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Elijah Huge

Assistant Professor of Art - Architecture, Urban StudiesElijah Huge is an architect and director of the design firm Periphery. Exploring the interactions between landscape, regulatory systems, and architecture, his work includes award-winning competition entries for the High Line (New York, NY), the Bourne Bridge|Park (Bourne, MA), and the Tangshan Earthquake Memorial (Tangshan, China). His writings and design work have been featured in Praxis, Thresholds, Perspecta, Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture, Dwell, the Journal of Architectural Education, and Competitions. A graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, he received the AIA Henry Adams Medal and was editor of Perspecta 35: Building Codes. His current scholarly research examines the historical emergence of architectural emergency devices, from the automatic sprinkler head to the Vonduprin panic bar. At Wesleyan, Huge leads the architecture studio track and the North Studio initiative within the Department of Art & Art History. Focused on developing and producing research and conceptually driven projects with real-world clients, North Studio is both a locus for architectural design education within the context of Wesleyan University's liberal arts curriculum and a laboratory for design research and fabrication.http://www.peripheryprojects.com

Julia Randall

Assistant Professor of Art - DrawingJulia Randall is in love with drawing, and uses her obsessive, seductive technique to craft images that humorously challenge what is “natural” about corporeality and desire. She has had solo exhibitions at Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City, and in Sydney, Australia at Esa Jaske Gallery. Her drawings have been included in numerous group exhibitions, most recently at The Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, The National Academy in New York, KS Art in New York, BravinLee Programs in New York, Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, and at the Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. Julia Randall is the recipient of numerous fellowships and residency awards, including a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, the Vermont Studio Center, and multiple residencies at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, France. Her drawings have been reviewed in The New York Times, NY ARTS, Art on Paper, Flash Art, and The Sydney Morning Herald. Additionally, her work has been featured in New American Paintings, American Artist, and Beautiful Decay magazines. Julia Randall received her M.F.A. from Rutgers University, and her B.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis. She lives and works in New York City and in Connecticut, and is represented by Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City.http://www.baileygallery.com/

Sasha Rudensky

Assistant Professor of Art - PhotographySasha Rudensky was born and raised in Moscow, Russia before moving to the United States with her family. Her work has been exhibited widely including Aperture Gallery, Danziger Projects, Society Contemporary Art, and Affirmation Arts in New York City; Gallery 339 in Philadelphia; Musee de l’Elysee in Lausanne, Switzerland; Macro Testaccio Museum and Galleria Gallerati in Rome; and Gallery on Old Bailey, Hong Kong, China among others. In 2010 Sasha’s work was included in “regeneration 2: Photographers of Tomorrow Today”, an international survey of emerging photographers. Sasha received her MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2008 and BA from Wesleyan University in 2001. She was the recipient of the Ward Cheney Memorial Award from Yale University, Mortimer-Hays Brandeis Traveling Fellowship, Leica/Jim Marshall Award, and Jessup Prize from Wesleyan University. Sasha Rudensky’s practice is concerned with understanding the meaning of place as a physical manifestation and a reflection of cultural identity. Primarily focused on post-communist Eastern Europe, her photographs trace the loss and recasting of national character that has defined the region’s history for the last twenty years. Her three recent projects “Remains” 2004-2005, “Demons” 2007-2008, and “Novij Mir” 2009-Present take different approaches to what has been a common theme – the idea of displacement and process of reconnection. Cultivating a posture that is simultaneously that of an earnest documentarian and a fiction writer, she manufactures a fragmented, contradictory world engaged in a self-conscious performance of identity creation. Her protagonists are part archetype and part invention, participating in open-ended tableaus that she sets up. The landscapes and interiors provide a backdrop to that constructed world, which is as much about absurdity, illusion, and fantasy as it is about everyday reality.http://www.sasharudensky.com/

Jeffrey Schiff

Professor of Art - SculptureJeffrey Schiff is a sculptor/installation artist whose work explores the interplay between order and disorder, rationality and custom, and the uses of information. He has received numerous fellowships and prizes, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Senior Scholar Fulbright Fellowship to India, Bogliasco Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio residencies, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Schiff has exhibited his work widely, in New York City at the Sculpture Center, Stux Gallery, and Bose Pacia Gallery, in New Delhi at Nature Morte Gallery, and in institutions including the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, the Williams College Museum of Art, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, the Katonah Museum of Art, and Real Art Ways in Hartford CT. He has produced permanent public commissions at the Boston South Station Railroad Terminal and New Britain CT Courthouse. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art-in-America, Sculpture Magazine, the Boston Globe and the New York Times.http://www.jeffreyschiff.com

David Schorr

Professor of Art - Printmaking, Typography, Graphic DesignA native of Chicago, educated at Brown and Yale, David Schorr works and resides in New York City and Middletown. He has been Professor of Art at Wesleyan since 1971 where he has taught printmaking, drawing, typography, book design, graphic design and calligraphy. He has been a Fulbright Scholar three times, to Italy in 1975, where he worked at the CalcografiaNazionale in Rome and to India in 1998 and 2001. He continues to go often to India where he has served as adjunct professor at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. He is represented by Mary Ryan Gallery in New York City where he shows regularly. His next exhibition is scheduled for Spring 2012. In addition he has had solo shows in Chicago, Milan, Rome, Naples, Paris, Athens, Toronto, Montreal, Copenhagen, New Delhi, Ahmedabad and Bombay. His work has been reproduced extensively in The New York Times, The New Yorker and most significantly The New Republic, for which he has done over three hundred portraits. Schorr has illustrated numerous books, among them Parallel Lives, by Wesleyan author Phyllis Rose and four volumes of the fables of La Fontaine and a collection from Baudelaire translated by Wesleyan Professor Norman Shapiro.His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, (Washington), The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Fogg Museum (Harvard), The New York Public Library, The Israel Museum (Jerusalem), among others, and The Yale University Art Gallery just acquired his set of sixty engraved portraits of writers, Unconstraining Voices. David Schorr’s work can be seen at davidschorr.com.http://www.davidschorr.com/

Tula Telfair

Professor of Art - Painting, DrawingTula Telfair’s large oil paintings combine highly realistic invented images of epic landscape and dramatic weather with minimal elements of pure color. She employs a variety of painterly techniques to achieve convincing illusions, while utilizing formal devices to remind viewers that what they are observing is simply a two-dimensional surface covered in paint. She is interested in the subjectivity of perception and the power of memory to trigger recollections of things past. Having had more than 35 one-person exhibitions and 135 group shows in the United States and broad, Telfair has work in private collections around the world. Additionally, her paintings are in 40 public collections including The New Orleans Museum of Art, The Redding Art Museum, Seven Bridges Foundation, General Electric Corporation, The Federal Reserve Bank, MasterCard Corporation, Deloitte Touch, Cable Vision, Brauerei Beck and Company and the U.S. Department of State to name a few. She is represented by Forum Gallery in New York City.http://www.tulatelfair.com

Keiji Shinohara

Artist in Residence - Alternative Printmaking, Sumi-e PaintingKeiji Shinohara specialized in woodcut and sumi-e painting. He is currently teaching printmaking at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and has been a visiting artist at over 100 venues and 30 solo show. He has received grants from the Japan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and his work is in many public collections, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Library of Congress.http://www.keijiart.com