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Molly Springfield uses outdated technologies for the basis of her art practice.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.