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We wish each of you a great summer and look forward to seeing all your smiling faces (paint brush in hand) NEXT YEAR!

-Learn to absorb trends WITHOUT COPYING THEM

-Discover what it is that you actually enjoy about certain aspects

-Keep your artistic integrity

-BE YOURSELF

-Where do you draw the line?

-Why are you making the things you are making? >Because you think they equal SALES or because you love what you do?!

Eric Fischl is an internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor. His artwork is represented in many distinguished museums throughout the world and has been featured in over one thousand publications. His extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Fischl was born in 1948 in New York City and grew up in the suburbs of Long Island. He began his art education in Phoenix, Arizona where his parents had moved in 1967. He attended Phoenix College and earned his B.F.A. from the California Institute for the Arts in 1972. He then spent some time in Chicago, where he worked as a guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1974, he moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to teach painting at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Fischl had his first solo show, curated by Bruce W. Ferguson, at Dalhousie Art Gallery in Nova Scotia in 1975 before relocating to New York City in 1978.

Fischl’s suburban upbringing provided him with a backdrop of alcoholism and a country club culture obsessed with image over content. His early work thus became focused on the rift between what was experienced and what could not be said. His first New York City solo show was at Edward Thorp Gallery in 1979, during a time when suburbia was not considered a legitimate genre for art. He first received critical attention for depicting the dark, disturbing undercurrents of mainstream American life.

Fischl’s paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions and his work is represented in many museums, as well as prestigious private and corporate collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modem Art in New York City, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, St. Louis Art Museum, Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark, MusÈe Beaubourg in Paris, The Paine Weber Collection, and many others. Fischl has collaborated with other artists and authors, including E.L. Doctorow, Allen Ginsberg, Jamaica Kincaid, Jerry Saltz and Frederic Tuten.

-Photos lie!

-3D vs 2D

-Use the photo as inspiration, not a strict set of rules

-Start with a photo, then toss it and respond the the painting

Opening Reception will be Friday, May 4th at 6:30 pm.  Come see the amazing concepts and creative works local artists have designed.
DJ: Elon Shomaker
Artists:
Alice Andrews
Nancy Albert
Diana Arvanites
Casey Cromer
Emily Dallmeyer
John Eft
Alexandra Giannell
EV Green
Bethany Hadden
Michelle Hoffman*
Anna Liersaph
Brandon McNaught
JESS MOSS*
Teresa Overcash
Scott Partridge
Jim Sawyer
Terry Shipley
Christina Welsh
Amy Wycoff
& Pete Brown*

*Braitman Studio students & staff

-Control Eye movement

-Move from one cluster to another

-Work the edges

-PLAY PLAY PLAY

-Do not stress about completing a pattern

-Back & Forth, Back & Forth

“You will never grow if you don’t take risks.”

Matthew Ritchie was born in London, England, in 1964, and lives and works in New York. He received a BFA from Camberwell School of Art, London, and attended Boston University. His artistic mission has been no less ambitious than an attempt to represent
the entire universe and the structures of knowledge and belief that we use to understand and visualize it. Ritchie’s encyclopedic project (continually expanding and evolving, like the universe itself) stems from his imagination, and is catalogued in a conceptual chart replete with allusions drawn from Judeo-Christian religion, occult practices, Gnostic traditions, and scientific elements and principles. Ritchie’s paintings, installations, and narrative threads delineate the universe’s formation as well as the attempts and limits of human consciousness to comprehend its vastness. Ritchie’s work deals explicitly with the idea of information being “on the surface,” and information is also the subject of his work. Although often described as a painter, Ritchie creates works on paper, prints, light-box drawings, floor-to-wall installations, freestanding sculpture, websites, and short stories, which tie his sprawling works together into a narrative structure. Drawing is central to his work. He scans his drawings into the computer so that images can be enlarged, taken apart, made smaller or three-dimensional, reshaped, transformed into digital games, or given to someone else to execute. One ongoing work that Ritchie calls “an endless drawing” contains everything he has drawn before. Ritchie’s work has been shown in one-person exhibitions at Dallas Museum of Art; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; among others. His work was also exhibited at the Whitney Biennial (1997), Sydney Biennale (2002), and Bienal de São Paulo (2004)
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Artist: Barbara Tull

Class: Tuesday PM Intermediate Painting Class

Come join the staff of Braitman Studio Art School for this rare event!

The show will open on Monday, April 2nd and run until Friday, the 27th. Check Studio K’s page for daily hours!

Showcasing the work of local Charlotte artists:
Andy Braitman www.andybraitman.com
Kelley Brugh www.kelleybrugh.com
Allison Chambers www.allisonchambersart.com/
Charlotte Chavis www.charlottezweber.com/
Clark Hawgood www.clarkhawgood.com
Michele Hoffman www.charlotteartleague.org/wp/classes/
JESS MOSS www.jpln.mysupadupa.com/
Nicholas Stewart www.nicholasmstewart.com

Get ready for a evening of Paint, Sculpture, Pattern and Chaos! We will be drinking, eating, art-ing and more!