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Stan Taft

  • Associate Professor Emeritus

Department

Academic Research Areas

  • Drawing
  • Painting

Stan Taft has taught at SUNY Purchase, the University of Iowa, and in the Cornell department of art since 1985. Solo exhibitions include those at the Josef Gallery in New York City and the Parnas Gallery in Los Angeles. A selection of group exhibitions includes Figurative Realism: Narrative Painting at SUNY Cortland, the Alex Rosenberg Gallery and Styria Gallery in New York City, the Davidson Gallery in Seattle, Convergence Gallery in San Francisco, the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Baltimore, and the American Center for Physics in Washington, DC. He received a B.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1967 and an M.F.A. from Fort Wright College in 1969.

headshot of a man with white hair and beard in glasses and wearing a dark suit coat and white shirt

Academic Research Areas

  • Drawing
  • Painting
Painting of a metal sconce on a gray wall with a stripe of red paint on the left side.
Sconce (2009), acrylic and gouache on paper, 36" x 25".

Publications

  • The Science of Paintings

    Principal author with J. W. Mayer, 2000.

  • Neutron Induced Autoradiography and Pixe Analysis

    Principal author with J. W. Meyer, H. C. Aderhold, M. Keller, G. Rizzo. In Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology III. J. R. Druzik and P. B. Vandiver (eds), Materials Research Society, 2001.

  • Science and Art and Analysis: A Mixture for Undergraduate Non-Specialists

    Principal author with J. W. Mayer. In Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology III. J. R. Druzik and P. B. Vandiver (eds), Materials Research Society, 1992.

Classes

  • Introductory Painting

    ART 1201

  • Painting III

    ART 3201

  • Painting IV

    ART 3202

  • Independent Studio in Painting

    ART 4209

  • Graduate Studio I

    ART 7001

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • Project Grant, Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University

    1994

  • Elected a Scientific Member of Bohmische Physikalische Gesellschaft

    1990

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Robotic Photographs

    John Hartell Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 2006.

  • Robotic Photographs

    International Conference on Science and Art, Beijing, China, 2006.

  • Still

    Second Street Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 2006.

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