John Hampshire

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Current Position:  Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Adirondack Community College.

 

Education:

    

     1997:  State University of NY at Albany.  MFA in Painting

     1994:  Skidmore College.  BS in art  Honors: Dean’s List, Periclean     

     Society, Cum Laude

 

Selected One / Two Person Exhibitions:

•2006

•           Visual Arts Gallery.  Adirondack Community College
•2005

·                      Project Room at the Phoenix Gallery, 11th Street, NY, NY

·                      John Hampshire/Wren Panzella.  Northpointe Gallery and Cultural Center. 

             Kinderhook, NY                                                                                                                                                             

·                      John Hampshire/ Gary Shankman.  Oakroom Artists’ Gallery

·                      Butzel Gallery.  “Face to Face, John Hampshire and Sara Didonato”.      

             Sayles School of Fine Arts.  Schenectady, NY

•2004

·                      Fulton Street Gallery, Fulton Street, Troy, NY

·                      Pierce Art Gallery, W.V.U.  Montgomery, West Virginia.

·                      Walsh Gallery, Georgetown University, Arlington, VA

•2003:

·                      EBA Gallery, Albany, NY

·                      John Hampshire and Gary Shankman.  First Unitarian Church. 

             Schenectady, NY                                                                         

• 2002

·                      The Main Street Gallery.  Dobbs Ferry, NY

·                      The Yates Gallery, Siena College.
•2001

·                      Vertical Gallery.  Rennselear Polytechnic Institute.  Troy, NY

·                      The Main Street Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY

·                      "Portraits" Hunter Gallery. Newport, RI.    

·                      “Labyrinthine Portraits” Hudson Valley Community College.

              Troy, NY                                       

·                      “Paintings and Drawings”.   Niskayuna Art Gallery.  Niskayuna,

               NY
• 2000

·                      The Main Street Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY
• 1999

·                      Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY

·                      "Paintings by John Hampshire and Jennifer Gordon” 

              Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

·                       Courthouse Gallery. Lake George Arts Project. 2-person show

·                       Grosvenor Gallery. SUNY Cobleskill, Cobleskill, NY.
• 1998:

·                      Uncommon Grounds, Saratoga Springs. NY

·                      SCAC Gallery, Cobleskill, NY
•1997:

·                      Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA.

·                      Uncommon Grounds, Albany, NY
•1994:

·                      Wesley Health Care Center, Saratoga Springs. NY; two-person


 

 

 

·                      Selected Group / Juried Exhibitions:

•2006

•          “Nurturing the Edge”  CUE Art Foundation.  511 W.  25th St. NY, NY

•           International Small Works Exhibition.  80 Washington Square East Galleries. New             York University. NYC. NY.  Juror’s Award

•          “Character Study”.  Albany Airport

•          Oakroom Arts Exhibition.  Schenectady Museum.  Schenectady, NY

•          Second Street Art, Troy, NY       

•2005:

•           “Postcards from the Edge”.  Robert Miller Gallery.  NY, NY

•            Isadore Gallery.  Lancaster, PA

•            "28th Annual Small Works Show". Curated by Claudia Stone.   

             80 Washington Sq. East Galleries, NYU

 

•2004:

·                      Brent Sikema Gallery.  526 W. 26th St.,  NY, NY

·                      “MMAS”  Florida International University

·                      “National 2004”  Cooperstown Art Association,  Cooperstown,NY 

·                      "27th Annual Small Works Show". Curated by Molly Barnes.   

               80 Washington Sq. East Galleries, NYU

•2003:

·                      Cyclics Gallery.  Schenectady, NY

·                      Schenectady Museum.  “Exhibition of works by Oakroom Artists”

·                      “Unplugged”.  Exhibition of Painters at the Albany International               

               Airport.  Curated by Sharon Bates

·                      Exhibition of Visiting Assistant Faculty, Schick Art Gallery,

               Skidmore College.  Curated by Paul Sattler                                                                           

·                      26th International Small works Show.  80 Washington Square                                                                                                                                           

               East Galleries.  NYU.  Juried by Tatyana Okshteyn.  Juror’s   

               Award

·                      “Small Works”. NURTUREart, Chelsea.  NY, NY

• 2002:

·                      “Mohawk-Hudson Regional Exhibition”  Albany Institute of

               History and Art, Albany, NY                                  

·                      “Containment”  Llantarnam Grange Arts Center, South Wales                       

               Curated by Richard Cox.

·                      "25th Annual Small Works Show". Curated by Barbara Millstein.    

               80 Washington Sq. East Galleries, NYU. Juror's Award
• 2001:

·                      “International Works on Paper”. Soho20 Gallery, NYC, NY Juried

                  by Krishna Reddy                                                                                        

·                       “Invitational International Art Exhibition”. Period Gallery.     

