Background
Chiego, William J. was born on September 17, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of William Joseph and Rose Marie (Del Guercio) Chiego.
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Artist Carl Rice Embrey of San Antonio has produced a body of work that is unusual in its development and remarkable in its pursuit of a personal vision. Receiving his M.F.A. from the University of Texas in the mid-1960s, he began his career in an abstract expressionist style, then developed an expressionism in which representation returned, and finally arrived at a meticulous realism, in which abstraction plays a part. It has been a journey back to his place of origin, the landscape--both natural and human--of his ancestral home in Hamilton, Texas. Compared at times to Andrew Wyeth, with whom he shares stylistic affinities, Embrey does not, however, share Wyeth's emphasis on narrative qualities. His work is much closer to the tradition of Dutch landscapes and townscapes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in its clarity of vision and to Edward Hopper in its attention to light. But it is also a product of imagination--a landscape of memory. This volume is the catalog of a retrospective of Embrey's work organized in 1997 by San Antonio's McNay Art Museum, as the second of five retrospectives planned to honor and document the work of artists who have made a major contribution to the visual arts in San Antonio and South Texas. With dozens of color plates, the catalog illustrates the development of Embrey's art. An introductory essay by William J. Chiego analyzes the essence of Embrey's vision and traces his painting style from the mid-1960s until today. The catalog also includes an extended interview with the artist. An exhibition checklist, bibliography, and list of the collections and exhibitions of Embrey's work completes the volume.
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Chiego, William J. was born on September 17, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of William Joseph and Rose Marie (Del Guercio) Chiego.
Chiego received a Bachelor of Arts in history and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Virginia. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in the history of art from Case Western Reserve University in a joint program with the Cleveland Museum of Artist Chiego has been a resident fellow at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, and a participant in the Museum Management Institute.
He is active in the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and is a former board member of that organization.
He has also served as an adjunct professor and lecturer at both Oberlin College and at Trinity University in San Antonio.
Chiego came to the McNay Art Museum from Oberlin, Ohio, where he served as the director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College from 1986 to 1991. Previously, he had held curatorial posts at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, the Portland Art Museum in Oregon and the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio. In the twenty years since his arrival at the McNay Art Museum, Chiego is credited with having built on the strengths of the museum’s original collections to develop new areas of concentration.
Under his directorship, the museum’s collection has more than doubled, to nearly 19,000 works of art, with an emphasis on modern sculpture, prints and drawings (particularly Mexican prints), theatre arts, and contemporary works in various media.
Chiego has undertaken a comprehensive conservation program, bringing in conservators to assess the condition of individual works, as well as renovating the museum’s environmental systems In 1997 Chiego initiated a strategic plan for additional space to accommodate the needs of the museum"s exhibition schedule and growing collection.
After overseeing the $7.1 million renovation of the museum’s landmark Spanish Colonial Revival facility in 2001, Chiego, with the museum’s board of trustees, spearheaded the $50 million capital campaign for construction of the Jane & Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions. The addition designed by award-winning architecht Jean-Paul Viguier, which opened in June 2008, nearly doubled the size of the museum, allowing for year-round installation of significant works in the collection.
Major exhibitions hosted by the Stieren Center include George Rickey Kinetic Sculpture: A Retrospective.
Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker. And George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher.
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He is active in the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and is a former board member of that organization.
Married Elizabeth Kimball Lee, July 3, 1971. Children: Ruth Katharine, Rose Monica.