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ONLINE Art of the Mark: A workshop in Abstraction with Laura Shabott and Alana Barrett

by Grace Lucarelli | Sep 25, 2020 | Past Classes and Workshops

ONLINE: The Art of the Mark: A workshop in Abstraction

with Laura Shabott and Alana Barrett

Friday, December 18th | 10am – 3pm
$125 Members/$160 Non-members

In this online course, we will discuss how mark-making is a fundamental part of abstract painting. You will study Hans Hofmann’s theory of push/pull, the precursor of Abstract Expressionism in a slide presentation, demonstration, and guided exercises that transform your range of mark-making. In the afternoon, we will move to hard-edge abstraction, with a slide presentation of contemporary artists, a demonstration, and guided exercises to learn this essential abstraction skill.

About the Blue Chair Series:

The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is down the street from me. I was a week-long returning resident in a large bright studio with a huge roll of Fabriano paper and water-based paints. I made these abstracts prompted from a still life on the floor with cleaning equipment dipped in paint and wide brushes duct taped to broom handles. Later, I found out the room was a studio that Hans Hofmann used when he lived in Provincetown.

ABOUT LAURA SHABOTT

Artist Laura Shabott received a studio diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at TUFTS in 1995. Concurrently, she discovered Provincetown and settled there. About her art, Emily Mergel writes in Artscope Magazine “Shabott continually draws inspiration from abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann and breaks forms into their most evocative essentials…She seizes the opportunity to burst the gallery walls, speaking with intentional gesture in visual vocabulary all her own.”

Shabott has shown with Berta Walker Gallery, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, Four Eleven Gallery, Provincetown Art Association and Museum and Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. She is represented by Berta Walker Gallery.

ABOUT ALANA BARRETT

Artist Bio: Alana Barrett is a recent graduate of the University of Miami, and she has a degree in Studio Art and a minor in biology. She is a multidisciplinary artist that works across a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional mediums, including painting, woodworking, electronics, and fabrics. Her work spans a variety of subject matter from robotic sculptures to hard-edged abstract paintings. All of her work, however, is united by playful spatial relationships and whimsical perspectives, as well as a re-engagement with an almost kindergarten style of learning through her curious nature and willingness to experiment. She is currently teaching at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, as well as the Lighthouse ArtCenter.

Artist statement: I paint to experiment, play, and discover. My studio practice is process-driven – in that I am more concerned with the process of discovering something new on the canvas than the end result. Teaching art has recently become a large part of my practice as well; it has helped me develop a sort of consciousness and vocabulary to the typically intuitive decisions I make as I paint, thus empowering me to dive deeper, play harder, and take bolder risks as I work. Her work can be viewed at: www.alanacbarrett.com Instagram: alanacbarrett

The Art of the Mark: Abstract Show, Juried Competition and Exhibition

by Grace Lucarelli | Sep 21, 2020 | Homepage

The Art of the Mark Abstract Show, Online Juried Competition and Exhibition
On view: Dec 3, 2020 – Jan 10, 2021
Artists Awards & Reception: Thurs, Dec 3, 7:30pm

Congratulations to the following artists for acceptance to our online juried exhibit!

Deborah Adler – Dance with Me
Phyllis Anderson – Roar, Slope #4
John Armstrong – 8.22.2020
Jo-Anne Behal – Textures and Lines, Circles of Life
Hannah Bouchard – Clenching, Closing
Ed Condon – Money Dreams
Joseph Cooke – Sunday In The Park, Keep Sailing On
Diane D’Agostino – Spring Delivery
Sheryl Renee Dobson – Shield of Faith
Dana Epstein – Ceremony
Karen Fagelman – 3 Women
Simon Fenster – Pandemic Hope
Ming Franz – Emergence
Anjali Gauld* – I Love You More
Alicia Gitlitz – Blue Craze, Dancing with the Stars
Marceil Kazickas, Complicated Logic
Karen Kirshner – Come to the Jamboree, All Angles
Joan Klein – Black and White Medley
Rosemary Konatich – Coney Island Colors I
Denise Kramer – Vertical Thoughts Grey and Red I, Vertical and Horizontal with Yellow
Anthony Lanza – Blue Jean Matrix
Laurie Levine – Outer Limits
Donna Litke – Sun, Moon, Wind, Earth
Danielle Livioti – Spread Love

