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Exploring Multimedia

Course Details
  • Course Number FIC-2248-A
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 04 - Aug 06
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description

This course is designed to strengthen and expand your art-making skills and ideas through a creative exploration of traditional and unconventional materials. We will focus on the endless possibilities of combining such materials and mediums as film, rubbish, household goods, writing and photographs with painting, drawing and sculpture. Sound, gravity and magnetism can also be incorporated into projects. Broad suggested assignments are given to kick-start your thinking. Experimentation and failure are encouraged. Through group and individual critiques we will examine the universal and personal signification of the materials, how those can change in combination and how they can help define your interests and form a unique voice. We will also look at the ways collage, assemblage and installation have developed to expand your critical vocabulary and give you a sense of where your work fits in this history. This course is appropriate for all ranges of experience, from beginners to advanced students.
NOTE: Please bring notepaper and five objects selected at random to the first session. Access to the SVA Sculpture Center is not included.

Instructor

Shirley Irons

Fine artist

Education:

BFA, Parsons School of Design

One-person exhibitions include:

Queens Museum of Art; Luisotti Gallery, Santa Monica; Temple University, Philadelphia; White Columns; Postmasters Gallery; Staniar Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA

Group exhibitions include:

B 4 A Gallery; Richard Anderson Gallery; Thread Waxing Space; Hunter College; Patrick Callery; The Clocktower; Simon Watson Gallery; Murray Guy; Four Walls; McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, OH; Islip Art Museum, NY; Caren Golden Fine Art; MoMA PS1

Publications include:

Bomb, Acme, Blast, The New Yorker, Art Monthly, Time Out New York, Flash Art, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Village Voice

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Painting

Course Details
  • Course Number FPC-1020-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 12 - Jul 24
  • Hours 10:00AM - 04:00PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description


For the beginning student, this course is designed to introduce the fundamentals of painting. Using oil paint, students will explore color, form and content. Subjects will include still life, the model and themes from your imagination. The course will concentrate on each student's individual development, enhancing his or her technical skills and personal expression.

Instructor

Judy Mannarino

Fine artist

Education:

BFA, with honors, School of Visual Arts

One-person exhibitions include:

Fiction/Nonfiction Gallery; Penine Hart Gallery; Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC; LedisFlam Gallery

Group exhibitions include:

Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis; Die Kampnagel Fabrik Hamburg; Visual Arts Gallery; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Terrain Gallery, San Francisco; George Billis Gallery

Publications include:

Artforum, Art in America, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice

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Painting

Course Details
  • Course Number FPC-1020-B
  • Day(s) M,W
  • Dates Jun 10 - Jun 26
  • Hours 10:00AM - 04:00PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description


Designed for the beginning student, this studio course will introduce the fundamentals of color, space, composition and technique. Oil paint will be the primary medium; other media will be explored, including acrylics and collage. Students will paint from observation, memory and imagination. Contemporary concepts will be emphasized. There will be individual and group critiques.
NOTE: Please bring a rough newsprint pad (18x24"), charcoal pencils and an eraser to the first session.

Instructor

Melissa Meyer

Fine artist

Education:

BS, MA, New York University

One-person exhibitions include:

Lennon, Weinberg Inc.; Elizabeth Harris Gallery; Holly Solomon Gallery; Miller/Block Fine Art, Boston; Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH

Group exhibitions include:

Katonah Museum of Art, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Graham Modern Gallery

Collections include:

Museum of Modern Art, Jewish Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Publications include:

Art in America, Wall Street Journal, ARTnews, Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, The New York Times, New York Sun, Artcritical  

Awards and honors include:

New York Foundation for the Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome

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Painting

Course Details
  • Course Number FPC-1020-C
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 05 - Aug 14
  • Hours 10:00AM - 02:00PM
  • Ceus 4.00
  • Cost 470.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 310 East 22nd Street

Description


This course is designed for beginners and experienced painters alike. Demonstrations for both acrylic and oil paint will be included, as well as color theory, mixing color, light and shadow, glazing, priming, composition and content. Through guided experimentation and exploration with color, you will develop techniques and gain the skills to realize your artistic vision. Group critiques and one-on-one instruction will help inform and assist your process. From canvas preparation through to the completion of the painting-working from models, still life, photographs or imagination-the instruction will focus on individual growth in a supportive environment.
NOTE: Please bring dark charcoal or 6B pencils and a newsprint pad (18x24") to the first session.

