West Gallery & 
TDP Galleries

Pamela Bramble is a painter whose work is represented in public and private collections and has been reviewed by The New York Times, The Hartford Courant and Art New England. She received her MFA in painting from Columbia University. Pam is an Associate Professor of Painting at  UCONN; her teaching specialties are drawing, painting and art appreciation. She is Coordinating Director of The ARTS Project at UCONN Torrington. Awards include the President’s award for her paintings at The Gregg Galleries in NYC and a UCONN research travel grant to study 14th century frescoes in Italy – images that serve as a foundation and inspiration for much of her painting. Her next exhibit is scheduled for Fall 2014 at Five Points Gallery in historic downtown Torrington, CT.

Monica Bock is a sculptor and installation artist affiliated with Soho 20 Gallery Chelsea in New York City. She is Associate Professor of Art at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and has exhibited widely in venues that include Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh’s Mattress Factory, Mobius in Boston, and Art in General in New York City. She received her BA ‘82 in Art and Art History from Oberlin College, and spent three years in Japan on post- baccalaureate fellowship from the Oberlin Shansi Association. She received her BFA ‘89 and MFA ‘91 in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she became an Adjunct Assistant Professor before accepting her current teaching position in Connecticut in 1996. She has received a variety of awards including an Arts Midwest/NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship.

Kathryn Myers is a painter and professor of art who has taught painting and drawing at the University of Connecticut since 1984.  She received a BA at St. Xavier College in Chicago and an MFA in painting at The University of Wisconsin, Madison.  Until the late nineties her large scale paintings and drawings depicted figures in mysterious settings and interactions, sometimes informed by the drama of Italian Baroque art referencing biblical imagery. 

For the past decade her creative work in painting, photography and video, and her research and curatorial initiatives have focused on the art and culture of India. She has exhibited her paintings widely, in the US and India and has been the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships to India in 2002 and 2011. 

Judith Thorpe is Professor of Photography in the Art & Art History Department. Her creative work considers the representation of the female body, exploring the tension between idealized and real. The work considers historical representations of the female body in precedents such as Greek and Roman statuary and religious icons. 

Thorpe’s creative work has been exhibited at venues such as the International Fine Art Fair, New York; New Britain Museum of American Art; Flatfile Galleries and Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago; The American Center, New Delhi, India; PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT; Nexus Contemporary Art Center and the Atlanta Gallery of Photography, Atlanta; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem; and Jane H. Baum Gallery, New York, Graham Gallery, Albuquerque, and Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver. Her work is in the collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art, the former Polaroid International Collection, and Atlanta High Museum of Art. Thorpe has participated in artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Banff Centre for the Arts. With her colleagues Janet Pritchard, Deborah Dancy, and Ray DiCapua she participated in the photographic project, Like a Whisper: Time on the Land, in May, photographing Hadrian’s Wall in northern England.

East Gallery

Amelia de Neergaard lives in rural northwest Connecticut, an area surrounded by mountains and state forests. Observing the changing seasons in this environment has significantly influenced her work. Ms. de Neergaard has had a longtime interest in the natural world, attending Audubon camps as a child and beachcombing near her childhood home on Long Island, New York. An inveterate collector of natural specimens, as a child Amelia created a museum in her room, with bookshelves full of labeled shells, rocks, fossils and freshly mounted butterflies.

Ms de Neergaard pursued her interest in art starting with classes at the Art Students League in New York City during high school, then at Bennington College in Vermont and California Institute of the Arts. At Cal Arts, she was part of the Feminist Art Program, led by Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro. She has continued to study various craft processes over the years with workshops in hand papermaking, basketry, wirework and fiber techniques.

Amelia lived and worked as an artist and graphic designer in New York City for twenty years before moving to Connecticut with her family. In recent years, she has worked as a librarian and art educator, teaching adult and children’s art classes. She maintains a studio practice in Connecticut, and exhibits frequently in the region. She was the recipient of a 2012 Connecticut Artist Fellowship, and a 2013 residency at Haystack School of Crafts in Maine.