Exhibiting Artists:
Joseph Stefanelli
Born in Philadelphia in 1921, Joseph Stefanelli studied at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, the Art Students League in New York, and the Hans Hoffman School of Painting in New York. Stefanelli worked as an illustrator for the US Army from 1942 to 1946. He later moved to the Lower East Side where he worked and participated in the group shows that came to associated with the origins of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Stefanelli was associated with the New York Action Painters because of his loose, active painting technique. He has received numerous awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship and fellowships from the American Research Center, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, and the Pollock/Krasner Foundation. He has taught and served as a visiting artist at several universities, including the University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University, Columbia University, the New School for Social Research, and Washington University in St. Louis.
