Molly Zuckerman-Hartung and Fox Hysen’s Symposia! offered a rich structure of group conversations, individual mentorship, and peer exchange. Molly and Fox co-lead sessions in months 1, 2, 5, and 6, while months 3 and 4 were divided between them, offering varied perspectives and approaches. Each artist also received a one-on-one meeting with both instructors and participated in a paired studio visit with a peer, followed by a brief writing reflection. Throughout the salon, three guiding essays shaped and deepened our conversations, offering shared conceptual ground as we moved through our time together.
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung & Fox Hysen Cohorts
Holly Ballard Martz
Kharis Kennedy
Lousie Noel
Shira Naomi Schwarz
Robin Dinitman
Cecil Howell
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung is a painter, writer and teacher. She attended the Evergreen State College in the 1990s and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for her graduate degree. She was a full time senior critic at Yale School of Art until 2021. She has shown at The Blaffer Museum in Houston, TX, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The 2014 Whitney Biennial, The Program at ReMap in Athens, Greece, Kadel Willborn in Karlsruhe, Germany and many others. In 2013 she received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. She is a frequent guest lecturer at many schools across the country, including, in the past few years, Princeton University, The University of Texas at Austin, Cranbrook, University of Alabama, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Low Residency Program, and Columbia University. She is represented by Corbett vs Dempsey in Chicago and Rachel Uffner Gallery in NYC. In 2021 she opened a mid-career survey show at the Blaffer in Houston, Texas, called Comic Relief and accompanied by a monograph.
Fox Hysen was born in the Bay Area, California and currently lives and works in Norfolk, Connecticut. She is full-time faculty at the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, the graduate school at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Her work explores the relationship between composition and bodily perception: Between the conventions of depth and space in landscape painting, the linearity and speed of hand writing and the woven-ness of painterly supports. Her direct, gestural mark-making produces different types of painterly objects. The casual materiality of these objects are experienced in tension with their organization into composed spaces. Awards include the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2022 and the Tournesol Award at the Headland’s Center for the Arts in 2016. She earned her MFA from Yale University (2015) and BFA from NYU (2006). Solo exhibitions include Below Grand and Soloway gallery in New York, Gallery 16 in San Francisco and the Suburban in Milwaukee, Wisconsin