February 6-28, 2014
UConn Stamford,
One University Place
FACES OF WINTER 2014 ~ Building on Classics
7th Biennial Portrait Festival Presented by
The Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists
Honoring Nelson Shanks
CSOPA Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient 2014
Fine Art Portrait Exhibition Feb 6-28
Jurors
Robert Alexander Anderson
& Lea Colie Wight
Feb 6
: Paint-Off Portrait Demo 4.30-6.30
Valentine Reception
(wear red!)
Awards & Silent Auction
6-8pm. Free and Open to the Public
Portrait Symposium Feb 7 & 8
With Nelson Shanks, Max Ginsburg and Master Faculty
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NELSON SHANKS
CSOPA 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
ROBERT ALEXANDER ANDERSON
Co-Juror, Panel Discussion, Gallery Critiques
IGOR BABAILOV
Classical Drawing Demonstration
LEA COLIE WIGHT
Co-Juror, Figure Demo
STUDIO INCAMMINATI
SPECIAL GUESTS
PARTICIPATING
CSOPA ADVISORS
JOEL SPECTOR
and
GRACE DEVITO
Paint-Off
ADDITIONAL
GUEST FACULTY
JOHN HOWARD SANDEN
The History of Presidential Portraits
Nelson Shanks Introduction
&
(203) 251-8400
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Gallery Hours
Monday-Friday 9:00am-7:00pm
Saturday 9:00am-1:00pm
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Free parking in the UConn Stamford garage located just off the intersection of Broad Street and Washington Boulevard.
Deliveries on Franklin Street Entrance.
FRED ROSS, ARC
Keynote Speaker
JESUS VILLARREAL
Paint-Off
PARTICIPATING
FW14 Vendors
Studio Incamminati
Silver Brush
Jerry's Artarama
New Wave
CSOPA
Additional Vendors and Sponsors TBA
Program subject to change.
MAX GINSBURG
Portrait Life Study
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DISTINGUISHED FW14 FACULTY:
ROBERT ALEXANDER ANDERSON
– Official portraits of President George W. Bush, Alan Greenspan, Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff.
IGOR BABAILOV
– Portraits of Pope Benedict XVI, General David H. Petraeus, President Vladimir Putin. Hon. RAA – elected member to the Russian Academy of Arts.
LAUREL STERN BOECK
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Award-winning artist Laurel Stern Boeck is known as one of the nation’s foremost Portrait Painters. Educated at the prestigious Art Students League and receiving a Bachelor’s of Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts in New York, Boeck now boasts a client list that includes prominent leaders in the fields of business, government, and education
MICHAEL DEL PRIORE
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Michael Del Priore is in the front ranks of American portrait painting. Prominent work can be seen in major capitols, supreme courts, universities, banks, hospitals, and private homes. Commissions total over 600, including the following: William Gates (pictured left), Senators Strom Thurmond and Pat Roberts, Governors Carroll Campbell and Robert McNair, just to name a few.
GRACE DEVITO
Grace has been featured on American Painting Video Magazine, American Artist Magazine and was the recipient of the David A. Leffel Award For Excellence In Painting, Best In Show 2011. She received her BA from The School Of Visual Arts NYC, as well as studying with Laurel Stern Boeck, Sarah Lamb, Jeremy Lipking, and Michelle Dunaway. Her greatest influences are Rembrandt, Soren Emil Carlsen, and Velasquez.
STEPHEN EARLY
- Award winner 2012, 2010 and 2008 International Portrait Competition; 2011 Scottsdale Salon of Fine Art Juried Show and Competition; Portraits of Honorable Judge William Hart Rufe III; Henry Seigel, founder of Sea Gull Lighting Company. Faculty at Studio Incamminati.
MAX GINSBURG
- Award Winner, Best in Show- Art Renewal Center Salon; 2011 Retrospective Show at the Butler Institute of American Art and at the Salmmagundi Art Club; New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT.
OSCAR GARCIA
- Master Sculptor. Technical Instructor at the Arts Student's League in NYC. Fine Arts School of Lima, Peru — MFA, 2008
Art Students League of New York, NY — International Certificate in Fine Arts Sculpture, 2006
University of Lima, Peru — Certificate in Metallurgy and Materiality, 1995
LEO MANCINI-HRESKO
- Leo teaches in Florence, both privately in his studio and at the Florence Academy of Art. He has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. After graduating in 2005, Leo was asked to stay on at the school, first as an instructor and subsequently director of the school’s drawing program for sculptors. Additionally, Leo taught regular courses in plein-air landscape painting and artist materials until leaving the school in 2011.
Having left his 19th-Century painting studio in Florence, Leo has relocated to his native Massachusetts, now working and teaching from his studio in a mill building in Waltham, MA.
Whether working en plein-air or in the studio Leo works with traditional materials, his own hand-ground paints, canvases and o
WILLIAM NATHANS
– Portrait of Cardinal John Foley, Award Winner 2011 International Portrait Competition in Atlanta, GA.
FRED ROSS
- Founder and Chairman of Art Renewal Center. Ross is the leading authority on 19th Century Classical painter, William Bougueraeu and recently published Catalogue Raisonné, William Bougueraeu: His Life and Works. Along with his wife, Sherry, they own one of the foremost collection of 19th Century European paintings.
