Suivez MoiTed Seth Jacobs

Taught at BACAA Restructured Realism Programs
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Ted Seth Jacobs world-renowned draftsman, painter, and art teacher, with more than 60 years of professional practice behind him. He is the author of three books on the arts, Light for the Artist (1986) Drawing with an Open Mind (1985) and Dictionary of human form, (2009)
Ted Jacobs taught at the Art Students League 1946, he was one the founding faculties in New York Academy of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology. In 1987 founded his school Ecole Albert Defois Vihiers, France.
In 2004, he taught a series of lectures at Studio Incamminati, in Philadelphia, PA. His lectures were about representing human structure and action. He is the author of A Dictionary of Human Form. He has had more than sixty one-man exhibitions, in New York City, Boston, Washington DC, Biarritz and elsewhere. He has received countless notable commissions in all genres: portrait, mural, landscape, and still-life, and received numerous awards and prizes for his work. He is renowned for his strong influence on two generations of artist-draftsmen, and artist-teachers, including: Anthony Ryder, Jacob Collins, and Michael Grimaldi, Andrew Reiss, Dennis Cheaney, Michelle Tully, Timothy Stotz, Linda Dulaney among many others. Ted Jacobs’ studio-residence in Les Cerqueux sous Passavant, France is listed on the national registry of museums, and houses much of his work from 1985 onwards.

Ted Seth Jacobs
Mes IllusionsLes Cerqueux sous Passavant
49310 France
Tel/ (0)2 41 59 57 55
Email/ tedseth77@aol.com
Website : http://www.tedsethjacobs.com/
Website/ www.bwwsociety.org/gallery/tedsethjacobs.htm
Website/ www.artrenewal.org/articles/2002/Dictionary/form1.asp
NB/ All work done only from life or imagination. No photographic aids ever employed.
Born 11th June 1927
Education
1943 Art Diploma, Long Beach High School NY.
1943 Studied at The Art Students League of New York (ASL)
Instructors/ Dumond, Zorach, Reilly, Sternberg.
Painting, Drawing, Sculpture.

 Books by Ted:Td’s Portrait Painting at BACAA of Clody-Demo 12/08

Drawing with an Open Mind

Light for the Artist

 A Dictionary of Human Form

Michael Self Portrait

Taught at BACAA, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 & 2011
Returns January, 2012 and August, 2012

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Michael Grimaldi has studied painting and drawing at the Art Student’s League of NY, The National Academy, The New York Studio School, The Ecole Albert Defois, The Water Street Atelier and independent studies in anatomy and dissection at Facultad Medicina, Argentina.

Mr. Grimaldi has taught figure and portrait drawing and painting at The School of Visual Arts, NY; The National Academy, NY; The Seattle Academy of Fine Arts, WA; The Water Street Atelier, NY; Studio Incamminati, PA; Studio 126, NY, and at the Grand Central Academy of Art, Janus NY, which he co-founded, Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier, San Carlos, CA.

Exhibitions include: Arcadia Gallery NY, Arnot Museum, Forbes Magazine Collection, Forum Gallery NY, National Academy Museum NY, The John Pence Gallery CA, and the De Young Museum CA.

Awards include: The Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant (1993), Stacey Foundation Grant (1998 & 1999), The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (1999 & 2002), an Artist in Residence Fellowship from The Forbes Foundation (2002), and The Alma Schapiro Prize: Affiliated Fellowship, American Academy in Rome (2007).

Michael Grimaldi’s website:
http://www.michaelgrimaldi.net/

Workshop:
Michael Grimaldi: Summer 2011

GeminiPatricia Watwood

Taught at BACAA 2011

Patricia Watwood has exhibited at galleries and institutions worldwide such as Hirschl & Adler and Forbes Gallery in NYC, Galerie Albert Benamou in Paris, and John Pence in San Francisco. Museum shows include the Oglethorpe, Arnot, Joseloff, Bruce, and Dahesh. Artistic success, for Watwood, was born out of natural talent and her diligent studies, having earned an MFA with Honors from New York Academy of Art and studying with Jacob Collins of the Water Street Atelier, and Ted Seth Jacobs at the Ecole Albert Defois in France.