Instructor

Maura Sheehan

Fine artist; founder, director, Manhattan Art Program

Education:

BFA, San Francisco Art Institute

One-person exhibitions include:

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville; Helsinki Museum, Finland; Art Gallery of Toronto, Canada; Old Yacht Club, Cork, Ireland; Cristinerose Gallery; Helen M.Z. Cevern Gallery; Simon Watson Gallery; Lausanne Biennale; Art at the Anchorage; London Metropolitan University Gallery, Whitechapel; Row House, Houston; Nave Museum, Victoria, TX

Group exhibitions include:

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Printed Matter; Municipal Art Society; Wall Space; Galerie Berlin Am Meer; Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany; Orensanz Foundation; Green Dog Arts, Belfast; Pierogi Gallery; ARTifariti, West Sahara, Africa; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid

Publications include:

Time Out New York, The New York Times, ARTnews, Art in America, Flash Art, Sculpture, Artforum, Irish Times

Awards include:

CAPS, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts

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Painting

Course Details
  • Course Number FPC-1020-CE
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 05 - Aug 21
  • Hours 06:00PM - 10:10PM
  • Ceus 4.50
  • Cost 470.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Closed
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description


Open to students at all levels, this course is an intensive survey of the diverse methods and approaches to oil painting and it will take the mystery out of color, composition, scale and tone. Working exclusively from the live nude, you will learn how to create convincing flesh tones in light and shadow, and volume and space, through the application of color theory. Demonstrations will show you how to use a painting knife and brush, and how to build a painting using old master, classicist, impressionist, and neoimpressionist techniques. You will learn the recipes of painting mediums and how to use them. This course will strengthen your observational skills, and you will become familiar with atmospheric perspective, linear perspective and human anatomy. There will be group discussions of student work and individual attention to the goals, needs and level of experience of each student.
Note: Please bring a newsprint pad (18x24") and compressed charcoal to the first session. This course may be taken for undergraduate credit. Please refer to FPD-1020-CE in the credit courses section of this website for details.

Instructor

Paul Fortunato

Fine artist

Education:

BFA, with honors, School of Visual Arts

Exhibitions include:

Christie's; Lowe Gallery at Hudson Guild; Drawing Center; Washington Square East Galleries, New York University; Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY; Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT; Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning; Rafik Exhibition Space

Publications include:

The New York Times, Juxtapoz

Awards include:

Elizabeth Foundation, National Academy of Design, MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, Hillwood Art Museum

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Watercolor Painting

Course Details
  • Course Number FPC-2027-A
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 04 - Aug 06
  • Hours 06:00PM - 08:30PM
  • Ceus 2.50
  • Cost 335.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location To Be Announced

Description

Watercolor is a very easy medium once color mixing and water control have been mastered. This course introduces a variety of materials and techniques for beginners and intermediate level students. Students will create realistic to semi-abstract works using photographs, still lifes and live models-with minimum time spent for maximum results. Students will discover their untapped talent, and will be encouraged to find their unique style. This course is specifically designed for those who want to master watercolor painting within a brief time period without much art training. At the end of the semester, students will have completed four to six paintings and developed an appreciation of watercolor painting.
NOTE: Please bring pencils (2B), a sketchbook (any size), rounded brushes (size #8, #12, #16), and some tubes of watercolor paint.

Instructor

Andrew Chang

Director, programs for international students, School of Visual Arts; painter; principal, creative director, American Creative Trends, Inc.

