Announcing CONFERENCE CALL with Baxter Koziol and Molly Springfield at Skowhegan's New York Office

L-R: Baxter Koziol, Survival Blanket II, 2021; Molly Springfield, Errata 05.24.22, 2022. Images courtesy of the artists.

CONFERENCE CALL | Exhibition Series
Baxter Koziol (A '17) and Molly Springfield (A '06)
Curated by Michael Scoggins (A '03)

Exhibition Dates: August 4–25, 2022
Reception: Thursday, August 4; 6:00PM–8:00PM

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and the Skowhegan Alumni Alliance are excited to announce the third exhibition in CONFERENCE CALL: a series of five 2-person exhibitions featuring the work of Skowhegan alumni. Opening on August 4, the exhibition will feature the work of Baxter Koziol (A '17) and Molly Springfield (A '06), and is curated by Alliance member Michael Scoggins (A '03). The show will have an opening reception on August 4 from 6:00–8:00PM and take place at the Skowhegan Office in Chelsea, New York.

Baxter Koziol creates art from discarded materials and detritus; the source material for Molly Springfield’s graphite drawings is outmoded, discarded photocopies. Both artists create work that is visually, starkly different, but shares an underlying connection based on the process of looking backward to find a way forward. By pairing these two artists—both making new works in response to Skowhegan, the space, and each other—our collective memories are triggered by the past lives of these objects. In their reclamation and transformation into artworks, their subject matter is reborn and is given new meaning for us to discover.

About Baxter Koziol
Baxter Koziol studied at Maine College of Art & Design (BFA 2017) and has attended residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Monson Arts, Hewnoaks, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, and Surf Point Foundation. He lives and works in Portland, ME.

About Molly Springfield
Molly Spiringfield's drawings have been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Cologne, Germany, as well as in exhibitions at The Drawing Center and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Springfield's work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004 and was a MacDowell Fellow in 2016. She lives and works in Washington, DC.

CONFERENCE CALL | Exhibition Series 2022 aims to place work by artists from different Skowhegan cohorts in conversation with each other, and with the labor of operating a residency. It will feature the works of Skowhegan alumni: Pío Galbis (A '82, '21) and Buster Graybill (A '07); Gwendolyn Kerber (A '79) and Rocío Olivares (A '18); Baxter Koziol (A '17) and Molly Springfield (A '06); Pallavi Singh (A '15) and Jing (Ellen) Xu (A '16); Hetty Baiz (A '69) and Jordan Seaberry (A '15). Each pairing is curated by one or two members of the Alumni Alliance: Jesus Benavente (A '12), Annette Cyr (A '76, '21) and Rebecca Shippee (A '18), Michael Scoggins (A '03), Danny Greenberg (A '18) and Eleanor Kipping (A '18), and Paige Laino (Alumni & Archives Manager). Additional information about upcoming exhibitions in this series is forthcoming. The Skowhegan Alliance is a group of alumni who generate off-campus programming for the international alumni community.