tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81730814408774530642024-03-14T09:06:44.692-07:00ALEXEY STEELE: high art foreveralexey steele's blogAlexey Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12793003412999262198noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173081440877453064.post-30691131898029089902021-08-11T19:22:00.000-07:002021-08-11T19:23:50.546-07:00My Recent Paintings in the Exhibitions at Frederick Weisman Museum of Art and at Hilbert Museum of California Art<p> </p><div style="text-align: center;">
<div> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">My Recent Paintings </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in the Exhibitions at Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14pt;">at Hilbert Museum of California Art</span></div>
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Alexey Steele "Sierra Sunrise. Carson Peak" </div>
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"<span class="BlueText"><strong><em>On Location in Malibu 2021, Paintings by the California Art Club"</em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="BlueText"><strong><em> </em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="BlueText"><strong><em><span style="color: #126484; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1em;"><span class="BlueText"><strong>Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University</strong></span><br />
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; margin: 0in;">“On Location in
Malibu” triennial at Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine is one of
my absolute favorite exhibitions. From the very first show in 2002 I had a
privilege to be part of it. Ever since this show was special for me. I loved
the space, I loved the light, I loved the way Michael Zakian curated it and,
above all, I loved Michael's phenomenal eye for art. For every show I would do
one, sometimes two or even three new paintings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I love work on larger sizes and the space shows larger size works very
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved the way my works looked in
that space. Twice Michael selected my works for the museum banner, few times on
catalog covers and invitations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every
time I wanted to paint something special for Michael, for his unfailing eye. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; margin: 0in;">Michael's passing was
a huge loss for the entire representational art world. It was a huge loss for
me as an artist. We lost a great expert, a great champion and a great friend.
Since his so untimely and unfathomable passing I was thinking about Michael a
lot and for this show I decided to paint again for his eye and in his memory. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; margin: 0in;">I had an idea of what
I wanted to paint and even an old study that was reflecting this idea. I
started working on it only to realize that I needed to go to the location and
find there what I was looking for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
few days of scouting the shoreline I found<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>it when I climbed one of the rocks at Leo Carillo. </p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; margin: 0in;">Here it was, just as I
envisioned the glowing late afternoon sun, the rock formations, the boiling
foam of the breaking surf and the gusts that were almost ripping me from my
perch. My vantage point of looking down, forward and to the right gave an interesting
sight pattern that emphasized movement through distance and space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I was seeing and feeling was at the same
time real, raw and ethereal. </p>
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Michael would have said about my painting, but I painted it for him.</p>
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<span style="font-size: 8pt;">"Mrs. O'Neal" sepia on Fabriano paper 30" x 22" </span></div>
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For me the answer to many difficult questions of modern world is in the simple principle <span style="color: #ffcc99;"><em><strong>"Love My Neighbor"</strong></em></span>. I make my case with ongoing "My Neighbor Series" a collection of portrayals of my neighbors in the City of Carson, the 5th most diverse in the nation.<br />
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I was honored to be awarded a Cultural Arts grant for 2015/16 to continue working on "My Neighbor Series".<br />
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Every street and every neighborhood has its own widely loved neighbors. I want to capture that unique and iconic deeply human quality that makes those special people the true bedrock of the community, something real and solid to hold on to in the much troubled contemporary world. I want to capture people you cannot help but love and I want other people to see them and be inspired by them as much as I am.<br />
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At the kind of times that we live in I want ART to help people fill what I call The Dignity Gap. </div>
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Alexey Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12793003412999262198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173081440877453064.post-60100859553109065532016-03-28T15:21:00.000-07:002016-04-07T04:33:59.167-07:00Social Action and Art: "My Neighbor Series" in Collaboration with The City of Carson as Part of Community Revitalisation <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Uncle Lincoln. Study for "Ukulele Player" Sepia on Fabriano Paper</span></div>
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It’s a great pleasure and honor to announce that I will be continuing
the work on "My Neighbor Series" in collaboration with The City of
Carson after receiving their special grant.<br />
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Centered around the
idea "Love My Neighbor", the project is part of the larger effort to
turn the city around after all recent screw ups by all sorts of
political charlatans and power brokers that failed the beautiful people
of this city, the 5th most diverse in the nation. In all this our city
is<span class="text_exposed_show"> the perfect metaphor for the current
state of the US and the World. </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Anayo. Sepia on Fabriano Paper</span></span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show">Among all today's anger, often
well-justified by spectacular establishment failures, in a society
plagued by cynicism, nihilism and relativism of the failed ideology of
hyper-greed as national cultural identity there are some principles and
core values that remain benchmarks of absolute good - the love of our
neighbors, the Community and Humanity. This is what worth holding on to
when all else fails. This is what will help us make it through
anything. </span><br />
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This is the
greatest opportunity to apply all my cherished principles and skills of
High Art that came down to me from my father and to create vital,
authentic and compelling images of real people you cannot NOT love. This
is the place of High Art in the first half of 21st century. <br />
<a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/i?source=feed_text&story_id=1004055963019791"><span class="_58cl"></span><span class="_58cm"></span></a> <span class="_4-k1 img sp_UkKp2mjPS47 sx_25ebfe">I ❤</span> Carson!<br />
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Alexey Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12793003412999262198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173081440877453064.post-16702963749942405512015-10-28T22:56:00.001-07:002015-10-29T00:47:06.708-07:00"In ART We Trust" at Ventura County Museum <div _mce_style="text-align: center; color: #cec9bc; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="center" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span _mce_style="font-size: 18pt;" style="font-size: small;"><b>"Purple Bloom"</b></span><br />
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<span _mce_style="font-size: 14pt; color: #ffcc99;" style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://trac2015.org/trac2015-schedule/" target="_blank">TRAC 15</a> <br />conference</span></div>
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the most important theoretical and academic gathering</div>
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of contemporary representational art movement to date</div>
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<span _mce_style="font-size: 16px;" style="font-size: 16px;">The show is featuring six of my paintings and drawings alongside works of my close artistic friends and colleagues, some of the leading contemporary figurative artists of our days </span><br />
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<span _mce_style="font-size: 16px;" style="font-size: 16px;">Jeremy Lipking, Tony Pro and Joseph Todorovitch </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is the last painting
that I worked on with my great Dad. It was conceived at the beginning of last
year and the sketches for it as well as its initial work stages were the
subject of our daily talks. I'd show him every night at the hospital and later
at home the day's progress on my iphone. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I guess it is only through working
on it that I managed to cope with the complete devastation of seeing Dad
diminish, to make sense out of it. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Till
the very last moment with torturously diminishing physical abilities he managed
to give a still absolutely spot on advice, perfect in its clarity and accuracy.