Watwood states, “Formal training is the indispensable underpinning of my practice. I seek to follow and build upon the artistic intelligence and traditions of the past, and bring them anew to my own generation.” Watwood’s style is Contemporary Classicism, which combines classical painting techniques with the language of representation. Representation (painting recognizable objects) makes our common visual language a means of communication between viewer and artist, and the painting can become like a poem that the viewer reads and relates to their own experience.

A survey of Watwood’s paintings from 2000-present can be seen this October to December 2011 in a solo show at the St. Louis University Museum of Art, entitled “Patricia Watwood: Myths & Individuals”. The show travels to the Forbes Gallery in NYC for exhibit ion February to April 2012.

Aside from studio painting, Watwood has been an adjunct professor of drawing at New York Academy of Art and has given lectures and workshops across the country with Teaching Studios of Art, BACAA, the Portrait Society of America, and Studio Incamminati. She is a writer and blog contributor for American Artist and Artist Daily publications.

CV for Patricia Watwood

www.patriciawatwood.com

Meredith, 9x 9 inches, Pencil and White Chalk on Prepared Paper

Edward Minoff

Edward Minoff graduated with honors from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Throughout high school and college he

studied painting and sculpture at the Art Students League of New York, The National Academy School of Design and at Vassar College. After co-founding the animation house, AMPnyc, he began to study at the Water Street Atelier with Jacob Collins. The lure of the studio proved irresistable, so he left his animation company to devote himself entirely to painting, later journeying to Florence to study at the Florence Academy of Art. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches at the Grand Central Academy, Columbia University and was a co-founder of the Hudson River Fellowship.

Exhibitions include: John Pence Gallery in San Francisco , Cavalier Galleries in Nantucket and Greenwich, CT, Gallery Henoch in NYC, Forbes Magazine Collection in NYC, The National Arts Club in NYC,  The Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, IN, among others. 

For the first time at BACAA, we’ll be offering a course in Portrait Sculpture.  The course will meet weekly for 9 weeks, for 3 hour sessions. Alicia Ponzio, a Florence Academy trained sculptress, will guide students through the process of sculpting from life in traditional water based clay, on a wooden armature. Using direct observation, students will learn to read and describe the structural elements of the portrait, and then to explore the form, likeness, and expression of the sitter. Composition as it relates to portrait sculpture will also be discussed.  Alicia will work alongside students and offer feedback to individual students during each class.

The course is appropriate for beginning or advanced students of sculpture, as well as all levels of painters and draftsmen who are interested in studying the portrait in 3 dimensions.

Each student will work on a life size portrait for the duration of the course. At the end of the course, the piece can be photographed, or students may opt to cast it or fire it themselves if they have access to those facilities.

Armatures and Clay will be provided, please bring tools. See recommended tools.

Alicia N. Ponzio Alicia Nicole Ponzio (b.1974) is a figurative sculptress working primarily in bronze.  Originally from the United States, she completed her sculpture training in Florence, Italy at the Florence Academy of Art (FAA) in 2008. She was then Director of Artistic Anatomy and Écorché Sculpture programs, as well as a figure drawing instructor at the same school for 3 years before returning to the United States (San Francisco, CA) in July of 2011.
Alicia brings life to her bronzes, using the language of the figure to speak of emotional experiences. In Florence, Italy, she sought an education in the figure, immersed in the aesthetic of the Renaissance and Classical. She’s drawn to subject matter that’s empathic and timeless.  Recently, her work has been recognized by several international organizations, including the Portrait Society of America, the Society of Portrait Sculptors, and The Art Renewal Center.

Justin has recently returned to us in San Francisco after having had an intensive 6 years of study and work in Florence Italy. Justin has not only taught and lectured on painting, but also on the preparation of paints and canvasses using traditional materials and techniques. His work has been published in International Artist Magazine, The Artists’ Magazine, Art Renewal Centers Annual Salons, and Southwest Artist Magazine. The latter recently named Justin one of 21 artists under the age of 31 to collect now.

Justin is the author of “Controlling the Creative Process, A Painter’s Guide to Methods and Materials” that is available onle, and offers step by step photographic demonstrations on the process of hand-making your own paint, canvases and frames using traditional techniques.

At the age of 30, Justin has already exhibited in Italy, London, Monaco, Norway and the United States of America. His Fine Art is represented by W.H. Patterson in London, M Gallery of Fine Art in Charleston South Carolina, and Galerie Michael in Beverly Hills. His work may be found in private collections in Australia, Europe, Scandinavia and the United States of America

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