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David Partridge was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1919 and died in Toronto, Ontario in 2006.  He became a naturalized Canadian in 1944, and was considered one of Canada’s leading artists.  He studied art at Hart House, University of Toronto, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, the Art Students’ League in New York, the Slade School of Fine Art in London, and Atelier 17 in Paris.  His sculptural reliefs have been exhibited widely in the United States, Canada and England.  In addition, he received several large-scale public commissions.  Partridge’s abstract compositions, often set against a background of polished aluminum, feature shimmering waves of thousands of common nails.

*Excerpted from Tools as Art: the Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc. Edited to reflect the artist’s passing

Drenttel Doyle Partners is a design company founded by William Drenttel and Stephen Doyle. They worked for corporate design, product development, package design, collateral materials, advertising, marketing consultation, architectural and environmental graphics and editorial design. Some of the major successes of Drenttel Doyle Partners include the design of Spy Magazine, the New Republic and the World Financial Center. It also created graphic programs for institutions such as Teach for America, Edison Project and Princeton University.

Carolyn Parker received her BA in art history from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1965. Her artwork has been widely exhibited at institutions such as Gallaudet University, Washington; Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY; National Society for Women Artists, New York, NY, Annual Group Show; and the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY. She has received numerous awards, including the Berkshire Museum Collection Award; the Michael M. Engel Award, National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic; and runner-up for the Governor’s Award, State of Maryland’s 30^th Anniversary. Her paintings have also been featured in a variety of publications and on the covers of magazines, including Better Homes & Gardens Decorating Guide, New York magazine, and The New Yorker.

Paul Paiement was born in 1966 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  After high school, he attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design where he received his B.F.A. in 1992 with an emphasis on Drawing and Painting.  He pursued his graduate studies at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, earning his M.F.A. in 1995.  Paiement states that his work addresses technology’s influence on society in two primary ways.  The first considers the fusion of the organic and inorganic through the concept of cyborgs or hybrids of machine and organism created to enhance nature, and the second regards Paiement’s choice to paint the subjects, rather than digitally render them to display distrust in our culture’s deification of technology.  Paiement is currently a full-time tenured professor in the Art Department at Cypress College, in Orange County, California, and lives in Long Beach, California.

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