It was truly amazing to witness - as in the Terminator movie it was like some
hidden alternative mode of life would kick in, the red light would come up and the full
force of a precise visual judgment would burst through. Dissolving
himself in ART he became ART himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">ART is an ever-young force of life in the eternity of Purple
Bloom.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I got him to sit for me on my own
birthday as the best gift possible for myself. Doing this on my own birthday made me contemplate the double mortality - his and my own. This was the last he sat for me
fully live. Having him to sit for me was perhaps the best thing I ever did.</span><span _mce_style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;">
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This is also a live study of my Dad’s hands. These are
almost double life size, though when I did them I didn’t give much to it. Only
later it occurred to me that perhaps this is how I subconsciously still
remember "huge" Dad’s hands…the hands of an Artist, the Hands of Creator that gave
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right after Dad's passing much like I did a drawing of my Dad on my own birthday
2 years prior. There was some strange and inexplicable connection. Vic was amazing
and in his unbounded spirit totally reminded me my Dad. Vic was also the true Artist
in his heart in the way he led his life. They were of the same age from the
same Generation of Giants. Both were extreme survivors, Dad in a famine in
Ukraine, in a war and perils of Soviet bureaucracy, Vic on his runs, adventures
and challenge of authority. Both were extreme at what they did. For both the unshakable integrity of their way of life was worth all the risk.<br />
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Vic was the legendary smuggler, "an equalizer of inequities", who
once flu a wrongly imprisoned, framed for murder innocent man out of a Mexican
prison. Vic's story was depicted in the 1975 classic "Breakout" and Charles
Bronson plaid Vic in it. </span><br />
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This is my first self portrait in 30 years. I painted it after 40 day of
Russian mourning period. The first work after my Dad's passing.</span></div>
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that this show comes up right around Dia de los Muertos, a day of reuniting
with our own and celebrating together our unbreakable bond over which even the Death itself cannot rule. ART has the same power. </span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">How cool is this, that the museum picked for the title of this personally significant show my Classical Underground motto:</span></span></div>
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<span _mce_style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt;"></span>Alexey Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12793003412999262198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173081440877453064.post-50489789634032405112015-10-26T12:22:00.000-07:002015-10-26T12:22:01.006-07:00“Moondance” – My New Painting for “The External and The Contemplative” Show at American Legacy Fine Arts<style>
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</style><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">There are special
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>moments in nature when the light fills
the world and everything in it with an etherial sensation. I love witnessing
those moments and translating their sense into paint. I love the sensation of a
flight that we experience when we encounter birds in their gracious and
forceful path. First and foremost, I love the expressive language of the human
form as a pinnacle of Nature’s grace and power. I also love the authenticity of
a true and extraordinary human character, their manifestations live through
time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">"Moondance” oil on linen 36” x 48” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.americanlegacyfinearts.com/2015/06/the-external-and-the-contemplative-california-landscapes-and-still-lifes/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial;">American Legacy Fine Arts </span></a></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">I am
concentrating on developing these themes in my resent work as they present a
perfect subject for the technical qualities of painting I am looking for
currently. In my search for authentic and extraordinary characters I love
working with artists, musicians, creators. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">In the
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">It was a rare privilege to work for
this piece with one of the foremost Ballet Dancers of our time, a winner of
this year’s landmark Bari competition in both, Classical and Contemporary
categories and the principle dancer of the Kremlin Ballet in Moscow (being an
American), an incomparable <span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://www.joywomack.com/">Joy Womack</a></span>. As it turned out we share in common
with Joy the belief that ART is an extreme sport. What Joy, as any true Artist,
proves is that “impossible” just an excuse for the lack of courage.</span></div>
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fascinated me always in ballet dancers is precisely what is often missed behind
their deceptively “genteel” veneer. At the top professional level ballet is an
extreme sport requiring nothing less than a pick performance at a pick form.
