Gestures W'06_07 FINAL 2.indd - Temple University

RACHEL BOMZE MFA ’04, “BLACK AND GOLD,” 53.5 X 120 INCHES, INK AND ACRYLIC ON PAPER, 2005.
also contributed a piece of artwork for the
Inliquid.com V.6.O benefit auction at the
beginning of October. Rachel continues
to make art in her studio, located at the
Crane Arts Building in Philadelphia.
ELIZABETH MAPLESDEN, BFA Graphic
and Interactive Design, was recently
notified that her work will appear in Print
magazine’s 2006 “Print Regional Annual.”
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ALEXIS HUGO NUTINI, MFA
Printmaking, had an exhibition
entitled, “Reflection” of prints and
woodblocks carved in Spain and Italy from
August 16th through August 30th, 2006
at the Mexico Lindo in Pittsburgh, PA.
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NILS ORTH, BFA Photography,
was the winner of the sixth annual
Adobe Design Achievement Awards in
the digital photography category. This is
the premier student design competition
that honors the world’s most talented
student graphic designers, photographers,
illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers,
and computer artists from the top design,
film, and broadcast institutions. Using the
latest Adobe products, more than 1,800
students from twenty-four countries
competed in the annual program.
I N M E M O R I A M
JEFFREY WASSERMAN, BFA ’68 in
painting, passed away on July 2, 2006
at his home in Millerton, New York after
battling cancer. He was 59 years old.
Wasserman became known in New York for
his “buoyant, vividly colorful and poetically
suggestive abstractions.” “His paintings
were made with loose, spontaneous touch
in thin layers, featured elemental shapes,
arabesque forms and archetypal symbols
folded into layered, luminously colored
spaces” described Ken Johnson of the
New York Times. His memory lives with
his wife Anne Newburg, his daughter Jane,
and son Hugo. Laurie Simmons, BFA ’71,
gave the eulogy.
VIVIAN BERGENFELD, continuing
education student Printmaking and Painting
at Tyler, passed away in 2004. She received
her teaching certificate in the School of
Industrial Design at Philadelphia College of
Art and University of the Arts. Since 1976
she has inspired the creativity in students
as a printmaking instructor at various
institutions including Hussian School of
Art, Cheltenham Art Center, and Chestnut
Hill College. Her last show was “Vivian
Bergenfeld/Evie Liebowitz, Two Artists
Two Views” shown June 12th through
July 14th, 2006 at the Cheltenham Center
for the Arts. She is an artist that will be
remembered in the hearts of many.
CYNTHIA LAWRENCE died on July 26
after a long and heroic struggle against
cancer. She endured debilitating health
problems with quiet fortitude and refused
to allow the disease to limit her activities.
Cynthia, who received her BA from Oberlin
and her MA and PhD from the University
of Chicago (1978) and was a professor in
the Department of Art History at Temple
University when she retired in 2004. Her
fields of study embraced both painting
and sculpture in both Flanders and The
Netherlands. Cynthia was hired at the rank
of Associate Professor at Temple University
in 1986 and rose to the rank of Professor in
1991. Known as a thoughtful and rigorous
teacher, she will be missed by her students
and colleagues.
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