Grace Lucarelli, Author at The Art Guild of Port Washington, Inc.

ONLINE Mini Session Watercolor with Denis Ponsot Wed AM

by Grace Lucarelli | Oct 9, 2020 | Past Classes and Workshops

ONLINE MINI SESSION WATERCOLOR WITH DENIS PONSOT

3 Classes!

WEDNESDAYS, 10 am – 12 pm EST

Dec 2, 9, & 16
Fee for Fall Session: $99 Members / $135 Non-members

With over twenty years’ experience teaching, Instructor Denis Ponsot has designed this informative class to demonstrate all the “shop tricks” in watercolor painting. Both beginning and experienced students will learn to avoid common pitfalls and advance their abilities. The focus will be on students individually, helping them realize their full watercolor potential. Explore a variety of watercolor techniques with an emphasis on developing one’s own style. Includes demonstrations of color and design, wet on wet, and dry-brush techniques. Students choose to paint from still life arrangements, photos, or their own subjects.

“We look forward to the next class the minute each one is completed! He is engaging and informative….and shares all of his techniques, experiences and varied artistic expressions with the class while giving superb directives for the current work in progress.”

About Denis

Award-winning artist, Denis Ponsot has worked in all of the various media but prefers to work in watercolor. He also teaches watercolor painting, oils, mixed media, and drawing from introductory to advanced levels to children and adults.

He says, “Teaching is my greatest inspiration. The combination of teaching and painting has helped to make my artistic experience complete. Working with students is important to me because I enjoy helping them with their painting and drawing problems. I am able to encourage them to experiment with their own ideas. I take pleasure in helping my students expand their artistic horizons beyond their expectations.” Denis teaches at The Craft Students League and The Kids Club in Manhattan and at the Art Guild in addition to accepting commissions in watercolor, oil, and portrait painting.

Denis has developed watercolor portfolios in three areas: “Landscape,” “Flowers and Still Life” and “The Figure and Portraits.” His work can be viewed on his Facebook page @DenisPonsot or at www.denisponsot.com.

ONLINE Art of the Mark: A workshop in Abstraction with Laura Shabott and Alana Barrett

by Grace Lucarelli | Sep 25, 2020 | Past Classes and Workshops

ONLINE: The Art of the Mark: A workshop in Abstraction

with Laura Shabott and Alana Barrett

Friday, December 18th | 10am – 3pm
$125 Members/$160 Non-members

In this online course, we will discuss how mark-making is a fundamental part of abstract painting. You will study Hans Hofmann’s theory of push/pull, the precursor of Abstract Expressionism in a slide presentation, demonstration, and guided exercises that transform your range of mark-making. In the afternoon, we will move to hard-edge abstraction, with a slide presentation of contemporary artists, a demonstration, and guided exercises to learn this essential abstraction skill.

About the Blue Chair Series:

The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is down the street from me. I was a week-long returning resident in a large bright studio with a huge roll of Fabriano paper and water-based paints. I made these abstracts prompted from a still life on the floor with cleaning equipment dipped in paint and wide brushes duct taped to broom handles. Later, I found out the room was a studio that Hans Hofmann used when he lived in Provincetown.

ABOUT LAURA SHABOTT

Artist Laura Shabott received a studio diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at TUFTS in 1995. Concurrently, she discovered Provincetown and settled there. About her art, Emily Mergel writes in Artscope Magazine “Shabott continually draws inspiration from abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann and breaks forms into their most evocative essentials…She seizes the opportunity to burst the gallery walls, speaking with intentional gesture in visual vocabulary all her own.”

Shabott has shown with Berta Walker Gallery, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, Four Eleven Gallery, Provincetown Art Association and Museum and Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. She is represented by Berta Walker Gallery.

ABOUT ALANA BARRETT

Artist Bio: Alana Barrett is a recent graduate of the University of Miami, and she has a degree in Studio Art and a minor in biology. She is a multidisciplinary artist that works across a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional mediums, including painting, woodworking, electronics, and fabrics. Her work spans a variety of subject matter from robotic sculptures to hard-edged abstract paintings. All of her work, however, is united by playful spatial relationships and whimsical perspectives, as well as a re-engagement with an almost kindergarten style of learning through her curious nature and willingness to experiment. She is currently teaching at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, as well as the Lighthouse ArtCenter.