Education:

MFA, School of Visual Arts

One-person exhibitions include:

Gallery Yegam Art; Chosun-Ilbo Gallery, Seoul; School of Visual Arts; Agbae Gallery, Kwangju, Korea; Sanmaroo Gallery, Tenafly, NJ; Soomok Gallery, Seoul; East-West Cultural Study Gallery; National Arts Club

Books include:

The World of Illustration, A Survey of Illustration, The Man Who Picked a Big Apple

Publications include:

Monthly Design (Korea), HOW, Illustration (Japan), Graphic Design (Korea), Playboy, Adweek, The New York Times Book Review, Racquet, Cosma, Korean Times Magazine, Chosun-Ilbo (Korea)

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Portrait Painting

Course Details
  • Course Number FPC-2133-A
  • Day(s) S
  • Dates Jun 15 - Jul 27
  • Hours 12:00PM - 06:00PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 540.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 136 West 21st Street

Description


This comprehensive course in portrait painting will teach you all you need to know to make realistic, fully illuminated portraits. It is perfect for beginners and will prove of immense value to even the most experienced professional. Each week will involve painting from the model with detailed instruction. We will begin with an exploration of how color can be used to create palpable flesh and super three-dimensional form. Subsequent projects will build from this foundation and incorporate paint layering and underpainting techniques, as well as a look at the mysteries of pose, posture and gesture. Simple breakdowns of the features-noses, eyes, mouth, ears-will enable you to quickly incorporate them into your portrait with accuracy and believability. Examples from masters' work will be shown and discussed. Home assignments will support and continue the work in class, and sometimes range to more experimental approaches to the portrait.
NOTE: A complete supply list will be distributed at the first session.

Instructor

John Parks

Painter

Education:

BFA, Hull College of Art; MA, Royal College of Art, London

Exhibitions include:

Coe Kerr Gallery; Allan Stone Gallery; Segal Gallery; Wonderlich Gallery; Royal Academy, London

Clients include:

CBS Records, New York magazine, Franklin Mint

Publications include:

The New York Times, American Artist, Watercolor

Collections include:

Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Royal College of Art, London

Awards include:

National Endowment for the Arts, British Institute Award, Pears Portrait Commission

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Painting: Between Realism and Abstraction

Course Details
  • Course Number FPC-2176-A
  • Day(s) TH
  • Dates Jun 06 - Aug 15
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description

Working from the figure, students will start by exploring semirealistic styles and then move on to deconstruct the figure into more abstract shapes. Color, tone and line will be continuously explored. At times, projects will address the fine line between realism and abstraction. Glazing techniques, as well as transparent to impressionistic impasto painting, will be demonstrated. We will break down the figure and study a concentrated, expressive brush stroke. Finally, students will work on abstracted shapes of the body-pushing angles, reinventing curves, twisting torsos and elongation. Students will complete approximately eight finished pieces by the end of the course.
NOTE: Please bring paints and canvas (18x24") to the first session.

Instructor

Andrew Castrucci

Painter, sculptor, illustrator, graphic designer

Education:

BFA, School of Visual Arts

Exhibitions include:

Bullet Space; Le Case D’Arte, Milan; New Museum of Contemporary Art

Collections include:

Whitney Museum of American Art, Stedelijk Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, State Museum of Berlin, Museum of Modern Art

Publications include:

The New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Tribes, Newsweek

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Landscape Painting: What Did the Masters Know That You Don't?

Course Details
  • Course Number FPC-2208-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 05 - Aug 14
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description

The focus of this course will be to paint landscapes using techniques from the masters of the 17th through the 20th centuries. Students will learn step-by-step processes to create luminous, light-filled and atmospheric landscape paintings. A variety of methods to create space, form and luminosity will be explored, as well as how to express the color harmony found only in nature. While learning perspective and color theory, you will use photography, drawing, memory and historical references to develop compositions. Discover the "secrets" of Vermeer, Monet and Hopper by learning about glazing, scumbling, color mixing and palette knife painting. If you love to paint, this course is for you.
NOTE: Please bring one tube each of burnt sienna (acrylic paint); burnt umber, burnt sienna and titanium white (water-soluble or traditional oil); canvas; brushes; linseed oil and a palette to the first session.