Joy is at such pick level and the language of her gesture authentically
represents the pinnacle of what humans can do. As such it is a force of Nature
itself.</span></div>
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happened, during the week of our intense live sessions was a rare blue moon, so
we loaded my Bronco and departed to the ocean for the night. What I got to
witness right in front of me and capture was a perfect unity of all elements I
love and that is what created “Moondance”</span><br />
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Alexey Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12793003412999262198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173081440877453064.post-81836103486356984302015-10-22T19:46:00.000-07:002015-10-23T09:26:02.985-07:00Head Drawing for Painters Workshop with California Art Club<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">Had a great time with my three-day drawing workshop for the California Art Club. <br /> <br />
The workshop was on the critical importance of drawing for the painters
in the Russian Academic Tradition. Having spectacular examples of Dad’s
class drawings from the golden slice of Russian Academy revival of the
1950s, examples of him applying this knowledge into his painting as well
as showing how my own drawing affects my paintings I described to the
class the principles and methods that I use in constructing my works.<br /> <br /> I also showed the class the way I use my favorite Fabriano paper and Cretacolor sepia.</span><br />
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Beginning stage of the demo and explanation of my "Inside Out" method and of my principles of construction<br />
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</span>Alexey Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12793003412999262198noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173081440877453064.post-28374931905055028332015-04-01T14:49:00.001-07:002016-03-28T15:27:44.473-07:00My new paintings "Forty Day Beard" & "Melting Away" at CAC Anual Gold Medal Show<br />
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104th Annual </div>
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Gold Medal Juried Exhibition<br />
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I haven't done a self-portrait for 30 years. All last years my Dad was asking me to make one. So after 40 days of Russian mourning period I painted this one.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is now exhibited in the California Art Club show along with my new painting "Melting Away" from one of my favorite and tranquil Malibu spots.</span><br />
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March 29-April 19, 2015<br />
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USC Fisher Museum of Art<br />
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"Forty Day Beard" oil on linen 24' x 18"</div>
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It was pretty hard, meaningful and in this way beautiful couple of months.<br />
Made me feel everything ART is made of and for. </div>
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ART transcends all human experiences. </div>
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ART heals.<br />
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in ART we trust.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Alexey</span><br />
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"Melting Away" oil on linen 9" x 12" </div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">"MALIBU SEAGULL"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">at the CAC Signature Artist Show</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times; font-size: 12pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><b>EMPATHY FOR BEAUTY </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times; font-size: 12pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><b>IN THE 21ST CENTURY </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">June 7 - August 17</span></div>
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Peter Adams, John Asaro, Clyde Aspevig, Bela Bacsi, Brian Blood, Cathey Cadieux, Karl Dempwolf, Dennis Doheny, David C. Gallup, Lynn Gertenbach, Jeremy Lipking, Carolyn Lord, Eric Merrell, Stelphen Mirich, Jennifer Moses, Charles Muench, Michael Obermeyer, Daniel W. Pinkham, Tony Pro, Gerald D. Rahm, Junn Roca, Gayle Garner Roski, Mian Situ, Michael Situ, Christopher Slatoff, Tim Solliday, William Stout, Alexey Steele, Joseph Todorovitch, and William Wray </div>
Alexey Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12793003412999262198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173081440877453064.post-321216842618682432013-12-08T13:28:00.001-08:002015-04-01T15:39:44.159-07:00My new drawings in "Curiosity" show with great sculptor Bela Bacsi atAmerican Legacy Fine Arts<div>
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<span id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386137228965_5943" style="font-family: Times New Roman, Times;"><a href="http://americanlegacyfinearts.com/2013/09/curiosity-the-inner-self-3/" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1386137228965_5942" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #ffcc99; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">To preview exhibition or to RSVP please click here.</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" shape="rect">Bela Bacsi and Alexey Steele Featured in </a><a href="http://alexeysteele.com/Articles/Southwest2013.pdf" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #ffcc99; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Southwest Art Magazine October 2013 Issue </a></span></div>
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about 20 of his newest drawings on hand-made De Ponte paper and
heavy-weigh Italian Fabriano paper, which appears to float in front of
its frame. Designed by the artist, the mounting system complements a
recurring theme in Steele's imagery these days: a dreamlike sense of
floating, which he sees as a metaphor for the human spirit transcending
the limitations of gravity, and thus, of mortality..." </span></b><br />
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Alexey Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12793003412999262198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173081440877453064.post-65773518977412527082012-08-27T23:10:00.000-07:002015-04-01T15:31:43.488-07:00Fall Workshops: Academic Approach to Head and Figure Painting <div class="post-header">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Alexey Steele Grand Atelier Studio, Carson, CA</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><b>"ACADEMIC APPROACH TO HEAD AND FIGURE PAINTING"</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Course Meets 7 Saturdays: September 22, 29; October 13, 20, 27; November 10, 17 </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">class time 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Cost of the course: $350 (model fee is included)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Artists and Art students are invited. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Please register early to reserve your spot. Space is limited. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Overview</span>:
The Objective of the workshop is to introduce the participants to
Alexey Steele's approach to painting a figure, based on his legacy of
Russian Academic Tradition. Alexey will focus on his approach to working
with live model as well as
describe a vital integrated relationship of Form, Tone and Color
essential in a successful execution of any painting and particularly
figure. It shall encourage participants to study these three elements in
depth after participation in the workshop.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">There
are a substantially diverse number of wonderful approaches to conveying
life-like visual image shared through various workshops, books and
systems by some remarkable artists of our time. Some of them perceived
as radically different from one another, yet in fact outside
"techniques" they all convey same core principles. Those "integrating"
principles behind various individual approaches will be the main theme
of the workshop. The central principle this workshop is intended to
demonstrate and to train its participants in - is the key function of
Value in connecting Form to Color. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" class="post-body" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Classes consist of demo, live painting and critique. <br /><br />In
addition to the main objective, at this workshop students will have an
opportunity to practice the development of their key decisions on a
longer studies as we will book the same models for 2-3 consecutive
sessions. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">List of the supplies will be send upon registration.</span></div>
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Please email Olga at <a href="mailto:classicalunderground@yahoo.com" shape="rect" target="_blank">classicalunderground@yahoo.com</a> to sign up</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Read an in-depth review of Alexey Steele workshop in </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">American Artist Workshop Magazine:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><a href="http://alexeysteele.blogspot.com/2012/03/spring-workshops-academic-approach-to.html" shape="rect">www.alexeysteele.com/Articles/AmericanArtist2010.pdf</a> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">"<i>Everyone
knows what a powerful artistic force Alexey already is, but few, until
this time, could have realized what a sensational and dynamic art
instructor he makes as well."</i> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">- George Malone, workshop participant </span></div>
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Alexey Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12793003412999262198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173081440877453064.post-59329516660066390522012-03-12T09:26:00.000-07:002015-04-01T15:34:21.002-07:00Spring Workshops: Academic Approach to Head and Figure Painting<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><b>NOVOREALISM ART ACADEMY</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong>Alexey Steele Grand Atelier Studio, Carson, CA</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Course Meets 8 Saturdays: March 17, 24, 31; April 21, 28; May 5, 12, 19 </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">class time 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Cost of the course: $400 (model fee is included)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Artists and Art students are invited. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Please register early to reserve your spot. Space is limited.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Overview</span>:
The Objective of the workshop is to introduce the participants to
Alexey Steele's approach to painting a figure, based on his legacy of
Russian Academic Tradition. Alexey will focus on his approach to working
with live model as well as
describe a vital integrated relationship of Form, Tone and Color
essential in a successful execution of any painting and particularly
figure. It shall encourage participants to study these three elements in
depth after participation in the workshop.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">There
are a substantially diverse number of wonderful approaches to conveying
life-like visual image shared through various workshops, books and
systems by some remarkable artists of our time. Some of them perceived
as radically different from one another, yet in fact outside
"techniques" they all convey same core principles. Those "integrating"
principles behind various individual approaches will be the main theme
of the workshop. The central principle this workshop is intended to
demonstrate and to train its participants in - is the key function of
Value in connecting Form to Color. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"> </span></div>
<div align="left" class="post-body" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Classes consist of demo, live painting and critique. <br /><br />In
addition to the main objective, at this workshop students will have an
opportunity to practice the development of their key decisions on a
longer studies as we will book the same models for 2-3 consecutive
sessions. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">List of the supplies will be send upon registration.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Please email Olga at <a href="mailto:classicalunderground@yahoo.com" shape="rect" target="_blank">classicalunderground@yahoo.com</a> to sign up. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Read an in-depth review of Alexey Steele workshop in </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">American Artist Workshop Magazine:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8173081440877453064" shape="rect">www.alexeysteele.com/Articles/AmericanArtist2010.pdf</a> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">"<em>Everyone
knows what a powerful artistic force Alexey already is, but few, until
this time, could have realized what a sensational and dynamic art
instructor he makes as well."</em> </span></div>
