2005/2006 Season:
September 1 - Arville Pustroem
Our demonstrator for September will be Arville Pustroem, who will do an oil
demonstration. Arville was born in Estonia and came to the U.S. in 1949. Soon
after graduating from high school in Estonia, her country was occupied, first
by the Soviets, and then by the Nazis. While in
Estonia, she studied art for two years. Because of the German
occupation, her family was forced to flee. They escaped on a German
navy ship. Eventually she fled to Austria and then to West Germany
where her family ended up in a British military zone. After the war
all the students in good standing went to a German University. Arville
was able to choose Duesseldorf Academy, where she studied art.
After coming
to the US, she studied in Rockport, Massachusetts, with Harry Ballinger, where
she became accomplished in painting seascapes. After coming to N.J., she
studied with Adolf Konrad and John Howell in in Morristown. Arville started
with watercolors, but changed to oils while studying with Konrad and
Ballinger. She likes to paint using the palette knife. She was on the Board of
the Morris County Art Association for many years and has belonged to the
American Artist’s Professional League, the Fraternity of Estonian Artists in
Exile and other organizations. She also taught art in Mendham at the St. John
Baptist school for many years. Her art, which has won numerous awards, has
been shown in Canada, Sweden, Germany and the U.S. She is especially pleased
with two of her paintings that are in the state museum in Estonia.
Arville Pustroem - Country Home
Arville Pustroem - Snow Scene
Arville Pustroem - Lake Scene
October 6 - Carl
Burger
In October we welcome the return of Carl Burger, who will do
a watercolor demonstration. A Professor of Fine Arts for 40 years at Kean
University, Carl is now Professor Emeritus. He has exhibited throughout the US,
including Lincoln Center and the National Academy of Design in New York, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Montclair Art
Museum, the New Jersey State Museum, the Newark Museum, and the Morris Museum,
to which he gifted 62 paintings and which held a recent retrospective of his
work. Carl is a resident of Califon, New Jersey, where he continues to paint and
draw. His work is available at Louisa Melrose Gallery in Frenchtown, Coryell
Gallery in Lambertville, and the Riverbank Arts Gallery in Stockton.
November 3 -
Julie Friedman
Julie Friedman will give us a pastel demonstration. Julie says: "My whole
focus as a painter is to capture the real impact of a moment. I am always
looking at how light and the land come together to create a mood or a feeling.
The shifts of color that occur pull me in, and I try to create a place where I
want to stay." Julie graduated from Mason Gross School of Art and has studied
with Wolf Kahn and Christina Debarry. She is a signature member of the Pastel
Society of America and the Connecticut Pastel Society, and is a faculty member
of the Somerset Art Association where she teaches pastels. Julie has been
accepted in numerous national shows including the Pastel Society of America 2004
Annual Juried Exhibition, New York, NY; a solo exhibition at the Walter
Kornbluth Gallery in Fairlawn, NJ in November 2004; The Catherine Lorillard
Wolfe Art Club 108th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, October 2004 in NYC; and the
Community Arts Association National Juried Exhibition in the Ridgewood Art
Institute in March 2005. Julie has earned many awards and distinctions including
being the featured artist in the February 2005 issue of The Pastel Journal and
having pastel painting win honorable mention in the Pastel 100 Competition in
the Pastel Journal. Julie currently resides in Randolph and teaches out of her
studio in Morristown.
December 1 -
Christine Carter
along with the AAR Holiday Party tonight
See more of
Christine's work:
http://www.crcarter.com/zakargallery.html
Christine Carter will demonstrate her Zakar
Art with pen and watercolor. She will bring a jazz musician, and AAR member
Joyce Sciacca will model. Members are encouraged to draw – but please no
paints or pastels as we need to keep our meeting room clean. Christine
received a BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston with
honors for Independent Studies in Photography. She later studied oil painting
under Adolf Konrad, watercolor under Betty Stroppel, and sculpture with
Wayland Gregory. A major influence was Vieira Da Silva, a Portuguese painter.
Carter's paintings and photographs have appeared in group and individual
shows.
She has taught photography and watercolor
in high schools and adult programs. She was a juror for the Tewksbury
Historical Society. She wrote, illustrated and published The Collie of Castle
Hill, a 48-page children's picture book. Her illustrations have appeared in
several children's magazines. In spite of her success, she felt something was
missing. Carter recalls that as a young child she loved to dance to classical
music, wearing a colorful skirt her mother made. When the music, her
movements, and the patterns of the flowing garments united into one breathless
moment, her life felt complete and perfectly balanced. In 2004 Pat Sonne, an
artist's model, suggested they work with musicians, each inspiring the others.
