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Nicolas Carone
Painter
Co-Founder/Director of the School of Art
Nicolas Carone studied at the National Academy of Design, Art Students League, Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, and the Rome Academy of Fine Arts. He has won the Rome Prize, Fulbright Fellowship, William Copely Grant and the Childe Hassam Grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Mr. Carone has had solo exhibitions at Frumkin Gallery, Stable Gallery, and Staempfli Gallery, and has shown in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Rome, the Brussels World's Fair, the Venice Biennale, the Tate Gallery, and the Geitain Group in Japan. His work is in the collections of museums including the Whitney, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Mr. Carone has taught at universities including Yale, Columbia, Brandeis, and Cornell, and at Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts, and Skowhegan School. He was a founding faculty member of the New York Studio School, where he taught for more than 20 years.
Helaine Treitman
Co-Founder / Co-Director
Having studied drawing and sculpture at the New York Studio School and Bard College, Helaine Treitman worked with Russian immigrant adolescents in Brooklyn, New York. She later worked in the operations divisions of several banks as an executive administrator and business systems analyst. She left Wall Street in 1988 to develop and direct the International School of Art, which she co-founded with Mr. Carone. Since 1990 Ms. Treitman has been living in Umbria, Italy, where she exhibits her drawings and sculptures.
Marc Servin
Co-Director
Marc Servin studied painting and drawing at Binghamton University and at the New York Studio School with Nicolas Carone, George McNeil, and Mercedes Matter. He has had solo exhibitions at Galleria ISA in Montecastello and has exhibited in group shows in New York, San Francisco and in Italy. In 1989 Marc Servin left his executive position at Macy's to join the International School of Art. He has lived and worked in Montecastello di Vibio since 1990.
Gregory Amenoff
Painter
Gregory Amenoff was born in Illinois, and studied at Beloit College. His exhibitions include solo shows at the Universities of Tennessee and Wisconsin, Nielsen Gallery in Boston, Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Robert Miller, and Betsy Senior Galleries in NY, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Boston, Tampa Museum, Norton Gallery of Art in West Palm Beach, and in Chicago, Philadelphia, Santa Fe, and Paris. His work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of American Art in Washington DC, Neuberger Museum, New York Public Library, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Phoenix Art Museum, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Mr. Amenoff has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Tiffany Foundation, and was named Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts by Massachusetts College of Fine Arts. Gregory Amenoff has taught at the Tyler School of Art, Skowhegan School, Yale University, American University, Florida International University, Pennsylvania Academy, California State University, Long Branch, Rhode Island School of Design, School of Visual Arts, and is currently Professor of Art at Columbia University. He lives and works in New York City.
An exhibition of works by Gregory Amenoff.
Lennart Anderson
Painter
Lennart Anderson studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cranbrook Academy, and at the Art Students League under Edwin Dickinson. He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and is an Associate of the American Academy of Design. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Tiffany Foundation grant, and the Rome Prize. Mr. Anderson has had solo exhibitions at Davis & Langdale, Rotunda Gallery, Swain School of Design, Graham Gallery, and Tanager Gallery. His work is in the Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Whitney Museum, and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, and Princeton Universities, at Pratt Institute, Skowhegan School, Art Students League, and New York Studio School. He is now a Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College.
William Bailey
Painter
William Bailey studied with Josef Albers at Yale School of Art, where he earned his BFA and MFA . He has exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe and his work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Joseph Hirshhorn Muesum. He has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Mr. Bailey has taught at Yale and the University of Indiana, and later served as Dean of the Yale School of Art, where he currently teaches painting and drawing. He is represented in New York by Emmerich Gallery.
James Beck
Art Historian
James Beck studied at Oberlin College, at New York University and at Columbia University, where he earned his PhD. He has taught at Harvard University, Princeton University, and Brooklyn College and for 25 years at Columbia University, where he has held several positions as director and chairman. Among his many awards are a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Mr. Beck's writings include books on Jacopo della Quercia, Raphael, the Florence Baptistry Doors, Leonardo da Vinci, Masaccio, and Michelangelo. Author of over 65 articles on Renaissance and modern art, he is a regular contributor to Arts Magazine and to important European art journals. Mr. Beck is currently Chairman of the Department of Art History and Archaelogy at Columbia University.
