Ann Sperry
Joys of Love Roma
Welded and Painted Steel
Thank you to the Sperry family for the generous donation of this work.
Ann Sperry
Untitled
Welded steel
Thank you to the Sperry family for the generous donation of this work.
Born in The Bronx, Ann Sperry graduated from the High School of Art and Music and Sarah Lawrence College. Sperry used welded steel, often with applications of color, to explore the expressive possibilities of the generally inflexible medium. Sperry began making sculpture in the 1960s. Her steel sculptures are included in the collections of Storm King Arts Center in Orange County, NY; Skirball Museums in Los Angeles, CA and Cincinnati, OH; and the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.
Cambria Mack
2007
Metallic Digital Print
Thank you to Anna-Maria Vag for the generous donation of this work.
Flowers &
2008
Metallic Digital Print
Thank you to Anna-Maria Vag for the generous donation of this work.
Katco Office Supplies
2007
Metallic Digital Print
Thank you to Anna-Maria Vag for the generous donation of this work.
Modern Trend
2007
Metallic Digital Print
Thank you to Anna-Maria Vag for the generous donation of this work.
Service One Hour
2009
Metallic Digital Print
Thank you to Anna-Maria Vag for the generous donation of this work.
Slice-N-Spice
2008
Metallic Digital Print
Thank you to Anna-Maria Vag for the generous donation of this work.
Welling Bros. Block Co.
2009
Metallic Digital Print
Thank you to Anna-Maria Vag for the generous donation of this work.
A New Jersey artist for over a decade, Anna-Mária Vág grew up in New York City. At an early age, she developed a great love for historical photos and documenting the past. On the surface her images pay homage to the beauty in the ready-made arrangements of colors, textures, and geometrical grids and patterns.
Vág holds a BA in Film with a concentration in English Literature from Vassar College, and has also studied film and fine art at UCLA, California; Maine Media Workshops, Rockport, Maine; the School of Visual Arts, New York; and the Art Students League, New York. Vág has exhibited at Newark’s Aljira and the Jersey City Museum, and her work is part of the Rutgers University Institute for Women and Art Artist Archive. Vág’s art is also in the permanent collections of the Trenton Public Library and the Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
These plates are from the Azuero Earth Project, whose mission is to preserve the earth's ecosystems, protect biodiversity, and promote healthy communities by helping people make informed decisions, take sustainable action, and share knowledge.
April Gornik(1953- )
Untitled
2012
Bone China, Azuero Earth Project
Limited edition of 500
April Gornik was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She earned her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada. Gornik considers herself a Conceptual artist, and has been quoted as saying, "I am an artist that values, above all, the ability of art to move me emotionally and physically I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful."
She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Guild Hall Museum in 2003. and was the Neuberger Museum's Annual Honoree in 2004. Her works are found in public collections including the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana; and University Art Museum, C.S.U., Long Beach, California. She now lives and works in New York City.
Mary Beth Heilmann (1940- )
Untitled
2012
Bone China, Azuero Earth Project
Limited edition of 500
Mary Beth Heilmann was born in San Francisco, California, and earned her BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and her MA from the University of California at Berkeley. The artist began her career as a sculptor and then started to paint in the 1970s. Although she is in her eighth decade her work is often featured in exhibitions that include the work of artists under the age of 40. Heilmann's use of bright colors and youthful concepts may have something to do with the age group of artists with which she is often featured. In 2006, Heilmann won the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Award and was also awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her work has appeared in three Whitney Biennial exhibitions (1972, 1989, 2008) and is in many collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Orange County Museum of Art, California. Heilmann lives and works in New York.
Maya Lin (1959- )
Untitled, 2012
Bone china, Azuero Earth project
Limited edition of 500
Maya Lin was born in Athens, Ohio. She received her Bachelor's degree from Vale, where she studied architecture and sculpture. As both artist and architect, her work reflects a strong interest in the environment. During her senior year, she won a nationwide competition to create a design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Her minimalist design first aroused controversy but has become very popular with the public. Her monument simply listed the names of the soldiers who had died each year. Their names are carved in stone.
