Members of the Graduate Faculty

Lynne Allen (printmaking) was master printer and technical educational director of the Tamarind Institute in New Mexico and contributing editor of the Tamarind Papers before she joined the faculty at MGSA. She has been an artist-in-residence in Russia, Sweden, South Africa, and the United States. Allen was the first visual artist to be accepted as a Fulbright Scholar to the former Soviet Union. She exhibits work nationally and internationally. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Art Library; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Emma Amos (painting and drawing) is a painter, printmaker, writer, and curator whose works travel or appear in major exhibitions and publications in the United States and abroad. She is governor of the Skowhegan School in Maine and a frequent visiting artist and lecturer around the country. She has received several national and international awards and recently was awarded an honorary doctorate. Her work appears in collections in the Museum of Modern Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the New Jersey and Minnesota state museums, and the Dade County and Newark museums.

Gerry Beegan (graphic design) is a graphic designer and design historian whose commercial practice has included designs for Penguin Books and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He also creates visual works and historical/ theoretical texts, which explore the relationships between art, design, and media. His self-initiated visual work takes the designed object, books, or magazines as its focus. He has explored ways of constructing histories through digital and performance pieces, which have been presented at the International Symposium on Electronic Art and the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

Paul Bruner (design) has worked extensively in advertising and in corporate promotions as art director for advertising firms that represented Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, the American Film Theatre, and Loews Corporation and Loews Hotels. His design credits include work for Avon Books, the New York Times, and Time magazine. His work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum (Smithsonian National Museum of Design), and the Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers.

Lauren Ewing (sculpture and artists' writings) creates installations and sculpture. Her art addresses the relationship of the individual to institutions, the collapse of nature into culture, and the vast construct of material culture. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in galleries and in museum installations, including the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.; the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; and the Kunstverein in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Her work is in many private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ewing`s large public sculptures are on permanent display in many American cities, including Denver, Philadelphia, and Seattle.

Jason Francisco (photography) is a photographer, book artist, and writer whose work investigates the nature of photographs as documents in the construction of social meaning. His projects include in-depth works on rural India, San Francisco's Chinatown, and contemporary Europe. In addition, he has done a series of works on the Shoah and American cities. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, and his work is represented in numerous collections, including that of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. His monograph, Far from Zion, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press.

Gary Kuehn (sculpture and drawing) examines certain innate forces within materials through his work. He was included in the Eccentric Abstraction show in New York and in When Attitude Becomes Form at the Kunsthalle in Bern, Switzerland. Kuehn has had shows at the Wurttembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Germany; the Galerie Rudolph Zwirner in Cologne, Germany; and the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York. His work is in major museum collections in the United States and Europe.

Jae Won Lee (ceramics) explores ceramic material and process to convey her sculptural ideas. Her work is a synthesis of rich cross-cultural experiences and an inner dialogue about gender and ethnicity that is becoming increasingly central to her evolving as an Asian-American woman. Lee has been invited to be an artist-in-residence and visiting artist in the Netherlands, India, the United Kingdom, Germany, South Korea, and the United States. Her work has been seen nationally and internationally through her numerous solo, juried, and invitational exhibitions. Some of these were reviewed by leading national and international magazines and newspapers.

Ardele Lister (film and video) works in time-based media and has been exhibited internationally in festivals, galleries, and museums, and on television. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Academie der Kunst (Berlin), and the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa). She also has written for and edited art and media publications and founded Criteria and The Independent.

Toby MacLennan (installation artist) utilizes performance, sculpture, film, and environments to crystallize her ideas. Her published books include I Walked Out of 2 and Forgot It, The Shape of the Stone Was Stoneshaped, and Singing the Stars. Currently she is writing nonfiction books. Her performance work and installations have been seen in leading Canadian museums, galleries, and planetaria, and in New York at the Franklin Furnace, P.S. 1, P.S. 122, and the Clocktower. Her films have been shown in festivals around the world.