Their collaboration, called "Zakar”, is performed in restaurants, pubs and
galleries – the audience is encouraged to paint with them. That same year
Carter saw the work of Portugese painter, Vieira Da Silva. The influence of Da
Silva enabled her to be more open to her heart so that her work could become a
mirror of her passions, an expression of her breathless moments.
January - No Meeting
February
2 - Group Critique
Bring an unfinished piece for fellow members to critique.
March
2 - Meeting Cancelled due to weather
April 6 – Wanda
Blake
Photo of Wanda Blake in her studio
Wanda Blade will be our
demonstrator for April and will paint a fantasy landscape using oil on paper.
Wanda received her formal art training at the
School of Fine & Industrial Art and also studied at the
Museum
of
Modern Art,
The New School of Social Research, The Art Center of Northern NJ, Parsons and
the Du Cret School of the Arts. She has taught at Du Cret School of the Arts
for over 20 years and recently at Somerset Art Association.
She has exhibited in
New York,
New Jersey
and in
Cork,
Ireland.
Her work has won numerous awards. She states that in "every solo or semi-solo
show (about one a year) where I have had to produce a large body of work, I
make it a point to find another part of me and do a series incorporating
this."
Her recent series of oil on
paper evolved from abstract landscapes to fantasy in landscape and
incorporates her joyous feelings. Each painting starts with an idea which
develops a force of its own. She creates a color sense that invites the
imagination to perceive the landscape in a new way that gives life to the
painting.
Wanda Blake states "I made a
conscious decision some twenty years ago to paint whatever I needed to paint –
whatever the risks – this became my journey of exploration of my feelings and
gave me the opportunity to explore the many aspects of myself. I may start a
large painting using charcoal in sweeping motions which helps me feel part of
the painting. Sometimes pattern take over, or color or movement and sometimes
all these elements combine to express just the feeling or idea you want. There
is great joy in the journey."
May 4 – Dolores
Ziegler, AWS, NWS
Watermedia and Collage Artist
Dolores paints in a
breezy, effervescent style, exhibiting great breadth and freedom of brushstroke.
Rendered primarily in acrylics through a spontaneous experimental technique, the
artist's richly textured abstract compositions usually are created as part of a
series, featuring a succession of color combinations. She also uses collage to
enhance some of her work.
She has taught at
Somerset Art Association, Morris County Art Association, Lakeland Arts and
Princeton Arts Council, among others. Dolores majored in fashion
illustration at Dean Jr. College, Franklin, Mass, and later studied with several
internationally well-known artists here and abroad. Signature member and award
winner with the American Watercolor Society and the National Watercolor Society,
her work appears in more than 75 corporate collections and in hundreds of
private collections in the US and abroad and exhibited at Art Expo in New York
City.
Dolores is widely
sought after for her stimulating and imaginative workshops and demonstrations. A
recent sampling of Dolores' work can be found in the April 2003 issue of
Watercolor Magic Sketchbook, Feb 1998 issue of Artist Magazine, and in the best
of watercolor book, Splash 6. She was written up in Artist Magazine, Sep 1998
issue.
June 1 –
Critique by Joan Ross
Joan Ross will
offer a critique of
AAR members' work during the June meeting.
Ross, an
accomplished artist, has enjoyed a widely diversified career as a Research
Chemist at Sloan Kettering Institute in
New York, and a educator, both teacher and
vice principal. Born in
New York, she received a BS degree from
St Joseph's College and ha done post-graduate
work at St. Elizabeth's College in Convent Station.
An award-winning
watercolorist, Ross paints, with deep appreciation the rural beauty that
surrounds her. Her subjects include gentle lakes, quiet woodlands, historic
farms and scenes that depict a true love of nature. She distinctly captures
their beauty with her brush before they are gone forever.
Presently, Ross
conducts year-round workshops in watercolor. She has served on juries of awards
and selection and demonstrated for art organizations in
New Jersey,
New York and
Pennsylvania. Her paintings have been
exhibited at the
National
Academy, The Salmagundi Club, the
Trotter
Museum,
Noyes
Museum,
Monmouth
Museum,
Waterloo
Village,
Morris
Museum and the Barn Galleries. She is
represented by the Cardinal Art Gallery of Vernon, NJ,
Port of Call Warwick,
NY and the Artery Gallery Milford, PA.
The artist has had
several one-woman shows. Her paintings may be found in private collections and
are included in various public and corporate collections throughout the
US. Ross has been selected as an
official US Coast Guard artist.
Ross' free-flowing
watercolors have enabled her to convey the profound feeling she has for the
moods and seasons of her surrounding environment. With each work she shares her
won special memories and personal experiences that will become more valuable
with time.