Phong Bui
Painter
Phong Bui was born in Hue, Vietnam and came to the United States in 1980. He studied at Philadelphia College of Art (now The University of the Arts) and at the New York Studio School. His work has been in group exhibitions in Philadelphia and New York. In 1994 he had a solo exhibition at Galleria ISA in Montecastello, and in 1995 will have a solo exhibition at Sussex County Community College Gallery in New Jersey. Mr. Bui has lectured and critiqued at Parsons School of Design and taught at the International School of Art. He has won an Arcadia Traveling Fellowship, a Hobenberg Traveling Fellowship and a Charles Revson Foundation Grant. In 1994 he won the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship.
Roberto Caracciolo
Painter
Roberto Caracciolo lives and works in Rome. He studied at the United World College of the Atlantic, at the Institute of Art of Urbino, and at the New York Studio School. He has had solo exhibitions at Janie C. Lee Gallery in Houston, Andre' Emmerich Gallery in New York, Galleria Valeria Belvedere in Milan, Galleria Totem - Il Canale in Venice, and at Galerie Alessandro Vivas in Paris, and at other galleries in Rome, Mantua, Turin, Catania, and Milan. He has shown in group exhibitions throughout Italy and in France, Germany, New York, Florida and California. Mr. Caracciolo has lectured at the Accademia di Belli Arti in Torino, the University of Siena, the Accademia di Belli Arti in Perugia, and at the International School of Art.
Nino Caruso
Ceramic Sculptor
Nino Caruso has studios in both Rome and Todi, where he creates large architectural sculptures. He has taught ceramics at art schools and universities across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan. In these countries he has also exhibited widely in galleries and museums, installed work in public spaces, and has works in permanent collections. Nino Caruso has published several books on ceramics, which have been distributed internationally. He has recently finished a large commission for a public park in Italy.
Nino Cordio
Fresco Painter and Printmaker
Nino Cordio lives and works in Rome. He studied at Istituto d'arte di Catania in Sicily, at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, and in Paris at the Friedlaender Atelier. He taught for many years at the Liceo Artistico di Roma. Mr. Cordio has exhibited in various Biennali and Quadriennali in Rome and at the Biennale dell'Incisione Contemporanea in Venice. He has had more than thirty solo exhibitions: in New York at Marisa del Re; in Rome, at galleries including Il Narciso, Il Gabbiano, Il Torcoliere, Le Jardin des Arts, La Nuova Pesa; in Milan at Galleria dell'Orso, Galleria La Linea, Trans'Art; and in other cities throughout Italy, in Paris, Germany, Austria, and Brazil.
Piero Dorazio
Painter
Piero Dorazio was born in Rome, and studied architecture at the University degli Studi. He co-organized the gallery Age d'Or in Rome and Florence, a cooperative international avant-garde gallery. As the Chairman of the Fine Arts Department of the University of Pennsylvania, he established there the Institute of Contemporary Art. Mr. Dorazio's awards include Prix Kandinsky and Prix De Peinture. He ahs had solo exhibitions at Wittenborn One-Wall Gallery, Andre' Emmerich Gallery, Galleria La Tartaruga in Rome, Galerie Springer in Berlin, and the Venice Biennale, including the 1988 exhibition. He has had retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, and the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. Mr. Dorazio lives and works in Todi.
Andrew Forge
Painter
Andrew Forge studied at Camberwell School of Art in London. He has taught at the New York Studio School and Cooper Union in New York, at Goldsmith's College in London, and at the Slade School, where he was a lecturer from 1950 to 1964. His work is in the collections of the Tate Gallery, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Corcoran Gallery, Yale Gallery of Art and in private collections in England and the United States. A Guggenheim fellowship is among his awards. Mr. Forge has published books on Klee, Soutine, Rauschenberg, Monet, Francis Bacon and Degas. He has been a trustee of the Tate Gallery, the National Gallery, London, and the American Academy in Rome. His recent solo exhibitions in New York include shows at Ruggero Gallery and the New York Studio School, and at Robert Morrison Gallery in 1993 and 1994. From 1975 to 1994 Mr. Forge was Professor of Painting at Yale University. He received the 1995 College Art Association Art Teacher Award.
