Visual Arts Faculty Directory
Drawing
Julie Langsam
Drawing
Julie Langsam is a painter whose work addresses issues of style, beauty and
idealization by combining images that reference the romantic sublime of the 19th
century and the 20th century's utopian ideals of high modernism. Langsam's
juxtaposition of iconographic architectural structures with backgrounds of
broad, big sky landscapes associated with Hudson River School painters, alludes
to the relationship of the sensuous body with the rational mind. Langsam has had
numerous exhibitions including a solo museum show at MOCA Cleveland; is the
recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award; and is represented in many
collections throughout the US. She is represented by Frederieke Taylor Gallery
in NYC. Among Langsam's other activities she is co-curator of such exhibitions
as "Arte Povera American Style: Funk, Play, Poetry & Labor", "House: Case Study
Cleveland", and "It's a Wonderful Life: Psychodrama in Contemporary Painting".
Langsam is the former Head of Painting, and Director of the Kacalieff Visiting
Artists & Scholars Program at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Raphael Montaņez Ortiz
Undergraduate Director, Drawing
Raphael Ortiz is Undergraduate Director of Visual Arts.
He founded and was the first director of the El
Museo Del Barrio in New York in 1969. His sculptures are included in many
museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of
American Art, where he has twice been included in the Whitney Biennial. He has
created mixed-media ritual performances and installations for museums and
galleries in Europe and Canada and throughout the United States. His computer-
laser-video works are in numerous museum collections, including the Ludwai
Museum in Cologne, Germany, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, France.
His video, Dance Number 22, won the Gran Prix at the 1993 Locarno International
Video Festival of Switzerland.
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