Geebo Church lives in Shelburne, Vermont with his family, within a landscape offering much opportunity for painting.
He admires Dutch and French painting, particularly their interest in representing ordinary life as revealing profound experience and visual beauty.
He endeavors to use painting as a conduit — enabling opportunity to learn more about the act of seeing, understanding nature and human being.
Résumé
Education
1976
1972
M.F.A. in Painting
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
B.A. Art and History
Union College, Schenectady, NY
Galleries
Grannis Gallery, Burlington, VT
Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Four Winds Gallery, Ferrisburgh, VT
Professional Experience
Drawing Instructor for Summer Design Program
Champlain College, Burlington, VT
Artist in Residence
Champlain College, Burlington, VT
Adjunct Instructor
Champlain College, Burlington, VT
2015 - 2019
2004
1980 - 2016
Teaching Experience
Artist in Residence: Mentoring students / Coordinating exhibition of student & faculty work
Champlain College, Burlington, VT
Instructor: Intermediate Drawing
Champlain College, Burlington, VT
Instructor: Introductory Drawing
Champlain College, Burlington, VT
Lecturer: Art History - A Survey of Western Art, Renaissance to Present
Champlain College, Burlington, VT
Drawing at Shelburne Farms: Elderhostel Program
Saint Michael's College, Colchester, VT
2004 - 2016
2003 - 2016
1983 - 2016
1980 - 2016
1991
Exhibitions
2017
2016
2005
1999
1981
1981
1981
1981
1980
1979
1975
1972
Solo Show
Rustic Roots, Shelburne, VT
"Small Landscapes"
Champlain College, Burlington, VT
"Small Landscapes"
Grannis Gallery, Burlington, VT
Vermont State House guest artist exhibit
Montpelier, VT
Group Show
Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Flower Show
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
A Class Portrait
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT
Group Show
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Three From Union (Three Person show)
The Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY
Stratton Arts Festival
Stratton Mountain, Stratton, VT
Exhibition of Graphic Arts
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Graduate Exhibition
Old College Hall, Union College, Schenectady, NY
2016 Champlain College Small Landscapes Exhibition
Awards / Honors
Vermont Council on the Arts: Artist Fellowship
Cum Laude, Union College
Departmental Honors, History, Union College
Thesis Prize: Bruegel's Netherlands, a social and political history of the Netherlands as revealed in Pieter Bruegel's paintings.
1979
1972
1972
1972