Barbara Madsen (printmaking) works in print, photography, and installation. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Glasgow Print Studio and the Edinburgh Printmaker's Workshop in Scotland and at the Frans Masereel Center in Kasterlee, Belgium. Her series Red Yellow Black examines our fear of death. It also looks at our intolerance toward and lack of understanding of things that differ culturally, religiously, and politically from what we know through experience. Her current works in photogravure and digital media are gaining international recognition. Madsen's work has been included in juried exhibitions in France, England, Northern Ireland, Finland, Yugoslavia, Spain, India, and Japan. In addition, she has participated in numerous national exhibitions.

Diane Neumaier (photography) is a photographer whose recent projects include Spectrum, Fountains and Urns, Rondo, Tondo, and Torso. Her exhibition about the Holocaust, A Voice Silenced, is now traveling internationally. Neumaier is the editor of the anthology Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies, and her own critical writing is widely published. She is coeditor of Cultures in Contention, an anthology of cultural activism, and was guest editor of an issue of the Art Journal that was devoted to contemporary Russian art photography. She has organized a series of exchanges between Mason Gross School of the Arts and eastern European artists.

Thomas Nozkowski (painting) has had over 60 one-person shows of his work since 1979. He is represented in the collections of many museums, including the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Phillips Collection, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum. He is a Guggenheim fellow and has received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Painting.

Philip Orenstein (drawing) is a painter, sculptor, and designer of inflatable sculpture who now concentrates on painting. He also has been involved in producing art pieces using computer-controlled laser videodisks. In 1974, he founded the Arts Computer Laboratory at Rutgers, the first such facility in an art school in this country.

Raphael Ortiz (performance) founded and was the first director of the El Museo Del Barrio in New York in 1969. His sculptures are included in many museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he has twice been included in the Whitney Biennial. He has created mixed-media ritual performances and installations for museums and galleries in Europe and Canada and throughout the United States. His computer-laser-video works are in numerous museum collections, including the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France. His video, Dance Number 22, won the Gran Prix at the 1993 Locarno International Video Festival of Switzerland.

Hanneline Røgeberg (painting) has exhibited her work at the Aldrich Museum, the Whitney Museum, MIT, Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Henie-Onstad Kunst Center in Norway, among other places. She received a WESTAF-NEA Fellowship in 1996, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999, and an Anonymous Was a Woman award in 2003. She has taught previously at the University of Washington, Yale University, and Cooper Union.

Martha Rosler (photography, video, media, and critical studies) works in video, photo-text, installation, performance, and writes criticism. She has lectured extensively in this country and internationally. Her work in the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience, ranges from the link between social life and the media to architecture. She has published several books of photographs, texts, and commentary on public space, ranging from airports and roads to housing and homelessness. Her work has been seen most recently in the Venice Bienniale (2003) as well as in the "Documenta" exhibition in Kassel, Germany; several Whitney biennials; the Institute of Contemporary Art in London; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Dia Center for the Arts in New York; and many other international venues. A retrospective of her work has been shown in five European cities and in New York at the New Museum and the International Center for Photography (2000). An accompanying book has been published by MIT Press. Her writing has been published widely in catalogs and magazines such as Artforum, Afterimage, and Studio International. A book of her essays is published by MIT Press (2004). She won the Spectrum Prize for Photography (Germany) for 2003 and has been chosen as Honored Educator in 2003 by the Society for Photographic Education's Mid-Atlantic region.

Jacqueline Thaw (graphic design) is a graphic designer focused on the printed word and design`s role in public life. Her work as an editorial and identity designer in New York City includes four years with the interdisciplinary design consultancy Pentagram. She has taught at the University of Hawaii and the School of Visual Arts and has given talks and workshops at the Rhode Island School of Design, Fordham University, and the national conference of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). Her work has been recognized by the AIGA, Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, and AIGA/Honolulu. She is a member of Class Action, a collective that creates design for social change.

Some of our distinguished graduate faculty who have retired from the department after many years of teaching include Mark Berger, Judith K. Brodsky, Leon Golub, John L. Goodyear, Geoffrey Hendricks, Joan Semmel, and Peter Stroud.