Artists' Corner
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“Buffalo
Gals,” Nancy Cawdrey
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Deborah Holden Banker,
BA ’79, showed
work at the DeMatteis Gallery in Annapolis,
Md., from November through December.
A resident of Bigfork, Mont., Nancy
Dunlop Cawdrey, BA ’70, presented a One
Woman Show in Santa Fe, N.M., in the fall. She was
a featured artist at the Buffalo Bill Art Show
and Sale at Big Horn Galleries in Cody, Wyo.,
in September. Her watercolor “One Bright
Morning” won an award at the Montana
Watercolor Society nationally juried show in
October. Her work was showcased in Big
Sky Journal, and an article about Cawdrey’s
work appeared in Altitude, the magazine of
Big Sky Airlines. Her painting “Hangin’ On” is
part of a show at the Hockaday Museum in Kalispell,
Mont.
“Bitter/Sweet,” wax
and matches, Amanda Davies
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Thirty-five years of work by Larry
Chappelear, MFA ’76, a landscape and abstract artist
whose work focuses on the countryside of West
Virginia and Maryland, was celebrated from
October through January by the University of
Maryland University College. His paintings,
collages, and assemblages were on display in
the Arts Program Gallery of the UMUC Inn and
Conference Center in Adelphi, Md. The guest
curator of the exhibit was Barbara
J. Stephanic, BA ’81, MA ’85, professor of art
history at the College of Southern Maryland.
Her husband, Jeff Stephanic,
BA ’77,
MFA ’80, is an associate professor of
design at GW.
Sculptures by Amanda
Davies, MFA ’05,
were featured in Sculpture
Now 2006 at Washington
Square in Washington February through May and
Sculpture Unbound at Pepco’s
Edison Place Gallery in Washington from January
through May.
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“Roundup:
Breaking Away,” Josephine Haden
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Josephine
Haden, MA ’72, was selected
by Alex Baker, curator of contemporary art
at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, to
show work in the 2006 New American Paintings
Juried Exhibition in Print. Her work also was
selected for two juried exhibitions in Virginia:
at the Target Gallery in Alexandria and Northern
Virginia Community College. Haden resides in
Arlington, Va.
Jill
Lion, BA ’63, was among four sculptors
featured at the Smith Farm Center for the Healing
Arts in Washington from January through February.
The works were presented in association with
the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical
Center Arts Program.
From October to December at the Skye Gallery
in Idyllwild, Calif., Kathy
Harmon-Luber, PSC ’84,
showed Memories of New
Orleans, a portfolio
of work created before Hurricane Katrina celebrating
the city at its best. Ten percent of sales
at the show went toward hurricane relief efforts.
The fine art photographer’s online gallery
can be viewed at www.KathyHarmonLuber.com.
“Red Right Returning,” Larry
Chappelear
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Brian
D. Kirk, BFA ’76, presented Aikuchi,
a steel sculpture exhibit, at the Waddell Art
Gallery on the Northern Virginia Community
College Loudoun Campus in Sterling, Va., from
November through December. His sculptures are
created by welding fabricated steel components
into abstract compositions. Kirk is an art
teacher and the chair of the fine arts department
at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, Va.
He is an adjunct professor for Virginia Commonwealth
University’s graduate art program. Kirk
founded the Art League’s metal sculpture
department in Alexandria, Va.
John
Morrell, MFA ’77, presented a solo
exhibition of landscape paintings and works
on paper, John Morrell—Paysages Urbains,
Oeuvres sur Papier, in Paris last summer at
the Galerie Lee. Morrell is assistant professor
of painting at Georgetown University.
Photographs of Athens, Greece, taken by Peter
Poulos, BA ’87, were displayed by Spilioti
Projects in Athens. The artist sought to present
elements of the city that might be missed by
locals in their daily travels. The photographs,
printed on tin in color, document neoclassical
buildings in and around the city center both
renovated and in ruins. Poulos was born in
New York in 1965 to Greek American parents
and fell in love with Athens while studying
there in 1985. He lives in San Francisco with
his dog, Spyros.
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“Ossabow
Slave Quarter #1,” Sherry Zvares
Sanabria
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In the fall 2005 edition, GW
Magazine ran an
incorrect image of a painting by Sherry
Zvares Sanabria, BA ’59. The
painting, “Ossabow
Slave Quarter #1,” which she exhibited
at the Washington county Museum of Fine Arts
in Hagerstown, Md., last fall, is pictured
correctly on this page. The exhibition and
series of paintings was titled Slave
Quarters and Other African American Sites.