Artists' Corner
Holly Trostle Brigham,
MA ’94, presented
Reflected Personae, a solo exhibition of 20
portraits and nudes, from May to June at the
Ahlum Gallery in Easton, Pa. With paintings
rich in color, symbolism, and historical references,
Brigham draws from the inspiration evoked by
influential women artists to “recreate
a lost painting from an artist’s career.” She
was a speaker at the national meeting of the
College Art Association in Atlanta. Her paper “Maestro
as Martyr: Reinventing Symbolic Portraiture” was
presented in a session on portrait commissions
and contemporary art. Brigham is married to
David R. Brigham, executive director of the
Allentown Art Museum, and has a 3-year-old
son, Noble.
“Wells Homestead,” Robbi
Goldberg
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Two paintings by Josephine
Haden, MA ’72,
were selected by Jonathan Binstock, contemporary
curator of the Corcoran Museum, for Strictly
Painting, a mid-Atlantic exhibition at the
McLean Project for the Arts in Virginia. She
also showed work this summer at the Arlington
Arts Center in Virginia and the Virginia Miller
Galleries and Longstreth Goldberg PLG Art in
Florida.
At the Castello di Borghese Vineyards and
Wineryin Cutchogue, Long Island, N.Y., 10 paintings
by Robbi Goldberg, BA ’76, MBA ’80,
were displayed in August. The works, part of
her series of east-end farmstands, will be
showcased through October. The artist says
the paintings are a continuation of her desire
to capture rapidly vanishing ways of life.
From 1983 to 1996, while living on the Greek
island of Ios, Goldberg captured the area’s
beautiful yet changing traditional lifestyle—since
her return to the United States, she has painted
90 water colors of her journey across the country
with her dog, Maya. She has painted the New
York Mets in a subway series in 2000; in 2002,
she created a triptych of Main Street, East
Moriches, N.Y., that hangs on the north fork
bank of East Moriches.
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Rasmussen
(center) received many visitors at
her exhibit at the Embassy of Guyana,
including with Washington broadcast
journalist Maureen Bunyan (right).
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The Organization of American
States in Washington showcased works by Patsy-Ann
Rasmussen, MFA ’02,
in May. The exhibition was organized by the
Embassy of Guyana; titled “Art: The Fabric
of Life,” the event celebrated 39 years
of Guyana’s independence. Rasmussen was
born in Georgetown, Guyana. Her work incorporates
an array of color, form, media, and texture. “I
like creating designs using nature as my guide,” she
says. Rasmussen is the registrar for the Smithsonian
Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
Sherry Zvares Sanabria,
BA ’59, is showing her latest
exhibition and series of paintings at the
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in
Hagerstown, Md., from Sept. 9 through Nov.
6. Slave Quarters and
Other African American Sites, images of interiors
and facades of old buildings, made up the theme
of the paintings. Sanabria seeks to “remember
and honor those who lived, worked, and gathered
together in these buildings.” She resides
in Leesburg, Va.
“Ossabow Slave Quarter #1,” Sherry
Zvares Sanabria
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