Instructor

John Parks

Painter

Education:

BFA, Hull College of Art; MA, Royal College of Art, London

Exhibitions include:

Coe Kerr Gallery; Allan Stone Gallery; Segal Gallery; Wonderlich Gallery; Royal Academy, London

Clients include:

CBS Records, New York magazine, Franklin Mint

Publications include:

The New York Times, American Artist, Watercolor

Collections include:

Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Royal College of Art, London

Awards include:

National Endowment for the Arts, British Institute Award, Pears Portrait Commission

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Watercolor Painting

Course Details
  • Course Number FPC-2217-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 03 - Aug 05
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 310 East 22nd Street

Description

This course is designed to inform and demonstrate all the "shop tricks" in watercolor painting. Beginning and experienced students will learn how to avoid pitfalls and advance their watercolor paintings. We will explore a variety of watercolor techniques with an emphasis on developing one's own style. Demonstrations of color and design, wet-on-wet and dry brush techniques will be included. Students can paint from still life, photographs or their own subject matter. Individual attention will be given.

Instructor

Denis Ponsot

Painter

One-person exhibitions include:

Artists' Woods, Amangansett, NY; Daruma Gallery; Alfred Van Loen Gallery, Huntington Station, NY

Group exhibitions include:

J.N. Bartfield Galleries; Bayside Historical Society, NY; Salmagundi Club; South Huntington Library, NY; Art League of Long Island, NY; Brookhaven Arts and Humanities Council; Heckscher Museum of Art, NY; Islip Art Museum, NY

Awards include:

Salmagundi Club, Grumbacher Award

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Painting/Drawing Workshop

Course Details
  • Course Number FPC-2237-A
  • Day(s) M,T,W,TH,F
  • Dates Jul 22 - Jul 26
  • Hours 09:30AM - 05:00PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 80.00
  • Status Wait List
  • Location 136 West 21st Street

Description

This intensive workshop combines figure drawing in the morning with paintings based on "systems" in the afternoon, to get participants to work beyond their comfort zone. The fast paced, observational drawings (with multiple models) are warm-ups prior to daily painting assignments. By working figuratively, as well as abstract compositions, and quickly as well as slowly, habits are challenged, allowing participants to push themselves at a more challenging pace than the average studio course. While this class is open to all levels, its "bootcamp" atmosphere requires a serious commitment for the week.
NOTE: A supply list will be distributed upon registration for this course.

Instructor

Peter Hristoff

Fine artist

Education:

BFA, School of Visual Arts; MFA, Hunter College

One-person exhibitions include:

Yapi Kredi Cultural Center, Istanbul; CAM Gallery, Istanbul; Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco; Hagia Sophia Museum, Istanbul; David Beitzel Gallery; Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco; Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica

Group exhibitions include:

Lohin-Geduld Gallery; Katonah Museum of Art, NY; Solomon Fine Arts, Seattle; George Billis Gallery; Residency Unlimited; Flux Factory; Pera Museum, Istanbul

Publications include:

Time Out Istanbul, The Village Voice, Artforum, Milliyet, Art in America, The New York Times, ARTnews

Awards include:

New York Foundation for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Moon and Stars Project Grant, Meandros Project Residency Award

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Classical Portrait Painting

Course Details
  • Course Number FPC-2348-CE
  • Day(s) M,T,W,TH,F
  • Dates Aug 05 - Aug 16
  • Hours 09:00AM - 05:00PM
  • Ceus 8.50
  • Cost 1800.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 310 East 22nd Street

Description

There's more to painting a great portrait than capturing a likeness; it's about creating the illusion of life. Portraiture should reveal the character of the sitter and exude a lifelike essence. During this course, taught by an award-winning portrait artist, you will learn how to analyze, interpret and convincingly portray the human visage. The methodology presented is both broad in scope, yet simple to comprehend. It's based on the idea that logic, not frivolous rules nor superficial techniques, lies at the core of the greatest portraits ever created. Working from live models, you will discover a simple and straightforward way to achieve accurate drawing and to easily replicate any color you see, particularly the subtle translucent tones of the human complexion. You will also learn how to model form and to simulate the effects of luminosity, illusionistic depth and atmospheric space. All of the information covered in this course will be fully demonstrated and explained.
NOTE: Please bring a notebook and pen to the first session. A complete supply list will be distributed at the first session.
Saturday, August 10, 2013 - field trip to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This course may be taken for undergraduate credit. Please refer to FPD-2348-CE in the credit courses section of this website for details.

