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Steven Assael Workshop

COLOR & FORM PAINTING WORKSHOP

with internationally acclaimed New York artist

STEVEN ASSAEL

AUG 19 – 22, 10 – 5 PM

Session              Days               Time                   Dates                Price
Sat/Tues           4 Days         10am – 5pm         Aug. 19-22           $775

Day 1 – lecture and demonstration
Days 2-4 – Personal instruction
1 hr. lunch break each day

at Paul Mahder Gallery
222 Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg, CA 95448
(707) 473-9150

$775 – Full 4-day participating artist

$50 – Day 1, Aug 19 ONLY, for lecture and demonstration

Steven Assael is recognized nationally as one of the leading representational figurative artists of his generation. His portrayal of the human image is empathic, ennobling, and psychologically penetrating. Assael’s figure compositions synthesize the characteristics of the past masters with a selective eye for the present, suffusing elements of naturalism and romanticism to blend contemporary techniques with those of the past.

Born and raised in New York, NY, Assael showed an enthusiasm for art at a young age, taking art classes at the Museum of Modern Art at the age of four. He attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York and at The New York Academy of Art.

Assael’s work is included in public and private collections around the world including the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University and the Chicago Institute of Fine Arts. His work was exhibited in a ten-year retrospective at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle and CBS Sunday Morning ran a feature on the artist and the show.

Steven will discuss both an analytical and emotive approach to painting the human figure with an emphasis on color and value relationships in a related atmosphere.  The class will consist of a single long pose in both cool and warm light. Learning to see is a selective endeavor. Understanding is an extension of our mind’s eye. We will look at color as value and temperature as form.

There will be two models with two different poses with various lighting possibilities.  Students will be able to choose a model and can paint the portrait or the figure.

The course will involve lectures, discussion of materials, demos and critiques, on a daily basis. Steven will discuss materials and craft, as well as issues of light and shadow.

  • The development of form through observation and interpretation of plane shifts projecting and receding from view.

  • An emphasis on color and value relationships in a related atmosphere.

  • Techniques for dealing with the flux of changes that occur as a model poses, learning to hold and interpret what you see with a selective eye.

  • Aspects of anatomy, proportion and movement will be discussed along with the development of an Alla Prima technique, which involves both scumbling and glazing.

SUGGESTED WORKSHOP SUPPLIES

 
Exhibitions

EDUCATION:

1975-79 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1977 Independent Study in Europe, Pratt Scholarship

TEACHING:

1985-Present School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

{C}1991-92 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1999 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1997-Present New York Academy Graduate School, New York, NY

SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

2011

Steven Assael: Drawings and Paintings, Hite Art Institute, Cressman Center for Visual Art, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

Uncovered, New York Academy of Art at Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barthelemy, French West Indies

ACOPAL at the National Arts Club, New York, NY

2010

Steven Assael: Illusions of Reality, Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL

Collector’s Show & Sale, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

2009

Steven Assael: Paintings & Drawings, Carol Gallery Craven, Vineyard Haven, MA

Steven Assael: New Paintings & Drawings, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

Steven Assael: Drawings Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2007

Steven Assael: Drawings, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Steven Assael, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL

2005

Steven Assael: New Paintings & Drawings, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2004

Steven Assael: Drawings & Paintings, Cress Gallery of Art, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN

Steven Assael: 20th Century Figurative Master, Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2002

Steven Assael: Paintings, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2001

Steven Assael: Drawings from 1996-2001, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

Steven Assael, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL

2000

Steven Assael: Drawings, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL

Steven Assael Paintings and Drawings, North Carolina State University at Chapel Hill, NC

1999

Steven Assael: A Decade of Painting and Drawing, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (catalogue)

1998-89

New Paintings and Drawings by Steven Assael, Forum Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)

1997

New Drawings, More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1996

New Paintings and Drawings, Tatistcheff & Co., Inc., New York, NY (catalogue)

1995

Paintings and Drawings, Payne Gallery of Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA

1994

Paintings and Drawings, Tatistcheff & Co., Inc., New York, NY

1991

Steven Assael: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper, Gray Art Center, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

1990

Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1989

Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY

1987

Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY

1980

National Arts Club, Gregg Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:

The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

The Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY

The Art Institute of Chicago

Mr. Richard Brown Baker

Mr. John Bolton

Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Busquet

Celestial Seasonings Corporation, Boulder, CO

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Danziger

Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

The Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN

Jalane and Richard Davidson

The Juliet Museum of Art, Avampato Discovery Museum for the Arts & Sciences

K & B Corporation, New Orleans, LA

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, MO

Kumada Corporation, Kobe, Japan

Mr. Steve Martin

Dr. Thomas A. Mathews

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Messinger

Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

The Murray Collection

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Segal

Mr. and Mrs. Toshio Takashima

Mr. and Mrs. James Thompson

The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection

Walt Disney Corporation, Burbank, CA

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Dantzic, Cynthia Maris. 100 New York Painters, Schiffer Press, Atglen, PA, 2006, page 30.

“Steven Assael at Ann Nathan Gallery,” American Arts Quarterly, Winter 2006.

Bass, Ruth. “When a Rose is a Rose,” ArtNews, February, 1996.

CBS, “Sunday Morning” Television Show, “A Look at a Modern Master,” April 4,

1999.

Codrington, Andrea. “Figuratively Speaking,” Art and Auction, June, 1996.

Gehman, Geoff. “Spiritual Treasure Chest,” Morning Call, January, 1996.

“Goings on About Town,” New Yorker, November 12, 1990, p. 22.

Hagen, Charles. “In Connecticut, a Collector’s Eclecticism,” The New York Times, Friday, July 14, 1995.

Henry, Gerritt. “Steven Assael at Staempfli,” Art in America, January, 1990.

“Steven Assael at Forum,” Art in America, May, 1999.

Jaeger, William. “Biennial Exhibit of Extremes,” Times Union, May 5, 1996.

Karnel, Pepe. “Depicting Multiculturalism,” New York Times, September, 1995.

Lipson, Farin. “Portraits in Courage, Art and Poetry of Heroism,” Newsday, March,

1992

Mann, James. “Steven Assael, Challenge of Realism,” American Arts Quarterly,

Vol. XIII, No. 1, 1996.

Newman, Sasha M., Collecting with Richard Brown Baker, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1995.

Raven, Arlene. Steven Assael: Selected Drawings, Linden Hill Art Books

“Steven Assael: Revealing Light,” The World & I, August, 1999, pp. 122-127.

Welzenbach, Michael, “Dramas in Dark Detail: The Paintings of Steven Assael,” The Washington Post, Saturday, May 19, 1990, p. C2.

Wilson, Janet, “Romantic Realism,” The Washington Post, Saturd

Awards

1980 and 1990 Elizabeth T. Greenshields Grant, Montreal, Ontario

1977 Charles Romans Award

National Academy of Design, New York, NY

1975 Pratt Institute Full Scholarship, Brooklyn, NY

The Good Design Award

A Drawing with Steven Assael

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