                Omaha, NE    

·                      “Small Works Exhibition”, 80 Washington Square East Galleries,

                NYC. Juried by Peter Blum. Honorable mention  

·                      “Every Picture Tells a Story; Narrative Paintings”. The Main   

                Street Gallery. Dobbs Ferry, NY 4 person show.           
• 2000

·                      “On/Of Paper”. Cloyde Snook Gallery. Adams State College.

               Alamosa, CO Juried by Lisa Tremper Hanover

·                      “National 2000" Cooperstown Art Association. Juried by Jerome

               Witkin. Two awards received.

·                      “RE/ Surface”. Marshall Arts Gallery. Scottsdale, AZ. Juried by

               Joshua Rose

·                      Fayetteville State University. Fayetteville, NC. “Current Work: A

               National Competition 2000". Juried show

 

• 1999:

·                      Summer Six Faculty Art Show: Skidmore Coll., Saratoga                        

               Springs, NY

·                      Skidmore College, Dana Science Center Atrium. Skidmore    

                Alumni Reunion Art Exhibition. Saratoga Springs.

·                      The Firehouse Gallery, Bordentown, NJ. "Brian Cesario, Dallas

                Cheek, John Hampshire, and Erin Obrochta"

·                      "Clickers," Fulton Street Gallery, Troy NY; Curated by Jed Cleary
• 1998:

·                      Spencertown Academy. Spencertown. NY; Juried by Carrie

                Haddad.  Award received.

·                      Morningside Gallery. Latham, NY. "Eastern Juried Regional"

·                      Schweinfurth Mml. Ctr., Auburn, NY; "Artists of NY". Juried by

                Jerome Witkin

·                      Albany International Airport. "1998 Artists of the Mohawk-  

                Hudson Region". Juried by Lela Hersh

·                      Rathbone Gallery. Sage JCA. Albany. "Body Image". National  

                Juried show. Curated by Ken Johnson    

·                      NYS Museum, Albany. NY. "NYS Biennial Exhibition". Curated by

                Linda Weintraub

·                      Spencertown Academy, Spencertown NY; 4-person show
• 1997

·                      Spencertown Academy, Juried show. Award received.      

·                      The Gallery at Two Depot Square, Chatham, NY. "The Men's

                Room"      

·                      Art Museum, SUNY, Albany. NY "Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson

                Region". Juried by Dan Cameron   

·                      Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY. "Newer Artists". Curated by

                Harold Lohner

·                      MFA Thesis Show. University Art Museum, SUNY. Albany. NY
• 1994

·                      Senior Art Exhibition, Skidmore College. Saratoga Springs. NY
• 1993

·                      Wayside Inn, Greenfield Center, NY; group show

 

 

 



Selected Publications / Reviews:

”John Hampshire is a virtuoso with a brush. …..viewers might imagine him handling his brushes like an orchestra conductor who waves his wand with punctuation and prowess.  Portrait painters in need of inspiration should see this memorable show.”

9/15/2002.  New York Times. Review by Dominick Lombardi

 

”….John Hampshire’s In the Studio with Zephyr.  An engrossing oil painting that deals simultaneously with the dynamics of anger and the intensity of creativity,…… it is so potent, so powerful…..the searing vision of its central figure is devastating.”

8/2002.  Berkshire Home and Style Magazine.  J. Peter Bergman

 

“John Hampshire's astonishing grid of 10 canvases bridges abstraction and realism. One of the area's most exciting young painters, Hampshire presents a series of small portraits that are carefully rendered in a tight, pointillist style. Around the edges of each canvas, however, the paint devolves into a jagged pattern of slashes, like a video transmission breaking up. The question -- is this chaos overtaking order, or order working to conquer chaos? -- gives these works their satisfying tension.”

6/03.  Albany Times Union.  Tim Cahill

“....’John Hampshire’s Recent Work’ fills the gallery with medium and large scale paintings made in just a two or three year period....The personality of the subject is heightened, as in a caricature, painted with an exaggerated, almost distorted sense of space and shape..........Hampshire consistently creates a surface that comes alive on its own terms. Here, the subject is of less obvious interest- a woman looking shyly..... His (Hampshire’s) new sensitivity to light, his more intense palette, and his carryover of the photograph’s blurred foregrounds all make for formally strong results.”
1999. Albany Times Union Oct. "Reflections on a Varied Career" Review by William Jaeger.

“ ... His portraits are strongly composed with powerful emotion and a surreal edge...”
1999. The Independent Sept. 2. "Spencertown Academy Exhibits Works of Local Painters".

