Hetty Baiz and Jordan Seaberry
Curated by Paige Laino

*Closed on Saturday, November 5.

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 13; 6:00–8:00PM

Exhibition Hours: Wednesday–Saturday; 10:00AM–5:00PM

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and the Skowhegan Alumni Alliance are excited to announce the fifth and final exhibition in CONFERENCE CALL: a series of five 2-person exhibitions featuring the work of Skowhegan alumni. Opening on October 12, the exhibition will feature the work of Hetty Baiz (she/her) (A '69) and Jordan Seaberry (he/his) (A '15), and is curated by Alliance member and Skowhegan Alumni & Archives Manager, Paige Laino (she/they). The show will have an opening reception on October 13 from 6:00–8:00PM and will take place at the Skowhegan Office in Chelsea, New York.

Both Jordan Seaberry and Hetty Baiz work, procedurally and conceptually, with layers: in his almost historic-scale painted collages, Seaberry layers the past upon the present; in her handling of the human form, Baiz layers intimacy upon anonymity upon handwoven textiles. Together, their work presents a dialogue between personal and communal experiences of aspiration and alienation. 

About Hetty Baiz
Hetty Baiz creates paintings characterized by rich textural surfaces and interwoven layers of image, color and material. Made from complex processes that can include digital manipulation, printing, weaving, painting, drawing and burning with a torch, the final images in her latest work—life size figures and larger than life faces—are literally built into the material. Open-ended questions about transience and the nature of being—of identity, mortality, and time, are intrinsic to her work. Baiz was educated at Bard College, Cornell and Columbia. She has painted all of her life and was greatly influenced by her mother, an abstract expressionist painter and student of Hans Hofmann. She has shown her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally and has taken part in collaborative art projects in China, Tibet, Dubai, Australia and France. Baiz has taught art with an NGO that supporters underserved women in the informal settlements outside of Cape Town, South Africa, and this experience greatly influenced her latest body of work. https://www.hettybaiz.com/

About Jordan Seaberry
Jordan Seaberry is a painter, organizer, legislative advocate and educator. Born and raised on the Southside of Chicago, Jordan first came to Providence to attend Rhode Island School of Design. Alongside his art, he built a career as a grassroots organizer, helping to fight for, and pass multiple criminal justice reform milestones, including Probation Reform, the Unshackling Pregnant Prisoners Bill, and laying the groundwork for the “Ban the Box” movement in Rhode Island. Jordan serves as Co-Director of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, a people-powered nonprofit agency, and most recently worked as the Director of Public Policy at the Nonviolence Institute. He serves as Chairman of the Providence Board of Canvassers, overseeing the city’s elections; as a Board Member at New Urban Arts in Providence; and as a Board Member for Protect Families First, working on community-oriented drug policy reform. He has received fellowships from the Art Matters Foundation, the Rhode Island Foundation, and recently served as Community Leader Fellow at Roger Williams University School of Law. http://www.jordanseaberry.com/

CONFERENCE CALL | Exhibition Series 2022 aims to place work by artists from different Skowhegan cohorts in conversation with each other, and with the labor of operating a residency. It will feature the works of Skowhegan alumni: Pío Galbis (A '82, '21) and Buster Graybill (A '07); Gwendolyn Kerber (A '79) and Rocío Olivares (A '18); Baxter Koziol (A '17) and Molly Springfield (A '06); Pallavi Singh (A '15) and Jing (Ellen) Xu (A '16); Hetty Baiz (A '69) and Jordan Seaberry (A '15).

Each pairing is curated by one or two members of the Alumni Alliance: Jesus Benavente (A '12), Rebecca
Shippee (A '18) and Annette Cyr (A '76, '21), Michael Scoggins (A '03), Danny Greenberg (A '18) and Eleanor Kipping (A '18), and Paige Laino (Alumni & Archives Coordinator). Additional information about upcoming exhibitions in this series is forthcoming.

The Skowhegan Alumni Alliance is a group of alumni who generate off-campus programming for the international alumni community.

Pallavi Singh and Jing (Ellen) Xu
Curated by Daniel Greenberg and Eleanor Kipping

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 15, 6–8PM

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and the Skowhegan Alumni Alliance are excited to announce CONFERENCE CALL: a series of five 2-person exhibitions featuring the work of Skowhegan alumni that will run from May through November 2022.

