Wendy Seller
Wendy Seller is a professional artist and educator. For over 25 years she taught Design and Spatial Dynamics at the Rhode Island School of
Design, before shifting her focus to a greater involvement in her professional practice. Teaching awards include the John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching from RISD in 2005, and the RISD Provost’s Faculty Award for Professional Advancement in Teaching from Brown University and the Sheridan Program in 2010. Seller holds an undergraduate degree from RISD (BAE) and an MFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana. From 2008 to 2014 she held the position of Assistant Professor in Foundation Studies at RISD.
Seller ‘s multi-layered paintings provide creative fuel for her work and a deeper understanding of the principles behind artmaking.In her current series, she integrates digital media with gouache paint, photography, and appropriated image fractions. Concepts of space, place and time are embedded into overlapping themes that pertain to women, past & present. She has had exhibitions in New York, Boston, Chicago, and Dessau, Germany. More recently her esoteric, digitally-based paintings were included in shows at the Danforth Art Museum, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Kingston Gallery in Boston, and the Catherine Hammond Gallery in Cork, Ireland, and others.
For the past 15 years, Seller has spent considerable time developing ideas at residencies in Ireland while building her own “image bank.” She has furthered her practice at the Ballinglen Foundation in Ballycastle and the Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan, and taken travel expeditions with her photographer husband, Will Howcroft throughout the Irish Republic Ireland and Northern Ireland. Her 2016 travels were funded through a grant from the Ballinglen Foundation where she is currently a Fellow.