From life : 8th drawing competition of the figure
Date
Location
parlor, skylight, & Hartley galleries
Admission
$45 | Salmagundi members discounted price
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 60 artists.
Note
Sponsors
MAS Foundation
A Live Competition
This is 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 + $300 Kurian Frames. 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 + $200 Kurian Frames
3rd Prize honorable mention | $500 + Chelsea Classical Studio Fine Art Materials gift certificate + $100 Kurian Frames
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 and Kurian Frames that all art materials have been made available for the 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. Colored pencils, pastels, colored or black inks are not permitted. Because of space restrictions no drawing/board may be larger 18” x 24”.
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
Artists must add the Easel add-on when purchasing their ticket online. If easels are no longer available while 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.
Each model will hold a single pose for five hours (breaking every twenty minutes for 5 minutes). The models may be seated or stand in a Contrapposto stance.
What does Contrapposto mean?
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 4:00 PM. The first prize winner is a purchase prize and becomes part of the Salmagundi collection subject to Board approval.
Panel of Jurors
Three distinguished artists of the New York Metropolitan art scene will serve as jurors:
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. His artistic gift was discovered by a fifth-grade teacher and a creative explosion was sparked in the pre-teen. Robinson studied at the prestigious Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. 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 turn- of- the- century 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.
Gregory Mortenson
Gregory Mortenson is a classically trained artist known for his arresting and emotive portraits of Haitian children. Shortly after completing his academic training Mortenson and his new wife were called on a humanitarian effort to Port au Prince to help reshape an orphanage that had been destroyed during the earthquake of 2010.
Amongst the rubble of despair Mortenson came face to face with the paradox of tragedy. Moved by what he calls, “the beauty and triumph of the human spirit,” he set about making sketches of the children as they waited in hope for a new home and school. In 2013 he returned to Haiti, however this time, not to rebuild, but to teach art at an orphanage. During this time he was able to complete several additional figure studies which later informed his 2015 exhibition: Zion’s Children.
Jon Brogie
Jon Brogie 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.