Established in 1946, Skowhegan is an intensive summer residency program for artists which takes place annually in Madison, Maine. The exhibition series will take place at Skowhegan's New York space in Chelsea, and will open on September 5, 2022 with the fourth exhibition featuring the work of Pallavi Singh (A '15) and Jing (Ellen) Xu (A '16) organized by Alliance members and alumni, Danny Greenberg (A '18) and Eleanor Kipping (A '18).

About Pallavi Singh
Pallavi Singh (b. 1988) completed her Master’s in Fine Art (Painting) from College of Art, Delhi in 2011. Singh’s work focuses on social constructs and challenges to gender stereotypes, an exploration of sexuality, personal care and grooming behaviours, and corporate spectacles. Singh has been the recipient of several awards including the Vermont Studio Center Artist Opportunity Fellowship, USA (2019), the Inlaks Scholarship at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, USA (2015) and the 10 th Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong (2013-14), and most recently, being shortlisted for the TAF Emerging Artist Award South Asia, London (2021). Pallavi Singh lives and works in New Delhi, India and is represented by Art Heritage (New Delhi, India).

About Jing (Ellen) Xu
Jing (Ellen) Xu is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Inner Mongolia, China and currently based in Queens, NY. She received a B.A. in Sculpture from Xiamen University, China and an MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle. Xu has participated in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Wassaic Residency, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center. She has received a BRIC Media Arts Fellowship and the Artist Fellowship from Hamiltonian Gallery.

CONFERENCE CALL | Exhibition Series 2022 aims to place work by artists from different Skowhegan cohorts in conversation with each other, and with the labor of operating a residency. It will feature the works of Skowhegan alumni: Pío Galbis (A '82, '21) and Buster Graybill (A '07); Gwendolyn Kerber (A '79) and Rocío Olivares (A '18); Baxter Koziol (A '17) and Molly Springfield (A '06); Pallavi Singh (A '15) and Jing (Ellen) Xu (A '16); Hetty Baiz (A '69) and Jordan Seaberry (A '15).

Each pairing is curated by one or two members of the Alumni Alliance: Jesus Benavente (A '12), Rebecca Shippee (A '18) and Annette Cyr (A '76, '21), Michael Scoggins (A '03), Danny Greenberg (A '18) and Eleanor Kipping (A '18), and Paige Laino (Alumni & Archives Coordinator). Additional information about upcoming exhibitions in this series is forthcoming.

The Skowhegan Alumni Alliance is a group of alumni who generate off-campus programming for the international alumni community.

Baxter Koziol and Molly Springfield
Curated by Michael Scoggins

Opening Reception: Thursday, August 4, 2022; 6:00PM –8:00PM

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and the Skowhegan Alumni Alliance are excited to announce CONFERENCE CALL: a series of five 2-person exhibitions featuring the work of Skowhegan alumni that will run from May through November 2022.

Established in 1946, Skowhegan is an intensive summer residency program for artists which takes place annually in Madison, Maine. The exhibition series will take place at Skowhegan's New York space in Chelsea. The third exhibition in this series will open on August 1, 2022 featuring the work of Baxter Koziol (A '17) and Molly Springfield (A '06) organized by Alliance member and alum, Michael Scoggins (A '03).

Molly Springfield uses outdated technologies for the basis of her art practice. Baxter Koziol creates new works of art from discarded materials and various detritus. Our collective memories are triggered by the past lives of these objects but with their reclamation and transformation into artworks they are reborn and given new meaning for us to discover. Both artists are creating works that are visually very different but there is an unlying connection that is based on process as well as looking to our past to find a way forward. 

About Baxter Koziol
Baxter Koziol studied at Maine College of Art & Design (BFA 2017) and has attended residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Monson Arts, Hewnoaks, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, and Surf Point Foundation. He lives and works in Portland, ME.

About Molly Springfield
Molly Springfield makes graphite drawings that use photocopies of printed texts as their source material. Her drawings have been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Cologne, Germany, as well as in exhibitions at The Drawing Center and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Springfield's work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004 and was a MacDowell Fellow in 2016. She lives and works in Washington, DC.