*HS student artist

Isabelle Lopez – Kotara Calypso
James Mai – Winter Garden (rhombi 6,1,1,1)
Baruch May – New Day
Avrel Menkes – Garden Ladder
Barbara Miller – Loving the Rust, Indian Summer
Susan Morrison – April Rain
Shourabh Mukherji – Scultural Romance
Stephanie Navon-Jacobson – Industry
Loretta Oberheim – Identity
Lisa O’Connor – Breakthroughs, Cosmos
Alicia Peterson – Infinity
Randi Benum Roernes – Nebula Imagined 2
Howard Rose – Presence
Susan Rostan – Sunset
Linda Ruden – Floating Through It All
Ellen Hallie Schiff – Late October, Autumn
Barbara Spivak – House of Cards
Barbara Stein – Playful Shapes
Joan Stevens – Optimism
Chelsea Stewart – Hole
Hui Tian – Coronavirus 2020
Margo Vignola – Pond
Gaetana Zanzonico – Mystical Waters
Alyson Zeller* – Rainbow Way

The Art Guild invites all artists, high school and older, to submit artworks for consideration for “The Art of the Mark: Abstract Show” a Juried Competition and Exhibition.

Abstract art has its own language using color, form, shape, line, texture and marks . The marks you make as an abstract artist are intensely personal. Successful mark making can communicate ideas or emotions.

Which marks are yours?

CRITERIA All styles from non-objective to abstracted realism are welcome. All works must be original and have been created in the last five years. References used in the creation of the submitted work must be the artist’s own, or copyright-released for use in this work. Works previously exhibited at The Art Guild Gallery will not be considered.

MEDIUMS Included but not limited to: acrylic, charcoal, collage, colored pencil, ink, mixed media, oil, pastel, pencil, printmaking, sculpture, or watercolor. NO Photography, Copies, Master Copies, Reproductions OR Giclees.

JUROR OF AWARDS: Karli Wurzelbacher, PhD, Curator at the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY.

ENTRIES

If accepted, submitted images will be used for the online gallery. Try to photograph your image:

– in natural light
– unframed
– be sure that the image is straight
– there is no glare on glass or varnished surface

For tips on photographing your art, please click here for a tutorial by TAG member Steve Silberstein.

Digital submissions of up to three (3) images via email to artshow@TheArtGuild.org or uploaded to our website:

be between 1MB and 3MB each. To resize or compress your images, go to PICRESIZE.com
label your images as follows: artist’s lastname_firstname_entrynumber_title.jpg (ex: smith_john_1_beachsunset.jpg)
You MUST change the actual name of the image file.

If you have problems with the uploader, please email your images to artshow@TheArtGuild.org – with ALL contact information, image titles and mediums. We will invoice you for payment. Submission will not be included in curating without payment.

If paying by check, download printable form

ENTRY FEE(S) Registration is required and fees are non-refundable.

Members: $20 (1-2 pieces) or $30 (an additional piece).
Non-members: $30 (1-2 pieces) or $40 (an additional piece)
Student members: $10 (1-2 pieces) or $20 (an additional piece)
No more than 3 works per artist

FINALISTS The Selection Committee will review all entries and notify each artist as to the acceptance of the submitted work. The Art Guild has the right, in its sole discretion, to choose which eligible entries will be accepted to be exhibited. All decisions are final. Artists whose work has been selected will be notified after November 10, 2020, either by email or here on the website.

AWARDS 1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100 • Honorable Mentions

LIABILITY & INSURANCE The Liability Waiver on the entry form must be signed by the artist submitting images for consideration. It is the responsibility of the participating artist to insure or self-insure any work submitted for inclusion in this exhibit.

AWARDS

1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100 • Honorable Mentions

CALENDAR & IMPORTANT DATES

DEADLINE: Monday, November 2, 2020 at midnight EST – Application, images and payment must be received.

ACCEPTANCE/REJECTION NOTIFICATION: After November 10, 2020

ONLINE EXHIBIT
• December 3, 2020 – January 10, 2021

ONLINE, VIRTUAL Artist’s Reception & Awards Ceremony
• Thursday, December 3 at 7:30 pm

QUESTIONS & TROUBLESHOOTING

QUESTIONS Call 516-304-5797 or email info@TheArtGuild.org

If you have problems with the uploader, please email your images to artshow@TheArtGuild.org – with ALL contact information, image titles and mediums. We will invoice you for payment. Submission will not be included in curating without payment.

Emailed images must include your name, contact information and the title, medium, value, and size in your email.

To resize or compress your images, go to PICRESIZE.com

SELLING YOUR ARTWORK

Artwork may be sold directly by the artist with a suggested donation of 20% of the selling price from the artist to The Art Guild. Note, however, that sales may not be made at the exhibition. All work must remain on view for the duration of the exhibit.

