This panel discussion took place during the final weekend of NYFA Learning's MARK10 program in Syracuse, NY - June 2010. While focused on the geographic region of New York State, it offers useful insights for any artist pursuing a career outside of a major urban center.

MODERATOR:
Jackie Battenfield is an artist who is known nationally for her luminously colored paintings and prints of natural forces. In 1992, Battenfield was invited to bring her real world experience as a curator, art administrator and self-supporting artist, to take over the acclaimed Artist in the Marketplace Program (AIM) at the Bronx Museum of the Arts where she directed the seminars for sixteen years. She currently teaches professional practices in the graduate program at Columbia University and for the Creative Capital Foundation.

PANELISTS:
Susan Roth studied painting and sculpture at Syracuse University with Rodger Mack and Darryl Hughto. Her work was first presented in solo exhibitions at the William Edward O’Reilly Gallery in 1979 in NYC. She has been in dozens of group exhibitions selected by many notable curators, Lawrence Alloway and Clement Greenberg among them. Her work has been discussed in print by distinguished art commentators, including Wilkin, Kuspit, Halasz, Link, and Mosby. Her work is represented in many prestigious public collections including Basil Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Butler Art Institute, Fogg Art Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art and the Portland Art Museum.

Darryl Hughto grew up in Northern New York and attended Buffalo State College graduating with a BS in Art Education. Later he attended Cranbrook Academy where he majored in painting and minored in sculpture obtaining his MFA in painting. In 1971 his paintings were shown for the first time in New York City at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. He has continued to show in NY environs periodically since that time. He has shown his work around the world in one man and group exhibitions, the most recent being a show of the diamond paintings from the late seventies at the Sam and Adele Golden Gallery. Even more recently he and his wife, Susan Roth, had an exhibition at Limestone Gallery in Fayetteville.

Julian Montague is an artist who utilizes drawing, photography and other media to explore the peripheral features of our environment. He is best known for a long term art project dedicated to developing a system of classification for stray shopping carts. The project was published as a book, The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Abrams) in 2006. He has exhibited widely in the Eastern United States at spaces that include, Art in General (NYC), Black & White Gallery (NYC), The Burchfield-Penny Art Center, The Light Factory (Charlotte), and Socrates Sculpture Park (NYC). His work has received media attention from Artnews, The Journal of Postmodern Culture, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Toronto Star, the BBC World Service, and many others. He has work in the collections of The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Martin Z. Margulies and The Progressive Insurance Company. Julian Montague is represented by Black & White Gallery in New York City.