Major institutions which hold Lin's work include the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; and the M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, In 2009, Maya Lin was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. She lives and works in New York City.
Teresita Fernandez(1968- )
Untitled
2012
Bone china, Azuero Earth project
Limited Edition of 500
Teresita Fernández was born in Miami, Florida and now lives and works in New York City. She earned her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, and her BFA from Florida International University, Miami. She is a conceptual artist best known for her public sculptures and unconventional use of materials. Her large pieces are often inspired by landscape and natural phenomena as well as diverse historical and cultural references. She is a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2003), a Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award (1999), and a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist's Grant (1994).
Five Piece Band
2012
Mixed Media on Watercolor paper
Thank you Carmen Cartiness Johnson for this generous donation of this work.
Man with a Horn #3
2012
Mixed media and watercolor on paper
Thank you Carmen Cartiness Johnson for this generous donation of this work.
My Best Bass
2009
Mixed Media Watercolor paper
Thank you Carmen Cartiness Johnson for this generous donation of this work.
On his Break #4
2012
Charcoal on paper
Thank you Carmen Cartiness Johnson for this generous donation of this work.
Laurie Riccadonna
Gardenias and Ladybugs, 2012
Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
Dedicated in honor of Dr. Joan Rafter.
This work was presented by Dr. Rafter who served as a distinguished member of the faculty from 1982-2014.
Laurie Riccadonna earned her MFA in Painting/ Printmaking from Yale University and her BFA in Painting/Drawing from the Pennsylvania State University. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at venues including the Van Vleck House and Gardens in Montclair, Hamilton Square in Jersey City, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden of New York. She was a recipient of the NJ State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, and Yale University’s Ely Harwood Schless Prize. Currently Coordinator/ Associate Professor of Fine Art at Hudson County Community College, Ms. Riccadonna resides in Jersey City.
Lynn H. Butler
A Passage Through Sleepy Hollow, 2011
Digital Print, Edition of 10
Collaborator Kathryn Lyness, Published by the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers University in New Jersey
Lynn H. Butler writes, "From the Camargue in France, to Sleepy Hollow in New York, then from the Maine coast to California, I searched the countryside by horseback to construct a plea to witness and conserve what is unique about the natural world. I photograph while in movement, mostly from horseback… I am motivated by concern for the environment brought about by human relationships to the land that then threaten those relationships. I try to capture the sense of time passing. I hope that the photographs will be a reminder that we are on the edge of a century in which the fate of many life forms, including our own, will be determined, and the decision of whether to save or relinquish landscapes such as these will be of increasing urgency."
This work is dedicated to the memory of Johanna Van Gendt who served as a member of the Hudson County Community College EL faculty from 2011 to 2017. Prof. Van Gendt was held in deep respect and esteem by students and faculty. Prior to coming to HCCC, she taught English in in the Czech Republic, in South Korea, and in Australia. She earned her BA from Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and her Master's Degree in Teaching English as a Second Language from The New School in New York City.
Mickalene Thomas (b.1971)
Portrait of Priscilla Petit Chien, 2012
Pigment print, printed on cotton rag
This is a portrait of Thomas’ long-haired miniature dachshund,Priscilla. Thomas says of Priscilla, “She has already seen many photo shoots at my studio with human models, and she ended up acting like a real professional who loved the camera!” Mickalene Thomas is an American-born artist whose mixed media work incorporated painting, photography, collage, and video. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, and the Smithsonian, among others.
Michalene Thomas (b.1971)
Portrait de Priscilla la Petite Chienne Deux : ) , 2012
Pigment print, printed on cotton rag
This is a portrait of Thomas’ Dachshund, Priscilla. If you like this work, you can find another portrait of Priscilla on the first floor of the new library. Thomas designed this print to be completed by the owner. We have placed the tools to complete this work before you. How would you finish it?
