CALL FOR ARTISTS // THE SEVENTH CROSSING THE BRIDGE JURIED EXHIBITION

Brad Guarino is a painter, draftsman and printmaker who has exhibited nationally and internationally. His work has been included in the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art’s Radius exhibition, the Sixth International Triennial of Graphic Arts (Sofia, Bulgaria), and the Balkan Quadrennial of Painting (Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.) He has received an Artist Resource Trust grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, two Artist Fellowship grants from the State of Connecticut, and awards at the Society of American Graphic Artists' National Exhibition, FilmsOnArtist’s International Exhibition, Lore Degenstein’s National Figurative Drawing and Painting Exhibition, and at the Connecticut State Artist's Annual Exhibitions. His work has been published in Span Magazine (New Delhi, India), and New American Paintings, and will be included in Manifest Drawing Center’s forthcoming Seventh International Drawing Annual (INDA7). Guarino did postgraduate study at Bulgaria’s National Academy of Art on a Fulbright Fellowship, and was twice an artist-in-residence in southern Bulgaria on Griffis and Orpheus foundation fellowships. He is currently working on an Art-in-Public-Spaces commission to produce a site-specific installation project for Tunxis Community College in Farmington. He holds an MFA from the UCONN and a BFA from Lyme Academy. Guarino is currently Visiting Assist. Professor of Art at Connecticut College.