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2013 Featured Juried Artist of the Month

Art Biography

         Dan Urish, Wickford Rhode Island

 

I have always had a love of drawing. I started with pen and ink, which evolved much more naturally from my background of engineering drawing, inspired by the great pen and ink drawings of the local artist Margie Vogel, who some 15 years ago, generously took me under her tutorship, introducing me to the many media of art. Since then, after study with many more instructors of the Newport Art Museum, the Lyme Art Association and the Wickford Art Association of which I am an "elected member", I continue the wonder of immersion in artistic expression in many forms.

 

In addition to my detailed renderings of landscapes and seascapes, flowers have been one of my favorite subjects to paint with their wonderful, beautiful detail. While always enamored of the inherent beauty of flowers, I learned to distinguish with new fascination the extraordinary variations in leaves, petals, stamens and pistils. In this I was fortunate to have a wonderful mentor in the person of renowned South County botanical painter, Francis Topping, who taught me appropriate watercolor techniques for botanical painting, but also the appreciation of observation to gain the feeling for what I was trying to paint.

 

My artwork has been exhibited and sold at the Newport Art Museum, the Lyme Art Association, the Wickford Art Association, the Gilbert Stuart Museum, the Navy Seabee Museum of California, and locally at the Voila Art Studio of Wickford.

 Abstract / Avante Garde Poster

Juror Bio:

Lisa Gabrielle Russell is a Boston based artist whose work has been shown in over 200 national and international exhibitions. Her abstract paintings and drawings have been chosen for shows juried by curators from major museums including the Museum of Modern Art; Guggenheim Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art; Metropolitan Museum, NYC; Philadelphia Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA.
Her works have been displayed at various galleries and museums including video presentation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA.

Lisa has lectured and taught at numerous colleges, including Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the Museum of Fine Arts School Tufts University, and Harvard University. She is currently Professor of Fine Arts at Rhode Island College.