Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Professor
Myra Mimlitsch-Gray explores facture as an idea, image and process, conceptualizing material conditions to construct fictions and portraits in metal. Her technical methods are deliberate: tools and force displace the metal; residual marks document the process. The trace is conversant with the staged formal outcome. Together, they reflect ideas about how and why we build things.
Mimlitsch-Gray received Chancellor’s Awards for scholarship and teaching from the State University of New York, and individual fellowships from the United States Artists Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Mimlitsch-Gray’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, among others.
Lynn Batchelder, Assistant Professor
Lynn Batchelder’s work is rooted in drawing and mark making as she seamlessly creates jewelry and works on paper. Batchelder received her MFA from SUNY New Paltz. In 2016 she received the internationally competitive Art Jewelry Forum Artist Award, was a 2015 Society of North American Goldsmiths Emerging Artist, and is a recent recipient of a Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant. She has completed residencies at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Women’s Studio Workshop. Batchelder’s work is exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad, including recent solo shows Inlets and Exits at the Heidi Lowe Gallery in Rehoboth Beach, DE and Nonlinear at the Gallery at Reinstein|Ross in New York. She is newly represented by Gallery Loupe in Montclair NJ, and in 2021 presented a solo exhibition of new work titled Remains.
batchell1@newpaltz.edu
www.lynnbatch.com
@lynnbatch
Adam Mastropaolo,
Instructional Support Technician
Adam Mastropaolo received his BFA from SUNY Purchase with a concentration in sculpture. His interest in metal at an atomic level stems largely from his time spent working at Steven Kretchmer, a jewelry design studio renowned for developing exotic precious metal alloys. While there, he researched, developed and produced purple and blue golds, heat treatable precious metal alloys and a magnetic platinum alloy that were awarded U.S. patents. These proprietary alloys were utilized to create jewelry with unique characteristics such as tension set diamonds, bands that would slide apart to reveal secret inscriptions, and earrings with levitating components. As an early adopter of emerging technologies who has worked with a broad range of equipment and processes, Mastropaolo is well suited to manage the diverse and extensive Metal Studio at New Paltz.
mastropa@newpaltz.edu
