature
Gallery of Fine Art, a contemporary gallery founded in 1985. He has
been a mentor to Reni Gower when she was an undergraduate at the University
of Wisconsin- Madison and currently, when he represents her artwork
through his gallery. |
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Reni Gower is
an associate professor of painting and printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth
University in Richmond,
VA, and has taught over
twenty years. She has exhibited her artwork extensively throughout
the country since 1974, including the Erie Art Museum, PA; the Villa
Terrace Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI; the South Carolina State Museum;
the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; the
Virginia Museum of Fine Art; the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; A.I.R.
Gallery, New York; and the Anton Gallery, Washington, D.C. Her work
has been showcased internationally as well, in Korea, Israel, Belgium,
Peru, England, Moldova, and Moscow. She has received numerous awards
including an NEA/SECCA Southeastern Artist Fellowship and several university
faculty grants for teaching excellence. Her work is represented in
various collections, including the Library of Congress Print Collection;
Pleasant Company/Mattel, Inc; the American embassies in Peru and Japan;
Media General, Inc; and the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond. She studied
with Victor Kord and Richard Lazzaro and has been a teacher to Sally
Bowring and Beth Weisgerber (as graduate students at Virginia Commonwealth
University), and Valerie Bogdan (as an undergraduate there). |
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Sally Bowring, a
native New Yorker, is an adjunct faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth
University and the
public art coordinator for
the City of Richmond. She is represented by the Reynolds Gallery, Richmond,
VA and the Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta. Her work is in many corporate
and private collections, including Media General, Inc; the Federal
Reserve Bank in Richmond; Wheat First Foundation; and the Virginia
Commission for the Arts. Since 1971, she has exhibited extensively
throughout the country, including the Bronx River Art Center; the Touchstone
Gallery, Washington, D.C; ARC Gallery, Chicago; The Painting Center,
New York; and The Florida Museum of Hispanic and Latin American Art,
Miami, as well as in Korea, Peru, Italy, and Canada. Bowring has received
numerous awards, including the 2003 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship
in Painting and the 2003 Teresa Pollak Award in Visual Arts. Both Victor
Kord and Reni Gower served as advisors during her graduate studies
at Virginia Commonwealth University in the early eighties. She continues
to support the artistic development of Valerie Bogdan and Beth Weisgerber,
both alumni of Virginia Commonwealth University. |
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Beth Weisgerber is a 2001 MFA graduate of
the Painting and Printmaking Department, Virginia Commonwealth University.
She has relocated to
Chicago, Illinois, where she is pursuing a teaching career and working
as a gallery assistant. She has exhibited her work nationally at The
Painting Center, New York; the Malovat Gallery, Chicago; 1708 Gallery,
Richmond, VA; the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore;
and the Machine Shop Gallery, Cincinnati, OH. Most recently she has
exhibited at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Unit B Gallery
in Chicago. She has received numerous awards and scholarships in support
of her painting. She worked with Reni Gower as a teaching assistant
in undergraduate painting. |
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Valerie Bogdan received
a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she was named
the Outstanding Senior
of the Painting and Printmaking
Department in 1997. She now lives in New York City. She has been awarded
residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont
Studio Center. She has been exhibiting her work since 1997, at venues
including Collaborative Concepts and the Van Brunt Gallery, both in
Beacon, NY; the A.D.D. Gallery, Hudson, NY; the N3 Project Space, Brooklyn;
the Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn; the Henry Street
Settlement, New York City; the Artist's Museum, Washington, D.C.;
and the Coincidence Gallery, Richmond, VA. Her work can be seen in
the Flat Files at Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY. While enrolled at Virginia
Commonwealth University she studied with Reni Gower and Sally Bowring. |
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