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Edward Minoff: Weekend With the Masters Instructor
Edward
Minoff graduated with honors from New York University's Tisch
School of the Arts. Throughout his high-school and college years he studied
painting and sculpture at the Art Students League of New York, the National
Academy of Design, and at Vassar College.
He has copied some of the greatest works of Western Art at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Hispanic Society, The Prado, and The
Louvre, among others.
After co-founding the animation house AMPnyc, he began to
study with Jacob Collins at the Water Street Atelier and eventually left
commercial work to devote himself entirely to painting.
Later in his career he journeyed to Italy to study at The
Florence Academy of Art. He is a core instructor at the Grand Central Academy
of Art and a co-founder of the Hudson River Fellowship. In terms of his own
artistic development, the study of the painters Frederic Edwin Church, Asher B.
Durand, and William Trost Richards, among others, helped to hone his process.
Many clues were found not only in their paintings and studies but also in
correspondence, including the tremendously insightful "Letters on Landscape
Painting" column written by Asher B. Durand and published in The Crayon.
His brushwork displays a daring bravura, particularly in his
seascapes where moody waves crest and break with intensity. Other outdoor
painting scenes are composed from high, dramatic points of view, as seen in his work
from the Catskill Mountains of New York. In his still life work, his palette
becomes bright and inviting with warm reds, oranges, and yellows. A truly
versatile artist, Minoff displays a remarkable talent for portraying the human
figure as well.
In 2004, he staged his second one-man show with the John
Pence Gallery and received rave reviews. His most recent solo exhibition in San
Francisco was presented in October-November, 2010. He has also shown with
galleries in Connecticut, Houston, TX and Sag Harbor, N.Y. For more
information, visit his website.
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