Residencies » Visiting Artists & Writers » 2008 » April » Lynn Umlauf

ArtistLynn Umlauf

Lecture Date: 04/17/2008

Lynn Umlauf was born in Austin, Texas. She attended undergraduate school in Austin, and the Art Students League in New York. Lynn did graduate work in Austin, and also spent one year at the Academia di Belli Arti in Florence Italy, then returned to the States to receive a Masters degree from the University of Texas in 1966. She moved to New York in 1966-67, and has maintained a NY studio since by working part time as a college teacher and also four years as a head chef. Madelon, her identical twin, introduced Lynn to Michael Goldberg in 1969, and they married 10 years later. Lynn first started showing in Italy with the help of the artist, Primo Conti, and later after leaving the Academy in Florence, in the Studio la Cita Gallery in Veronna, and the December Gallery in Dusseldorf. Her first show in New York was with the Hal Bromm Gallery, and her first museum inclusion was with the Whitney Biennial.

NARI WARD

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist: 08/12/2008

Nari Ward (b. Jamaica, 1963) received a BA from Hunter College in 1991 and an MFA from Brooklyn College 1992. Exhibitions include two Whitney Biennials, Venice Biennale, and Documenta XI. Ward has also received commissions from the United Nations, and the World Health Organization, and has collaborated with Ralph Lemon, Bill T. Jones and Toni Morrison. Grants include American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts,New York Foundation for the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim and Pollock Krasner Foundations. Ward currently lives in New York, and teaches at Hunter College.

WOLF KAHN

In Back of the Vermont Studio Center, 2001.
Oil on canvas. 52 x 66 inches.

Wolf Kahn is a Founding Trustee of the Vermont Studio Center and an annual Visiting Artist for the past 20 years. As such he has had a major role in the Center?s success since its founding in 1984.
Born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1927, Kahn immigrated to the United States in 1940 where he studied with the well-known teacher and abstract expressionist Hans Hoffman. From 1956 ? 1995 he showed at the Grace Borgenicht Gallery, and now shows at Ameringer and Yohe in New York and in galleries all over this country and abroad.
His work is in many private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum, and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C., and the Los Angeles County Museum.
He has received a Fulbright, a Guggenheim, and American Academy of Arts and Letters Award. He is member of the National Academy of Design, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
He lives in New York and spends summers and autumns in Vermont.