Instructors Profiles and Class Descriptions
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Anthony Antonios Sculpture: Modeling in Clay Monday – Friday, 1:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Anthony Antonios, Attitude, plaster, 36 inches high (including base)
“My approach to sculpture has always been from the inside out, as well as the outside in, when sculpting the figure—inside out being the form concepts that are the result of anatomy, and outside in being a broader reduction of those forms to abstract design.� Anthony Antonios was born in New York City and attended the High School of Art and Design. He studied at Pratt Institute, the City College of New York, the Art Students League of New York, and the /BUJPOBM "DBEFNZ PG %FTJHO )JT UFBDIFST JODMVEFE 3PCFSU #FWFSMZ )BMF 3PCFSU #SBDLNBO BOE &WBOHFMPT 'SVEBLJT .S "OUPOJPT SFDFOUMZ DPNQMFUFE DPNNJTTJPOT GPS UIF #FBSEFO +PTFZ $FOUFS GPS #SFBTU )FBMUI BU 4QBSUBOCVSH 3FHJPOBM )PTQJUBM JO 4QBSUBOCVSH 4PVUI $BSPMJOB BOE #SPPLHSFFO (BSEFOT JO 1BXMFZT
Island, South Carolina. He has also done commissions for the /BUJPOBM $POGFSFODF PG $BUIPMJD #JTIPQT 3FOTTFMBFS 1PMZUFDIOJD Institute, the White Plains Memorial Hospital, the Merchant Marine Captains’ Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and the Honeywell Corporation. )F IBT FYIJCJUFE BU UIF #FIOLF %PIFSUZ (BMMFSZ .PSSJTPO (BMMFSZ (SBOE $FOUSBM (BMMFSJFT 'JWF 1PJOUT (BMMFSZ #SPPLHSFFO Gardens, and the Fleischer Museum, among others. He has won many awards and is a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society. Mr. Antonios also teaches sculpture at the National Academy School of Fine Arts. To learn more about Mr. Antonios and his work, please visit his website: www.anthonyantonios.com. Class description: This sculpture class presents an in-depth exploration of human form through modeling in clay. Topics include anatomy, form concepts, proportion, structure, composition, and design. Individual attention will be given to each student, and there will be a talk and demonstration whenever possible. Students will get a basic foundation in figurative sculpture that will give them the tools necessary for exploring personal expression and for further developing their skills. This class works from the nude model, with poses generally lasting four weeks. 2015 –2016 Catalog
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Richard Barnet Life Drawing in Varied Media Thursday, 7:00 PM – 10:15 PM
Richard Barnet, Boat Angels, 2013, ink and watercolor on paper, 20 x 26 inches
" TDVMQUPS 3JDIBSE #BSOFU FODPVSBHFT TUVEFOUT UP FYQMPSF XPSLing in varied media outside of class. He works with the strengths of his students so that their individual ways of designing will flourish, whether in drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, architecture, etc. .S #BSOFU IBT FYIJCJUFE BU -JODPMO $FOUFS )VETPO 3JWFS .Vseum, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, National Academy of Design, Five 1PJOUT (BMMFSZ #FSUB 8BMLFS (BMMFSZ 4U .BSZ T $PMMFHF .% $PPQFS (BMMFSZ 8BMLFS ,PSOCMVUI (BMMFSZ 4UVEJP "UFMJFS 0ZTUFS #BZ /: BOE the National Sculpture Society, among others. In 2013 and 2014, he FYIJCJUFE TDVMQUVSFT BU "SU BOE 4JEFTIPX (BMMFSZ CPUI JO #SPPLlyn, NY); at Greenhut Gallery (Portland, ME); at William Holman Gallery (New York, NY), where he had a one-person show; in Art From the Boros BU %FOJTF #JCSP 'JOF "SU /FX :PSL /: BOE JO Transformations PO (PWFSOPST *TMBOE /FX :PSL /: .S #BSOFU IBT UBVHIU BU the Art Students League since 1980, and at the College of Mount Saint Vincent since 1970. He has also taught at New York University, SUNY Purchase, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. 24 The Art Students League of New York
He studied at the Art Students League and at the National "DBEFNZ PG %FTJHO )F IBT B # " GSPN "OUJPDI $PMMFHF BO . " from New York University, and an M.F.A. from Lehman College, CUNY. He is an elected member of the National Sculpture Society and the Sculptors Guild. He likes to sail, and recommends it for all that is to be seen on and from boats. To learn more, visit richardbarnetartist.com. Class description: This class is for anyone who wants to explore drawing from life. A goal is for each student to strengthen their own drawing “voice.â€? Their interests in other design fields are welcomed: painting, collage, sculpture, architecture, etc. Students are encouraged to try out approaches and materials: graphite, charcoal, contĂŠ crayons, inks, watercolors, combinations, papers. Short poses explore gesture; longer poses are perhaps for more finished work. Lecture demonstrations are on drawing “elementsâ€?: observation, composition, 2-D and 3-D contour, perspective, light and shade (modeling), and anatomy. This class works from the nude model, with a variety of short and long poses.