CONFERENCE CALL | Exhibition Series 2022 aims to place work by artists from different Skowhegan cohorts in conversation with each other, and with the labor of operating a residency. It will feature the works of Skowhegan alumni: Pío Galbis (A '82, '21) and Buster Graybill (A '07); Gwendolyn Kerber (A '79) and Rocío Olivares (A '18); Baxter Koziol (A '17) and Molly Springfield (A '06); Pallavi Singh (A '15) and Jing (Ellen) Xu (A '16); Hetty Baiz (A '69) and Jordan Seaberry (A '15).

Each pairing is curated by one or two members of the Alumni Alliance: Jesus Benavente (A '12), Rebecca
Shippee (A '18) and Annette Cyr (A '76, '21), Michael Scoggins (A '03), Danny Greenberg (A '18) and Eleanor Kipping (A '18), and Paige Laino (Alumni & Archives Coordinator). Additional information about upcoming exhibitions in this series is forthcoming.

The Skowhegan Alumni Alliance is a group of alumni who generate off-campus programming for the international alumni community.

Gwendolyn Kerber and Rocío Olivares
Curated by Annette Cyr and Rebecca Shippee

Closing Reception: Tuesday, July 19, 2022; 6:00PM – 8:00PM

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and the Skowhegan Alumni Alliance are excited to announce CONFERENCE CALL: a series of five 2-person exhibitions featuring the work of Skowhegan alumni that will run from May through November 2022.

Established in 1946, Skowhegan is an intensive summer residency program for artists which takes place annually in Madison, Maine. The exhibition series will take place at Skowhegan's New York space in Chelsea. The second exhibition will open on June 20, 2022 featuring the work of Gwendolyn Kerber (A '79) and Rocío Olivares (A '18) organized by Alliance members and alumni, Annette Cyr (A '76, '21) and Rebecca Shippee (A '18).

Gwendolyn Kerber writes of her on-site painting process “I am standing in the pond up to my knees … no longer a vista but the very place where our human bodies meet the natural world.” Rocío Olivares creates scaled down facsimiles of suburban in-ground pools. She describes herself “reflecting on the execution of a desire of domain that private pools crystalize, looking at pools as a fantasy exercised over nature.” The exhibition will put in conversation two divergent approaches to water, containment and expansion.

About Gwendolyn Kerber
Gwendolyn Kerber is an American painter based in Berlin and Bucks County, PA. She holds an M.F.A. in painting from Yale University, a B.F.A. from the Cleveland Institute of Art and a B.A. from Hampshire College. Kerber has been the recipient of several awards and residencies, including The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1979), a residency at the Vermont Studio Center (2013), The Dagaocun Artist in Residency Programme in Beijing (2008) and The Berlin Collective Artist Residency Program at the APT studios in Brooklyn (2014). Her work has been exhibited in Berlin, New York, Philadelphia and in Beijing. In 2013 she was a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipient.

About Rocío Olivares
Rocío Olivares is an interdisciplinary artist and educator born in 1990 in Santiago de Chile. She received her BFA from Universidad Católica de Chile and a MFA from Columbia University. Her work has been exhibited in places such as Dilalica (Barcelona, Spain); The Place (Barcelona, Spain); the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (New York, USA); Museum of the Moving Image (New York, USA); Drawing Center (New York, USA); Cindy Rucker Gallery (New York, USA); MuseumsQuartier (Vienna, Austria); Marinaro Gallery (New York, USA); Sean Kelly Gallery (New York, USA); the Jewish Museum (New York, USA); Mana Contemporary (New Jersey, USA); LeRoy Neiman Gallery (New York, USA); Museum of Visual Arts (Santiago, Chile); Bicentenario Gallery, Mapocho Station (Santiago, Chile); Museum of Contemporary Art, Quinta Normal (Santiago, Chile), among others. Rocío has been a resident of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2018) and the Whitney Independent Study Program during 2018-2019. She was a recipient of Fulbright Scholarships and Chile Scholarships for Master's studies abroad. She currently lives and works in Santiago de Chile.

