On view now through July 26 in the Art Students League’s Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery is the Merit Scholarship Exhibition 2018.
Coldstream seemed to me a talented curiosity: dry, meticulous, influenced by Cézanne, and—though this is no debit—reliably irresolute. He worried his paintings through dozens of sessions without ever falling victim to a conventional standard of finish.
Notable works from the welding class and the classes of Leonid Gervits, Gregg Kreutz, Wendy Shalen.
Notable work from the classes of Anthony Antonios, Harvey Dinnerstein, Ellen Eagle, Doug Safranek, and Sharon Sprung.
Notable works from students in the classes of Martha Bloom and Robert Cenedella.
You want to find your own world in painting, and you want who you are to come to the surface with all that integrated knowledge.
Notable work from students in the classes of Henry Finkelstein, Barney Hodes, and Mary Beth McKenzie.
Notable works from the classes of Naomi Campbell, Jerry Weiss, and Weiqing Yuan.
Ephraim Rubenstein’s landscape The Loveliest of Fields will appear in the set of the upcoming feature film Auggie.
Notable works from the classes of classes of Peter Bonner, Peter Golfinopolous & Donna Mitchell, Marshall Jones, and Leonid Lerman.