NAME: Dan Gottsegen
BIRTH PLACE: New York
BIOGRAPHY
Dan Gottsegen is a painter who lives and works in rural Vermont. His work, praised by reviewers as “poignant”, “meditative”, “emotionally powerful”, and “haunting”, explores our relationship with the landscape and natural environment. Much of his earlier work was influenced by his twelve-year participation in a study of the raptor (bird of prey) migration in California. His more recent work is inspired by his return to the landscape of New England some years ago. Gottsegen sometimes uses technology to arrive at his images, juxtaposing scenes, and abstracting through technological mediation. This process, which begins often on long solo treks in the wilderness, evokes a multi-layered sense of meaning and depth.
Gottsegen’s work has been exhibited nationally including one-person shows at the Feick Gallery at Green Mountain College (2007); the Karpeles Museum in Santa Barbara; Sylvia White Gallery in Santa Monica; Perkins Gallery in Stoughton, MA; the Prince Street Gallery in New York City; the Whistler House Museum in Lowell, MA; Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco; and Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco. He has been in numerous (more than sixty) group exhibitions including most recently “Thoreau Reconsidere” at Wave Hill in New York City. His work is in numerous important collections.
Gottsegen has won many awards and fellowships. This year he was the recipient of a Vermont Arts Council Individual Artist Creation Grant. He is an “official juried” artist of the Vermont Arts Council; won the University Teaching Excellence Award at UMASS/Lowell; was an Affiliate (resident) artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA; and was a Nevada Artist-in- Residence, as well as an artist-in- residence at the Ucross Foundation. His work has also been recognized as “best in show” in a variety of group exhibitions.
Until recently Gottsegen was an Associate Professor of painting at University of Massachusetts/ Lowell, and taught for many years at California College of the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area, achieving the rank of Full Professor. He has a BA from Brown University, and an MFA in Painting from California College of the Arts.
