Studio Art Class for Adults
National Workshop for Adults
Featured Event
Registration Required
“Leonid Gervits, Master painter and teacher, shares with his students the grand Russian painting traditions he learned in his youth in St. Petersburg.I highly recommend his class.-Timothy J. Clark
Students will study under nationally recognized Russian artist Leonid Gervits. Visit Gervits website: www.gervits.com
How to choose the subject
Composition
Essential Steps to good landscapes
Final approach
Days two and three the workshop will focus on portraiture --the methods and tools needed to draw a portrait with accuracy and feeling. Composition, perspective, proportions and the effects of light and dark will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on an in-depth investigation of the underlying structure of the head, skull and facial features. Each day the class will be augmented by lectures and demonstrations.
How to choose the subject
Composition
Essential Steps to good still life
Final approach
About The Artist
In 1991 Leonid Gervits, successful art professor (He had been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg for 17 years.), left Russia for the United States. He found an enthusiastic audience for his teaching methods at the New York Academy of Realist Art and the Art Students’ League. His one-man show at Princeton University was a success.
His landscapes of the Long Island and New Jersey shore display a new type of modest, tasteful harmony, although his interpretation of these themes differs predictably from his rendition of the thriving southern environment (very attractive to Leonid), which he found in Florida.
Gervits’ series of large paintings “Caledonian Hunt I” and “Caledonian Hunt II” (1996–1997) are the results of the artist’s changing outlook on life in America. The very beauty of the world shown in these complex multi-figured paintings manifests an order of life that embraces inescapable destiny as a part of that harmonious picture.
At the same time, in his latest painting from the “Café” cycle, as well as in a series of Southampton (NY) landscapes, artistic language has become more expressive. Now, in his prime, Leonid Gervits is a proud representative of the great tradition.
SELECTED WORKSHOPS
2011: Curacao, Willemstad (master class and workshop)
2010: Art Students League
2008: Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA (portrait painting and drawing)
2005-2007: Fechin School of Art, Taos, Santa Fe, NM (portrait painting)
2005-2007: Andreeva Portrait Academy, Santa Fe, NM (portrait painting)
2004: Damore Studio, Portland, OR (portrait painting)
1996, 1999: Seattle Academy of Art, Seattle, WA (portrait painting)
PRINCIPAL EXHIBITIONS:
2010: REAL(ists), Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, Florida
2007: Santa Fe Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2006-: Pushkin Museum, Odessa, Ukraine
2005: Panov Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2001: Medici Haus Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2003: Yoshida's Fine Art, Portland, OR
2002: Dutka Foundation show, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
2000-2001: Chrysalis Gallery, South Hampton, NY
2001: Medici House Galerie, Zurich, Germany
2000: 1100 Madison Gallery, New York, NY
1997-present: Annual exhibitions, Chrysalis Gallery, Southampton, NY
1997: Washington, D.C., Design Center, The 1997 American Inaugural Exhibition
1996: National Portrait Competition, New York, NY
1995: New York, NY (East-West Gallery, Midtown)
Edgewater, NJ (Polo-Gallery)
Jersey City, NJ (CASE Museum)
1994: Ridgewood, NJ (Kerigma Gallery)
New York, NY (Juno-Gallery)
1993: New York, NY (Ende Gallery, 58th Street)
1992: New York, NY (Carnegie Hall – New York Portrait Forum)
Princeton, NJ (Dow Jones Gallery – one-man show)
Princeton, NJ (Princeton University – one-man show)
1991: Burscheid, Luxembourg (one-man show)
Stuttgart, Germany (one-man show)
1990: Neckarrems, Germany (one-man show)
1989-1990: Paris, France (Drouot)
Duesseldorf, Germany (Art of the Soviet Union)
Madrid, Spain (Russian Art)
Helsinki, Finland (Leningrad School of Art)
1989: Brussels, Belgium (Art of Leningrad)
Leningrad, USSR (Nude)
Hamburg, Germany (Russian Art)
Tokyo, Japan (Contemporary Art in USSR)
1977-1987: Two personal and four group exhibitions in Prague (Czechoslovakia), Leningrad and Moscow (USSR)
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
United States: Princeton, Jersey City, Westwood — Washington, DC — New York City
This three day workshop will help student s of all levels improve drawing skills.
This workshop will address the mediums of oil and acrylics
Place: Center For Art & Education, 104 North 13