CONFERENCE CALL | Exhibition Series 2022 aims to place work by artists from different Skowhegan cohorts in conversation with each other, and with the labor of operating a residency. It will feature the works of Skowhegan alumni: Pío Galbis (A '82, '21) and Buster Graybill (A '07); Gwendolyn Kerber (A '79) and Rocío Olivares (A '18); Baxter Koziol (A '17) and Molly Springfield (A '06); Pallavi Singh (A '15) and Jing (Ellen) Xu (A '16); Hetty Baiz (A '69) and Jordan Seaberry (A '15).

Each pairing is curated by one or two members of the Alumni Alliance: Jesus Benavente (A '12), Annette Cyr (A '76, '21) and Rebecca Shippee (A '18), Michael Scoggins (A '03), Danny Greenberg (A '18) and Eleanor Kipping (A '18), and Paige Laino (Alumni & Archives Coordinator). Additional information about upcoming exhibitions in this series is forthcoming.

The Skowhegan Alumni Alliance is a group of alumni who generate off-campus programming for the international alumni community.

Pío Galbis and Buster Graybill
Organized by Jesus Benavente

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 19; 6:00PM–9:00PM

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and the Skowhegan Alumni Alliance are excited to announce CONFERENCE CALL: a series of five 2-person exhibitions featuring the work of Skowhegan alumni that will run from May through November 2022.

Established in 1946, Skowhegan is an intensive summer residency program for artists which takes place annually in Madison, Maine. The exhibition series will take place at Skowhegan's New York space in Chelsea, and will open on May 18, 2022 with the first exhibition featuring the work of Pío Galbis (A '82, '21) and Buster Graybill (A '07) organized by Alliance member and alum, Jesus Benavente (A '12).

For this show, artworks by Pío Galbis and Buster Graybill will pay equal respect to formal art conventions and informal materials, fully utilizing the unusual backdrop of Skowhegan's office space. Pío presents a range of complex paintings and drawings that span the last seven years to this past summer (when he returned to Skowhegan for a rare second time as part of the special alumni residencies in 2021) to the present. Buster, working both 2- and 3-dimensionally, makes use of Skowhegan's space, inside and out. R.MUTT (Renegade Modernist Utility Travel Trailer), his handmade survival trailer/mobile art studio sculpture, is being driven from Texas to New York for the exhibition. R.MUTT will be parked in front of Skowhegan's space and on view until Saturday, May 21, 2022.

About Pío Galbis
Pío Galbis is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn. He has exhibited at White Columns, the Everson Museum of Art and The New Museum. He has been awarded grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bronx Museum AIM fellowship, and a MacDowell residency. Pío was also a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture twice.

About Buster Graybill
Buster Graybill is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio in the Department of Art and Art History. He utilizes sculpture, installation, video, and photography to traverse cultural boundaries and reconnect with often overlooked objects, materials, and places found in the rural landscape. Graybill has exhibited throughout Texas, as well as in Boston, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, and Guanajuato, Mexico. Glasstire, an online contemporary art journal, ranks Buster Graybill as one of the top ten artists living in Texas. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan Artist Residency and the Artpace International Artist-in-Residence program, as well as a recipient of grants from the San Antonio Artist Foundation and the Idea Fund, a program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

CONFERENCE CALL | Exhibition Series 2022 aims to place work by artists from different Skowhegan cohorts in conversation with each other, and with the labor of operating a residency. It will feature the works of Skowhegan alumni: Pío Galbis (A '82, '21) and Buster Graybill (A '07); Gwendolyn Kerber (A '79) and Rocío Olivares (A '18); Baxter Koziol (A '17) and Molly Springfield (A '06); Pallavi Singh (A '15) and Jing (Ellen) Xu (A '16); Hetty Baiz (A '69) and Jordan Seaberry (A '15).

Each pairing is curated by one or two members of the Alumni Alliance: Jesus Benavente (A '12), Rebecca Shippee (A '18) and Annette Cyr (A '76, '21), Michael Scoggins (A '03), Danny Greenberg (A '18) and Eleanor Kipping (A '18), and Paige Laino (Alumni & Archives Coordinator). Additional information about upcoming exhibitions in this series is forthcoming.

The Skowhegan Alumni Alliance is a group of alumni who generate off-campus programming for the international alumni community.

