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Fawn
Potash is an artist, art educator and arts administrator active in the
developing art scenes in the Hudson Valley and NYC.
The Howard Greenberg Gallery in NY, the Anne Reed Gallery in Sun
Valley and the Elena Zang Gallery in Woodstock, NY represent her work.
Ms. Potash’s work is in collections worldwide including the Sony, Dow
Jones, Standard and Poors Asia and the Bibiliotech National, Sheraton
Hotels, Montreal. A monograph is
scheduled for release in 2006.
Her arts administration work is an effort to create community amongst
artists and raise the level of visual arts offerings in the Hudson
Valley region. To that end
she has helped develop audiences and exhibitions at the Catskill
Mountain Foundation Gallery. Ms.
Potash has served as an exhibition committee member at the Greene County
Council on the Arts for 15 years. She
has juried exhibitions in national, regional and local venues in both
commercial and not-for-profit settings.
Ms. Potash teaches at both the college and elementary school
levels. At the School of
Visual Arts in NYC, she leads a criticism seminar for photography majors
providing feedback on students’ work, dialogue on artistic process and
professional development tools. Discussion
is supported by visits to artists’ studios, museums and galleries.
Her workshops for children take place at a community center
darkroom she founded with proceeds from grants and children’s images
sold as postcards.
For more than ten years, Ms. Potash has spent summers as director of the
Education Program for the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
Guest artists and participants from around the world come
together for two-day intensive sessions to improve their work both
technically and artistically. She
has coordinated events with workshop locations in Paris, Provence,
Mexico and the Louisiana Bayou.
Ms. Potash’s work has received grant support from the NY State
Council on the Arts, the Puffin Foundation, the Bell Atlantic
Foundation, Fuji and Ilford Inc. Her
imagery has appeared in national and regional publications including
Harper’s Magazine, Mirabella, Art News, Arthur Magazine and
Chronogram.
Current work includes a series of one-of-a-kind mixed media pieces using
photography as the ground, with a layer of encaustic wax, treated like a
printing plate. Drawings are inscribed into the wax and oil color rubbed into
the scratches. The imagery
depicts plant life in full bloom over a barren snowy landscape.
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