Instructor

Marvin Mattelson

Portrait artist

Education:

BFA, University of the Arts

Clients include:

New York Archdiocese, MBNA, ITT Corporation, MetLife, Time Warner, DreamWorks, IBM, MTV, Fedex, Disney, Newsweek, Warner Publishing, Putnam, A&E, CBS, ABC, Geffen Films, Nynex, National Geographic, Scientific American, U.S. Postal Service, Angel Records, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Redbook, Look, Psychology Today, New York magazine, Grey & Grey

Exhibitions include:

Richard C. von Hess Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia; American Society of Portrait Artists; Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists; Society of Illustrators; New York Society of Portrait Artists; Long Island Professional Artists' Showcase

Publications include:

Step-by-Step Graphics, Graphis Annual, Communication Arts, Idea, Print, Folio

Awards and honors include:

First Place, Best Portfolio, Portrait Society of America; American Society of Portrait Artists; Society of Illustrators

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Gouache

Course Details
  • Course Number FPC-2363-A
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 11 - Jul 30
  • Hours 06:30PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 2.00
  • Cost 270.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description

Experience the brilliance and subtlety of color this water-based paint offers. Enjoy its opaque quality, which allows for more coverage than transparent watercolor. Learn to mix colors and paint on paper or board with this clean and transportable medium. In this course, projects inspired by natural objects, still life, set-ups and models will be presented to develop your ability to observe, translate and transform through color. Discussion of practical color theory, composition, three-dimensional form and personal content, as well as demonstrations and individual and group critiques will supplement studio work. Beginning students will discover gouache to be a flexible, forgiving medium to hone skills while transitioning to color. Experienced students are encouraged to develop their technique and personal vision through class and independent projects.
NOTE: A supply list will be distributed upon registration in this course.

Instructor

Shelley Haven

Fine artist

Education:

BA, SUNY Binghamton; MFA, MA, University of Iowa

One-person exhibitions include:

Tompkins Square Gallery, New York Public Library

Group exhibitions include:

Lesley Heller Gallery; Central Booking; Kingsborough Community College; Manhattan Graphics Center; Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi

Collections include:

Library of Congress, Museum of Modern Art, Stedelijk Museum, New York Public Library

Grants include:

Puffin Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Manhattan Community Arts Fund

Artist residencies include:

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fundación Valparaiso, Millay Colony for the Arts, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Anderson Center

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Materials, Techniques and Technologies of the Artist: A Chronological Approach

Course Details
  • Course Number FPC-3006-A
  • Day(s) S
  • Dates Jun 08 - Aug 17
  • Hours 12:00PM - 03:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 75.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location To Be Announced

Description

Through lectures, demonstrations and hands-on use of the materials in a studio setting, this course will explore the development of painting and drawing materials and technologies in Western art. Students will create independent projects using materials and techniques from important stages of art history, such as Neolithic art, encaustic painting, manuscript illumination, silverpoint drawing, egg tempera painting and gilding, fresco, oil painting on rigid panels and flexible (canvas) supports, ink making and ink drawing, the development of paint pigments, watercolor painting, acrylic and other synthetic binders. Through projects, students will acquire basic skills, such as panel preparation for painting, how to make and use various painting mediums, brush selection and how to varnish paintings. Experimentation in the use of materials and techniques of the past in innovative ways will be emphasized. This course is geared toward intermediate and advanced students, who want to produce work in a fast-paced, independent studio setting.
PREREQUISITES: Two classes each of basic drawing and basic painting, or equivalents.
NOTE: Students must supply painting supports (canvas, stretcher bars,plywood painting panels, paper), brushes and storage containers for materials.