WORKS ON PAPER BY SKOWHEGAN ALUMNI

Curated by Betsy Alwin (A ‘01, Dean ‘05-06) and Steve Locke (A ‘02, Dean ‘04-’09)

Participating Artists:

Kim Abraham (A '81), Alejandro Acierto (A '14), Lauren Adams (A '09), Negar Ahkami (A '03), Colleen Asper (A '06), Rebecca Baldwin (A '04), Keren Benbenisty (A '09), Caitlin Berrigan (A '08), Suzanne Broughel (A '08), Derrick Buisch (A '95), Neil Callander (A '05), Greg Chann (A '78), Sue Collier (A '79), Oliver Comerford (A '91), Karishma D'Souza (A '17), Anthony Craig Drennen (A '06), Jesse England (A '15), Nicholas Fraser (A '08), Baris Gokturk (A '16), Rachel Granofsky (A '15), Mark Haddon (A '91), Russell Hamilton (A '90), Katie Herzog (A '07), Christina Hutchings (A '77), Saskia Jorda (A '05), Courtney Jordan (A '05), Nils Karsten (A '02), Becky Kinder (A '04), Baxter Koziol (A '17), Shaun Leonardo (A '04), Anthony Lepore (A '04), Cyriaco Lopes (A '02), Colin McMullan DBA Emcee C.M., Master of None (A '07), Nat Meade (A '09), Fabiola Menchelli (A '13), Helina Metaferia (A '16), Nyeema Morgan (A '09), Bennett Morris (A '07), Ester Partegás (F '09), Carol Pepper (A '60), Bundith Phunsombatlert (A '09), Marilyn Propp (A '69), Hanneline Røgeberg (A '88, F '09), Sherrill Roland (A '18), Michelle Rosenberg (A '08), Annesofie Sandal (A '15), Amanda Schoppel (A '05), Austin Shull (A '08), Molly Springfield (A '06), Draga Susanj (A '02), Elizabeth Tubergen (A '15), Traci Tullius (A '02), Tabitha Vevers (A '78), Robert Wechsler (A '06), Yoav Weinfeld (A '16), Jane Westrick (A '15)

Almost three years ago, the Skowhegan Alliance identified the lack of opportunities to exhibit multi-channel video works. It is a hard medium to accommodate: two-channel works are never fully realized in a traditional film screening, but a proper installation can require a skillset ranging from programming to pipe sawing.

After an immeasurable amount of dedication, labor, and optimism from the project’s organizer Gregory Kalliche (A ’15), advising from other Alliance members, critical support from staff Chris Carroll (A ’08), and patience from the participating artists, we have something to show you: four weeks of two-channel video art, in three different configurations, from 23 artists.


WEEK 1
Sunday, January 6 - Friday, January 11

Jaye Rhee (A ’09), Polka Dots
Ana María Gómez López (A ’15), On Taphonomy
Mary Vettise (A ’12), A reality with forms
Lorena Mal (A ’16), Invisible Structures
Jonathan Ehrenberg (A ’11), Monument

WEEK 2
Monday, January 14 - Friday, January 18

Elizabeth M. Webb (A ’18), CONVERSE, CONVERSE
James R. Southard (A ’12), Father’s Flag Part A & B
Tricia McLaughlin (A ’92), Disposable Heroes
Josefina Malmegård (A ’16), Heavenly bodies.
Jessica Segall (A ’10), (un)common intimacy
Sharon Paz (A ’01), HOMESICK

WEEK 3
Monday, January 21 - Friday, January 25

Itziar Barrio (A ’12), Mirroring Basic Instinct
Alan Segal (A ’15), Internacia Lingvo
Shana Hoehn (A ’13), Boggy Creek Version 2
Seline Baumgartner (A ’14), Nothing Else
Bryan Zanisnik (A ’08), Aquarium Painting
Lex Brown (A ’12), Projection Affection
Cooper Holoweski (A ’09), As Above, So Below

WEEK 4
Monday, January 28 - Friday, February 1

Richard T. Walker (A ’09), the predicament of always (as it is)
Kerry Downey (A ’17) and Joanna Seitz, Weather Report
Angela Willetts (A ’16), Escape Raft
Orr Menirom (A ’16), Clinton and Sanders Looking at the World and Naming Things for the First Time
Holli McEntegart (A ’14), Beyond the ultraviolet, beyond the infrared
Jennifer Calivas (A ’16) and Dan Swindel, Sides