Todd Schroeder

Todd Schroeder, "A Blanket Of Asphalt", 102 x 66cm, Ink, Acrylic and Graphite on Yupo, 2009.

Todd Schroeder, "Balance Training", 102 x 66cm, Graphite on Yupo, 2009.

Todd Schroeder, "Let Go Mandala", 102 x 66cm, Ink on Yupo, 2009.

Todd Schroeder, "Suicide At 72?", 102 x 66cm, Ink, Acrylic nad Plaster Dust on Yupo, 2009.

Todd Schroeder, "Insert Koan Here (small)", 102 x 66cm, Ink, Acrylic and Plaster Dust on Yup, 2009.

Todd Schroeder (b. Defiance, Ohio 1968, resides in Savannah, Georgia) has a B.F.A. from Ohio University and a M.F.A. in painting and sculpture from Kent State. Prior to moving to Savannah, he taught at Oberlin College and Kent State. He lived in New York City for eleven years where he worked at the Dia Art Foundation and as Brice Marden’s assistant. His studio practice includes drawing, painting, sculpture, sound and video. His work has been shown internationally in several one and two person exhibitions, including solo shows at White Columns gallery in New York, Savannah College of Art and Design’s Pinnacle Gallery, Kent State University, and Kung Fu, at Gallery Stokes in Atlanta, GA in January 2010. He has been in numerous group shows including Exit Art, AC Project Room and 407 Gallery all in New York City, Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University and Oberlin College’s Here Here Gallery. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Time Out/ New York and The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Schroeder is currently working as a professor of painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Suzanne Jackson

Suzanne Jackson, "Feastbeast", 182.88 x 102.87 x 6.35cm, Acrylic, Canvas, Flax, Wood on layered Canvas, 2001.

Suzanne Jackson, "Swim-Wildlife Refuge", 266.7 x 199.39 x 10.16cm, Acrylic, Shibori, Canvas, Gauze Netting, 2008.

Suzanne Jackson, "Zephyr", 109.22 x 248.9 x 3.81cm, Bogus Paper, Graphite, Oil Pastel, Conte, Acrylic, Canvas-backed, 2004-2010.

Suzanne Jackson (b. Saint Louis, Missouri 1944, resides in Savannah, Georgia) received a B.A. in art from San Francisco State (College) University in 1966 and a M.F.A. in design from the School of Drama, Yale University in 1990. She has had a distinguished career, exhibiting her work nationally and internationally, and has had several one and two person exhibitions including the Danville Museum of Art, Danville, VA; Phillip J. Hamilton Gallery, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA; Ferst Fine Arts Center, Richards and Westbrook Galleries in Atlanta; Parkersburg Art Center, West VA; Albany Museum of Art, Albany GA; Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA; and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA. Group exhibitions include California African American Museum, Los Angeles; York W. Bailey Museum; Laguna Beach Museum of Art; Studio Museum in Harlem; Oakland Museum; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and the Library for Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, New York.

She was recipient of two Idyllwild Associates Fellowships for Etching/Bookmaking and Dance at the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, in 1982 and 1983. In 1981, Jackson was nominated for the first National Awards in Visual Arts. She is currently a professor of painting at Savannah College of Art and Design.

Stephen Knudsen

Stephen Knudsen, "Sacrifice On The Medusa #147", 218 x 139cm, Oil on Linen, 2010.

Stephen Knudsen, "Sacrifice #7,000,000,000", 60 x 42cm, Oil on Canvas, 2010.

Stephen Knudsen (b. Ft. Riley, Kansas 1962, resides in Savannah, Georgia) has a B.S. from Pacific Lutheran University, and a M.F.A. from Savannah College of Art and Design. He has developed the Knudsen Dual Color Wheel, which is used at the Savannah College of Art and Design, and the University of Central Missouri. He has revised Monroe Beardsley’s aesthetics in an essay used on the campus at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Knudsen is a regular writer for Art Calendar Magazine and theartstory.org on topics of design, critical art theory, and analysis. His work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions since 1992, including a retrospective exhibition Decade, in 2003 at the Bergen Gallery, Savannah, GA; and group exhibitions in New York, Cologne, and the international group exhibition Fruits from the Garden of Good and Evil that traveled to London, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Atlanta. Knudsen is currently professor of painting at Savannah College of Art and Design.

Roger Mark Walton

Roger Mark Walton, "Route 204 Summer Evening", 111.7 x 111.5cm, Oil on Canvas, 2009.

Roger Mark Walton, "Route 204 January", 61 x 91.3cm, Oil on Canvas, 2002-2010.

Roger Mark Walton, "Bridge To Island Park", 111.8 x 111.4cm, Oil on Canvas, 2010.

