Student Showcase: Joel Pasquarelli

Interviews by Anthony Kosenkov

Portraits by Maria-Annelise Coello

When did you start painting and why did this medium specifically interest you?

I began painting at a very young age, but I started officially studying drawing and painting classically around the age of 10. This educational background certainly was part of what drew me to the traditional mediums of charcoal, graphite, oil paint and now egg tempera. Beyond that, however, the ability to tap into such a deep and rich history of figurative art-making has been much of what enthralls me about the mediums of oil paint and charcoal specifically.