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biographies

MFA degree in Drawing from the University of
Washington in 1967. He taught at the University of
Southern Maine from 1967 through 1992. He has
taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts in Philadelphia since 1992, where he teaches
a studio seminar, Graduate Drawing, and a discus-
sion seminar, Subject, Form, and Content, in the
Post-Baccalaureate Program which he founded in

1994. Michael taught in Scotland, 1972/73, has trav-
      eled to China and Japan, and has exhibited his work
      in two solo, two duo, three group, and 10 faculty
      exhibitions during the past 10 years.

Born in Ohio, Margaret Neill has lived and
worked in Brooklyn, NY for over 20 years. She
earned an MFA degree at Brooklyn College and
have exhibited work in a variety of settings includ-
ing the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,
the Monastery Plazy in the Czech Republic and the
Central Library of Brooklyn. In the Spring of this
year she exhibited a 9 ft. x 9 ft. wall drawing at Mas-
ters & Pelavin Gallery in NYC in the group show,
A Field Guide to Getting Lost. At Middlebury Col-
lege in Vermont she taught an intensive month long
course on drawing and was an artist in residence
at Hiram College, where she created a 40 foot wall
drawing. At Kentler International Drawing Space in
Brooklyn, “Fixed in Time”, a gallerywide wall draw-
ing was exhibited where people were invited to view
the drawing in process. She has shown paintings,
drawings, and prints in a variety of venues across
the United States including Lancaster Museum of
Art in PA, Hofstra University Museum, Kent State
University, Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brook-
lyn, and the Simon Gallery in NJ. Recent projects
include permananent installations at The Boston
Medical Center, NY Intercontinental Hotel as well
as Deloitte Unitversity in Texas. She also has work
in public and private collections including Colby
College Museum of Art, The New York Public
Library, The New School University, and Pfizer.

Since receiving her BFA from Cornell Univer-
sity in 1996, Mia Pearlman has exhibited interna-
tionally in numerous galleries, non-profit spaces
and museums, including the Museum of Arts and
Design (NY), the Montgomery Museum of Art
(AL), the Centre for Recent Drawing (London), and
Mixed Greens (NY). Upcoming shows include the
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Morgan Lehman Gal-

lery (NY) and the Renwick Gallery at the Smithso-

nian. Her work is featured in several books on the

use of paper in contemporary art. Pearlman has

participated in many residency programs, including

Proyecto’Ace in Buenos Aires, the Lower East Side

Printshop in NYC, and the Vermont Studio Center.

She is a recipient of a 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foun-

dation Grant and a 2009 Established Artist Fellow-

ship from UrbanGlass. Pearlman lives and works in

Brooklyn, NY.

Justin Ostrofsky (B.A., The Richard Stockton

College of New Jersey, 2008) is a 4th year Doctoral

Student at The Graduate Center and Brooklyn

College of the City Univeristy of New York. His

major research aim is to understand the cognitive

mechanisms that influence observational drawing

accuracy. This research has involved conducting

individual difference studies that have measured

perceptual abilities of trained artists and non-

artists in order to determine whether expertise in

this domain of the arts is associated with changes

in basic perceptual processing. Additionally, he is

interested in determining whether the human visual

system processes information in qualitatively simi-

lar or distinct ways when guiding perceptual judg-

ment and observational drawing behaviors.

Patrick Tresset is co-principal Investigator of

the Aikon project, together with Frederic Fol Ley-

marie, at Goldsmiths College, University of Lon-

don. His main interest is to create autonomous

robotic systems capable of imagining our reality.

Patrick is currently based at Goldsmiths’s Digital

Studios preparing for a PhD. in Computer Sciences:

Face Sketching, a Multidisciplinary investigation.

Patrick studied computer sciences twenty years ago

in France. He then came to London to become a

painter. During the past 15 years he has participated

in solo and group exhibitions in London and Paris.

Since 2003 his interest in computing was revived

when the research leading to Aikon begun. Joining

forces with Frederic Fol Leymarie in 2004, he has

been developing the AIKON project.

Professor of Computing Frederic Fol Leymarie

is co-director of the Post-Graduate program MSc

Computer Games and Entertainment (www.games-

goldsmiths.com) at Goldsmiths College, which he

founded with William Latham in 2008. He previ-

ously created and lead the MSc Arts Computing