“To speak of great drawing is, by implication, to refer to the art of hatching,” writes Jerry N. Weiss. “It’s a technique born of a practical consideration: how best to translate three-dimensional imagery to paper.”
Wendy Shalen discusses her recent exhibition Family Matters in a video interview with G.G. Kopilak.
Jerry Weiss writes about Eugene Speicher and the fortunes of artistic reputation.
What does “becoming an artist” mean? Some people simply have an impulse to create. They are artists by nature. Some strive to become skilled artists and enjoy that quest for its own sake. Then there are artists who also want to share something they have created by exhibiting their work. Open juried exhibitions are a way to get started exhibiting your work publicly.
Joseph Peller’s recent exhibitions in New York and China.
The Instructors Exhibition, the Art Students League’s inaugural show every season, reveals the array of media, styles, and aesthetic viewpoints available for study—not to mention some exceptional art.
Virtually every artist, from the time of cave painting to the dawn of non-objective art, will tell you they paint what they see. Painting what you see seems like the most obvious and simplest thing in the world…until you try to do it.
Richard Barnet is exhibiting in New York State & Stories at the William Holman Gallery.
Hugo Bastidas’s solo exhibition at the Mattatuck Museum of Art, in Waterbury, CT, opened August 14 and will run through mid-October.
On September 5, Max Ginsburg will paint a portrait from life at the Salmagundi Club (NYC).
Ephraim Rubenstein is participating in the Portrait & Figure Festival as are Art Students League instructors Costa Vavagiakis, Sharon Sprung, and Michael Grimaldi.
Ephraim Rubenstein will be exhibiting paintings in two solo exhibitions. The first opens at the George Billis Gallery, in Chelsea, NYC; the second opens at the Stone Tower Gallery, in Glen Echo, MD.