Shane Wolf’s Miletus with Ribera’s Philosopher Thales

Wolf created Miletus as an homage to Ribera’s Philosopher Thales and the two paintings were displayed side by side at Sphinx Fine Art in the exhibition Young Masters: Dialogues, from 12th - 24th of October 2015. Shane spoke on the painting and Ribera in a brief interview, linked here: https://youngmastersartprize.wordpress.com/2015/10/12/dialogues-in-focus-shane-wolf/ 

Miletus sold just days before the show's opening! Congratulations Shane!

photos by Christina Schek

photos by Christina Schek

We’re also pleased to report that neither Shane, his wife, or any of their friends were injured in the attacks in Paris a few weeks ago.

Alumni Updates: Shane Wolf and Rishabh Sud

Angel Academy alumnus Shane Wolf’s painting from his Songs of Sagesse triptych (100 x 195 cm.) will be part of the ARC Purchase Award travelling exhibition. This starts at the Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) in Barcelona (Nov. 17th to Dec. 28th) and finishes at the prestegious Salmagundi Club in New York City (Jan. 18th to Feb. 4th). For those who do not know it: the Museum of Modern Art is an international Modern Realist museum.

You can read more about the exhibition—and see some great Modern Realist paintings—here:   http://www.artrenewal.org/articles/MEAM_exhibit.php

We shall have more (and better!) images after the opening in Spain on Nov. 17th.

Bravo Shane!! Sei un maestro davvero!!!

Here, too, is an interview with Shane, fresh off the Internet press and in italian: http://www.finestresullarte.info/409n_intervista-a-shane-wolf.php

http://www.shane-wolf.com/

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There is a new article in GoAir airline's magazine, Go Getter, on AAA alumnus Rishabh Sud. Go Getter is a national magazine, read throughout India.

Rishabh has been building a successful portrait business in India and has received a major commission from the Maharaja Hanuwant Singh of Nabha to create portraits of his great-great-grandfather, the Maharaja Hira Singh, in the traditional Indian manner. This and other such portraits are featured in the article.

Bravo Rishabh!!

Shane Wolf

In the last week of July, Angel Academy of Art alumnus Shane Wolf won the $5000 top prize in the first ever figure-painting competition given at the Academy of Realist Art, Boston. As well as Shane, from Angel’s, the ten competitors included instructors and students from Juliette Aristides’s academy in Seattle, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and a San Francisco academy.

https://www.facebook.com/academyofrealistartboston

The painting is on show at the Egeli Gallery in Provincetown.

Bravo, Shane!!!

Shane Wolf

Shane Wolf has been made a Living Master by the Art Renewal Center. His Self Portrait is on the cover of the January/February issue of Connoisseur magazine and inside the magazine, on page 91, is an article on his Eidolon Series, Triptych I having been acquired by the American collector T.J. Griffith.

You can also see television interviews of Shane and various magazine articles on him and by him on his Press site:  http://www.shane-wolf.com/new-blog/

Congratulations, Shane!!!!!!!! Brilliant!

Alumni News

Shane Wolf  has just been awarded (by a unanimous decision from the jury) the prestigeous Taylor Foundation prize for his powerful painting Soumission, which is currently hanging in the Grand Palais in Paris in a show called Art en Capital (artencapital.fr). For a painter to have his/her work in the Grand Palais is a huge honour.

He writes, “… it’s hard to explain to those outside of our ‘world’ how symbolic and meaningful it is for a painter … to enter the halls of the Grand Palais, participate in this salon, and even be decorated with an award. On top of all that, the public’s reaction to my painting has been amazing: all ages (even a 5-year old), men and women alike have stood, admired, returned with friends, returned again, gasped, interrogated [and] praised … the painting.” Many people have commented that it’s THE painting of the show (of more than 2500 works). Bravo, Shane!!

Shane is represented by his Parisian gallery, L’Œil du Prince (www.loeilduprince.com), and 29 of his small-format paintings (all painted in the last month!!!) will be in the show Small is Beautiful (www.loeilduprince.com/la_galerie.html), opening on Dec. 1st.

Shane is American, but has lived in Paris for years now. More of his brilliant paintings can be seen at his website: shane-wolf.com

Shane Wolfe "Soumission"

Another major article has come out on Damir Simic and his work, this time in Art of England magazine. Bravo, Damir!

Damir’s painting With Mandolin is featured in the Christmas Exhibition at the W.H. Patterson Gallery, London. The exhibition runs from the 30th November to the 23rd December 2011.

