George Nick
522
Plein Air Painting
Friday, September 17 through Sunday, September 19
10:00–4:00
$375M $415NM
Working from observation, students will learn the skills and attitudes necessary to paint as well as how to organize information that one receives from the observed world. They will determine what they see using value, hue and mark making. There will be a daily critique. All abilities and media welcome in this outdoor master class.
Nationally recognized as a leading realist painter, George Nick’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Hirshhorn Museum; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., as well as many others.
George Nick currently teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
In March, 2007, the Danforth Museum of Art (Framingham, MA) mounted George Nick: Spirit of Place featuring paintings executed by Nick in Rome in 2005. In a foreward for the exhibition’s catalog John Updike wrote “In his most recent work, my impression is, he steps back from the virtuosic looseness and dash of the premier coup method into something like the precision with which he was portraying middle-class houses, solidly carved by sun and shadow, thirty years ago. New paintings of sun-splashed domestic interiors, of Back Bay perspectives, of an antique tractor in snow and a retired fighter plane in a blue-tinted hangar all give us a third dimension soaked in light and a truthfulness so simultaneously blunt and intricate that we marvel. ...George paints like a young man just discovering the appearances of things, discoveries that have nothing to do with the ego of the artist but everything to do with the world’s constant overflow of color and form.”
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Visiting Artist Workshops
Since 1999, South Shore Art Center has hosted master workshops with outstanding, nationally-recognized artists. The Visiting Artist program provides a challenging and in-depth opportunity for participants to be nurtured and inspired in our studios and on location—taking advantage of the stunning coastal landscape. Each summer/fall, hundreds of working artists and students from throughout New England participate in three-five day workshops. Artists for the 2010 Visiting Artist program will be announced in late winter.
Students work in our studios and on location in our beautiful coastal landscape. Register online www.ssac.org or call 781-383-2787. PDPs available.
| Ken Auster Stuart Baron Kim Bernard Pam Bernard Laura Blacklow Linda Bond Carol Bolsey Lee Boynton Christopher Chippendale Karen Christians Jared Clackner Doug Dawson Frank Federico Susan Fisher Randy Frost Carole Ann Fer Jesseca Ferguson Linda Heppes Funk Erica Funkhouser |
Frank Gohlke Jane Goldman Bonney Goldstein Barbara Grad Julie Graham Gretchen Halpert Nona Hershey Nancy Howell Jon Imber Joel Janowitz Catherine Kehoe Colleen Kiely Peter Madden John Brooks Maginnis Elizabeth McKim Margaret McWethy Antonia Ramis Miguel Janet Monafo George Nick |
Leon Nigrosh Hugh O’Donnell Rose Pellicano Ron Pokrasso Richard Raiselis Peter Schroth Robert Siegelman Annie Silverman Tracy Spadafora Peter Spataro William Ternes Sean Thomas Josette Urso Dan Welden Ann Wessman Heidi Whitman Dan Wills Carol Woodin Bert Yarborough |
Images shown above on header, Jon Imber, Sean Thomas, Christopher Chippendale. Images at left: Sean Thomas, Christopher Chippendale