Fall 2013 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Illinois State University

Fall 2013Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Illinois State UniversityRegan Golden, St. Paul, MN* in residence September 8 - 21Public Lecture: Wednesday Sept. 11, Noon @ University GalleriesRegan Golden is an artist and writer based in St. Paul, MN. Recent exhibitionsinclude Clear Cut at Gallery 44 in Toronto and A Sense of Place in a ChangingWorld at the National Science Foundation in Washington D.C. Golden’s work hasbeen exhibited at Harvard University's Fisher Museum in Petersham,Massachusetts; Gallery 400 in Chicago, Illinois; The Walker Art Center SculptureGarden in Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Rochester Art Center in Rochester,Minnesota; and The Cue Foundation in New York, New York. She has receivedfellowships from The Core Program at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston andThe Stone Summer Theory Institute at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2010,Golden received a Long-term Ecological Research Grant in the Arts from theNational Science Foundation in support of her research at the Harvard Forestinto the different ways that artists and scientists depict ecological change in thewoods and how these competing views inform decisions about development. Sheearned in an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and a B.A.from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Golden co-founded the collaborativeDrawn Lots, with Jeremy Lundquist in 2006.

Matthew Northridge, New York, NY* in residence September 22 – October 5Public Lecture: Wednesday Sept. 25, Noon @ University GalleriesMatthew Northridge lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He studied at BostonCollege and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, receiving and MFA inpainting and drawing in 1999. His work has been included in such exhibitions as“Out of Site: Fictional Architectural Spaces” at the New Museum of ContemporaryArt, “Open House: Working in Brooklyn” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, “MaterialMatters” at the Johnson Museum (Cornell University), “The 183 rd Annual” at theNational Academy Museum, and “United States” at the Aldrich Contemporary ArtMuseum. His solo efforts include shows at KANSAS (NYC), Western Exhibitions(Chicago), and Gorney Bravin + Lee (NYC). Northridge’s honors include a 2011fellowship in sculpture from the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well asgrants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Pollock-KrasnerFoundation. He has also been an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony,the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and the Skowhegan School of Painting andSculpture.

Mark Epstein, New York, NY* in residence October 6 – 25Public Lecture: Wednesday October 9, Noon @ University GalleriesMark Joshua Epstein is a Brooklyn based artist with a practice primarily based inpainting, drawing and collage. He received his BFA from a joint program betweenthe School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University in 2002 andhis MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, 2004.Recent group shows include "Luminous Language" at Launch F18 in New Yorkand "Push on the Surface" at Raritan Valley Community College in New Jersey.Recently Epstein was awarded a 2012 Alumni Traveling Fellowship from theSchool of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In Summer 2012 Epstein was aresident at the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony for the Arts In Austerlitz, NY andthe Constance Saltonstall Foundation in Ithaca, NY. This past Fall Epstein hadtwo linked solo exhibitions in the north of England. In “All of me is asking, all ofme is thinking…” Vane Gallery in Newcastle exhibited recent paintings andcollages and in “Pardon me for asking, pardon me for thinking…”, CustomsHouse Gallery in South Shields showed an earlier set of works. The shows werementioned in the Guardian Newspaper in October as part of the 10 shows to seethat week in England.

Peter Krashes, New York, NY* in residence October 27 – November 8Public Lecture: Wednesday October 30, Noon @ University GalleriesPeter Krashes is a painter and community advocate in Prospect Heights,Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited in various museums and not-for-profitsincluding the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, White Columns and the HeXiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen, China. He has had solo exhibitions atTheodore: Art, Derek Eller Gallery, Jessica Murray Projects, Momenta Art, andMichael Klein Gallery in New York. Among the grants he has received are aJoan Mitchell Foundation Painter and Sculptors Grant and a MarshallScholarship for study at the University of Oxford. He has taught art in numerousplaces including Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art,Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, American University, RutgersUniversity, and The University of the Arts. His current civic participation includesas the President of the Dean Street Block Association, board member of theProspect Heights Neighborhood Development Council, and co-founder andadministrator of Atlantic Yards Watch. Atlantic Yards Watch is a communitybased,volunteer-led initiative to protect the health and livability of Brooklynneighborhoods impacted by one of the largest single source real estatedevelopments in New York City history.