“The omnipresence of John Hampshire’s portraiture in the capital region has made it easy to trace his experimentation with style. Laura, an oil on paper work, is an interesting example….. markings have been subdued in favor of a pointillist-television realism....which in turn evolves into something more akin to the agitation of Van Gogh. I couldn’t help but think of Chuck Close, but Hampshire’s Laura is generally more satisfying....”
1999. Metroland. Feb. 18. "Channel Surfing". Review by Stacy Lauren. Metroland. p. 21.

“And John Hampshire ...offers a grand, cautionary tableau in ‘An Artist’s Education: Adam Luscier in My Studio’, where the subject slumps in abject enlightenment amid artist’s trappings, graphic chaos knawing at the edges of the visual field”.
1997. Metroland. July 3. "Broad Strokes" Review by Rich Kriener. p.20
 

Lectures:

 

2004.  Georgetown University.

2004.  Lecture/Demonstration for Albany/Colonie League of Arts

2002.  Siena College. Loudonville, NY.  2002

2001.  Niskayuna High School.  Niskayuna, NY.  2001

2001.  St. Georges School. Newport, RI. 

2001.  Skidmore College.  Saratoga Springs, NY

1999.  SUNY Cobleskill.  Cobleskill, NY. 

1997.  Berkshire Community College.  Pittsfield, Mass. 

 

 

Teaching and Related Work Experience:  Classes taught include all levels of Painting and Drawing, Figure Drawing, Color, Two Dimensional Design, Architectural Perspective, and Introduction to Art

 

•2005 to present: Assistant Professor of Art, Adirondack Community College.

•1997 to 2005: Instructor of Art at Sage College of Albany and Russell Sage College in Troy.

•1998 to present:  Visiting Artist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Art in Summer Sessions at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.

•1999, 2001 to 2005: Visiting Professor of Art, Skidmore College.

•1999: Adjunct Instructor for College of Saint Rose Art Dept.

•1998, 99, 2000, 01: Juror for NYS Olympics for the Visual Arts.

•1998: Coordinator for Summer Art program, Junior College of Albany

•1995-97: Instructor in Drawing and figure drawing at SUNYA, Albany, NY

•1993-4: Teaching Assistant in printmaking, Skidmore College

 

 

Collections:

 

Bruce Minevitz

Anita Sussman

Jerome Witkin

Geoffrey Bullard

Kenneth Bress

Jim Lewis

Bill Wilson

Maria Tofolo

John Caputo

Susan Meyers

Colleen Skiff

Cheryl Seaman

Brian McCandles

Christine Miles

Sharon Bates

Nick Argyos

Paul Hobart

Barbara Thompson 

Adam Lowe 

Victoria Charg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected Publications:

 

    

               2005:  Pulse Magazine.  Cover story and interview with John Nelson

2004:  The Washington Post.  “ Paintings and Drawings by John Hampshire”

2004:  Georgetown College Weekly Review.

2003:  Albany Times Union.  “18 painters”.   Review by Timothy Cahill

2002:  Metroland Magazine.   “Making His Marks” Review by David Brickman. 

12/15/02: Digital City “Paintings and Drawings”. Review by Ted Bluestein. 

9/15/02:  New York Times.  Review by Dominick Lombardi

8/02: Berkshire Home and Style Magazine.  Review by J. Peter Bergman.

6/22/02:  Albany Times Union “Regional Rewards”.  Review by Tim Cahill.

10/12/01:  Skidmore News “Skidmore Faculty Strut Their Stuff”.  William Murray. 

2/18/01:  New York Times “Worth a Thousand Words…” 

10/19/99:  Albany Times Union “Reflections of a Varied Career; Alan Grindle and John Hampshire”.  Review by William Jaeger. 

10/2/99: The Independent.   “Spencertown Academy Exhibits Works of Local Painters”

2/18/99:  Metroland Magazine “Channel Surfing” Review by Stacy Lauren.

3/1/98: Albany Times Union  Arts Section. 

7/3/97: Metroland Magazine “Broad Strokes”.   Review by Rich Kriener. 

5/7/97: Update “MFA Thesis Exhibition”

 

     Catalogs:

 

“Unplugged”.  Albany international Airport.  Essay by Sharon Bates

 

“Containment.  Kumi Yamashita, Frank Watkins, Seamus Staunton, John Hampshire, Peter Ellis, Richard Cox”.  Introduction by Richard Cox.  Llantarnam Grange Arts Center, Wales, UK.

 

“2002 Mohawk/Hudson Regional”.  Essay by Linda Norden

 

 24th , 25th , 26th , 27th , and 28th “ International Small Works Exhibition” NYU

 

“The Body Image” Essay by Ken Johnson.

 

“1998 New York State Biennial”.  Essay by   Linda Weintraub.  New York State Museum.

 

“1997 Mohawk/Hudson Regional”.   Essay by Dan Cameron.  State University at Albany.