FULL Introduction to Abstract Painting (All Levels) with Ellen Hallie Schiff

by Grace Lucarelli | Jul 30, 2020 | Past Classes and Workshops

Introduction to Abstract Painting (All Levels) with Ellen Hallie Schiff
4 weeks • Monday • September 14, 21, Oct 5 & October 12 • 1:30pm – 4:-0pm
$150M/$185NM

*** Outdoor Classes are under a tent so that social distancing can be practiced. Face mask guidelines must be followed and tables will be cleaned between classes. Guidelines will be provided to all students upon registration.

Intrigued by the idea of painting abstractly? This four session class will give you a taste of painting in an abstract manner. We will be working with black and white water based enamel on watercolor paper. This experience has been called “freeing” and “a lot of fun “ by so many students. Experience what it feels like to paint this way. Lots of individualized instruction and discussion. The works you produce here can be the beginnings of new ideas and directions.

MATERIALS List to come

Ellen will provide the paint.

About Ellen Hallie Schiff

Artist’s Statement
An essential truth seems to come alive when I use my body to create my paintings- something visceral and muscular; a directness that feels so “right”. The authentic mark is what I am after; the true, non-gimmicky, not contrived mark; the mark that is made when “I am the painting I am painting”. Playing with the paint, working sometimes at the speed of light, other times slowly and deliberately; all coming together in a flurry of physical activity. The result is an authentic moment in time.

Ellen is on the Art Advisory Council of the Port Washington Library and is the former Vice President of The Art Guild of Port Washington. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Philadelphia and New York. Her friend and mentor is Stan Brodsky. View Ellen’s work at @ehschiff.

Introduction to Abstract Painting (All Levels) with Ellen Hallie Schiff

by Grace Lucarelli | May 26, 2019 | Past Classes and Workshops

Introduction to Abstract Painting (All Levels) with Ellen Hallie Schiff
4 weeks • Monday • May 18, June 1, 8, 15, 2020 • 1:30 – 4 pm
$150M/$185NM

Intrigued by the idea of painting abstractly? This four session class will give you a taste of painting in an abstract manner . We will be working with black and white water based enamel on watercolor paper. This experience has been called “freeing” and “a lot of fun “ by so many students. Experience what it feels like to paint this way . Lots of individualized instruction and discussion . The works you produce here can be the beginnings of new ideas and directions.

MATERIALS List to come

Ellen will provide the paint.

About Ellen Hallie Schiff

Artist’s Statement
An essential truth seems to come alive when I use my body to create my paintings- something visceral and muscular; a directness that feels so “right”. The authentic mark is what I am after; the true, non-gimmicky, not contrived mark; the mark that is made when “I am the painting I am painting”. Playing with the paint, working sometimes at the speed of light, other times slowly and deliberately; all coming together in a flurry of physical activity. The result is an authentic moment in time.

Ellen is Vice President of The Art Guild of Port Washington and on the Art Advisory Council of the Port Washington Library. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Philadelphia and New York. Her friend and mentor is Stan Brodsky.

Watercolor for Beginners with Esther Marie

by Grace Lucarelli | May 3, 2019 | Past Classes and Workshops

Watercolor for Beginners with Esther Marie
4 Tuesdays: Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11, 25, 2020 • 1-3pm
$120M/$155NM

This class will help promote confidence and control in watercolors for the beginner. We will focus on developing good compositions through negative painting, focal points and a variety of tools. Students will learn about brush strokes, washes, mixes, blending and color theory. They will use watercolors to establish color and light, to work wet-on-wet, for texture, to suggest value changes, for negative painting with discussion on composition, as well as for focus and depth.

Emphasis in this class is for individual instructional techniques to foster your ability. Students will complete several small paintings in the class. A demonstration will be followed by hands on experience and personal critiques.

Click HERE for Esther Marie’s supply list.

A native of Long Island, Esther Marie actively exhibits in many art related gallery shows, auctions and events both nationally and internationally. She works for clients in New York City and across the country. She had also showed her work globally, as far away as South Korea. She was awarded a fellowship and hand selected for a renowned art residency at The Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, as well as a full scholarship to the Vermont Studio Center. She also participated in a Rotary International Exchange for a month where she learned about the culture. Besides being immersed into the culture they were introduced to artists, viewed their art, and she created several different art pieces using Korean traditional art techniques. Esther Marie’s paintings are in several private as well as permanent collections. She concentrates on Plein Aire and abstract painting and has shown at numerous galleries in the Northeast of the United States. Esther Marie was named “Best in Show” at the Northport Plein Aire event. In perhaps her best achievement yet, she was chosen to be in the exclusive Heckscher Museum of Art Long Island Biennial. Aside from painting, Esther Marie enjoys teaching art, yoga, meditation, dancing, poetry and chess. She lives and works as an art instructor and adjunct professor in Long Island, New York. You can see more of her art at www.esthermarieart.com