Instructor

Evan Izer

Fine artist

Education:

BFA, School of Visual Arts; MFA, Yale University

One-person exhibitions include:

Audiello Fine Art Inc.

group exhibitions include:

Pera Museum, Istanbul

Publications include:

The New York Times, Tema Celeste, The Village Voice

Awards include:

Fannie B. Pardee Prize, Yale University

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Advanced Painting

Course Details
  • Course Number FPC-3111-A
  • Day(s) M,W
  • Dates Jun 10 - Jul 15
  • Hours 10:00AM - 04:00PM
  • Ceus 6.00
  • Cost 645.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location To Be Announced

Description

In this all-day studio course, students can explore ideas from their personal artistic vision and bring them to completion. The instruction will focus on individual growth in a supportive class environment. This course has been developed to help students think clearly about technique and skills. Contemporary as well as historical issues will be examined to assist students in establishing a historical sense of themselves as artists.
NOTE: Please come prepared to paint and bring examples of your work to the first session.

Instructor

Ira Richer

Fine artist

Education:

BFA, The Cooper Union; MFA, Yale University

One-person exhibitions include:

Foster Goldstrom Gallery, American Fine Arts, Annina Nosei Gallery, Steven Kasher Gallery

Group exhibitions include:

Robert Miller Gallery, Los Angeles Art Fair, Houghton Gallery, Basel Art Fair, Frankfurt Art Fair, Exit Art

Collections include:

Library of Congress, Menil Collection, Vincent van Gogh Foundation

Publications include:

Bomb, The Village Voice, Artforum

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Paint It Black: 20th-Century Music and Visual Arts Test Tube

Course Details
  • Course Number FPC-3427-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 03 - Aug 05
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location To Be Announced

Description

Arnold Schoenberg was an expressionist painter and a composer. Jackson Pollock's work is cited as the parallel between the structures of painting and of jazz. Death metal is quoted as one of Banks Violette's starting points. This course is designed for intermediate to advanced students-whatever their medium-who are interested in expanding their artistic vocabulary. It will be a laboratory in which students will be encouraged to explore how post-1900s music and visual art cross-pollinate creatively and culturally, from charting their interplay in works of art, music making and performances. We will investigate a range of ways to use the interplay itself as medium, from sound sculpture to rock 'n' roll photography to forming a "visartrockpalooza," but the goal will be to vitalize and develop each student's practice and work with all the benefits of the symbiosis between 20th-century visual art and music.

Instructor

Nils Karsten

Fine artist

Education:

BFA, School of Visual Arts; MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts; Seal of Joiners, Berlin; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

Exhibitions include:

Marvelli Gallery; White Columns; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; Gallery Joe, Philadelphia; Earl McGrath, Los Angeles; Goliath Visual Space; Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai; Momenta Art; Pera Museum, Istanbul; UBU Gallery; Print Center, Philadelphia; International Print Center; Printed Matter; The Bogart Salon; The Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Islip Art Museum

Publications include:

Los Angeles Times, New York Sun, Brooklyn Rail, Boston Globe, The Village Voice, The New York Times, Artforum

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Studio Art Therapy Techniques

Course Details
  • Course Number FPC-3818-A
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Aug 06 - Aug 27
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:00PM
  • Ceus 1.00
  • Cost 145.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 132 West 21st Street

Description

Join other art therapists and artists in studio work that is designed to heighten perception and sensory awareness. Combining an open studio and thematic approach, experientials will be used to explore personal and artistic identity, as well as facilitate an understanding of the art-making processes art therapists employ with clients. While designed for art therapists, the course is open to all, and geared to help tap into your inherent creativity.

