Tag: new york

Patrick Arrasmith

Six Illustrations by Patrick Arrasmith

Patrick Arrasmith is a California transplant who’s been happily living and working in Brooklyn, New York for over 13 years. After graduating from the California College of the Arts with a degree in illustration, he was lured to New York by a scholarship from the Society of Illustrators. He specializes in scratchboard illustration, and his work has appeared in a range of media, from the New York Times to HarperCollins books to Shiner beer bottles.

Reblogged with thanks to http://littlelimpstiff14u2.tumblr.com

Kate Lehman

Kate Lehman, “Sam Linder Portrait”, 1968

Kate Lehman was born in London in 1968 and raised in Paris where her parents pursuits exposed her to the world of the arts. Her formal art education began in 1984 at LAcademie Roederer at the age of 15. Lehmans artistic inclinations led her to the 19th centurys revival of the the Renaissance painting techniques. The emphasis on craft and skillful execution is what attracted her. Thus, she sought an educational environment that would enable her to acquire such skills.

In 1994, she discovered traditional academic training at the Minnesota River School of Fine Art, where she studied under Patrick Devonas for one year and continued her studies with him in New York City. For the past three years, Lehman has studied under Jacob Collins at the Water Street Atelier in Brooklyn where she enjoys continuous exposure to the methods of the past. At her Broadway studio in lower Manhattan, Lehman is painting commissioned portraits and large-scale works.

Howe Caverns

Howe Caverns, New York

Howe Caverns is located in Howes Cave, NY, near the town of Cobleskill in New York State’s Central-Leatherstocking region, Tour groups board an elevator for a 16-story, 156-foot descent into the Earth and step out into a limestone cave that is every bit the marvel it was in 1842 when farmer Lester Howe discovered it. After hunting around in some bushes, Howe found the entrance to a cave, and on May 22, 1842, he and his neighbor, Henry Wetsel, entered the caverns for the first time.

More than 14 million people have explored Howe Caverns since it formally opened to the public in 1929.

Nicola Verlato

 

Paintings and Drawings by Nicola Verlato

Nicola Verlato was born in Verona and began painting at a very early age, learning from Fra’ Terenzio, a painter in the monastery of Franciscan monks of Lonigo. He was trained in classical music and studied lute and composition at the conservatories of Verona and Padua. He studied architecture at University IUAV in Venice from 1984 to 1990.

Around 28 years old, Veriato started to be involved in contemporary art scene, and, consequentially, to show in numerous gallery in Italy and abroad in solo and group shows. In 1996, Verlato moved to Milan where he created his well grounded notoriety in Italy. In the same year, he exhibited his work at XII Quadrinnale at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. In 2004, Verlato relocated from Milan to New York, New York. While living in New York, he was a professor teaching composition and painting courses at New York Academy of Art. His works are in the permanent collection at MART in Trentino, MUSAC in León, and MUDIMA Foundation in Milano.

Nicola Verlato creates his works through an articulated process that makes use of classical techniques as well as modern technology such as 3D Modeling programs such as Maya and ZBrush. In a 2012 interview, Nicola Verlato stated “ The use of computers didn’t change my approach to painting, it just expanded the scope of what I can introduce in the representations and how much control I have over it.”

Dan Witz

Dan Witz, “70 Commercial Street”, 40×54 inches, 2010, from the “Mosh Pits (Human and Otherwise)” Series

Dan Witz is one of the most prolific artists working on the streets of New York City today. With a career that dates back to the 1970s, he continues through each project to refine his technique and style, yet never loses sight of his original aesthetic and ideological goals. He both defines and challenges what it means to be a street artist.

Witz was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1957. He was educated at Cooper Union and Rhode Island School of Design. Recent solo exhibitions include New Works, Addict Gallery, Paris, France (2009), New Street Works, Sid Lee Collective, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2009), Night Paintings, Stolenspace, London, England (2009), and In Plain View, DFN Gallery, New York, USA (2008). He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Karl Bitter

Karl Bitter, “Memorial Stone for Henry Villard”, Granite, Sleepy Hollow, New York

The Henry Villard Monument in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at Sleepy Hollow, New York, is an Art Nouveau masterpiece. Here, Vienna-born American artist Karl Bitter, (1867-1915) sculpted fluid lines of the base of two trees that culminate in rounded tops flanking the statue of a young man depicted holding a sledge hammer, resting against an anvil as he gazes upwards.