East/West Triptych

Woodman studied at the prominent Alfred University, School for American Craftsman, Alfred, New York, 1948-1950. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards including the Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to Florence, Italy in 1966; the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1980 and 1986; Bellagio Study Center, Italy in 1995; and the Visionary Award of The American Craft Museum, New York City, New York. She taught at the University of Colorado from 1979-1998 and is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of Colorado. Woodman was a visiting artist at the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University, Alfred, New York and Scripps College, Claremont, California in 1977. She also was a pottery teacher and administrator for the City of Boulder Recreation Department from 1958 until 1974. Woodman?s numerous solo and group exhibitions have included the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri, the Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her work is in many collections worldwide including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana; the Carnegie-Mellon Institute, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; the Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England. East/West Triptych by Woodman conjures up Etruscan vases with images on the vessels that are reminiscent of Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. On each side of the vases one can discover different colored glazes and images.

Portrait with Scissors and Nightclub

Salle received his BFA and MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California in 1973 and 1975 respectively. His work is amongst the museum collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York and the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Reviews of his work have been in many prestigious magazines including Art in America, Arts Magazine, Art Monthly and Artforum.

Swaying in the Florida Night

After graduating from Ohio University in 1958, Dine relocated to New York City and soon became an active participant of Pop art. Today he is recognized as one of the leading figures in Pop art alongside his friends from his early days in New York, Claes Oldenburg and Roy Lichtenstein. Besides countless solo and group exhibitions, Dine has had retrospective exhibitions at the Isetan Museum Tokyo, Japan; the Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York. His work resides in the permanent collections of many museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York. Dine lived in London, England with his family in the late 1960s through the early 1970s and focused on honing both his printmaking and drawing skills. Swaying in the Florida Nights demonstrates the level of mastery Dine attained in printmaking. The trees swaying in the night appear almost figurative and express the artist?s personality.