National Wet Paint 2010 Video

National Wet Paint Exhibition

I will be showing work at the Zhou B. Art Center in Chicago in the National Wet Paint Exhibition through February.

The following is taken from the event press release:

Exhibitions Dates: January 15 to February 28, 2010

Opening Date/Reception: Friday, January 15th, 2010 from 7 pm to 10 pm

Event Description:

The National Wet Paint Exhibition is an outlook and an overview of emerging

artists across the United States currently working in the medium of painting. Wet

Paint refers to the idea that this is a fresh group of artists. They are MFA (Masters of

Fine Arts) candidates and recent MFA recipients working primarily in the medium

of painting.

2010 marks the first decade of the 21st Century. Under the watchful eye of a

technology driven society, online social networking and cyber interaction

communities, emerging artists have been evolving and redefining one of the

oldest mediums of art, painting.

The National Wet Paint Exhibition consists of 52 paintings by artists selected from a

national call which resulted in 255 submissions. The exhibition takes place in the

6000 sq/ft main gallery of the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago’s Bridgeport

neighborhood. The Zhou B Art Center is a private, non-government funded art

center designed to facilitate the exchange of contemporary art between

Chicago and the international art community. The 87,000 square feet art center

offers innumerable possibilities for exploring the arts in a charismatic location and

collectively form an extravagant art center fusing culture and creativity.

All the works in the exhibition will be permanently available online at

www.VisualArtToday.com. The National Wet Paint Exhibition was curated and

organized by Sergio Gomez, independent curator at the Zhou B Art Center.

Participating Artists

Jon Barwick, MFA, The University of Georgia

Jolene Beckman, State University of New York, University at Buffalo

Colleen Beyer, Georgia Southern Univeristy

Blaine Bradford, Northern Illinois University

Erica Buss, University of Michigan

Victoria H. Chang, MFA, Pratt Institute, NY

Nannette Cherry, University of Central Florida

Woojin Choi, Pratt Institute, NY

Tony Conrad, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Kim Deakins, University of Georgia, The Lamar Dodd School of Art

Emile Ferris, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Lisa Ficarelli-Halpern, New Jersey City University

Maureen Forman, MFA, Indiana University, Bloomington

Francine Fox, MFA, University of Delaware3-523-0200 • www.zbcenter.org

Laura Grossett, Colorado State University

Jaime Gustavson, MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts

Garry Holstein, University of Arkansas

Michael Hubbard, Washington State University

Andrea Jensen, University of Arizona, Tucson

Jason John, MFA, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Jake Johnson, Missouri University

Maria Jonsson, University of Illinois at Chicago

Michael Kalmbach, MFA, University of Delaware

Saydi Indianos Kaufman, Montclair State University, New Jersey

Geoffrey Krawczyk, SUNY – University of Buffalo

Matthew Lahm, New Jersey City University

Megan Leong, MFA, Kendall College of Art and Design, MI

Suqin (Jackie) Lin, University of Missouri – Columbia

C. Matthew Luther, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Michael McCaffrey, MFA, Indiana University Bloomington

Kyle McKenzie, MFA, University of Arkansas

Susan Mulder, MFA, Kendall College of Art and Design, MI

Nicole Northway, MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago

Benedict Oddi, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Injung Oh, MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

J. Thomas Pallas, MFA, University of Chicago

Katherine Perryman, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Rebecca Potts, MFA, Washington University in St. Louis

Shawn Saumell, New Mexico State University

Leah Schreiber, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee

Elise Schweitzer, Indiana University Bloomington

Ryan Shultz, MFA, Northwestern University, Chicago

Garric Simonsen, Washington State University

Ernesto A. Trujillo, University of Arizona, CFA

Chris Ulrich, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan

Ben Utigard, MFA, Memphis College of Art

Anthony Vega, MFA, University of Delaware

Amanda Voltz, Northern Illinois University

Robin Walker, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan

Amanda Wallace, Goddard College, Vermont

Michael Wartgow, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

Sanders Watson, MFA, Queens College, NY

Location: Zhou B Art Center, 1029 W. 35th St, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60609

Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5 pm, Saturday noon to 5 pm.

Contact:

Zhou B Art Center: 773-523-0200

Sergio Gomez, Curator: 708-837-4534

www.wetpaint2010.com

Interview on ExpressMilwaukee.com

Click here to read an interview posted on October 21, 2009 to expressmilwaukee.com, a popular online entertainment magazine. The interview is a portion of a conversation I had with Peggy Sue Dunigan, when she visited my studio during the Kenilworth Open Studio on October 16th.

http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/blog-4456-leah-schreiber-a-uwms-union-gallery-in-tcrossovert.html