Artist statement: I paint to experiment, play, and discover. My studio practice is process-driven – in that I am more concerned with the process of discovering something new on the canvas than the end result. Teaching art has recently become a large part of my practice as well; it has helped me develop a sort of consciousness and vocabulary to the typically intuitive decisions I make as I paint, thus empowering me to dive deeper, play harder, and take bolder risks as I work. Her work can be viewed at: www.alanacbarrett.com Instagram: alanacbarrett

The Art of the Mark: Abstract Show, Juried Competition and Exhibition

by Grace Lucarelli | Sep 21, 2020 | Homepage

The Art of the Mark Abstract Show, Online Juried Competition and Exhibition
On view: Dec 3, 2020 – Jan 10, 2021
Artists Awards & Reception: Thurs, Dec 3, 7:30pm

Congratulations to the following artists for acceptance to our online juried exhibit!

Deborah Adler – Dance with Me
Phyllis Anderson – Roar, Slope #4
John Armstrong – 8.22.2020
Jo-Anne Behal – Textures and Lines, Circles of Life
Hannah Bouchard – Clenching, Closing
Ed Condon – Money Dreams
Joseph Cooke – Sunday In The Park, Keep Sailing On
Diane D’Agostino – Spring Delivery
Sheryl Renee Dobson – Shield of Faith
Dana Epstein – Ceremony
Karen Fagelman – 3 Women
Simon Fenster – Pandemic Hope
Ming Franz – Emergence
Anjali Gauld* – I Love You More
Alicia Gitlitz – Blue Craze, Dancing with the Stars
Marceil Kazickas, Complicated Logic
Karen Kirshner – Come to the Jamboree, All Angles
Joan Klein – Black and White Medley
Rosemary Konatich – Coney Island Colors I
Denise Kramer – Vertical Thoughts Grey and Red I, Vertical and Horizontal with Yellow
Anthony Lanza – Blue Jean Matrix
Laurie Levine – Outer Limits
Donna Litke – Sun, Moon, Wind, Earth
Danielle Livioti – Spread Love

*HS student artist

Isabelle Lopez – Kotara Calypso
James Mai – Winter Garden (rhombi 6,1,1,1)
Baruch May – New Day
Avrel Menkes – Garden Ladder
Barbara Miller – Loving the Rust, Indian Summer
Susan Morrison – April Rain
Shourabh Mukherji – Scultural Romance
Stephanie Navon-Jacobson – Industry
Loretta Oberheim – Identity
Lisa O’Connor – Breakthroughs, Cosmos
Alicia Peterson – Infinity
Randi Benum Roernes – Nebula Imagined 2
Howard Rose – Presence
Susan Rostan – Sunset
Linda Ruden – Floating Through It All
Ellen Hallie Schiff – Late October, Autumn
Barbara Spivak – House of Cards
Barbara Stein – Playful Shapes
Joan Stevens – Optimism
Chelsea Stewart – Hole
Hui Tian – Coronavirus 2020
Margo Vignola – Pond
Gaetana Zanzonico – Mystical Waters
Alyson Zeller* – Rainbow Way

The Art Guild invites all artists, high school and older, to submit artworks for consideration for “The Art of the Mark: Abstract Show” a Juried Competition and Exhibition.

Abstract art has its own language using color, form, shape, line, texture and marks . The marks you make as an abstract artist are intensely personal. Successful mark making can communicate ideas or emotions.

Which marks are yours?

CRITERIA All styles from non-objective to abstracted realism are welcome. All works must be original and have been created in the last five years. References used in the creation of the submitted work must be the artist’s own, or copyright-released for use in this work. Works previously exhibited at The Art Guild Gallery will not be considered.

MEDIUMS Included but not limited to: acrylic, charcoal, collage, colored pencil, ink, mixed media, oil, pastel, pencil, printmaking, sculpture, or watercolor. NO Photography, Copies, Master Copies, Reproductions OR Giclees.

JUROR OF AWARDS: Karli Wurzelbacher, PhD, Curator at the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY.

ENTRIES

If accepted, submitted images will be used for the online gallery. Try to photograph your image:

– in natural light
– unframed
– be sure that the image is straight
– there is no glare on glass or varnished surface

For tips on photographing your art, please click here for a tutorial by TAG member Steve Silberstein.

Digital submissions of up to three (3) images via email to artshow@TheArtGuild.org or uploaded to our website:

be between 1MB and 3MB each. To resize or compress your images, go to PICRESIZE.com
label your images as follows: artist’s lastname_firstname_entrynumber_title.jpg (ex: smith_john_1_beachsunset.jpg)
You MUST change the actual name of the image file.

