Blitz Crit Guests

Jeffrey Stockbridge, Alex Dacorte, Rob Lieber, Karen Gelardi and Lisa Bossi will be participating in our Blitz Crit tomorrow. Please see the blurbs below and visit their websites (by clicking on their names) to familiarize yourself with their work and experience.

Jeffrey Stockbridge

Jeffrey Stockbridge is a photographer who documents the complexities of urban blight. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Stockbridge photographs the prevalence of drugs, prostitution, and abandoned homes in the city. The prevailing theme in Stockbridge’s work is his subjects will to survive a harsh urban landscape. His work has been exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery in London, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania and the Delaware Art Museum. Stockbridge was recently awarded 3rd Prize in the 2010 Taylor-Wessing Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London. His work is represented by The Wapping Project, Bankside in London.

Alex Dacorte

Alex Dacorte, born in New Jersey, raised in Venezuela and living in Philadelphia, is an artist who describes his work as ‘visual mash-ups’. He recently completed his MFA at Yale University. Often incorporating found objects, Da Corte creates multimedia work that belies its material origins.

(read a feature about him in Interview Magazine here)

Rob Lieber

Robert Lieber has exhibited at the Portland Museum of Art, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Whitney Works Gallery and The LC Bates Museum. He received his BFA at The University of Southern Maine and his MFA at Mills College in Oakland CA. He was awarded the Jay DeFao Prize in 1999 and the Zorach Scholarship to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1997. For the past 10 years he has been teaching art in the U Maine system and Maine College of Art.

Karen Gelardi

Karen Gelardi lives and works in South Portland, Maine. She studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design and has been influenced by the design and manufacturing processes of her family’s plastics factory in Biddeford, Maine, and Asian brush painting. She has exhibited widely throughout Maine and recently had her first show in New York City at Coleman Burke Gallery. Karen is a “Smocker” in Andrea Zittel’s internationally exhibited Smockshop, and a “panelist” in Zittel’s newest artist enterprise Panelshop. Depicting urban and suburban plants with a handmade, cut and sew approach, Karen Gelardi’s fabric, ink, and papier maché drawings, and oil paintings explore ideas about resiliency, adaptation, and a re-invented nature.

Lisa Bossi

Lisa Bossi, along with Andrea Alban Gosline are the co-creators of inspirational books, greeting cards, and guided journals. Written with heart by Andrea, and transformed with a lush palette by Lisa, their creative works draws on a love of family and nature's wonders. They are also the author and illustrator of January's Child: A Birthday Month Book (Scholastic, January 2007), Ten Little Wishes (Harper, Spring 2007), and Celebrating Motherhood (Conari Press, 2002).