ALUMNI
SPOTLIGHT
On and Off the Wall Other recent and upcoming alumni artists exhibits Adam Brent ’91 “Cooked Green” June 12 through August 31 The Art Lot Brooklyn, New York John R. Whitton Bria ’69 “New York Points of View” September 17 through December 31 The Gallery in the Park Cross River, New York William Hudders ’82 “Summer Light” September 5 through October 30 Ahlum Gallery Easton, Pennsylvania Marc Leuthold ’80 “Expanding Vortex” March 22 through May 15 Gallery Pahk New York, New York [For a list of exhibits in the Mark W. Potter Gallery, please turn to page 15.]
“Bend,” 2004, 48" x 60", oil on linen
COURTESY
KATHARINA RICH PERLOW GALLERY
Upcoming Exhibits for Ken Rush Artist Ken Rush ’67 will have a selection of his recent landscapes included in a three-artist exhibition at Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery in New York City that opens January 6. He will also be having a solo exhibition opening February 18 at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, Vermont. Spending time in New York and Vermont, Rush is entering his 26th year of teaching art at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn. “I work from, with, and in the landscape,” says Rush. “At first, my painting made very specific reference to what I saw. Now I am no longer working from any specific reference or source.”
Rush’s landscape has been internalized into thematic series that basically find voice in his studio. They are neither memory images nor observed ones, he explains, but instead are personal explorations of the act of painting. “I consider them,” he says, “in spite of their elements of familiarity and recognition, to be essentially abstract.” Rush has studied at some of the finest institutes worldwide, including the Sir John Cass College of Art in London and the Syracuse University School of Fine Arts. He is the author and illustrator of several children’s books, including The Seltzer Man and Friday’s Journey. Taft Bulletin Fall 2004
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