Bill Behnken Printmaking: Etching, Lithography Sunday, 8:45 AM – 12:30 PM / 1:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Bill Behnken, Early Autumn / In Memoriam, 2014, aquatint, 14 x 18 inches
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produce their 2006 edition Collector’s Print. His working process was the subject of an article in American Artist magazine’s drawing issue in May 2007. .S #FIOLFO IBT QBSUJDJQBUFE JO OVNFSPVT HSPVQ BOE TPMP FYIJCJtions both nationally and internationally. His work is in such collecUJPOT BT UIF .FUSPQPMJUBO .VTFVN PG "SU UIF #SPPLMZO .VTFVN UIF Museum of the City of New York, the Indianapolis Museum, the New 0SMFBOT .VTFVN UIF #SJUJTI .VTFVN BOE UIF 'JU[XJMMJBN .VTFVN among others. His work is represented by The Old Print Shop in New York City, Allen Platt Fine Art in Chicago, and the Julie Heller Gallery in Massachusetts. Class description: This class welcomes beginners and students with prior experience to explore etching, drypoint, aquatint, and mezzotint. Also available is instruction in the relief processes of woodcut and linocut. Lithography on both stone or aluminum plates is also taught. Students in this class create work without using models or still life. 2015 –2016 Catalog
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Martha Bloom All Media
Saturday, 8:45 AM – 12:30 PM / 1:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Martha Bloom, Celebrating Life, Enduring Limitations, Resisting Injustice, 2013, assemblage, 14 x 20 x 3 inches
,OPY .BSUJO XSJUFT i.T .BSUIB #MPPN JT BO BXBLFOFE QPFN‰ perhaps the only thing that is awake in the world‌her art and ebullient teaching ability is at the heart of what is compassion and intelligent depth, a rare patience which plumbs what makes creation possible‌� While having studied in several colleges, it was the League XIFSF .T #MPPN GPVOE IFS BSUJTUJD IPNF 4IF SFDFJWFE IFS Certificate of Completion in Fine Arts Graphics, and studied TDVMQUVSF ESBXJOH BOE QBJOUJOH .T #MPPN SFDFJWFE UIF .D%PXFMM 5SBWFMJOH 4DIPMBSTIJQ BOE TFSWFE PO UIF #PBSE PG $POUSPM GPS UISFF years as a graphics representative. She studied with many living legends: drawing with Robert #FWFSMZ )BMF QBJOUJOH XJUI *TBBD 4PZFS 4JEOFZ %JDLJOTPO BOE #SVDF Dorfman; scuplture with JosÊ de Creeft and Sidney Simon; printmaking with Michael Ponce de Leon and Seong Moy; and more. .T #MPPN UBVHIU B DIJMESFO T DMBTT BU UIF -FBHVF TJODF VOUJM last year when she began teaching an all-ages, all-media Saturday class. She also teaches all ages at the National Academy School and Silvermine School of Art (CT), along with workshops, outreach 26 The Art Students League of New York
BOE NVTFVN QSPHSBNT .T #MPPN T JOUVJUJWF BOE EJTUJODUJWF TUZMF PG artmaking integrates her training in many media. She has a natural affinity for found collections and an imaginative take on universal issues. Jeff Guerrier, formerly the Librarian of Prints and Drawings at the .FUSPQPMJUBO .VTFVN PG "SU XSJUFT i#MPPN JT BO FNPUJPOBM TVSSFBMJTU whose work evokes the loneliness of each viewer’s own psyche in beautiful melancholic mindscapes.� Her work has been exhibited widely and is represented in many private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Academy, Columbia Museum, Delaware Art Museum, and the Library of Congress. Class description: Students are encouraged to express their unique vision through a variety of collage and assemblage techniques, including printing and transferring images onto experimental and archival materials. Students should bring any materials to work with: found objects, magazines, cloth, wood, metal, plastic, etc. This class works from the nude model, with a variety of short and long poses.