Michalene Thomas is a New York based artist who was born and raised in Camden, New Jersey. She earned her BFA at Pratt Institute and her MFA at Yale University. She is best known for elaborate paintings composed of rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Inspired by sources that range from the 19th century Hudson River School to Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse and Romare Bearden, Thomas explored what it means to be a woman and expands common definitions of beauty.
Museums which hold her artwork include The Brooklyn Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the International Center for Photography, New York; and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. Thomas lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Pablo Picasso
Leche D'Oeuvre Inconnu, 1931?
Wood Engraving (two- sided)
Picasso was born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain. He was educated in the Royal Academy of San Fernando and Barcelona’s School of Fine Arts. Picasso’s works have been exhibited internationally. He is one of the world’s most famous artists. This work comes from a book Picasso Illustrated by Balzac.
You can find a facsimile of the book by doing a web search of the title and Picasso.
Thank you to Henry Scholder and the late Renee Fothoui for the generous donation of this work.
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954)
Switch Engines, Erie Yards, Jersey City
1939
Etching and engraving, signed in pencil, third state of three, edition of 20.
Marsh was an urban realist artist. He celebrated the American city and the American people by depicting urban street life, often in New York City and New Jersey. Both his parents were artists. He graduated from Yale in 1920 and became a freelance artist for the Daily News and was part of the original New Yorker staff from 1925-1931. He was related to Anne Steele March whose work is upstairs.
Thank you to Dr. Shannonine M. Caruana for her generous sponsorship of this work.
Robert Mangold (b.1937)
“C”, 2000
Black ink on Korean Kozo woodcut, Edition of 250
Thank you to Benjamin J. Dineen III and Dennis C. Hull for the generous donation of this work.
Born in North Tonawanda, New York, Mangold received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts degrees from Yale University School of Art and Architecture (1961 and 1963, respectively). Since the beginning of his career in the mid-’60s, Robert Mangold has combined the classic elements of composition- shape, line, and color- to create abstract works of architectural scale, drawing by hand thick and thin graphite lines on modulated planes of color. This kind of work has made him famous for being a minimalist artist. Following his first solo exhibition in 1964, Mangold’s work has been the subject of numerous single-person exhibitions and retrospectives at institutions including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; the Akron Art Museum; the Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London; and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.
Rockewell Kent (1882- 1971)
Starry Night, Date unknown
Lithograph, Signed lower right
Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York. He had an adventurous and interesting life, and he lived in many places, including the United States (New York, Maine, Minnesota, Alaska, Vermont), Newfoundland, Canada; Tierra del Fuego, Ireland, and Greenland.
Kent’s art is held in many collections, including the New York Public Library; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago; and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California.
Will Barnet (1911-2012)
Gramercy Park, 2012
From Hand Drawn Mylars printed at BCIE Collaborator, Randy Hemminghaus
Thank you to Benjamin J. Dineen III and Dennis C. Hull for the generous donation of this work.
Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1927, where he learned drawing, painting, anatomy, and art history in the European tradition. Barnet continues his study at the Art Students League in New York, where he developed an interest in lithography, etching, and woodcutting. Between 1932 and 1942, Barnet became a printmaker, using the medium to capture the economic and social climate of the Depression years. He lived in New York for much of his life.
His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Vatican Museum, among many other places. In 2011, in his 100th year, he was awarded a National Medal of Arts, which was presented by President Obama in a white House ceremony. This was his last print.
If you look closely, you can see that the dogs are sailing in this little boat. If you like this picture, look around the corner for another Wegman work. There is another work by this artist at the Welcome Center of the North Hudson Campus.
William Wegman was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He earned a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and an MFA from the University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana. He is best known for his photographs of Weimaraner dogs. This photograph was the first in a series of dog pictures produced to teach the alphabet.
Wegman’s work is in many collections around the world, including The Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Thank you to Dr. Glen Gabert for his generous donation in honor of his friend Marcia Manke Friesen through the HCCC Foundation Acquisition program.