Bruce Gagnier
Painter and Sculptor
Bruce Gagnier studied at Williams College and received his MFA from Columbia University, where he was sculpture assistant to Peter Agostini. He has had solo exhibitions in New York at M-13 Gallery and Leslie Cecil Gallery, in Ft. Lauderdale at Gaumann Cicchino Gallery, and at the University of Kentucky and Haverford College. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in New York City and around New York State, in Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Wisconsin. Mr. Gagnier won a New Jersey State Council Fellowship Grant, a Brevoort Eikenmeyer Fellowship, a Columbia University School of Engineering Purchase Prize and a Skowhegan Painting Prize. For 25 years Mr. Gagnier has taught painting, sculpture, drawing and art history in schools including Yale University, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of North Carolina, City University of New York, Haverford College, Parsons School of Design MFA program, New York Studio School, Chautauqua Institution School of Art. He was Dean of the New York Studio School from 1979-87 and acting chairman of Parsons School of Design's MFA painting program from 1990-93. He currently teaches at the New York Studio School.
An exhibition of works by Bruce Gagnier.
Sidney Geist
Sculptor
Sidney Geist studied at St. Stephen's College, at the Art Students League with William Zorach, and in Paris with Ossip Zadkine.His awards include two Guggenheim Fellowships and an Olivetti Award. Mr. Geist has had solo exhibitions in Tokyo, Osaka, Paris and San Francisco, and in New York at Hacker Gallery, Tanager Gallery, Artists Space and Ingber Gallery and in 1992 he had a seven-decade retrospective at the New York Studio School. He has shown in over fifty group exhibitions around the United States and in Paris.He has taught at Brooklyn College, University of California at Berkeley, Southern Illinois University, Pratt Institute, and the Vermont Studio School. From 1968-81 he taught at Vassar College, and from 1964-1987 at the New York Studio School, where he was its first director. Mr. Geist's art criticism articles have appeared in publications including Artforum, Art International, Artscribe, The Saturday Review, and The New Criterion. He has written several books on Brancusi, and his 1988 book, Interpreting Cezanne, was published by Harvard University Press.
Piero Guccione
Painter
Piero Guccione studied at Istituto d'Arte di Catania in Sicily and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. He has exhibited three times at the Venice Biennale and at various Quadriennali in Rome. His awards include the Ilba Mediterraneo prize for graphics, the Ulivo d'Argento, and the Premio Ragusa. He has had solo exhibitions in major Italian galleries and has exhibitied at Claude Bernard Gallery in Paris and other galleries internationally. Mr. Guccione's work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, in corporate collections in Europe and the U.S. and on "Scicli on the Web". He is represented in Rome by Il Gabbiano Gallery.
Dan Gustin
Painter
Dan Gustin studied at Kansas City Art Institute and at Yale University. He has had solo exhibitions at Bowery Gallery, Forum Gallery, Alpha Gallery, Munson Gallery, the Paul Mellon Arts Center, and at J. Rosenthal Fine Arts Gallery in Chicago where he is currently represented. He has shown in over fifty group exhibitions throughout the United States. His work is in the Joseph Hirshhorn Collection, Worchester Art Museum, at Buffalo College Museum, Miller Drawing Collection, Richard and Jalene Davidson Drawing Collection, and in private collections in New York and Chicago. Mr. Gustin has won two grants from the Illinois Arts Council, two School of the Art Institute of Chicago Faculty Enrichment Grants and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1972 he was teaching assistant to William Bailey at Yale University. He has taught or lectured and critiqued at Knox College, University of Indiana, University of Chicago, Choate Rosemary Hall, Fisher's Island, Guilford Craft School, Vermont Studio School, the Center for Art and Visual Communication in Lisbon, Portugal, The American University and the International School of Art. Since 1984, Mr. Gustin has taught painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
An exhibiton of works by Dan Gustin.
Joseph Hirsch
Painter
Joseph Hirsch studied Fine Art from an early age in Germany, and after matriculation, he studied drawing in Berlin. In the wake of the "Kristallnacht", he emigrated to Holland, and then to Palestine, where he studied at the Bezalel Academy with painter Mordechai Ardon. He then served in the British Army, and continued drawing and painting. Since his first solo exhibition in 1960, he has exhibited frequently in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. For seventeen years Mr. Hirsch taught drawing in the Fine Art Department of the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. Since retiring from Bezalel in 1981, he has been painting and teaching in Jerusalem.
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