Leonid Brener Sculpture in Relief
Sunday, 1:00 PM – 4:45 PM
-FPOJE #SFOFS SFDFJWFE BO . ' " JO %FDPSBUJWF "SUT and Sculpture from the Stroganov Institute of Fine Arts and Design, Moscow, Russia. .S #SFOFS IBT SFDFJWFE OVNFSPVT BXBSET GPS IJT work, including those for the Medal Design Competition, Paris, France, and the Decorative Sculpture Competition for the design of the exterior of the Moscow Museum of Musical Culture, Moscow, Russia. .S #SFOFS T TDVMQUVSFT IBWF CFFO JOTUBMMFE JO DJUJFT UISPVHIPVU UIF 6OJUFE 4UBUFT 3VTTJB 6LSBJOF BOE #FMBSus. His work is included in private and public collections in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Washington, D.C. He was one of the co-creators of the St. Anthony sculpture on the facade of the Shrine Church of St. Anthony of Padua on Houston Street in New York City. His portrait of Aleksandr Pushkin is in the collection of the Russian Cultural Center of the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. .S #SFOFS IBT UBVHIU ESBXJOH BOE TDVMQUVSF BU UIF New York Studio School, New York Educational Alliance, and the Sculpture Center in New York. This class studies the ways of transforming threedimensional objects, such as classical sculpture or occasionally, the model, into relief. Special emphasis is on composition. Class description: The main objective of this course is to introduce the student in practice to construction and perception features of relief, as a kind of sculpture with its real correlation between the object’s height and width and with its conditional depth. During class the students mostly work with models (both classic casts from plaster and gypsum, and sitters), mainly examining the transformation of three-dimensional forms into different types of relief: low relief, high relief, and perspective relief. The program also emphasizes composition formation, and works related to this particular skill development are practiced in class and at home. Prior experience is not obligatory. This class occasionally works from the nude model.
Leonid Brener, Pine, 8 feet 7 inches (height)
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Frederick Brosen Watercolor Monday – Friday, 8:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Frederick Brosen, Jefferson Market, 2012, watercolor over graphite on paper, 36 x 40 inches
'SFEFSJDL #SPTFO T XBUFSDPMPST IBWF CFFO GFBUVSFE JO PWFS TPMP museum and gallery exhibitions across the country, most recently at the South Street Seaport Museum and at Hirschl & Adler Modern in NYC, both in 2012. His work is in the permanent collections of over a dozen museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New-York Historical Society. He is the recipient of the City College of New York Career Achievement Award (2011) and of two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants. In 2006 a major exhibition of his watercolors was featured at the Museum of the City of New York in conjunction with the publication of Still New York, a monograph of IJT /:$ XBUFSDPMPST XJUI BO JOUSPEVDUJPO CZ 3JD #VSOT .S #SPTFO JT SFQSFTFOUFE CZ )JSTDIM "EMFS .PEFSO JO /FX :PSL In 2015 his work will be featured in Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, premiering at the Wadsworth Atheneum before traveling to three additional museums. The exhibit will conclude at UIF #SPPLMZO .VTFVN JO 28 The Art Students League of New York
Class description: The luminosity and nuance of watercolor make it perfectly suited for landscape and architectural subjects. Working over a preliminary graphite drawing, students are taught a classic transparent wash technique, allowing for a subtle build-up of light, shadow, and local color. The separate elements of landscape—skies, trees, and architecture—are addressed, all with the goal of cohesively combining the particulars into expressive paintings. The class will include frequent lectures and demonstrations covering the full range of subject matter. Students are encouraged to bring in whatever reference materials they choose: sketches, reproductions, photos, etc. The class atmosphere will be relaxed and noncompetitive, enabling all levels to learn comfortably together. Students in this class create work without using models or still life.
