Friday May 12, 2017
Friday, May 12, 2pm-5pm East End Arts School, 141 E. Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901
East End ArtsEast End Arts Adam Straus Workshop
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2:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
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In this workshop, working in oils and from photographs and reproductions (student's chosen images), students will render the ocean, bays, waves and stormy or calm seas. The focus will be to add life, feeling and movement to these original images. Students will develop skills in capturing water in its many forms. Related contemporary and historical works will be available for inspiration.
Cost: $90 EEA members / $126 non-members
FRIDAYS, May 12 & 19, 2017
2:00 – 5:00 PM (2 classes)
More about the Instructor: Adam Strauss
Adam Straus is known for his majestic and luminous depictions of the sublime in his paintings, which are often saturated with a deep concern about social and environmental issues. His penetrating dark humor can transport the viewer to post-apocalyptic worlds and often offers a wry observation on how humans have altered the natural landscape. A monograph on his work was published by Gli Ori, Italy, in 2016, with an essay by author and critic Amei Wallach who writes that “The tradition into which Straus dared to tread … was sorely in need of reanimation. His disruptions in the years since have unsettled received assumptions as much through dark humor and bravura painting as through offering a reassessment of what it means to paint the beauty of nature in ugly times. It is important to him that his paintings are accessible… But that is only the first, skin-deep level, and it is animated by compound subterranean layers of passionate conviction, cosmic yearning, and comedy.” Work by Adam Straus is numerous museum collections including the Parrish Art Museum, Bridgehampton, NY; List Visual Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; The Art Museum at F.I.U., Miami, FL; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; Tufts University Art Gallery, Somerville, MA; and the William College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, among others. Straus lives and works in Riverhead, NY.
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East End Arts Adam Straus Workshop
Location: East End Arts School, 141 E. Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901
Description: Instructor: Adam Straus