If you have problems with the uploader, please email your images to artshow@TheArtGuild.org – with ALL contact information, image titles and mediums. We will invoice you for payment. Submission will not be included in curating without payment.

If paying by check, download printable form

ENTRY FEE(S) Registration is required and fees are non-refundable.

Members: $20 (1-2 pieces) or $30 (an additional piece).
Non-members: $30 (1-2 pieces) or $40 (an additional piece)
Student members: $10 (1-2 pieces) or $20 (an additional piece)
No more than 3 works per artist

FINALISTS The Selection Committee will review all entries and notify each artist as to the acceptance of the submitted work. The Art Guild has the right, in its sole discretion, to choose which eligible entries will be accepted to be exhibited. All decisions are final. Artists whose work has been selected will be notified after November 10, 2020, either by email or here on the website.

AWARDS 1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100 • Honorable Mentions

LIABILITY & INSURANCE The Liability Waiver on the entry form must be signed by the artist submitting images for consideration. It is the responsibility of the participating artist to insure or self-insure any work submitted for inclusion in this exhibit.

AWARDS

1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100 • Honorable Mentions

CALENDAR & IMPORTANT DATES

DEADLINE: Monday, November 2, 2020 at midnight EST – Application, images and payment must be received.

ACCEPTANCE/REJECTION NOTIFICATION: After November 10, 2020

ONLINE EXHIBIT
• December 3, 2020 – January 10, 2021

ONLINE, VIRTUAL Artist’s Reception & Awards Ceremony
• Thursday, December 3 at 7:30 pm

QUESTIONS & TROUBLESHOOTING

QUESTIONS Call 516-304-5797 or email info@TheArtGuild.org

Emailed images must include your name, contact information and the title, medium, value, and size in your email.

To resize or compress your images, go to PICRESIZE.com

SELLING YOUR ARTWORK

Artwork may be sold directly by the artist with a suggested donation of 20% of the selling price from the artist to The Art Guild. Note, however, that sales may not be made at the exhibition. All work must remain on view for the duration of the exhibit.

Works on Paper, Juried Competition and Exhibition Oct 1-25, 2020

by Grace Lucarelli | Sep 20, 2020 | Past Exhibitions

Works on Paper

Click on image to view full sized. Use navigation arrows to scroll through the online show.