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Alexey Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12793003412999262198noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173081440877453064.post-73568635013311590282012-03-02T09:30:00.000-08:002015-04-01T15:35:10.098-07:00Alexey Steele at the 1st Plein Air Convention & Expo<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Alexey is excited to see everyone at</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>1st Plein Air Convention & Expo</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>April 12-15, 2012</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Red Rock Resort, Las Vegas</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Saturday, April 14 </strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">11am - 6pm </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Alexey</span> will be a <span style="font-size: 11pt;">Featured Instructor at Zone 8</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">of the all day of painting on location </span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">at Red Rock National Conservation Area</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 12pt;">Sunday, April 15 </span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">is an official "Russian Day" at the convention </span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">8am - 10am </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Alexey</span> will be part of a <span style="font-size: 11pt;">Special Double Demo</span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">with a wonderful Russian Master and a current professor </span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">at the Alexey's Alma Mater - </span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">venerated Moscow State Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov </span><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"> of The Russian Academy of Arts -</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 11pt;">Nikolai Dubovik </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 14pt;">save $100 on registration </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">through the special link below</span>: </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1109440324211&s=0&e=001bHoMyGe4JC43U4iLrW6rUnzy6va6SuUNNO9al0ubVESLxTdbrhAkrzIdPeKca6tQ55NeLUCVMG01kCpPJwVTNQCDIthpZoE6JgOrePx1XrdoFI8uOY2sygvyCZVpT06AcIaIIXgDP5g_DR7qWdu8peU1ZQn6xHP1pKY8Nxe2Oko=" shape="rect" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">http://pleinairconventionexpo.eventbee.com/discount?code=PACAS</a> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">"Just can't wait
for the Plain Air Convention! What an incredible group of some of the
most spectacular masters in this crucially important for our realist
movement field!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Plain
Air experience is uniquely important for a development of Realist Art
and to my personal overall artistic process, particularly to my studio
figurative work. I consider experienced gained through continuous plain
air painting being the backbone of my understanding of nature and the
foundation of my artistic training. This is how my father, a Great
Russian artist of Soviet Era Leonid Steele, began my formal lessons at
age six. I always look at the great outdoors as my constant laboratory
to study basic principles of our art form - compositional harmony of
forms and shapes, the relation of values and colors in all their
infinite variations as they defined by real-life light and space. Plain
Air is always a great testing ground for my various visual and
technical ideas. "</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Alexey Steele </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">For more information on the conference go to: <a class="false" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1109440324211&s=0&e=001bHoMyGe4JC43U4iLrW6rUnzy6va6SuUNNO9al0ubVESLxTdbrhAkrzIdPeKca6tQ55NeLUCVMG3Y0bOtH__lmDVY57jtNCHyXyTHsGl-9dP3YvdZsYRto87l2_Qqc-9eEFPsyeC-F5A=" shape="rect" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">http://www.pleinairconvention.com/index.php</a> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"> visit Alexey Steele<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1109440324211&s=0&e=001bHoMyGe4JC43U4iLrW6rUnzy6va6SuUNNO9al0ubVESLxTdbrhAkrzIdPeKca6tQ55NeLUCVMG3Y0bOtH__lmDWch4Op7FXWSqo7NNc45yREkhNFRKhRRQ==" shape="rect" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"> website</a> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">and gallery at <a class="false" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1109440324211&s=0&e=001bHoMyGe4JC43U4iLrW6rUnzy6va6SuUNNO9al0ubVESLxTdbrhAkrzIdPeKca6tQ55NeLUCVMG1HgeACHNOdWdow6QUckZLpadAv7u1C3mgdespnFCorXjFRHHi_Yh41fEGv_6a_VJ0_HcsRY2hBbOIuKV8ZCKcB2DDzg0QA0s0mAt1EaqDo0R85uPTk0Xag" shape="rect" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">http://americanlegacyfinearts.com/</a> </span></div>
Alexey Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12793003412999262198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173081440877453064.post-85548765084780866442012-01-17T19:23:00.000-08:002015-04-01T15:37:09.991-07:00Alexey Steele at the Los Angeles Fine Art Show January 18-22<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">January 18 - 22<br />Los Angeles Convention Center, West Hall B</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">"NEW DAY"</span> sepia on hand made paper 16" x 12"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">part of the "Torn Beauty" Series</span><br />
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<img alt="Alexey Steele Lovers" border="0" src="http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs088/1102402691225/img/333.jpg" height="423" hspace="5" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.333" vspace="5" width="337" /><br />
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">"LOVERS" oil on canvas 30"x24"</span></div>
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part of Los Angeles' landmark LA Fine Art Show January 19 - 22 at the
LA Convention Center. At the show the gallery will preview Alexey's
new drawing series "Torn Beauty" as well as his new and exciting
painting "Lovers."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Come see this new works at booth D-38</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Alexey at Fine Art Connoisseur Booth</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 12pt;">At the same time, one of the main sponsors of the event, <br />a prestigious Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, <br />is exhibiting Alexey's portrait of its publisher <br />Eric Rhoads - "Eric In White Scarf"</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 11pt;"><b>At the Gala Opening night</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Wednesday, January 18th (6 p.m. to 10 p.m.)</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 12pt;">for Fine Art Connoisseur under exciting thematic title: </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 11pt;">"<b>BEAUTY WINS: RECYCLING WAR</b>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 12pt;">Alexey Steele paints Anna Le in collaboration with </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Victor Wilde and</span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=zeiefwcab&et=1109098489256&s=384&e=001IXRBLC2T_t122FAPoahsmdcck24q38T0s-usIrqi0DmW4TDlUoDTya56nWEh0wvyEiARX9dq_Q4zLy-200L_aSW0cbnVgSV1PrfECmcAa0REcFojUzNe_A==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1326856207_3">The Bohemian Society</span></a> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 12pt;">at the LA Fine Art Show.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 12pt;">"War is ugly. It is pain and death.
