Foundation Faculty

FULL-TIME FACULTY

James Johnson 

Foundation Department Chair; Professor, Photography
James Johnson (born Syracuse, New York, 1976) received an MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology (2002) and a BFA from Marywood University (1999). He is a multidisciplinary artist who works with photography, but his work has also encompassed sculpture, installation and live activity. He is interested in architecture, issues surrounding representation and pictorial conventions. He is influenced by conceptual art, minimalism and paintings from the renaissance. Johnson is currently thinking about how race, gender/sexuality, ability and other aspects of identity shape how we see and understand the world—as well as the cultural contributions we are capable of making. View full profile

Lynn Palewicz

Assistant Professor, Foundation
Lynn Palewicz graduated with her MFA from the Yale School of Art and her BFA and MAT from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is a recipient of several residencies including The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine), Yaddo (New York) and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (Virginia). Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at RUSH ARTS (New York, NY), Fleisher Art Memorial (Philadelphia, PA) and the Mildred I. Washington Gallery (Poughkeepsie, NY); and in numerous group exhibitions in the United States, at venues that include Metrospace (East Lansing, MI), The Kimmel Center (Philadelphia, PA), Goucher College (Baltimore, MD) and ArtSpace (New Haven, CT). View full profile

Christopher Williams

Assistant Professor, Foundation/Illustration
Christopher Williams is a visual artist whose practice utilizes portraiture and figurative painting to convey complex narratives, including that of race and gender. Born in Oakland, California, Williams' current studio base is in New Jersey, where he resides with his wife. His drawings, paintings and films have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, television, museums and galleries, including The L Word Generation Q season 2 and 3, Root Division: Black artist fellow, Tunnels of the Mind (Times Square, NY), Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA), Spark+Echo Arts (New York, NY), My Studio Gallery (Sacramento, CA) and The Golden One Center (Sacramento, CA). His art practice focuses on Black Joy—a spiritual feeling that has uplifted the African Diaspora through countless trials and tribulations in the quest for freedom and equity. View full profile

Alice Oh

Professor, Fine Arts/Foundation
Alice Oh works with a unique artistic method that engages in only sparse planning, but instead focuses on allowing her paintings to develop naturally as a “dialogue” between the artist and their artwork. She often works in a series of works at a time in order to see her evolving dialogues to their logical conclusion. Greatly influenced by nature and biology, Oh is interested in the concurrence of microscopic and macroscopic life. Her work is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Leeway Foundation, Temple University, and Yale University. Oh exhibited University of Pennsylvania, Rosemont College, Franklin and Marshall College, Millersville University, and the Philadelphia Arts Alliance. View full profile

Heather Ujiie

Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary
Heather Ujiie grew up in New York’s Greenwich Village, part of a family of artist educators, and believes her creativity comes from a lively bohemian childhood. She is an interdisciplinary associate professor at Moore College of Art & Design, and her installations and artwork have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. She has participated in exhibits at Hangaram Arts Center Museum and the Seoul Art Center in Korea; The Salon Art & Design Fair at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, NY; the State Museum of Pennsylvania; Delaware Art Museum; Hunterdon Museum of Art; Racine Art Museum; Delaware Center for Contemporary Art; the Philadelphia International Airport; and the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial Museum. View full profile

Robert Goodman

Associate Professor, Fine Arts/Foundation
Robert Goodman is a Philadelphia-based painter who received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and his MFA from Tyler School of Art. Goodman’s work explores the relationships and tensions between spaces, bodies and materials in painting as well as public works and installations. His work has been shown nationally at ZG Gallery in Chicago, Peter Fingesten Gallery and Anna Kustera Gallery in New York, Spaces Gallery in Cleveland, and Vox Populi, Seraphin Gallery, and The Galleries at Moore in Philadelphia. Goodman has presented his work at Pace University, Sarah Lawrence College, Emery and Henry College and Rutgers University, and his work was recently acquired by the Woodmere Art Museum. View full profile