40th Anniversary Celebration

Eozen Agopian is an artist of Armenian descent born in Athens, Greece. She has received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., (1993), Bachelor of Fine Arts, (magna cum laude) from Hunter College, N.Y., N.Y., (1989), and Associate Degree in Graphic Design from F.I.T, N.Y., N.Y., (1987).

She has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group shows in public and private venues in Greece, France, Russia, Italy, Germany, China and the United States, such as, Michael Walls Gallery (New York), Fox Gallery NYC, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery (Athens), The Consulate General of Greece in New York, Lesley Heller Workspace (New York) , Shiva Gallery of the John Jay College (New York), WhiteBox Harlem, (N.Y), Consulate General of France in New York, AAW Gallery, (Beijing), Freud’s Dream Museum (St. Petersburg), Hellenic American Union (Athens), State Museum of Contemporary Art, (Thessalonica, Greece), Museum of Contemporary Art (Crete, Greece). Recently she participated at the exhibition “The Future of Things Passed” curated by Atamian Hovsepian Curatorial Practice in NYC. Her work was also featured at the group show “Trade of the Season” a collaborative project between High Noon Gallery (NYC) and Marquee Projects (Bellport, N.Y.) She is an alumnus of the Triangle Arts Workshop (2012) and the Triangle Arts 6 months residency (2014). The summer of 2019 was awarded a studio on Governors Island. The same year she was invited to the Officinenove Art residency in Rome. Presently she is one of the Project Studio resident artists at the PS122 in the LES. Her work belongs to many private and public collections in Europe and USA.

MacDowell Fellow Carl E. Hazlewood, born in Guyana, received his BFA (with honors) from Pratt Institute and his MA from Hunter College. A three-time Triangle resident, the visual artist, curator, writer, co-founded Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ. Other Fellowships and residencies include The Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France; The Bogliasco Foundation, Genova, Italy; NARS Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, Yaddo, and Art Cake, NYC. A 2017 ‘Tree of Life’ award grantee, his fifty-two feet mural, ‘TRAVELER’, (2017) was commissioned by the Knockdown Center, Maspeth, Queens. He exhibited at Volta, and Scope Art Fairs, and has been written about in The New Yorker Magazine, BOMB Magazine, the NY Times, and Huffington Post.

2022 Whitney Biennial artist James Little (b. 1952) is an American abstract artist whose distinctive aesthetic language is rooted in geometric shapes and patterns, flat surfaces, and emotive color relationships. Little utilizes a method similar to the encaustic painting technique used by ancient Egyptian and Greek artists, blending handmade pigments with hot beeswax. Little has been an enduring and influential force in the field of abstraction for decades. Included in such pivotal early exhibitions as Another Generation: Contemporary Abstractionists at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979, and Afro-American Abstraction at MoMA PS1 in 1980, Little has consistently re-defined the meaning and importance of abstract painting in the Postmodern age. His distinctive aesthetic language is rooted in geometric shapes and patterns, flat surfaces, and emotive color relationships. While developing his unique position within contemporary abstraction, Little has devoted decades to rigorous academic study of color theory, pictorial design, and painting techniques. His practice embodies the complementary forces of simplicity and complexity. Little holds a BFA from the Memphis Academy of Art and an MFA from Syracuse University. He is a 2009 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painting. In addition to being featured prominently in the 2022 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, NY, his work has been exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions around the world, including at MoMA PS1, New York, NY; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO; and the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC. Recently, Little's work has been thrilling audiences in such groundbreaking exhibitions as Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, and The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection at the Saint Louis Museum, Saint Louis, MO.

Jill Nathanson is an abstract painter working in New York City. She is represented by Berry Campbell Gallery in Chelsea. Her works explore new possibilities for color painting as a field of vision, combining aspects of Color Field Painting with Contemporary post-Minimal Painting. She holds a BA from Bennington College and an MFA from Hunter College. Public collections include the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, The Telfair Museum, Savannah, Ga, The Sheldon Museum, Lincoln, NE and the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia SC.