Contained Abstraction with Craig Stockwell 

In my work I strive to: surprise myself. Keep interested and engaged. Provide an intelligent and absorbing task. Knowingly address history (both art history and history-history). Knowingly speak to artists. Seek the possibility of the stunning object/moment while having trouble believing in it. Have learned a voice and how to use it as a teacher and an artist.

Craig Stockwell began his studies at Dartmouth College and Rhode Island School of Design. At RISD he studied with glass artist Dale Chihuly and went on to do work in glass in Minneapolis, Boulder, and Boston. His work moved on to conceptually based sculptural installations and was shown in New York, notably at PS 1 (MOMA). In 1988 Stockwell made an intentional decision to confine his work to the restrictions of painting as a method of creating a sustainable daily practice. He received an MFA degree from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2000.

Stockwell has shown his drawings and paintings extensively in New England and nationally including the Nielsen Gallery in Boston, the Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, Marlboro College, New England College, The Fitchburg Museum, The Painting Center in NY, Spheris Gallery and TW Wood Gallery in Vermont and several other venues. His work is in many permanent private and public collections including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He has taught at Keene State College, Marlboro College, Union Institute and University, and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA). From 2013-20 he was the Director of the Visual Arts Program at the low-residency MFA at NH Institute for Arts. Currently he teaches in the MFA programs at Lesley University and MassArt. Craig Stockwell