I’m against a culture that tells us that work in which people express their misery is not art but must be therapy, simply because it comes from personal involvement.
Festival, a bronze by Richard Barnet, is part of Sideshow Gallery’s annual Nation II: At the Alamo. The exhibition opens January 5 and continues through March 3, 2014.
Three of Richard Barnet’s watercolors are included in The December Drawing Show at William Holman Gallery (65 Ludlow St., NYC). Through January 11, 2014.
George Bridgman created mural-sized drawings, illustrating his technique of using geometric forms such as boxes, cylinders, and triangular wedges to outline the fundamental shapes and movements of the human body.
Deborah Winiarski will be a resident at the Studios of Key West (Key West, FL), part of a creative exchange between the Art Students League and the Studios of Key West.
Jerry Weiss will be teaching workshops in large-scale figure painting and drawing with the brush at the Silvermine School of Art (New Canaan, CT), February 6–7 and March 27–28, 2014.
Did you know the Art Students League has its own YouTube channel with over sixty instructional videos? Check out a recent drawing demonstration by Costa Vavagiakis.
On January 9, the National Arts Club will open a solo show of recent paintings by Everett Raymond Kinstler inspired by the movies. The show continues through February 1, 2014.