Intensive Painting with Alex Shundi

Intensive Painting is a unique class that meets once a week for 6 hours for 8 weeks for a total of 48+ hours of instruction time.

Participants have various levels of capability and experience. They bring their own supplies and pieces to work on. In addition, Shundi provides a lunch time art history lecture introducing various artists and their work.

Intensive Painting, is a class designed to be immersive, and inspiring as participants discuss, analyze and form their subjective vision expressed through the medium of painting. Through discussions and demonstrations of technique with each student, Alex Shundi brings a remarkable understanding and capability to teaching this class. The great variety of subjects and personal concerns presented by the students and encouraged by the teacher, help in informing and inspiring various methods of approach to everyone present, and well as carrying forward the subjective concepts of the painters, accelerating its progress.

Part of the beauty of the class are the levels of quality of the many of the students, some of whom have been making art for a lifetime and some are intermediates, whereas a few “just beginners” have greatly benefited by the congenial and helpful attitudes of all present. Students have a comradery that encourages the discussion and mutual support. A number of students that have attended his class over a period of years because of the continued growth they have experienced in their work.

Alex Shundi, an artist in multiple media, has shown his work throughout the world. He has taught in over 15 art schools and founded three himself: The Arts Works Forum (Millerton, CT) Silvermine Lacoste School of Art (Lacoste, France) and the Santa Fe Intentional Academy of Art (Santa Fe, NM). Alex has a BFA and MFA from Yale, has studied in the Brera Academy in Milan, Italy under the artists Marini, Manzu, Borro and Pomodoro. He attended the Beaux Arts Académie in Paris following a 3 year stint at the Silvermine College of Art (New Canaan, CT). He has known and studied with numerous important artists and has a remarkable breadth of knowledge concerning art and culture. He is presently a professor of Art History at the NYIT Manhattan.

The many classes and lectures he has offered at the Arts on the Lake since its inauguration in 2006, have generated a strong creative environment for the hundreds of students he has taught. In addition, the Reflectionists, a cooperative of artists formed by the students of Alexander Shundi, exhibit their work twice a year. Those in the class are included in the exhibit and encouraged to show what they have been working on.

A new session will start on Tuesday, September 10. The class is 10:30am to 4:30pm.

Payment terms are available for this class