Roger Mark Walton (b. Dayton, Ohio 1956, resides in Savannah, Georgia) received a B.F.A. in painting from Wright State University in 1990 and a M.F.A. in painting from Brooklyn College in 1992. Walton has received awards from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, The Ohio Arts Council, Presidential Fellowship from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Painting Graduate Fellowship from Brooklyn College, and an Expanding Horizons Award at Wright State University. He has been participant in the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2008, and the Vermont Studio Center in 1992. Walton's artwork has been published in "Developing Ideas for Artwork" by M. Stephen Doherty and "Waterbased Media Techniques for Releasing the Creative Spirit" by Marilyn H. Phillis. He has lectured at various venues including docent lecture tours at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, at the University of Dayton, Sinclair Community College, Brooklyn College and North Central College. He has exhibited nationally in both group and individual shows. Walton is currently professor of painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Natalija Mijatovic

Natalija Mijatovic, "Solitaire", 122 x 152cm, Oil on Canvas, 2010.

Natalija Mijatovic, "Mist", 122 x 152cm, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010.

Natalija Mijatovic, "Harbor", 76 x 122cm, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010.

Natalija Mijatovic, "Formally Speaking III", 76 x 122cm, Oil on Canvas, 2009.

Natalija Mijatovic, "TYB", 91 x 91cm, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010.

Natalija Mijatovic (b. Belgrade, Serbia 1974, resides in Savannah, Georgia) received a B.F.A. from the University of Montenegro, and a M.F.A. in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts. Mijatovic has exhibited internationally in many solo and invitational exhibits: CUE Art Foundation in New York; Museum of American Art, Philadelphia; Moderne Kunst Aus Montenegro - Stephansdom, Vienna, Austria; International Festival of Alternative Cultural Exchange (F.A.C.E.) - Belgrade and Novi Sad, Serbia; Cluj and Bucharest, Romania; Plovdiv and Sofia, Bulgaria; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Strasbourg, France; Eindhoven, The Netherlands; and Utopia Station at the 50th Venice Biennial, Italy. Mijatovic is a recipient of many international awards including the Joan Mitchell Foundation M.F.A. Grant, New York; Faculty Excellence Award at the Savannah College of Art and Design, GA; Center For Contemporary Art Award in Podgorica, Montenegro; and residencies such is Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France. She has been a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Montenegro since 1998. Mijatovic has artwork reproduced, and interviews published in various publications in Austria, France, Serbia, Montenegro and the United States: Art Crowd, Artension, Dan, Der Standard, Glas Crnogoraca, House Style, Likovni Zivot, Monitor, Most, Nasa Borba, New American Paintings, Novosti, Philadelphia Weekly, Pobjeda, Politika, Publika, Vijesti. She is currently painting professor and graduate program coordinator at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Morgan Santander

Morgan Santander "Beyond Reconstitution I", 60.96 x 76.2cm, Giclee Print, 2009.

Morgan Santander, "Beyond Reconstitution II", 50.8 x 60.96cm, Giclee Print, 2009.

Morgan Santander, "Beyond Reconstitution III" 50.8 x 60.96cm, Giclee Print, 2009.

Morgan Santander, "Beyond Reconstitution IV", 50.8 x 60.96cm, Giclee Print, 2009.

Morgan Santander (b. Mexico City, Mexico 1968, resides in Savannah, Georgia) received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley on a full Academic Merit Fellowship in 1991, and a M.F.A. from the University of Chicago as a Board of Trustees' Merit Fellowship recipient. Santander has lived, worked and studied in Mexico, Wales, and throughout the United States. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited widely throughout the United States and Mexico, and his work is included in numerous private, public and corporate collections throughout Mexico, the United States, Germany, and the U.K. He was a 2008 recipient of an Artists' Fellowship Inc. Award, New York, NY; to support production of his recent body of work Beyond Reconstitution. Santander has served as a professor of painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design since 2001.

Matt Blackwell

Matt Blackwell, "Lake Effect", 218.4 x 249cm, Oil on stitched and unstretched Canvas, 2001-2009.
Matt Blackwell "Imperial", 81 x 101.6cm, Oil on Canvas, 2008.

Matt Blackwell,"Chevelle", 81 x 101.6cm, Oil on Canvas, 2008.

Matt Blackwell (b. Lyons, New York, resides in Brooklyn, New York) received a B.F.A. from the Portland School of Art, Maine. He participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1980, and received a M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC. Blackwell has taught at the University of Southern Maine, Oberlin College, and currently teaches at Fairfield University, CT. In the winter of 2009 he was a visiting artist-in-residence, teaching painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design, which culminated in a solo exhibition Itinerant Menu Baked n Raw at the Alexander Hall Gallery. He is represented by the Edward Thorpe Gallery from New York City, where he has an upcoming solo show in Fall 2010. Blackwell’s solo and two person exhibitions include Whoop Em Up Cindy, Over the Yonder in Minor Key, and Et Arcadia Ego, all at the Edward Thorpe Gallery; Horsepower with Savannah artist Gregory Eltringham at Gallery See, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta GA; a solo show at Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and numerous others in New York and Maine. His work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Art In America, Village Voice, and Art Papers. He has received various fellowship residencies at Yaddo, Sculpture Space in Utica, NY; Vermont Studio Center, and Triangle Arts Association.