Every small meditative thought can contribute to artistic pursuits. In that regard, making coffee and staring out of the window can be considered a part of the creative process. And I do both several times a day.
I suppose I’m not concerned about any one set of questions, but rather concerned about what a painting is capable of doing without written descriptions. What is the vernacular of the picture-making, and how do I express things through that? Some of the best moments are when a painting can describe back to me the feeling of my work just by looking.
An exhibition celebrating how Art Students League grants expand and transform artistic practice
I try to work every day, often doing three or four pen and ink drawings before getting out of bed or before going to sleep. I eat and then stagger into the studio and work and nap and make calls and do chores and then get back to work with the improvements I have been mulling as I did the other chores.
At the League
The Art Students League Presents Its Annual Instructors’ Exhibition
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This year’s exhibition features nearly one hundred of the League’s diverse faculty and reflects the broad range of approaches and techniques of these contemporary artists.
Getting your art out of the studio and in front of an audience forces you to grow in ways you can’t imagine, especially if you’re procrastinating about exhibiting someday.
Visual Dialogues is an exhibition of work by faculty, students, and alumni of the College of Mt. Saint Vincent that opens May 11 at Blue Door Art Center.
Instructor News
Sherry Camhy Landscape on View in the Hudson Valley Art Association’s Annual
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Sherry Camhy’s At a Still Point has been selected for the Hudson Valley Art Association’s 86th Annual National Juried Exhibition.
Notable work by students in the classes of Sigmund Abeles, Martha Bloom, Paul Ching-Bor, Bruce Dorfman, Barney Hodes, and Marshall Jones.
A current exhibition at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and an upcoming show at Westbeth Gallery
Cummings is one of eleven SVA alumni in the first of three exhibitions that explore the theme of “life on an island.”
Pat Lipsky’s painting Builder is currently installed at the American Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.