JOHN HOWARD SANDEN
– Portraits of President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, Reverend Billy Graham and John Ashcroft. Gold Medal Award, Portrait Society of America, American Society of Portrait Artists, Portrait Brokers of America Award, Hudson Valley Art Association.
CHRIS SAPER -
SSince beginning her commission portrait painting practice in 1991, Saper has completed almost 400 commissioned portraits nationally, authored two books and filmed four DVDs on portraiture. “I love the discipline of working with clients in a shared vision of the portrait to be painted. There’s a satisfying result when I can achieve beautiful skin tones, accurate likenesses, and yet still paint a lovely piece of art.”
ince beginning her commission portrait painting practice in 1991, Saper has completed almost 400 commissioned portraits nationally, authored two books and filmed four DVDs on portraiture. “I love the discipline of working with clients in a shared vision of the portrait to be painted. There’s a satisfying result when I can achieve beautiful skin tones, accurate likenesses, and yet still paint a lovely piece of art.”
NELSON SHANKS
- One of the foremost leader of portraiture today, Mr. Shanks has painted HRH Diana, Princess of Wales; His Holiness, John Paul II; UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Presidents Ronald Reagan and William Jefferson Clinton; Founder of Studio Incamminati. Awared th “Sargent Medal” for Lifetime Achievement by the American Society of Portrait Artists; Gold Medal recipient for Lifetime Achivement by Portrait Society of America and the National Arts Club. Hon. RAA – elected member to the Russian Academy of Arts.
JOEL SPECTOR – Award Winner 2013 and 2011 International Portrait Competition Atlanta, GA; Gold Medal Winner Pastel Society of America, New Mexico Pastel Society; Society of Illustrators. Portraits, Honorable Shira Scheindlin U.S. District Court; O. Aldon James Former President of the National Arts Club; Adrian Benepe Former Commissioner of Parks of the City of New York.
JESUS EMMANUEL VILLARREAL – Recipient of the William F. Draper Grand Prize at the 2011 International Portrait Competition, First Place Winner at the New Haven Paint & Clay Club, Award Winner at the 2010 CSOPA Faces of Winter Competition.
OSCAR GARCIA
Live Sculpture Demo
FW14 Symposium Program*
Thursday, February 6 - Open to Public
4:30-6:30pm Paint Off: Grace DeVito, Joel Spector, Jesus Villarreal
6pm - 8pm: Valentine Awards Reception (Wear Red!) Jurors (Bob Anderson & Steve Early); Paint-Off Auction
Friday, February 7
8.30-9.30am Registration, Coffee
9:30-9.45 am Introductory remarks
9.45-10-15 am Chris Saper Finding Inspiration
10:15-11:45am Igor Babailov Drawing Demo
11:45-12:30pm Drawing Group Event
12:30-1 Lunch
1-1.45pm Keynote Presentation Fred Ross
2-3pm Leo Mancini - Classical Materials
3-4pm Faculty Panel Discussion with Bob Anderson
4-6pm Stephen Early Figure Demo
Saturday, February 8
8.30-9.30am Registration, Coffee
9:30-10:45pm John Howard Sanden: Presidential Portraits
11-12pm Oscar Garcia: Sculpture Demo
12-1pm Lunch
1-2pm Break-Outs Portfolio/Gallery with Laurel Boeck and Michael Del Priore
2 - 4pm Max Ginsburg Portrait Demo
4 - 4:30pm John Howard Sanden: Nelson Shanks
4:30-5:30pm Lifetime Achievement with Nelson Shanks. Guest Speakers: Peter Trippi, Marilyn Gaspirini and more
*Program subject to change. Updates will be posted here.
LAUREL STERN BOECK, MICHAEL DEL PRIORE
Portfolio Critiques
LEO MANCINI-HRESKO
Materials demo
NELSON SHANKS
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
GUEST SPEAKERS
PETER TRIPPI
Editor
Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine
MARILYN GASPARINI
Masters in History of Art
Courtauld Institute of Art in London
CHRIS SAPER
Finding Inspiration
And the FW14 Winners Are:
FIRST - Harry Burman for "Smile!"
SECOND - Harry Wingate for "Alphonse"
THIRD - Elizabeth Adams-Jones for "Self-Portrait"
PANPASTEL MERIT AWARD - Terry McManus for "Shades"
CSOPA DRAWING AWARD - Lucille Schur for "Maria"
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD - Jeanine Jackson for "Sophia"
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
- Laura Bleau for "Emily in Black"
- Scott Bricher for "June Prince"
- Susan Boone Durkee for "Lilyan"
- Mark Hough for "Zoe in Blue"
- Natalie Italiano for "Marie"
- Diane Pardy Farr for "Jess"
Congratulations to these award-winning artists! Many thanks to our distinguished judges Robert Alexander Anderson and Lea Colie Wight. They both commented at the reception that choosing winners in this outstanding exhibition was very difficult. All FW14 exhibiting artists were pre-selected from hundreds of entries. Come see the show! On view at UConn Stamford Gallery through February 28.
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