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Influences


Mentors:
Yoshiko Shimano
Shaurya Kumar
Andrea Polli
Brooke Steiger
Nina Kay Stephenson
Karsten Creightney
Les Ann Holland (Leslie Ayers)
Kevin McCoy
Oliver Wasow

MFA Advisers:
John Kramer
Lynne Cooke
Peter Rostovsky
Anthony Apesos

MFA Faculty
Deb Todd Wheeler
Oliver Wasow
Laurel Sparks
Jan Avgikos
Fia Backstrom
Judith Barry
Stewart Steck
Deborah Davidson
Peter Rostovsky
Tony Apesos
Ben Sloat
Lynne Cooke
John Kramer


Visiting Artist Influences/Studio Visit Mentors:
Beauvais Lyons
Alicia Candiani
Marilee Salvator
Matt Keegan
Conor Peterson
B. Wurtz
Thierry De Duve

Art Historical Influences:
(Bold indicates most influential):

Primary Influences for Whitespace-Bluespace - Televisual Memory and the Implied Catastrophe

Bertolt Brecht
Renee Green
Nicholas Enevoldsen
Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
Ed Ruscha
Cindy Sherman
Gerhard Richter
Stan Douglas 
Oliver Wasow
Matthew Brandt
Glitch feeds on Instagram, Facebook
Pierra Huyghe

Maholy Nagy
Esther Shalev-Gerz
Rene Magritte
​Doug Rickard

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Primary Influences for The Cascade - Moments in the Televisual Desert

Albrecht Altdorfer
Diana Thater
Doug Aitken
Isa Genzkhen
Jack Goldstein
Jennifer Steinkamp
Jennifer Angel
Joachim Patinier
Monique Belitz
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
TJ Wilcox
Andreas Mullerpohle
Annette Weintraub
Anthony Discenza
Richard Diebenkorn
Julie Mehretu

Carl Fudge
Charles A. Csuri
Cory Arcangel
Cynthia Beth Rubin
David Salle
Douglas Gordon
Elizabeth Neel
Fiona Rae
Georges Braque
Ingrid Calame
James Rosenquist
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
Matthew Brandt
Matthew Ritchie
Mike Kelley
Nam June Paik
Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Rafel Lozano-Hemmer
Raoul Dufy
Redmond Entwistle
Renee Green
Robert Rauschenberg
Shaurya Kumar
Sigmar Polke
Tamas Waliczky
Troy Brauntuch
Tony Oursler
Umberto Boccioni
Uri Aran
Wade Guyton
Xu Bing
Zbigniew Rybczynski


Primary Influences for Alchemy of Image

Agnes Martin
Amy Sillman
Arshile Gorky
Cai Guo Qiang
Charles Burchfeld
Charline von Heyl
Donald Sultan
Emma Kunz
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jered Sprecher
Joanne Greenbaum
Julie Mehretu
Ken Lovell
Matthew Ritchie
Hilma Auf-Klimt
Richard Diebenkorn
Richard Tuttle
Sarah Sze
Terry Winters


Previous/Existing Influences

Anselm Keifer
Brice Marden
Charles Demuth
Cy Twombly
Dai Jin
Franz Kline
Giacomo Balla
Hans Hoffman
Mark Tobey
Ni Zan
Paul Klee
Peter Marcus
Qi Baishi
Shaurya Kumar
Shen Zhou
Shiko Munakata
Shitao
Wassily Kandinsky
William Kentridge
Yasumasa Morimura
Yoshiko Shimano
Li Lung Mien
Chu Tuan
Han Gan
Giovanni Piranesi
Claude Lorrain
Paul Cezanne
Caspar David Friedrich
David Roberts
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Wen Cheng Ming (Zhengming)


Primary Influences for The Archaeology of Being

Shiko Munakata
Yoshiko Shimano
William Kentridge
Terry Winters
Franz Kline
Brice Marden
Shitao
Shen Zhou
Yasumasa Morimura
Anselm Kiefer
Matthew Ritchie





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