MFA Atelier Work: Fall 2007

This fall, I began my Masters of Fine Arts at the New York Studio School. Although I studied at this school last year as a Certificate Student (2006-2007), I have found that the MFA program is considerably more challenging. Since enrolling at NYSS, my drawing and painting skills have developed considerably, thanks to my wonderful teachers and mentors. The following works are from my fall semester in Graham Nickson's Atelier. This post contains several of my atelier (studio) paintings as well as works for the Annual Benefit Dinner.

Atelier Work

In the beginning of the semester, we worked on small, quick paintings with varying limited palettes in order to familiarize ourselves with color, oil paint and the plastic language of painting. Towards the end of the semester, painted on an increased scale for longer periods of time.

First Painting in Atelier
24" x 24" oil on canvas
September 2007


Elad and Sharie
20" x 16" oil on canvas
September 2007


Elad Interior
16" x 14" oil on canvas
October 2007


Elad
12" x 12" oil on canvas
October 2007


Torso
12" x 9" oil on canvas
October 2007


Sharie
12" x 9" oil on canvas
October 2007

Large paintings: Bathroom Series

Two Women in the Bathroom
72" x 56" oil on canvas
November 2007


Encounter in the Bathroom (Shown in Progress)
60" x 72" oil on canvas
December 2007


Encounter in the Bathroom (Shown in Progress)
60" x 72" oil on canvas
December 2007

Encounter in the Bathroom
60" x 72" oil on canvas
December 2007

Final Critique in December with John Dubrow



Transcriptions for the 2007 NYSS Annual Benefit Dinner

Every year the New York Studio School hosts a benefit dinner in order to raise money for the students. Artists donate works to sell in silent and live auctions and students make small and large-scale transcriptions to sell, based on a predetermined theme. This year's theme was "The Door in Art."

In addition to painting several small transcriptions, my classmates and I made three monumental transcriptions based on Diego Velasquez's Las Hilanderas (The Spinners) and Las Meninas, and Tintoretto's Removal of the Body of St. Mark, which would later be hung in the large ballroom of the Benefit Dinner.

My Transcriptions: Ducio, Lamidi, Matisse & Tintoretto

Meeting on the Road to Erasmus (after Duccio)
9" x 12" oil on canvas
October 2007

Procession at the Palace of Ooni
(after Lamidi's Idena Gatehouse, Africa)
12" x 9" acrylic on canvas
October 2007

Lover on the Balcony (after Matisse's Interior at Nice)
12" x 9" oil on canvas
October 2007

Removal of the Body of St. Mark (after Tintoretto)
12" x 9" oil on canvas
October 2007


Group Transcriptions: Velasquez and Tintoretto

Will and Hiro speak about the Las Hilanderas transcription


Ari, Will, Hadley and Hiro in front of Las Hilanderas


The finished piece


Will, Hiro and Sam (not pictured) work on a transcription of
Tintoretto's Removal of the Body of St. Mark


Hiro, Sam and Will


Giz and Leo work on Velasquez's Las Meninas


Las Meninas transcription, after Velasquez


Removal of the Body of St. Mark, after Tintoretto


Will, Sam and Hiro (in the dark) in front of their transcription.


Las Hilanderas at the Benefit Dinner


Will and I at the benefit. It's finally over!!