This exhibition presented the works of two College of Charleston Studio Art faculty, painter John Hull and printmaker Barbara Duval.

John Hull is a new member of the Studio Art faculty at the College of Charleston.  He is Professor of Painting and Chair of the Studio Art department. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he received a B.A. from Yale University in 1977 and an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana – Champaign in 1981.  He has exhibited nationally, with solo exhibitions at Tatischeff Gallery, the New Museum of Contemporary Art and Grace Borgenicht Gallery all in New York City; CO; Kohn-Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, LA; the J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS; and Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL. Group exhibitions include “The 1980’s: A New Generation”, the Metropolitan Museum of Art; “The Artist at Ringside”, The Butler Museum of American Art; “Romance and Irony”, National Gallery of New Zealand; “The Figure: Another Side of Modernism”, the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art; and “The 179th Annual Invitational Exhibition of American, Art”, the National Academy of Design.

Professor Hull has received numerous awards, including four National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowships, a Maryland Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship, the Thomas Benedict Clarke Prize for Painting in 2004 from the National Academy of Design and the Achievement Award in 1995 from American Artist Magazine for Acrylic Painting.

Hull’s work may be found in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Israel Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Greenville County Art Museum, the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery.