One of Our Own at Kline Academy is Having a Solo Show!

 

Upcoming art show!

JESSICA TAYLOR BELLAMY
Endnotes for Sunshine

Opening reception:

 Saturday, January 21 from 5-8pm

 at 

Anat Ebgi

6150 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90048

On view through Feb 25

Contemporary Realism: 14th Virtual ARC Salon Exhibit

Kline Academy of Fine Arts

announces

Contemporary Realism:

The Art Renewal Center's
14th Virtual ARC Salon Exhibit

This is a huge achievement for the Representational Art Movement! Having an organization like Sotheby's host an event like this for Contemporary Realist Art says a lot about the growth of this movement.

The Art Renewal Center's 14th Virtual ARC Salon Exhibition is now live at Sothebys.com

https://sothebys.com/en/articles/contemporary-realism-14th-international-virtual-arc-salon-exhibition

"Featuring 70 short video interviews with many of the exhibiting artists from around the world (2 hours of video content), a newly created digital exhibition catalog, and a virtual walk through exhibition space. Also included is a written interview with Kara Lysandra Ross covering topics such as the importance of representational art and why it is a good investment and a short video capturing the core philosophy of the movement including live footage of the exhibition while on view at the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) in Barcelona, Spain".

KA student Jessica Bellamy in a Group Show!

Kline Academy Student Jessica Bellamy to be in

Parallel Realities and Unpopular Truths with 
Superposition Gallery


from March 10 to March 14, 2020. 

Parallel Realities and Unpopular Truths
Artists Reception

Saturday, March 14th, 7-10pm

 3718 W Slauson Ave. 
Windsor Hills, CA 90043


Join Jessica for a reception on the closing night of Parallel Realities and Unpopular Truths, a group exhibition with Superposition Gallery. She will have three pieces in this show which features seven artists from Los Angeles and New York. She would love to see you there!


Jessica's work:

"Absolute Power"

2020

"Ambivalent Sunrise"

2020

"Empirical Evidence of a Mirror Universe 

at Yosemite Falls"

2020

Honored To Share Some Great News...

Kline Academy of Fine Arts

congratulates our instructor Lana Gloschat
on her recent "Best in Show" award.

 Very honored, Lana Gloschat, award-winning artist, colorist, and instructor, was selected to receive the "Best in Show" award in the 2019 Colored Pencil Magazine's art competition.

Noted by the judges, Lana's highly realistic portrait demonstrates great technical skill. In Judge Paul Hink's words, "the expressions on the faces of the man and the boy are captured perfectly, and the luminous rendering of the skin tones creates a feeling of light and freshness. This depiction of an every day activity is also elevated by the sensitive observation of a moment shared between father and son." 

Congratulations on an exceptional piece Lana.

Work under Lana Gloschat's guidance and expertise 

every Monday, from 6:45pm - 9:45pm.

Drawing with Color and Dry Media

and

Botanical Illustration.


For more of Lana Gloschat's work, 
visit her instagram page @lana.gloschat_art

Artist-run Galleries defying odds..

Knowing "how" and "where" to exhibit your own work is very difficult.

Kline Academy of Fine Arts 

knows that.

We share with you some valuable information..

"Artist Run Galleries Defy the Mega-Dealer Trend in Los Angeles"

New York Times Article

by Jori Finkel

We recently came across an interesting article regarding Artist-run Galleries. Established in unusual locations, garages, apartments, you name it, these Artist-run Galleries are defying the odds as they compete with mega-dealer trends in Los Angeles. A detailed discussion about the vision behind these artist-run galleries is also introduced, detailing the motivation of the Artists and how they managed to maintain a career as an artist while running a gallery. 

Give the New York Times Article a read.

(click HERE to access the article)

A few points worth mentioning, 

Artist-run Galleries:

Less Profit Driven

Promote a welcoming / inclusive environment

Establish a strong Sense of community

Free Small Talks With Guest Artists At Craft In America Center..

 2 free talks with guest artists at

Craft in America Center,
small museum that shows all handmade work

Located on:

8415 West Third Street

Los Angeles, CA 90048

Talk #1:

"Wanted: Young Man Learn Trade"

Artist Talk with Graham Mckay
of Lowell's Boat Shop

Thursday, February 13, from 7 - 8pm

"Graham Mckay is a boat builder and manager at Lowell's Boat Shop, America's oldest operating boat shop, a national landmark and working museum whose mission is to 'preserve and perpetuate the art and craft of wooden boat building and promote the history of Lowell's Boat Shop and its environs."

RSVP to johnny@klineacademy.com

Talk #2:

"A Step Beyond: Contemporary Footwear, 
Functional to Fanciful"

Artist Talk with Lisa Sorrell

Saturday, February 29, from 4 - 5pm

"Sorrell has been making boots for over 20 years, with vintage hand tools and machinery - nothing computerized. Her dedication to learning the and her flair for design have established Sorrell as a master boot maker."

RSVP to johnny@klineacademy.com

KA student Tammy Machmail in a Group Show

We Have Very Exciting Announcement!

👏Congratulations to our student Tammy Machmali!👏

Tammy will be part of a group show, "EAT CAKE", hosted by Fabrik Projects Gallery. 

 Fabrik Projects Gallery

2636 La Cienega Blvd, Los angeles, Ca 90034 

 Artist Reception: 

 Saturday, February 8th, 6 - 9pm 

 Show runs: 

February 8th - 15th 

 Gallery open: 

Tuesday - Sunday

Featured Student Anastasia Shmukler

A Word From One of Our Students at Kline Academy!

Anastasia Shmukler

12 years old

Classical Drawing and Painting Student

Anastasia Shmukler has been studying with Kline Academy of Fine Arts for almost 5 months. Anastasia has taken several different classes, Beginning Drawing Foundations with Bill Neukkomm, Drawing with Color with Lana Gloschat, Introduction to Oil Painting with Juri Umagami, and Classical Painting with Cheryl Kline. Anastasia has shown great potential achieving some remarkable work along the way. She is now experimenting with Oil Painting and is currently working on a Bouguereau master copy.

Here are a few of her pieces...

Kline Academy 2020 - It's All about Light

In the classes of 2020, we will be focusing on light... How light describes the form? How light affects color, mood and tone of the scene? Understanding light is essential in all genres of drawing and painting... Join our community of artist and expert instructors who will share their masterly in art making.

Cheryl Kline 

KA instructor Bill Neukomm in a Group Show

William Neukomm, our amazing Beginning Drawing Foundations instructor, is featured in "LIKENESS" a Fine Art Exhibition exploring Portrait and Figure today.

"Realism, Impressionism, Abstraction.. what do we use to describe a work that is a combination of the three? How much does a portrait or figurative work need to look like the model or subject these days?  Is capturing a “Likeness” as important in today's fine art works as it once was? Is figure and portrait painting anything like it was back in the 1800 and early 1900s? or has the art world finally adopted a liberal view on the importance of "likeness" in a figure painting.

Today in the realist figurative world see a mixture of genres coming together in the same painting, or exhibiting side by side, and it's not just in America. Russian artists, Icelandic artists, French artist and more have been influenced, be it by instagram shots of new works they can easily access now, or the rise in international art fairs and exhibitions that are traveling around the globe."

LIKENESS

Sat. January 11th Through February 29th

10am-5pm @ VRFA GALLERY IN CALIFORNIA.

VRFA Gallery at 418 Ocean Ave Laguna Beach CA

To access the exhibitions digital catalog, click HERE

Congratulations to Pepe!

Some Great News to conclude 2019... 🎉🎊🏅

Congratulations to our student Pepe Martin Orozco for receiving an award at The Tokyo Biennale of Contemporary Art on their 19th International Art Exchange Exhibition & Competition. We are so proud of him!

Pepe exhibited a series of remarkable work dedicated to his role models, where he portrayed them as fashion models.

Here are a few of his submissions..

FREE LECTURE by Author Dan Hill at Kline Academy

See It, Feel It

Insights About How People Truly Experience Art

with master artist Dan Hill

1 Sunday, February 2, 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Free event 

or $5.00 - 15.00 USD suggested donation to the studio

RSVP today at artist@klineacademy.com

What’s the actual experience people have when standing before a work of art, taking it in?

Find out thanks to this unique guest lecture that will be of interest to artists, photographers and the general public at large. Hill’s latest book is by far the largest study ever conducted that involves eye-tracking technology and art in order to learn where people precisely look, for how long, and in what order. 

By adding in facial coding, Hill also captures not only where people look but how they feel about what they’re seeing. In addition to results that cover 88 famous art works from the Renaissance to today, Hill’s lecture will also explore how knowing facial expressions, per emotion, can enrich your understanding and appreciation of portraiture based on his previous book, Famous Faces Decoded: A Guidebook for Reading Others.

What you will learn:

How much time do viewers actually take

Where viewers of art look most often, or first

Which forms and colors engage viewers the most, typically

What kind of titles work well and which don't 

What kinds of subject matter attract the eye and heart

What might be the secret to effective composition

New Video Alert! William Neukomm - Beginning Drawing Foundation Instructor at Kline Academy of Fine Art

It all starts with drawing...

William Neukomm

Beginning Drawing Foundation Instructor 

William Neukomm is a modern, realist painter. William is a professional, exhibiting artist who has won numerous awards. 

He has an impressive education in the arts: a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kansas City Art Institute, A Diploma in both Drawing and Painting from the Florence Academy of Art and a Master of Fine Arts from Laguna College of Art and Design. 

"I believe that the use of representational imagery is the best way to communicate specific visual information. The concept is simple, but not easy. It requires mastery. By rooting my work in the European tradition, I am able to address complex themes in an accessible manner. Mimesis, however, is not sufficient. I strive to make art that builds upon the virtuosity of the past while also being unabashedly modern and distinctly American. My current work focuses on exalting the domestic scene. As a father I have an excuse to play and to relive the joy and pain of childhood. Being a parent also prompts me to tap into my own fears as I attempt to shield my children from negative experiences.”

Experience Florence Academy drawing methods with William HERE...