We have a lot of it now and there is no end to it in sight. Yet, life
always and inevitably wins with Beauty as its force... As we learn from
conflicts past, Beauty is on the point of the spear of Life in its
fight with Death... Beauty is both fighting and healing force of Life. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This
is a lesson of Anna Le, a Vietnamese-American to be painted by Alexey
Steele at the gala opening of LA Fine Art Show while wearing a Bohemian
Society dress designed by Victor Wilde and made out of surplus
parachute of the Vietnam War as well as the accessories reflecting
Anna's story.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 12pt;">We
shall recycle the war not after its barbaric onslaught on real people,
taken hostage by their politicians on any side of any conflict, but
before it ever occurs. "</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 12pt;">Alexey will also do another demonstration</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> on <b>Friday, January 20, 4 - 7 pm</b>. <b>at the Fine Art Connoisseur booth (A2).</b></span> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b><img alt="Painting Lovers" border="0" src="http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs088/1102402691225/img/326.jpg" height="223" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.326" vspace="5" width="334" /></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">working on the "Lovers"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: 11pt;">Alexey's friend and col<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span>league painter Tony Pro is doing a demo on Thursday, January the 19th 4pm - 7om and Saturday, the 21st 4pm - 7pm. </span></div>
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Alexey Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12793003412999262198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173081440877453064.post-88172177716362155192011-12-20T20:22:00.000-08:002011-12-20T20:28:35.447-08:00Announcing: Live Figure and Head Painting Workshops with Alexey Steele this Winter<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><b>NOVOREALISM ART ACADEMY</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Alexey Steele Grand Atelier Studio, Carson, CA</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"RUSSIAN ACADEMIC APPROACH TO HEAD AND FIGURE PAINTING"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Course Meets 8 Saturdays: January 7, 14, 28; February 4, 18, 25; March 3, 10</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Please note new time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Cost of the course: $400 for 8 sessions (model fee is included)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Artists and Art students are invited. </span></div>
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The Objective of the workshop is to introduce the participants to
Alexey Steele's approach to painting a figure, based on his legacy of
Russian Academic Tradition. Alexey will focus on his approach to working
with live model as well as describe a vital integrated relationship of Form, Tone and Color essential in a successful execution of any painting and particularly figure. It shall encourage participants to study these three elements in depth after participation in the workshop. </span></div>
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are a substantially diverse number of wonderful approaches to conveying
life-like visual image shared through various workshops, books and
systems by some remarkable artists of our time. Some of them perceived
as radically different from one another, yet in fact outside
"techniques" they all convey same core principles. Those "integrating"
principles behind various individual approaches will be the main theme
of the workshop.</span></div>
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central principle this workshop is intended to demonstrate and to train
its participants in - is the key function of Value in connecting Form
to Color. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffcc99; font-size: 10pt;">Classes consist of demo, live painting and critique.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffcc99; font-size: 10pt;">Please email Olga at </span><a href="mailto:classicalunderground@yahoo.com" shape="rect" style="color: #ffcc99; font-size: 10pt;" target="_blank">classicalunderground@yahoo.com</a><span style="color: #ffcc99; font-size: 10pt;"> to sign up. </span></div>
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<i>"Everyone knows what a powerful artistic force Alexey already is, but few, until this time, could have realized what a sensational and dynamic art instructor he makes as well."</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>Alexey Steele Grand Atelier Studio, Carson, CA</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>announces a figurative workshop series this fall:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><b>"ACADEMIC APPROACH TO FIGURE PAINTING"</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Course Meets 6 Saturdays: October 22, 29; November 12, 19; December 3, 10
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Cost of the course: $300 (model fee is included)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Artists and Art students are invited. </span></div>
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Please register early to reserve your spot. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Overview</span>:
The Objective of the workshop is to introduce the participants to
Alexey Steele's approach to painting a figure, based on his legacy of
Russian Academic Tradition. Alexey will focus on his approach to working
with live model as well as describe a vital integrated relationship of
Form, Tone and Color essential in a successful execution of any painting
and particularly figure. It shall encourage participants to study these
three elements in depth after participation in the workshop.</span></div>
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are a substantially diverse number of wonderful approaches to conveying
life-like visual image shared through various workshops, books and
systems by some remarkable artists of our time. Some of them perceived
as radically different from one another, yet in fact outside
"techniques" they all convey same core principles. Those "integrating"
principles behind various individual approaches will be the main theme
of the workshop.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">The
central principle this workshop is intended to demonstrate and to train
its participants in - is the key function of Value in connecting Form
to Color. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Classes consist of demo, live painting and critique.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">List of the supplies will be send upon registration.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Please email Olga at <a href="mailto:classicalunderground@yahoo.com" shape="rect" target="_blank">classicalunderground@yahoo.com</a> to sign up. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffcc99;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=zeiefwcab&et=1107847760721&s=0&e=001k9m-nf-Q5m8cUGfjDGecrRkRf8aS4YfoAZ26Ua0blvkKo8aV-b4RSLin2pMDHh3YnFB0xOwn3wB_9cPvBBqaV1OwYy5M6tyEG1F6V2MKJa5gKLz6OPbBL_EuqdzLKCN0neX9YJa97jwJSSrp6aYGyHIoHxK_G2ex" shape="rect" style="color: #ffcc99;" target="_blank">www.alexeysteele.com/Articles/AmericanArtist2010.pdf</a></span></div>