Instructor

Valerie Sereno

Art therapist, ATR-BC, LCAT; special programs and projects coordinator, MPS Art Therapy Department, School of Visual Arts

Education:

BA, Marymount Mahattan College; MA, New York University; William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology

Professional experience includes:

Art therapist, 9/11 School Recovery Program, PS 89 and PS 124; Caring at Columbia University; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; St. Luke's Hospital

Presentations include:

Psycho-Oncology Conference, Heidelberg, Germany; American Art Therapy Association Conference; "The Creative Arts Therapies' Response to 9/11," New York University

publications include:

Palliative & Supportive Care

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Color Theory for Designers: Life Beyond Black, White and Red

Course Details
  • Course Number GDC-1014-A
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 04 - Aug 06
  • Hours 06:30PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 209 East 23rd Street

Description

Beginning with the classic color exercises of Itten and Albers and followed by personal and expressive projects, students will explore the principles of color theory, and experiment with the energy that color brings to design. Students are encouraged to adopt a disciplined yet playful creative process. Assignments are paper-based; materials include Color-aid paper, gouache and found materials. Students will mainly use traditional art tools like pencils, brushes and X-acto knife; computers and digital devices are useful but optional. The goal of this course is for each student to develop a new awareness of color, and create a toolkit of ideas to enhance and strengthen their ability to design in color.

Instructor

Richard Mehl

Designer, photographer, writer

Education:

BA, Minnesota State University; MFA, Yale University

Professional experience includes:

Design director, Piderit & Partners; design director, Metalsmith; senior designer, JPMorgan Chase

clients include:

Accenture, Leonard Cheshire Disability, New Hampshire Institute of Art

Author:

Playing with Color: 50 Graphic Experiments for Exploring Color Design Principles

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Re-Composition: Where Did Rubens Want Me To Look?

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2010-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 05 - Jul 31
  • Hours 06:00PM - 10:00PM
  • Ceus 3.00
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description

This course takes a tactical approach to learning composition with a distinct method that unveils hidden structures and ideas within the great paintings that inspire and move us. We will investigate the cycle from drawing, design, under-painting and layers of color, and you will never view paintings in the same way. To understand that any great artwork is an invention of space, we will look at paintings that carry their content and their structural meaning inside them. In contrast, many modern paintings carry their meaning outside of their structure. We will challenge ourselves to find paintings that keep us in them, keep us reading them and, in time, the rhythms, structures, directions and gestures are revealed. Working from compositions that involve multiple figures, we will distill them to basic geometric forms and movements, and then re-compose them with new content-literal or abstract. The process will be demonstrated in class and examples will be shown. These compositional lessons provide powerful insights into past and present work and are essential to the often inter-related fields of fine art, animation, cartooning and illustration. If you can draw a cube, cone, cylinder, pyramid and sphere, you can take this course. To see examples of class and student work, please visit: stephengaffney.tumblr.com.
NOTE: A supply list will be distributed upon registration. Please bring all materials to the first session.

Instructor

Stephen Gaffney

Fine artist, muralist, designer

Education:

BFA, School of Visual Arts; MFA, New York Academy of Art

One-person exhibitions include:

Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta; First Street Gallery

Group exhibitions include:

Samson Fine Art; McKee Gallery; Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT; New York Academy of Art

Projects include:

Sogno Ristorante, Fairfield, CT (interior design); Church of St. Agnes (altarpiece); Marine Park Playground; Playground for All Children; P.S. 58 Library; Paul's Daughter (signs and design)

Clients include:

Hazelwood Foods, UK; New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Awards and honors include:

National Academy of Design, Edwin Austin Abbey Fellowship

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Painting From Your Head: Acrylics

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2158-A
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 03 - Aug 05
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 395.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 136 West 21st Street

Description

Acrylic painting without using photographic references is the focus of this course. You will be shown methods that make painting and drawing from your head easier. There will be three assignments (four weeks each): one session for sketching followed by three sessions for painting. Each project will explore a different acrylic painting technique: gray painting with color overpainting, color painting direct to board, acrylic thinned out to act like watercolor. All work can be completed during class. Whatever your experience in painting, this course is for anyone who wants to paint in acrylics. Individual instruction will be given. The instructor's YouTube channel can be viewed at: youtube.com/amereillustrator74.
NOTE: Please bring at least 5 sheets of white paper (8.5x11") and a 5B pencil or a felt tip Flair pen to the first session.