View our Works on Paper Online Reception & Awards

7 Dots and a Wash

Randy Kraft
12″ x 16″
watercolor

Abandoned

Amy Gottlieb
17.75″ x 23″
watercolor

After Lunch

Joan Laufer
5″ x 8″
watercolor/ink

Amazon Rooftops

Donna Litke
20″ x 20″
cardboard, latex paint

Autumn Day

Cindy Bender
8″ x 20″
acrylic on tissue paper

Balcony View, Sorrento Italy

Stephanie Ivolella
18″ x 15″
watercolor

Bloom with Grace: for Grandmother

Katrina Benson
14″ x 14″
colored pencil

The Blue Shoes

THIRD PLACE
Amy Gottlieb
20″ x 24″
watercolor

Bride

FIRST PLACE
Kathleen Ullman
17″ x 13″
pastel

Bubblegum

Adriana Catalan
24″ x 18″
prisma on paper

By the Pond

Cindy Bender
22 x 24
acrylic on tissue paper

Cabrini Sunflower

Melissa Bybee
5.5″ x 8.5″
pen/ink, illustrator markers, pencil color

Collage Nude

Lauren Bourguet
24″ x 18″
collage on pastel paper

Day of the Iguana

Shelley Holtzman
18″ x 28″
watercolor

Dogs On Pinecone

Heather Heckel
8″ x 8″
colored pencil on paper

Evolving

Loretta Oberheim
13.5″ x 13.5″
alcohol ink and gold leaf on layered yupo paper

Fairy Tale Rose

Caryn Coville
8.25″ x 8.25″
colored pencil

First Day of Fall-Sunrise at Widemarsh

Hilory Boucher
13″ x 12″ pastel

Fountain Water

Adriana Catalan
60″ x 45″
mixed media collage

Ganesha

Lynn Roselli
26″ x 20″
collage

Ginko

Stephanie Navon-Jacobson
12″ x12″
linoleum

God Dog

Maritza Ranero
16″ x 12″
enamel paints on printmaking paper

Going Forward

Randy Kraft
11″ x 15″
watercolor

Grand Central

Douglas Barnaby
8.5″ x 11″
embossed print

Green Tara

Lynn Roselli
14″ x 11″
graphite

Growth and Decay

Evie Erickson
43.5″ x 34″
mixed media

Hanging Lures

Andrew McIntyre*
11″ x 9.5″
charcoal on paper

High Tide

Marceil Kazickas
20″ x 26″
alcohol ink on yupo paper

In Bloom 4

Evie Erickson
12″ x 9″
mixed media

The Hikers

Hali Layton
9” x 12 1/4”
watercolor

Indian Ladder Falls

Aleta Crawford
10″ x 8″
pen on paper and ink

Ink Blocks

John Michaels
30″ x 20″
pen and ink

Jetty

Stephanie Navon-Jacobson
14″ x 11″
monotype

Kaleidoscope

Claudia Mirzaali
11″ x 14″
acrylic on handmade and commercial paper, cotton quilting thread

Life’s A Bowl of Cherries

SECOND PLACE
Caryn Coville
14″ x 11″
colored pencil & water soluble wax crayons

Mexican Palm Flower

Lynn Sirow
18″ x 31″
watercolor

My Ride, Ocean Beach, Fire Island, NY

Stephanie Ivolella
13″ x 9″
watercolor

Organic Ink

John Michaels
20″ x 30″
pen and ink

Queensboro Bridge

Douglas Barnaby
6″ x 10″
embossed print

Pumpkin; Red Warty Thing

Robin Moore
13″ x 10″
colored pencil and watercolor

Romance

Lauren Bourguet
17″ x 14″
copperplate on handmade paper

Saint Germaine Paris

Denis Ponsot
24″ x 34″
watercolor

Square Woven

Rachel Dove
8″ x 8″
woven watercolor and ink drawings on paper with found paper

Summer Rain

Claudia Mirzaali
14″ x 11″
acrylic on handmade and commercial paper, wood and bamboo

Summer Breakout

Peg Reilly
11″ x 15″
watercolor

Twins

Kathleen Ullman
22″ x 27″
pastel

Two Lilies

Denis Ponsot
22″ x 30″
watercolor

Untitled

Charlotte Levinson
11″ x 8″
marker and ink

View From Manorhaven Park

Diane Bares
9″ x 12″
oil on paper

Waiting For Next

John Pulinat
43″ x 43″
watercolor

Walks Through Avalon

Loretta Oberheim
13.5″ x 13.5″
alcohol Ink on layered yupo paper

Windows and Doors

Donna Litke
24″ x 18″
collage, mixed media

2020 Nassau County High School Student Juried Exhibit: Nov 1- Nov 22

by Grace Lucarelli | Sep 7, 2020 | Homepage

2020 Nassau County High School Student Juried Exhibit & Competition
November 1 – 22
Online Reception & Awards: Sun, Nov 1st at 3pm

Congratulations to the following student artists for acceptance to our juried exhibit!

Aleena Abraham – Luminance
Aubrey Abramson – Lighthouse, What I Did During Quarantine
Elizabeth Andre – Corkscrew Contour Line
Gabrielle Bautista – My Mother’s Working Hands
Annemarie Cabrera – The Most Famous Book
Brenna Camacho – Wonderland
Lin Chan – Scull and Rope
Bo Wei Chen – Bloom
Julia Cooper – Sunflower Field
Giuliana Copertino – Afternoon Tea
Grace DelValle – Broken Apart
Grace DeMartino – Landscape Collage
Keren Dial – Symbiosis, RBG
Julia DiMeo – Klimt Re-Imagined
Gilana Etame Devils – Throughout Time
Willene Exinvil – My Sister and I
Eliseea Faur – Endless Anxiety
Anjali Gauld – Microscopic
Emma Georghakis – An Autumn Day
Cailin Hoang – Peace of Mind
Abby Hurt – Still Life: Glass and Ceramics
Sasha Hyde – Contemplating
Mia Kamensky – Teacup
Ava Kotliar – Soccer!
Kiki Lee – Hanging Derby Shoe
Malachi Lewis – Dying Savannah
Rhiannon Li – Forest
Giselle Lopez – Flying Fish Zentangle
Stephanie Lopez – Prismatic Bubble
Macayla McCaffery – Finish Line
Eireen McGuire – Peaches
Gaby McIntyre – Consumed By the Sea

