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Program Coordinator | Phone: 940-369-7208 | Email: bourbon@unt.edu

Matthew Bourbon is an artist and writer. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Bourbon earned separate undergraduate degrees in Studio Art and Art History from the University of California at Davis. Relocating to New York City, Bourbon was conferred his Masters of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts. Since then, Bourbon's art has been exhibited nationally and internationally. A selection of group exhibitions include: University of Dallas, On_Game, Salone d'Arte Contemporanea, ArtExpo Trieste, Italy, Gallery 32, London Biennale 2004, Arlington Museum of Art Texas Paint, Part 1: More True Stories, and New York Arts Gallery, Drawing Conclusions II. Select solo exhibitions include Conduit Gallery, Crass, Cruel and Uncouth, and Studio 107, True Fictions. Bourbon is currently the North Texas Regional Editor for the journal Artlies, and is also a contributor to Art Forum Online, Flash Art, ArtNews, and New York Arts Magazine.

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Phone: 940-369-7242 | Email: cheal@unt.edu

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Susan Cheal received her BFA from Texas Tech University and her MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Since 1990, she has exhibited both paintings and multi-media installations throughout the United States. In 2007, she was selected for participation in Texas Uprising, a survey exhibition of sculptors at multiple venues in San Antonio, Texas. Her paintings were chosen from a field of over a thousand entries, for inclusion in the October edition of New American Paintings, a national exhibit showcasing forty artists from the Southwest.

Michael Duncan, curator for Art in the Metroplex, 2007, selected one of Cheal's drawings for the exhibit. She was included in 2006's Texas Paint II: Out of Abstraction, at the Arlington Museum of Art, and collaborated, with electronic music composer, Douglas Holmes, on an interactive video and sound installation, presented at Cactus Bra Gallery in San Antonio.

Other exhibitions include: Blue Star 19, in San Antonio, New American Paintings, originating at Arthouse in Austin, and traveling; the 2005 Texas Biennial, solo shows at Conduit Gallery in Dallas and Lawndale Art Center in Houston, among many others.

Her current work in the area of painting uses as some of its sources, material drawn from referents to the history of painting, fabric design, Japanese prints, and exaggerated marks from methods of reproduction, which she combines in an abstract matter. Her drawings use source material such as exaggerated blow-ups of graphs, diagrams, handwriting and collage elements.

Currently an Associate Professor of Art in drawing and painting, she previously taught at the University of Utah, and numerous colleges and universities in Los Angeles, including the University of California at Santa Barbara, Otis College of Art & Design, USC and Long Beach City College. She is the recipient of a WESTAF National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Los Angeles Redevelopment Agency grant, numerous individual artists' grants, and several University of North Texas faculty grants. She was awarded a Faculty Development Leave and Research Grant, for Spring 2008 to travel to England and Ireland, researching a project related to the topic of immigration.

Phone: 940-565-4025 | Email: falsetta@unt.edu

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Phone: 940-369-7225 | Email: jessup@unt.edu

Professor Robert Jessup has been teaching at the University of North Texas since 1991. He received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. He has exhibited widely and regularly since 1981 with over sixty solo exhibitions in prominent galleries in cities across the nation including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, and Dallas. His work is included in numerous public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the High Museum in Atlanta, the Brooklyn Museum, the New Orleans Museum, the Blanton Museum of the University of Texas, the University of Virginia Art Museum, and the Dallas Museum of Art. A ten year survey of his work will be held at the Longview Museum of Art in Longview, Texas opening May, 2009.

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Phone: | 940-565-4020 | Email: lawrence@unt.edu   annettelawrence.net

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Phone: 940-369-8912 | Email: pawlowicz@unt.edu

Elaine Pawlowicz received her BFA from Southern Methodist University and moved to Chicago to receive her MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She continued to live and work as an artist in Chicago for the following 15 years until moving back to Dallas with her husband and two small children ages two and four. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows and her paintings were published in recent editions of New American Paintings for the West and Midwest. In 2005 she completed an installation of 12 large scale paintings commissioned by the city of Chicago for Oriole Park Public Library. She has been awarded several artist residences by the Ucross Foundation, Wyoming, Montana Artist's Refuge, and Pouch Cove Foundation, Newfoundland. Elaine has taught college level art for over a decade in Chicago including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Dayton. Her paintings are speckled with tiny characters that are swallowed up by neon color fields. The style is a type of magical realism. The space is flat with an idiosyncratic perspective. These highly personalized narratives are slightly ambiguous and peculiarly lighthearted.  

Phone: 940-369-7671 | Email: studio@unt.edu