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Alexey Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12793003412999262198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173081440877453064.post-68642259873340933502011-09-07T13:57:00.000-07:002011-09-10T16:24:04.028-07:00My Public Commission for CSU Dominguez Hills<div class="tablelist justify">
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The unveiling of my new work “Learners of Dominguez: Howard, Jenika, Auburn, Chris,
Ronald” - turned out an amazing and personally inspiring experience. <br />
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Here is some press about it::<br />
<a href="http://www.csudhnews.com/2011/09/csu-dominguez-hills-unveils-final-commemorative-painting-for-50th-anniversary/">http://www.csudhnews.com/2011/09/csu-dominguez-hills-unveils-final-commemorative-painting-for-50th-anniversary/ </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.pr.com/press-release/350438">Newly Unveiled Artwork Captures the Soul of a Diverse Campus</a><br />
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carried a special significance to me as <span>“Learners of Dominguez”
represent to a very large degree my views on the role of ART in the
contemporary society and on the direction of contemporary ART in the 21<sup>st</sup>
century. The painting is part of the NOVOREALISM project I launched and ideas I
discuss with my friends in the web magazine <a href="http://www.novorealism.com/" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1315696946_0">www.novorealism.com</span></a></span></span></div>
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Steele painted his work in a series of intense live sessions with the CSUDH students.</div>
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Steele says that the emotional openness and engagement of the students made them "his co-authors."</div>
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Ronald was the first person to see the finished painting as he was painted last.</div>
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Official Unveiling with the President of CSU Dominguez Hills Millie Garcia at the Presidential Fall Convocation reception</div>
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Official Unveiling with the President of CSU Dominguez Hills Millie Garcia at the Presidential Fall Convocation reception</div>
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<a href="http://img.pr.com/release-file/1108/350438/ASteeleLearnersOfDominguez.jpg" target="_blank"><img border="1" class="imageborder" src="http://img.pr.com/release-file/1108/350438/tn_ASteeleLearnersOfDominguez.jpg" /><br />"Learners of Dominguez" oil on canvas, 15" x 60"</a>
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Alexey Steele's new painting commissioned by CSU
Dominguez Hills to commemorate the 50th anniversary of one of the most
diverse campuses in the nation.</div>
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Alexey Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12793003412999262198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173081440877453064.post-19470146753977594962011-08-06T00:14:00.000-07:002011-08-09T13:41:55.308-07:00Workshop at Tucson: The Legacy of Russian Academic Tradition and Integration Approach to Figure, From Form to Color through Value.Join Alexey Steele, an internationally acclaimed award-winning artist and a Signature Member of California Art Club, as he will share his approach on working with figure based on his legacy of the Russian Academic Tradition.<br />
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<b>February 9 - 11, 2012<br />
Tucson Art Academy</b><br />
Tucson, Arizona<br />
<a href="http://tucsonartacademy.com/Alexey%20Steele/AlexeySteeleClass2012.htm">http://tucsonartacademy.com/Alexey%20Steele/AlexeySteeleClass2012.htm</a><br />
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Overview: The Object of the workshop is to introduce the participants to Alexey Steele’s approach to painting a figure, based on his legacy of Russian Academic Tradition. Alexey will focus on his approach to working with live model as part of his execution of multi-figure composition as well as describe a vital in his view integrated relationship of Form, Tone and Color essential in a successful execution of any painting and particularly figure. It shall encourage participants to study these three elements in depth after participation in the workshop.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdhJLUyTf0UmistTvkQGY8aDK66TDB4AxldjusSy_3locKiItJs9a4MUlm79SCUSct-OUw8ELyDVdsFIcW2loQwxEtZfRusbGYKj1SnfkFy_aNvMbID7wOa8cx_Bp1B5jZ3laFs5GKiTY/s1600/Eternal+Morning.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdhJLUyTf0UmistTvkQGY8aDK66TDB4AxldjusSy_3locKiItJs9a4MUlm79SCUSct-OUw8ELyDVdsFIcW2loQwxEtZfRusbGYKj1SnfkFy_aNvMbID7wOa8cx_Bp1B5jZ3laFs5GKiTY/s320/Eternal+Morning.JPG" t$="true" width="245" /></a></div>There are a substantially diverse number of wonderful approaches to conveying life-like visual image shared through various workshops, books and systems by some remarkable artists of our time. Some of them perceived as radically different from one another, yet in fact outside “techniques” they all convey same core principles. Those “integrating” principles behind various individual approaches will be the main theme of the workshop.<br />
The central principle this workshop is intended to demonstrate and to train its participants in - is the key function of Value in connecting Form to Color. <br />
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First day is drawing all day, highlighting the importance of a drawing – from laying in the forms to values. Second day – same pose into painting, demonstrating the direct connection of core perceptions from drawing to painting and from Form to Color through Value. Demo of drawing and painting with critique. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;">All three new works represent an important step in Alexey's career depicting major themes of his figurative work and reflecting his deep beliefs on the role of ART within a contemporary society. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;">They also amply represent his method and philosophy that he describes in the web magazine <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=zeiefwcab&et=1107193875280&s=0&e=001dS4KWr6WbLXC_tkmQTVE9Hy_bY6cI2iw5sJAEFynj2MCU-Ij10e_exmwb4fT-xiYYAncQtbTWsPdXnpKz46SzhD9bSn4tHeDEf-czqkYsO0Qg8vzUZN6Yw==" shape="rect" style="color: #ffcc99; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">www.novorealism.com</a> as part of NOVOREALISM project he founded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;">The event will take place at the Fall Convocation reception in the Loker Student Union ballroom of CSUDH as part of the official convocation ceremony. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;">All three new works represent an important step in Alexey's career depicting major themes of his figurative work and reflecting his deep beliefs on the role of ART within a contemporary society. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;">They also amply represent his method and philosophy that he describes in the web magazine <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=zeiefwcab&et=1107193875280&s=0&e=001dS4KWr6WbLXC_tkmQTVE9Hy_bY6cI2iw5sJAEFynj2MCU-Ij10e_exmwb4fT-xiYYAncQtbTWsPdXnpKz46SzhD9bSn4tHeDEf-czqkYsO0Qg8vzUZN6Yw==" shape="rect" style="color: #ffcc99; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">www.novorealism.com</a> as part of NOVOREALISM project he founded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 18pt;"><b>On Monday, August 22nd,</b></span><span style="font-family: "times";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;">Alexey </span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;">unveils his painting</span><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;">"<i>Learners of Dominguez: Howard, Jenika, Auburn, Chris, Ronald</i>" features the likenesses of five of the university's students, from its oldest at 80, Howard Christiansen, to its youngest at 17, Auburn Hightower, along with Jenika Miller, Chris Barnette, and Ronald Farol.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;">Conceived as part of his ongoing "My Neighbor" series, Steele painted his work in a series of intense live sessions with the students whose emotional openness and engagement made them in his words "his co-authors". None of the painting was touched up after the sittings, resulting in what Steele says is a "live painting from first stroke to last". He said that through realism of such collective participation he wanted this 15-inch by 60-inch painting to capture the soul of the students, and as a result, the university, sharing live experience of the community.</span></div>
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to accommodate the desired natural day lighting the special set was constructed<br />
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posing last, Ron is the first one to see finished work and to capture it on his mac </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;">As part of this exhibition Alexey presents a painting and a large-scale figurative cartoon drawing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;">Both works are portraying real people and function as portraits within meaningful settings where the "realness" of the characters emphasizes the metaphoric context of the works. Alexey calls them "painted songs."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">The living room of client's house, situated just one block from the beach with the help of the staff was transformed into a fully functioning painting studio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 12pt;">The work was conceived as "Madonna of The Storm" several weeks prior to artists' arrival, yet the appearance of a full-throttle Caribbean hurricane, first in a season, in the middle of executing the work obviously could not have been anticipated.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv818162309MsoNormal">The Portrait Society Of America conference was a total blast of hanging out with great friends, some best and most exciting living artists pushing the noble figurative realism to were it belongs in our century. </div><div class="yiv818162309MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv818162309MsoNormal">Yet, the most incredible part of the excursion was an accidental meeting with Eddie Tigner at Atlanta’s <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304711845_3" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">Fat Matt’s Rib Shack</span>. Upon digging up a tip on this perfectly authentic spot our rowdy gang that included Scott Burdick, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304711845_4" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">Jeremy Lipking</span>, Tony Pro, Romel De La Torre headed there right after Face Off Demos. </div><div class="yiv818162309MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv818162309MsoNormal">We came just for great ribs, but found something even more extraordinary. A great band was playing blues with wonderful sax player from France Raphael Imbert joining in; yet what absolutely struck me was the keyboard player. His demure statue set a perfect contrast to the unbound kindness of Spirit pouring out of his glistering eyes. It was Eddie. He turned out to be 85 years young and there was the whole wall of Fat Matt’s plastered with his photos and portraits, as he has been playing with bands there for the last 25 years and still going strong every Thursday. We just were that lucky to turn up there at his night. Incredibly, he is the only person I’ve met so far for whom the smile is not a temporary muscle function, but a “basic skull structure.” </div><div class="yiv818162309MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv818162309MsoNormal">In a rat chase world of ours Eddie is Nature’s iconic rendition of Genuine Kindness. He is a Generous Soul who lived his life right. His secret? “If you ain’t loving it, it ain’t worth doing.” </div><div class="yiv818162309MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv818162309MsoNormal">It was deepest honor and joy that incomparable Eddie agreed to pose for me and Jeremy right there in the Fat Matt’s next morning. Jeremy had to get back to the conference, but I was enormously fortunate to spend the whole day with Eddie in a magic dialog of Souls that painting portrait live is all about. </div><div class="yiv818162309MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv818162309MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv818162309MsoNormal">To be ready for moments like this is what worth all the training and what Realism means to me. </div><div class="yiv818162309MsoNormal"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.eddietigner.com/" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1304711845_5">www.eddietigner.com</span></a></div><style>
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<div class="yiv320117844msonormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin: 0.1pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I met Jay and his daughter Gaby in </span><span class="yshortcuts" style="font-size: small;">San Miguel de Allende, Mexico</span><span style="font-size: small;">, the reverence I inherited from my Dad and the Russian Realist School for the nobility in common man came to full force. </span></div><div class="yiv320117844msonormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin: 0.1pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="yiv320117844msonormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin: 0.1pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">In their striking quintessential characters I immediately recognized a link between all the Americas as a sort of “hemispheric” story. Jay spent ten years in Texas before returning to his father’s old shoe shining spot in Mexico. Jay showed me his symbolic drawings representing escape and freedom. His demeanor was that of a rider, his soul was one of an artist and in his heart he was Texan. He served his fellow men.</span></div><div class="yiv320117844msonormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin: 0.1pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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