by Grace Lucarelli | Apr 25, 2017 | Past Classes and Workshops
Alla Prima Painting Workshop
with Christine Lafuente
April 22-23, 2017, 9:30-4:30
This two-day workshop with award-winning artist Christine Lafuente focuses on investigating materials and techniques in oil painting from observation.
More specifically, this workshop will cover palette organization, various limited palettes, control of color-mixing in tonal painting, alla prima oil painting technique, use of viscosity in direct painting, composition, and learning to see in abstract terms. Each day will consist of a 90-minute lecture and demonstration session, followed by painting time from provided still lifes with one-on-one instruction.
A materials list will be provided. The Art Guild has easels that you may use.
About Christine Lafuente: Award winning, Brooklyn-based painter Christine Lafuente considers her paintings “poetic responses to visual experience.”
Her work has been shown in countless solo and group exhibitions, juried shows and public galleries from San Francisco to London. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Lafuente has a Certificate of Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and an MFA in Painting from Brooklyn College, where she studied with Lennart Anderson and twice won the prestigious Charles C. Shaw Memorial Award. Her work was included in the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts & Letters. From 1997 – 2002, Lafuente was Artist in Residence at the Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. She teaches Fine Art at Pratt Institute and Western Connecticut State University. Her exhibitions have been written about in numerous publications and her paintings are in corporate and private collections. For more about Ms. Lafuente visit her website at christinelafuente.com.
by Grace Lucarelli | Jan 9, 2017 | Past Exhibitions
Beauty in The Abstract – An Exploration
Juried Competition & Exhibition
December 3, 2016 – January 8, 2017
What is considered beautiful in Abstract Art? Is it a question of taste? One person’s stop-in-your-tracks beautiful is another person’s ugly. This exhibit seeks to offer differing ideas of beauty in Abstract Art. What is YOUR idea of Beauty?
MEDIUMS Including but not limited to acrylic, oil, watercolor, pastel, mixed media, collage, encaustic, etching/prints or sculpture with pedestal. No photography.
JUROR Stan Brodsky A life-long resident of the New York area, he taught at C. W. Post College for 31 years and is now Professor Emeritus of Art. He has exhibited extensively for more than 50 years and received the Heckscher Museum’s 2013 Celebrate Achievement Award, for contributions to Long Island arts and culture.
First Place: Lorraine Nuzzo, Always 17, acrylic and oil pastel
Second place: Vincent Joseph, Ladder, acrylic
Third Place: Dana Epstein, Over the Moon, oil
Honorable Mention: Karen L. Kirshner, Blue Rhapsody, acrylic
Donna Litke, Cracked Ice, encaustic
Linda Louis, Clearing, wax, pigment, ink
by Grace Lucarelli | Oct 15, 2016 | Past Exhibitions
A Juried Exhibit sponsored in part by The Art Guild of Port Washington
September 27 – November 30, 2016
Town of North Hempstead Town Hall
CALL FOR ENTRIES: The Town of North Hempstead (ToNH) will hold its first Arts Matter! exhibit at The Town of North Hempstead Town Hall, 220 Plandome Road, Manhasset, NY 11030. Artists are invited to enter artwork inspired by the beauty of the Town of North Hempstead.
CRITERIA: All artists 18 years and older who reside in the ToNH or are employees of businesses based in the ToNH or anyone affiliated with an arts organization in the ToNH. Entry fee, $25 for one entry per person. Artwork must be available September 26 – November 30, 2016 and have been completed with in the last three years. Works may not be removed from the show before 9 am, December 1, 2016.
No Exceptions.
MEDIUMS: Including, but not limited to, acrylic, oil, watercolor, pastel, drawing, mixed media, collage, encaustic, etching/prints. (NO PHOTOGRAPHY, Digital art, COPIES, REPRODUCTIONS OR GICLEES or sculpture, PLEASE.)
ENTRIES: Works can NOT exceed 36” x 36”, including frame. Submissions must be received by September 2.
Digital submissions must be sent via email to artsmatter@theartguild.org, subject line “2016 Arts Matter!” and should be between 1 and 3MB each. Images MUST be named as follows:
artist’s lastname_firstname_entrynumber_title.jpg (ex: smith_john_1_beachsunset.jpg).
DOWNLOAD THE FORM (CLICK HERE), fill out, and send with $25 entry fee check made payable to: BTDC to: The Art Guild, 200 Port Washington Blvd, MANHASSET, NY 11030.
FINALISTS: The Arts Matter! Selection Committee will review all entries and notify each artist as to the acceptance of the submitted work. The Arts Matter! Selection Committee 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 for inclusion in this juried competition and exhibition will be notified by September 9, 2016.
SIZE And Framing: Size, with frame, must not exceed 36” x 36”. All work must be cleanly matted and/or framed or gallery wrapped, wired for hanging, with the wire attached via screw eyes or D-rings to the frame, not the backboard. No sawtooth hangers. No tape or string on the back or edges. Work should be labeled on back with the title, artist’s name, phone number, and email address.
Delivery of ARTWORK: Selected artwork is to be delivered, ready for display, to the Town of North Hempstead Town Hall, 220 Plandome Road, Manhasset, NY 11030. Please bring an artist’s statement that includes a short description of where or what in ToNH inspired your artwork.
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.
QUESTIONS: For more info or to contact the Exhibit Chairs, email artsmatter@theartguild.org. Please put “2016 Arts Matter!” in the subject line, or call 516-304-5797.
CALENDAR
• FRIDAY, September 2: Application & images must be received.
• FRIDAY, September 9: Acceptance/Rejection notification
DROP OFF Entries must be delivered to Town of North Hempstead Town Hall.
• MONDAY, September 26: 9:00 – 10:00 am
Exhibit
• TUESDAY, September 27 – WEDNESDAY, November 30, 2016
Town of North Hempstead Town Hall is open Monday – Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm.
Arts Matter Artist’s Reception Celebration
• TUESDAY, October 25: 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Pick-Up
• THURSDAY, December 1: 9:00 – 11:00 am
by Grace Lucarelli | May 16, 2016 | Past Exhibitions
LINE: Through Thick and Thin Exhibit April 9 – May 15, 2016
Line is one of the basic elements in art – descriptive, implied or abstract. Bold, soft, elegant or jagged. A line defines the curve of a hip. The lines on the highway define a journey. This exhibit is open to painting, drawing, print-making, mixed media and sculpture in which the line is a dominant component.
JUROR Award winning artist, Antonio Masi has been featured in articles in The Artist’s Magazine; PBS’s Sunday Arts, NBC-TV’s Weekend Today in New York,” as well as a book on his paintings New York’s Golden Age of Bridges, He is currently President of the American Watercolor Society. More on Mr. Masi can be found at his website, www.antoniomasi.com.
First Place: Stephanie Navon-Jacobson, Flutterbies, print
Second Place: Frances Ianarella, Orchids, oil
Third Place: Ann Pellaton, Shoreline, watercolor
Honorable Mentions: Diane Bares, Eliza, oil; Ellen Hallie Schiff, Texture Piece 2, enamel on paper; Alexander Betko, Dirty Mind, graphite on paper
Student Award: Matt Santiago, Untitled 3, ink.