Sherry Camhy Painterly Drawing
Tuesday, 7:00 PM – 10:15 PM Saturday, 8:45 AM – 12:30 PM / 1:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Sherry Camhy, Julie, 2014, pastel, 20 x 24 inches
Sherry Camhy has a master’s degree from Columbia University Teachers College, studied dissection at New York University Medical School, and studied drawing and painting at the Art Students League of New York. Ms. Camhy’s work is in the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Fine Art, the Israel Museum, Telfair Museum, and the New York Public Library. It has been exhibited at the Parrish Art Museum, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Katonah Museum, Montclair Art Museum, and Evansville Museum of Art and Science. Her work has been reviewed in Time Out New York, American Artist, ARTnews and featured in International Artists and Fine Art Connoisseur. She is the author of Art of the Pencil, currently writes the “Material World” column for Drawing Magazine, and curated The Silverpoint Exhibition at the National Arts Club. When she is not giving workshops at places such as New York
University Tisch School of the Arts, the School of Visual Arts, and the New York Academy of Art, Ms. Camhy can be found working in her studio in West Chelsea. To learn more about Ms. Camhy and her work, please visit her website: www.sherrycamhy.com. Class description: This class is dedicated to giving its members the knowledge they want to reach their goals as artists. From drawing to painting, and old master techniques to contemporary concepts, anatomy, composition, and color are explored through long figure poses, portraits, still life and landscape studies, done from observation and imagination. All levels are welcome. All materials are explored.
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Naomi Campbell Watercolor: An Aqueous Process to Painting the Figure Monday, 4:50 PM – 6:50 PM / 7:00 PM – 10:15 PM Saturday, 8:45 AM – 12:30 PM / 1:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Naomi Campbell, Sounds in the electromagnetic garden, 2013, watercolor, 18 x 23 inches
Naomi Campbell has painted in watercolor for over 28 years. A graduate of Champlain College (Quebec, Canada), she also studied at the University of Guelph (Canada), the School of Visual Arts (New York), and was classically trained in painting, drawing, and printmaking at the Art Students League of New York. She has studied with many nationally recognized watercolor artists. Her signature memberships include the National Watercolor Society and the Transparent Watercolor Society of America. Ms. Campbell has won several awards for her work, in watercolor and other media, including four Gold Medals of Honor. Her figurative work has been featured in many art magazines and in eighteen book publications on multiple media, including American Artist; Watercolor Magic; Pure Color: The Best of Pastel; and 100 Mid-Atlantic Artists. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, in such places as France, Italy, Germany, Japan, and Korea. Her work is found in numerous international and national public, corporate, museum, and private collections, which include the MTA Arts for Transit, the ASPCA, Maimonides Hospital, and Swift Pan-Americas, all in New York. Her work is in the permanent collections of the City of New York; the City of Irving, Texas; the City of Geochang, Korea; the Art Students League of New York; and the Trenton City Museum, New Jersey. 30 The Art Students League of New York
She has contributed to art magazines and journals and has lectured at several art organizations and schools, including Lehman College, City University of New York. In addition to watercolor, Ms. Campbell, as an interdisciplinary artist, works in mixed media, pastel, oil, acrylic, printmaking, installation, sculpture, and public art. For further information on Ms. Campbell, please visit her website: www.naomicampbellartprojects.com. Class description: Designed for both the professional and advanced beginner, this class uses the traditions of watercolor paint within a contemporary context. The role of the human figure throughout history has always played an important role in art, and continues to do so in the work of this century. While painting using the model, students will develop strong explorations into the unique properties of watercolor, applying several principles, which include: construction and deconstruction, abstraction, color shifts, movement through space and form over time, anatomy, the use of light, and approaches to composition. These are examined on multiple fronts while focusing on each student’s strengths, over the course of the year. The work will relate to each student’s personal statement while examining the historical significance of art. Students work from life with the clothed and nude model in long and some short poses.
