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This exhibition was conceived in 2009 as a response to a request to mount a faculty exhibition to showcase the work being produced by the faculty of the Painting Department at the Savannah Campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design. The resulting exhibition includes full time faculty, part time faculty, and visiting artists who were involved with the department during the 2008/2009 academic year.

Rather than schedule a show at a local gallery it was suggested that we attempt to find an international venue. The resulting schedule is more then we could have hoped for. This exhibition would not have happened were it not for the work of Blazo Kovacevic. His drive and determination has given us this remarkable opportunity.

Painting exhibition participants:
Adam Cvijanovic, Blazo Kovacevic, Craig Drennen, Denise Carson,
Gregory Eltringham, Laura Mosquera, Matt Blackwell, Morgan Santander, Natalija Mijatovic, Roger Walton,
Stephen Knudsen, Suzanne Jackson, Todd Schroeder.

Drawing exhibition participants:

27.3.10

Craig Drennen

Craig Drennen, "Timon Of Athens 4", 63.5 x 165.1cm, Oil and Alkyd on paper, 2010.

Craig Drennen, "Timon Of Athens 5", 73 x 167cm, Oil and Alkyd on paper, 2010.

Craig Drennen, "Timon Of Athens 6", 91.4 x 142.2cm, Oil and Alkyd on paper, 2010.

Craig Drennen (b. Elyria, Ohio 1966, resides in Atlanta, Georgia) has a B.A. in interdisciplinary studies from Glenville State College, a M.F.A. in painting and art history from Ohio University, and was a 2006 participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. From December 2002 to 2007 Drennen organized his studio activity around the 1984 movie Supergirl and is currently making new work based on Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. Represented by Samsøn gallery in Boston, Drennen was a featured artist at the 2008 NEXT art fair in Chicago, and has shown in other art fairs including NADA in Miami, ARCO in Madrid, MACO in Mexico City, and at VOLTA in Basel, Switzerland. His recent gallery exhibitions include a two-person show at Zero Degree Space in Beijing, China in December 2008, and a solo exhibition at Gallery Stokes in Atlanta, GA in April 2009. He has written art criticism for New York Arts, Dialogue, and DRAIN magazines, and has written catalog essays for Tony Wight Gallery in Chicago, IL, and the Contemporary Art Center in Virginia Beach, VA. Drennen is an assistant professor of drawing/painting/printmaking at Georgia State University and Dean at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

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