Damir's paintings and drawings can be seen at his site: damirart.com

Article on Damir Simic in Art of England magazine

Damir Simic "With Mandolin"

 

After graduating from the Angel Academy, Matthew Grabelsky returned to New York for a year, but then returned to live in Europe — first Rome and then Paris. Through his Parisian gallery, Matthew entered a show, Go West, that includes works by 64 artists, half from France and half from Texas (in which Matthew was counted as a French artist!). The show opened last September at the UNESCO world headquarters in Paris and then moved to Houston; it contains works by many big-name artists with work in prestigious collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

Matthew writes, “The piece that I had in the show was bought by an important Houston collector and as a result of the exhibition I was approached by a big contemporary art gallery here called Deborah Colton Gallery (www.deborahcoltongallery.com/2011/content/matthew-grabelsky), which is now representing me. They just introduced me to their collectors this week in a show that featured seven of my recent paintings.”

While in Houston for the opening of Go West, Matthew was invited to lecture to the senior painting class at one of the big universities by the director of their painting programme. He loved Matthew’s work and thought that it would be beneficial to their students to hear about the work and about his training. He gave a slide presentation of his recent paintings and then went through the sequence of projects that he did at the Angel Academy, Florence, and discussed the the skills learned through them. The students were very excited and asked a lot of questions about the work, the technique and about studying with us in Italy.

More of Matthew’s paintings can be seen at his website: www.grabelsky.com

Matthew Grabelsky "Satyr's Glance"

Matthew Grabelsky "Alleyway Masquerade"

 

Nancy Fletcher

Nancy Fletcher is currently working on three full-size portrait commissions, along with several other works, and her painting The Portrait Painter was selected for a finalist award in this year’s annual Art Renewal Center’s Salon Competition.

More of Nancy’s work is visible at www.fletcherfineart.com/Gallery/Gallery.html

Nancy Fletcher updates

Nancy Fletcher updates

 

Angel alumnus Emile Klein is cycling across America, painting portraits to use, as he states it, “…arts and craftsmanship to discover the modern American people.” His basic formula is to spend a week with each carefully chosen subject. During that time he paints a portrait in oils in a style he describes as “Old Masterly naturalism.” At the end of the week, he records an audio interview with his subject. He also gathers lots of information to pass along to his freelance writers to boil down into a 350-word bio on each person.

There are three elements for each subject. These elements will be displayed in two ways—on a website and as an exhibition that will travel around the country in the winter of 2013-14. To make this happen, Emile will borrow back all the portraits he has given to his many hosts.

You can read more about Emile’s unusual project at www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2011/11/itinerant_artist_puts_clinton.html and at www.nj.com/salem/index.ssf/2011/11/artist_emile_klein_pays_a_visi.html and www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2011/11/traveling_portrait_artist_make.html

Emile Klein

Emile Klein painting Ken Nerger

Alumni News

Gary Louis Smith is receiving a lot of well deserved publicity in England as one of the four finalists for this year’s BP Award. His beautiful and huge (in every sense!) painting Holly (below) is short-listed for this much coveted award and is causing quite a stir. Here are links to two articles in The Guardian:

www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/apr/13/bp-portrait-award-shortlist-praised

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/14/bp-portrait-award-louis-smith-holly

Louis’s website can be found at http://paintaportrait.org/

Gary Louis Smith and "Holly"

Gary Louis Smith and his "St Dismas"

 

Andrea Mosley has been awarded the extremely important commission to paint the portrait of Stan Lee, the co-creator and writer of Spiderman, The Hulk, X-Men, Iron Man, Daredevil and many others. Mr Lee will be 90 years old next year. Andrea is a brilliant painter and will create a fabulous portrait. Below, you can see her her signing herSelf-Portrait and her group portrait of Lynne Barton, Michael John Angel and Jered Woznicki.
Andrea’s website address is: andreanmosley.com/

Andrea Mosley signing her "Self-Portrait"

Andrea Mosley, "Lynne Barton, Michael John Angel and Jered Woznicki"

 

Teresa Oaxaca has won 2nd-place in the prestigious Portrait Society of America’s annual competition. Teresa’s portrait of her grandfather, titled Father Time (below), is beautiful and profound, as is all her work.

Teresa’s website address is: www.teresaoaxaca.com/

Teresa Oaxaca, "Father Time"

Teresa Oaxaca, "Remembrance"

 

Cesar Santos has won 1st-place in the recently formed ACOPAL (the America China Oil Painting Artists League at http://acopal.org/) annual show with his dynamite portrait Out of the Square (below, top). You can see more of Cesar’s beautiful, visionary paintings at www.santocesar.com

Cesar Santos "Out of the Square"

Cesar Santos painting his "The Art Collector"

Mark Stahmann and Shane Wolf were each finalists in the ACOPAL show: Mark with his subtly powerful The Worth of a Soul (below, top), and Shane with his brilliant, jazzy sketch Inception (below, bottom).

Mark Stahmann’s website is at www.markstahmann.com/
Shane Wolf’s website is at www.shane-wolf.com/

Mark Stahmann, "The Worth of a Soul"

Shane Wolf, "Inception"