From life : 6th drawing competition of the figure
Date
Location
parlor, skylight gallery, & Hartley room
Sponsor
Salmagundi Library Committee
Admission
Tickets available only online; will not be sold at the door.
Schedule of Events
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM | Competition
12:00 PM -12:30 PM | Lunch break (brown bag or neighborhood restaurants)
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Jurying, photograph artists
3:15 PM | Pizza for artists
4:00 PM | Doors open to the public
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Contest winners announcement
Artist Eligibility
All schools of art, ateliers, academies, and artists national and international are eligible. Limited to 55 artists.
Note
Objective
This will be a one-day on-site competition, in which artists work from life. Full figure or partial figure drawings are acceptable.
Prizes
$4,500 in cash prizes awarded:
1st Prize / Purchase prize | $3,000 + Chelsea Classical Studio Fine Art Materials gift certificate + a one-year complimentary membership for Salmagundi. The artwork will enter the Salmagundi Club’s permanent art collection, subject to SCNY Board of Directors’ approval.
2nd Prize | $1,000 + Chelsea Classical Studio Fine Art Materials gift certificate
3rd Prize honorable mention | $500 + Chelsea Classical Studio Fine Art Materials gift certificate
Cash prizes were made possible through the generous donation of a private foundation.
It is through the generosity of Chelsea Classical Studio Fine Art Materials that all art materials have been made available for all three prizes.
Medium Limitations
The following media are permitted for this drawing competition: graphite, pencils, charcoal or red chalk/sanguine. Silverpoint is allowed. Toned paper and white pencils/white chalk are allowed. No colored pencils, pastels, colored or black inks are not permitted. Because of space restrictions no drawing/board may be larger 16” x 20”.
Judging
This competition will follow a blind judging process, which requires artists to not put a signature on their drawing. If a signature is found, the artwork will be disqualified from consideration. Artists may also choose to be omitted from being judged for prizes, if they so choose.
Easels
Easels are limited; up to 12 available for +$10
If easels tickets are no longer available when RSVP-ing, Alexander Katlan (alexkatlan@aol.com) may be contacted prior to the event to be added to the waitlist.
Models
Five models will be participating in three different galleries: 10 to 15 artists will work around each model, thus maintaining the six foot separation needed for the safety of the models, participants and assistants. The models will all pose in a Contrapposto stance.
Each model will hold a single pose for five hours (breaking every twenty minutes for 5 minutes). The highly experienced models are Kimmah Jones, Nellie Suppa, Mackenzie Rogers, Freddie Borges and Giovanni Ortiz.
What is Contrapposto?
Contrapposto is an Italian term that means “counterpoise”. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot, so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs in the axial plane.
This term usually refers to a standing human figure carrying its weight on one leg so that the opposite hip rises to produce a relaxed curve in the body, although it can be used more generally to describe any twisted figure.
Sketching location
Upon entering the skylight gallery, each artist will draw a lottery number and proceed to the easel spot and model assigned to that number. Easel locations may not be changed or traded.
Selling
The artists may sell their drawings if they so choose when open to the general public at 4pm. The first prize winner is a purchase prize and becomes part of the Salmagundi collection subject to Board approval.
Panel of Jurors
Four distinguished artists of the New York Metropolitan art scene will serve as jurors:
Jon Brogie
Jon was born in California and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. He earned his undergraduate degree in Fine Art from Arizona State University, where he graduated with honors in 2011. The following year he moved to New York City to study drawing and painting under Jacob Collins at the Grand Central Atelier. In 2017 Jon was awarded the Alma Schapiro Prize, a biannual affiliated fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.
During his residency in Rome he focused his studies on the forms and visual language of the great figurative artists of the Classical and Baroque traditions. Jon is currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York and teaching in Grand Central Atelier’s Core and Online Programs, as well as privately. His work is exhibited at The Salmagundi Club in New York and is in private collections across the country.
Mario Andres Robinson
Mario Andres Robinson was born in Altus, Oklahoma, where he resided with his family before relocating to New Jersey at the age of twelve. Robinson studied at the prestigious Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. In 2014, Robinson was chosen to be a brand ambassador for Winsor and Newton art materials. He is the author of Lessons in Realistic Watercolor, a comprehensive guide of the artist’s watercolor techniques (Monacelli Press).
The work of Mario Andres Robinson fits squarely within the tradition of American painting. Robinson’s finished works bear a close affinity to the masters of the realist tradition, Andrew Wyeth and Thomas Eakins. Containing few references to modern life, Robinson’s work has a timeless and universal quality, and exhibits a distinct turn-of-the-century stylistic aesthetic. The images he chooses, which refer to a bygone era where solitude and reflection were abundant, also provoke frequent allusions to the paintings of Winslow Homer and Edward Hopper.
Diana Buitrago
Diana Buitrago is a portrait and landscape painter from Colombia, living and working in New York City and Jersey City.
Her extensive formal artistic training in the classical atelier method includes the four year program at the Art Students League, Artistic Anatomy coursework at Drexel University’s School of Medicine, and the four year Core Program at the Grand Central Atelier. She has studied under artists Michael Grimaldi, Dan Thompson, Jon deMartin, Jacob Collins, and Colleen Barry.
Diana’s work has been widely recognized for its excellence. She is a three-time Hudson River Fellow, an alumnus of the Château de La Napoule Residency, and has won prizes from the GCA, the ASL, and the Portrait Society of America, Certificate of Merit at Salmagundi Club. She is currently a Core instructor at the Grand Central Atelier, part-time workshop instructor at the Art Students League of New York.
Elizabeth Beard
Liz Beard is best known for her work done from life and draws inspiration from visual beauty and the poetry of experience. Large scale figure narrative paintings as well as simple but sensitive still-lives invite the viewer into reflection. Her education includes a BFA from Miami University of Ohio, a classical training at Ingbretson Studio, The Academy of Realist Art Boston, and Grand Central Atelier.
Her education included working exclusively from life and this practice remains at the center of her art making process. In addition to painting, Liz teaches at Grand Central Atelier in NY where she is challenged by the energy and talent of her students. She is proud to have been born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio and is currently living in Sunnyside, New York. She works full time on her art in a studio in Long Island City, Queens.