(Hamilton, NY – Feb. 2013) Colgate University’s Clifford Art Gallery and the Department of Art and Art History will host the exhibition ‘Fate and Transport, work by Sarah McCoubrey,’ Feb. 13 through March 31. The showing, which is free and open to the public, will feature an artist talk Feb. 13 at 4:30 p.m. in Golden Auditorium of Colgate’s Little Hall, followed immediately by a reception.
McCoubrey makes precise paintings of luminous landscapes. She received her master of fine arts from the University of Pennsylvania and is the recipient of several grants, including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, a Milton Avery Foundation Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and New York State Council on the Arts Grant.
McCoubrey’s work was included in the 2008 and 2002 Everson Museum of Art Biennial and in recent exhibits at Munson Williams Proctor Institute in Utica and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca. She is an associate professor of art at Syracuse University, joining the faculty in fall 1991. She teaches drawing, color and painting. In 2004, she received an Outstanding Faculty Award from the College of Visual and Performing Arts.
McCoubrey is primarily a landscape painter. She exhibits regularly in solo and group exhibitions in nationally recognized venues and is represented by the Locks Gallery in Philadelphia. She has received recognition for her work and a number of awards, including a 2006 New York State Council for the Arts Fellowship, a 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, a NYFA Special Opportunity Stipend in 2004, a Ballinglen Foundation Residency in Ireland Fellowship in 2004, two Saltonstall Foundation Grant Awards in 2002 and 1997, the Milton Avery Foundation Fellowship to the Millay Colony in1996, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship in 1990, a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in1990, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant Award in1989 and an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant Award in 1981.
She is also working on the creation of an “archive” of the work of Hannah Morse, a fictional 19th-century landscape painter and inventor. She received a fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society and a NYSCA Sites Re-seen grant for research and development of this project.
Located on the first floor of Little Hall, the Clifford Art Gallery presents approximately eight exhibitions a year. A teaching gallery, all exhibitions are selected by Colgate’s art and art history faculty to provide examples of work executed in a variety of media that demonstrate issues originating in the academic curriculum. Another focus of the gallery is the display of professional work by contemporary artists, who are often featured in the weekly public lecture series.
The Clifford is free and open to the public from 10:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on weekdays, and from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. on weekends.