Instructor

Jerry Moriarty

Illustrator, painter, cartoonist, paintoonist

Education:

BFA, Pratt Institute

One-person exhibitions include:

Corridor Gallery, Kamikaze, Printed Matter, Visual Arts Museum, CUE Art Foundation

Group exhibitions include:

Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool; Lambiek Gallery, Amsterdam; University of Massachusetts; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Phoenix Art Museum; Vancouver Art Gallery

Author, illustrator:

Jack Survives, The Complete Jack Survives

Publications include:

Seventeen, Esquire, Eros, GQ, Raw, Sports Illustrated, Denver Post, Picture Story, El Vibora, The New Yorker, Kramers Ergot, Comic Art, Art Review, ARTnews, The Believer. Children's books for Scholastic, Young Scott

Awards include:

National Endowment for the Arts, Society of Illustrators

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Making It Real

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2334-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 05 - Aug 14
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 540.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description

This course will teach you all you need to know to create fully three-dimensional illuminated paintings of the world around you. It is perfect for beginners and will prove of great value to more advanced painters. It explores how to make an image pop off the canvas or a landscape recede into the blue and hazy distance. It will teach you how to made a head really solid and dimensional, the eyes really liquid and the jewelry sparkle. Students will explore the means by which an image can be made to appear more real than real itself. They will discover how color, tone and paint techniques can be combined to produce an image of dazzling reality. We will examine various options of underpainting, color and tonal systems, as well as some of the more amazing games that can be played with shadows and reflections. Studio work will be from the figure and still life. Assignments include the use of a variety of sources from landscape to photography.
NOTE: A complete supply list will be distributed at the first session.

Instructor

John Parks

Painter

Education:

BFA, Hull College of Art; MA, Royal College of Art, London

Exhibitions include:

Coe Kerr Gallery; Allan Stone Gallery; Segal Gallery; Wonderlich Gallery; Royal Academy, London

Clients include:

CBS Records, New York magazine, Franklin Mint

Publications include:

The New York Times, American Artist, Watercolor

Collections include:

Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Royal College of Art, London

Awards include:

National Endowment for the Arts, British Institute Award, Pears Portrait Commission

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Contemporary Painting Lab: Artists and Techniques of the 21st Century

Course Details
  • Course Number VSC-2237-CE
  • Day(s) M
  • Dates Jun 03 - Aug 05
  • Hours 06:00PM - 10:10PM
  • Ceus 4.50
  • Cost 470.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description

How does Ed Ruscha achieve his trademark sunset-like fade? Or Gerhard Richter his dreamy, cinematic blur? What might a painter like Dana Schutz do to make an irresistibly juicy brushstroke.or Alex Katz an unfussy line? How do hard edges, transparency, luminosity and distinctive mark-making affect the tone of a painting, and how are these effects best achieved? In this course, we will look to contemporary painters as guides for answering questions about how to create striking compositions by the most relevant methods possible. From taping and scraping to glazing, layering and trompe l'oeil tricks, we'll pinpoint technical solutions that align with each student's conceptual goals. Open to both experienced painters and those relatively new to the medium, thematic projects will be assigned each session. Included will be presentations on contemporary artists to foster a dialogue about possibilities for painting.
NOTE: This course may be taken for undergraduate credit. Please refer to VSD-2237-CE in the credit courses section of this website for details.

Instructor

Emily Weiner

Visual artist; art writer

Education:

BA, cum laude, Barnard College; MFA, School of Visual Arts

Professional experience includes:

Staff writer, Time Out New York; culture page reporter, Santiago Times

Group exhibitions include:

Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia; The Banff Centre, Canada; Camac Centre d'Art, Marnay-sur-Seine, France; Visual Arts Gallery; Louise McCagg Gallery, Barnard College; Concrete Utopia; X Initiative; Emerald Green Library; Artists Space; The Phatory LLC;  Clifton's Brookdale, Los Angeles; Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia; Nancy Margolis Gallery

Publications include:

Artforum, Domus, RES Art World/World Art, Artslant, ducts.org, ARTnews, Visual Arts Journal, Museo

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