“I returned to teach in the university system that failed me as an aspiring artist.”
Exhibitions, awards, and a short talk from David A Leffel.
Ripening is a group show featuring the work of LIU/Post MFA graduates and visiting artists.
Jerry Weiss is currently exhibiting paintings in two group shows at Connecticut galleries.
Richard Pantell: American Icons is the artist’s first exhibition of paintings in the Woodstock area since 1998.
Peter Ruta, a ninety-seven-year-old painter who first came to the Art Students League as a teenager in 1937, is having a mini-retrospective.
In celebration of the Metropolitan Museum’s encyclopedic holdings, “Take Five” is a series of posts where artists describe the lessons that any five works in the collection have taught them about their craft or life as an artist.
Painter Jerry Weiss isn’t so sure Flaming June is the best picture in the room at the Frick Collection.
Nearly 4,000 men and women veterans of the US military have studied or taught at the Art Students League of New York. On June 19, On the Front Lines opens to explore work by those veterans who studied at the league after the Second World War through the present day.
Sherrie McGraw was awarded the Butler Medal of Honor from the Butler Institute of American Art in May.