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Enrico
Riley ’95, senior lecturer in studio art, has been
awarded a fellowship from the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The award supports Riley’s work in
painting.
Enrico Riley ´95
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Riley works primarily in oil on canvas or linen stretched over wood panels,
and his paintings and drawings deal with pattern, repetition, shape, and
perception.
“I’m excited by the opportunities presented with this award,” says
Riley. “I plan to spend a significant amount of time working in my studio, and
I’ll undertake more ambitious paintings.” Riley is also the area head of
painting and drawing in the studio art department.
Riley says that his work in the studio will be informed by travel to Oxford
University, the U.S. Southwest, and British Columbia, Canada. In England, he
will study medieval illuminated prayer books, and in the U.S. Southwest, he
will study Native North American vision quest paintings.
According to the Guggenheim Foundation, fellows “are appointed on the basis
of stellar achievement in the past and exceptional promise for continued
accomplishment.” The Guggenheim Fellowship program provides support so Fellows
can work with as much creative freedom as possible. The 2008 fellowship winners
include 190 artists, scholars, and scientists selected from more than 2,600
applicants for awards totaling $8.2 million.
After receiving his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, where he majored in
visual studies, Riley earned an M.F.A. in painting from Yale University. He has
twice been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt.,
and his paintings and drawings have been included in solo exhibitions at the
Pageant Gallery in Philadelphia, Pa., the Karl Drerup Art Gallery in Plymouth,
N.H., and elsewhere. In 2004, he received an American Academy of Arts and
Letters Purchase Prize for his painting Giant Steps, which was placed
at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.
“Enrico’s artistry embodies his creative and scholarly energy,” says
Dartmouth Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt. “I’m pleased that he has been
recognized for his talent, which he shares with his students and our community
regularly.”
Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted more than $265 million in
fellowships to more than 16,500 individuals. Recent Dartmouth recipients
include: Hany Farid (computer science, 2006), Linda Fowler (government, 2005),
Ronald Green (religion and Ethics Institute, 2005), Larry Polansky (music,
2004), Susan Jane Walp (studio art, 2004), Douglas Irwin (economics, 2002), and
Bruce Nelson (history, 2002).
By SUSAN KNAPP
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