Robert Cenedella Drawing and Painting from Life
Monday – Friday, 8:45 AM – 12:30 PM, DRAWING / 1:00 PM – 4:45 PM, PAINTING Thursday, 7:00 PM – 10:15 PM, PAINTING
Robert Cenedella is a master of pictorial satire and fantasy, justly celebrated for his paintings revealing all aspects of big-city life. As part of New York’s art community for over four decades, he paints everything and everybody, from cameo likenesses of celebrities to those of the common man. His pictures of subways, symphonies, sports arenas, street scenes, and drinking establishments are quintessentially New York. M. K. Flavell, in George Grosz: A Biography, said of Mr. Cenedella that “no other artist chronicles the everyday life and the changing rituals and mythologies—of sex, sport, art, politics, money-making in contemporary America, with his combination of imaginative vitality, precision, and humor.� Massachusetts-born, the artist has lived most of his life in New York. At an early age, he began studying with George Grosz at the Art Students League of New York, and then with Marshall Glasier. He has had one-man shows throughout the United States and &VSPQF )JT GJSTU #FSMJO FYIJCJUJPO In Search of DADA, was in 1994, and coincided with the George Grosz Centennial Exhibition at the National (BMFSJF JO #FSMJO )F SFUVSOFE UP (FSNBOZ JO 0DUPCFS GPS B POF NBO SFUSPTQFDUJWF BU UIF 0UUP /BHFM (BMFSJF BMTP JO #FSMJO )JT SFOPXOFE mural of the original Le Cirque restaurant in New York City, Le Cirque, the 1st Generation, is currently installed at the restaurant’s new location on East 58th Street. Other notable murals include Mi Casa, Su Casa for #BDBSEJ *OUFSOBUJPOBM Tony’s World, commissioned by the late Tony Randall for former League model Heather Randall; and his Absolut Cenedella commissions. These, along with Mr. Cenedella’s other works, can be seen on his website: www.rcenedellagallery.com Mr. Cenedella feels that drawing is the most demanding and most disciplined endeavor for any student to undertake, but also the most rewarding. He trains each student to acquire a basic skill in drawing the human figure, no matter what the eventual style or mode of expression may be. Mr. Cenedella believes the ultimate goal is to be able to “think� with the hand. He continues the large format concept of drawing passed down from Mr. Grosz. Class description: These classes offer a positive approach for both the beginning and seasoned student. Mr. Cenedella stresses the importance of a sound knowledge of materials and techniques, but also strongly encourages experimentation with both materials and ideas, whether with still life, the human figure or one’s own fantasy, in order for each student to find a personal expression. This class works from the nude model. In the morning session, poses change frequently. In the afternoon and evening sessions, poses generally last three to four weeks. From left: Robert Cenedella, God Bless You, 1970, brush and ink on goat skin rag paper, 24 x 19 inches; Robert Cenedella, Santa Claus, 1989, oil on canvas, 72 x 56 inches
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Paul Ching-Bor Watermedia Painting, Works on Paper Sunday, 8:45 AM – 12:30 PM / 1:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Paul Ching-Bor, PARALLEL PASSAGE—1+9 NORTH V (reworked), 2009, watercolor on Arches paper, 95 x 155 inches (in three panels)
This class will explore the possibilities in watermedia painting, rather than just the continuation of the tradition. While investigating the confrontation of this delicate, transparent medium with the dynamic nature of today’s contemporary living, we will also negotiate ways to convey the fragility, vulnerability, and apprehension that exist in the incontestable “reality” of our time. Perhaps the ephemeral, ethereal character of water and its marking on the paper surface will be the way to narrate one’s life passage and transcendence. As we practice, it may not be a necessity to compromise our thinking or handling in the conventional way of the medium; we
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may begin at a point that is not so seemingly watercolor at first, and then fall back into watercolor’s esthetic idealization at a later stage. Or, we may discover another kind of watermedia painting altogether, demonstrating its possibilities and its “chance procedure” aspect. As one’s confidence and capacity for water-based media develop, those “possibilities” and “chances” will be incorporated more and more into the work. Students in this class create work without using models or still life.