Zyad Mohamed – Dicey Demolition
Alena Moreira – Elucidate
Madeline Morocho – “I’m OK”
Sadie Muller – Cat’s Eye
Brooke Murphy – Toilet Paper Castle
Ariana Papadopoulos – Self-Portrait
Talya Pecullan – Fall Leaves
Grace Petersen – The Circus
Rachael Petruccelli – Black Tide, Plastic Silverware
Sophia Pirone – Feeling Butterflies
Olivia Robson – Feel the Music, Joyous First Sound
Hailey Rojas – Inner Thoughts
Jenna Rosenberg – Sunrise
TJ Roszko – A Lasting Legacy of Aunt’s Cherished Earrings
Kelly Ryan – Koi, Carmine
Erika Saur – My Favorite Place
Madison Schneider – I’m Listening
Adam Shahine – Fire Through Wire
Kimberly Shrestha – Summer Skyline
Isabella Somma – Fruit Bowl
Zihan Sun – My Life, Trip
Noelle Valdinoto – Generational Dependency
Rebecca Van Houten – In the Studio, By the Shed
Taylor Wang – Our Ramen Place, Way Back Home
Grace Wayar – I Can See
Isabella Weber – Rooster
Emma Weston – Real Heros
Jacey Yang – New Year Peacock, Overfishing
Isabel Yeo – Trapped, Stuck Inside
Mina Yu – Serene Chaos, Left to Wonder
Nina Zar – The Sapphics
Alyson Zeller – Smile Me On
Allison Zhang – Peace of a Reflected Mind, Chrysanthemum

CALL FOR ENTRIES: The Art Guild invites all Nassau County High School Students to submit digital images of their 2D or 3D artworks for consideration to its 2020 Nassau County High School Student Online Juried Art Competition & Exhibition

CRITERIA: All styles from abstract to realism are welcome. All works must be original, and have been created in the last two years. References used in the creation of the submitted work must be the artist’s own, or copyright-released for use in this work. No “fanart” (example: no paintings of Princess Diana, The Joker or Kurt Cobain unless you own the rights to, or have permission to use the reference picture). The selection committee’s decision is final.

MEDIUMS: Including but not limited to acrylic, collage, digital art, encaustic, etching/prints, mixed media, oil, pastel, sculpture, or watercolor. (NO COPIES, PHOTOGRAPHY, REPRODUCTIONS OR GICLEES.)

SIZE: no size constraints

JUROR: Stephanie Navon-Jacobson

ENTRY FEE: $25.00 for up to TWO entries per student.
Each student must fill out a separate form. No combining of fees or entries.

ENTRIES: Digital submissions of up to two (2) images uploaded to our website or via email to artshow@TheArtGuild.org should be between 1MB and 3MB each. To resize or compress your images, go to PICRESIZE.com

Please be aware that the digital images you send should look as good as possible. These will be the images that will be displayed in our online gallery. Try to photograph your image in natural light, be sure that the image is straight and that there is no glare on glass or varnished surface. For tips on photographing your art, please click here for a tutorial by TAG member Steve Silberstein.

Works previously exhibited at The Art Guild Gallery will not be considered.

Fill out the form below, upload images and pay below. If you have problems with the uploader, please email your images to artshow@TheArtGuild.org – with ALL contact information, image titles and mediums. We will invoice you for payment. If you prefer to pay with a check, please download the form here. Submission will not be included in curating without payment.

Label your images as follows: artist’s lastname_firstname_entrynumber_title.jpg (ex: smith_john_1_beachsunset.jpg). Do not use the # or other symbols in the file name. You MUST change the actual name of the image file. Images CANNOT be named “image.jpg” or “fullrender.jpg” or similar – our database overwrites these images. If you email the images, you must include your name, contact information and the title, medium, value, and size in your email.

TEACHERS:

We are happy to work with you! If you want to submit a group of students and have your district pay their submission fees, please give us a call (516-304-5797) or email us (info@theartguild.org). We look forward to working with you!

FINALISTS The Selection Committee will review all entries and notify each artist as to the acceptance of the submitted work. The Art Guild has the right, in its sole discretion, to choose which eligible entries will be accepted to be exhibited. All decisions are final. Artists whose work has been selected will be notified after October 23, 2020 either by email or here on the website.

ARTISTS’ ONLINE RECEPTION & AWARDS CEREMONY: Sunday, November 1, 2020 at 3pm. Please invite family and friends!

If you have further questions or concerns, please call 516-304-5797 or email info@theartguild.org.