Patrick Jewell
Paintings, Drawings, Prints
Friday, October 6, 2023
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Friday, October 15, 2021
Friday, June 11, 2021
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Some Recent Paintings and Works in Progress
2020-1, acrylic, pencil, crayon on panel, 6x8in.
2020-1, acrylic, pencil, crayon on panel, 10x8in.
2018-21, acrylic, pencil, crayon on panel, 8x10in.
2020-1, acrylic, pencil, crayon on panel, 6x8in.
2020-1, acrylic, pencil, crayon on panel, 6x8in.
2018-21, acrylic, pencil, crayon on panel, 6x8in.
2018-21, acrylic, pencil, crayon on panel, 8x6in.
2018-21, acrylic, pencil, crayon on panel, 8x6in.
2020-1, acrylic, pencil, crayon on panel, 16x12in.
2020-1, acrylic, pencil, crayon on panel, 16x12in.
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Friday, May 31, 2019
Dutch Boy, Big City
Click image to enlarge.
Since my last post, my hand has been recovering, which has kept me from drawing as much as I'd like, but I'm back at it, and you can get a fuller idea of what I've been up to on my instagram, link to the right.
One of the big things I've been up to, though, was teaching an advanced honors elective at LIU Brooklyn, in the Honors College, this past spring semester.
It was a course that I conceived and designed, and I'm very proud of it. The students were excellent. They were not art majors, in fact most of them are in the sciences, so they had to stretch a bit to get comfortable looking at, and talking about, and writing about, art. And they stretched themselves admirably. It was a blast to teach. I'd love to figure out a way to do more of this kind of thing.
This was my basic pitch for the course, as written in the image I designed, above:
There are only about
thirty-five paintings currently attributed to the beloved 17th
century Dutch artist Jan Vermeer -- and New York City is home to nine of them,
far more than any other city in the world. In this class, we will use a focused
study of the New York Vermeers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Frick
Collection to learn about his enigmatic life and intimate work, and the extraordinary Dutch Golden Age of the
seventeenth century, a dynamic period marked by remarkable achievement in arts
and sciences, and by political, economic, and religious forces which still
reverberate today.
In order to help demystify the practices of the European
tradition of oil painting, we will have hands-on considerations of the studio
practices of Vermeer and his contemporaries, examining how paintings are
constructed, both on canvas and on panel, how paint is made, and how it is
used. We will analyze composition, materials, subject matter, technique, and
iconography, and we will investigate the theories that Vermeer used optical
aids in his work.
Then, to find out how our fine city came to be so flush with
Vermeers, we will examine the provenance of the paintings and the rediscovery
and meteoric rise in estimation of his work in the 18th century. An
examination of how the Met and the Frick acquired so many paintings by Vermeer
will also help us understand both the benefits and costs of American ambitions
at the time. Also, in a true crime twist of the plot, we will look at the more
sordid history of forgery, theft, and fakery connected to his work.
There is no shortage of historical and critical lenses
through which we can view Vermeer’s work, but during the course of the
semester, we will always place the premium on the sheer visual and intellectual
pleasure that his paintings bring, and how they continue to hold a magnetic
place in both specialized and public imaginations.
I want to reflect a bit more on the course, and teaching in general, so I hope to write more about the experience in this space. I learned a lot about Vermeer, painting, teaching, history, humanity, storytelling, young people, and myself.
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Subway Drawings available on Artsy and 1stdibs
In case you weren't able to make the show, many of the works are available to browse and purchase on Ground Floor Gallery's Artsy site.
Thursday, July 12, 2018
The Spaces In-Between: Subway Drawings 2016-18 at Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn
July 26 - August 12, 2018
Opening Reception on Thursday, July 26, 6 - 8 pm.
Ground Floor Gallery
343 5th Street (off 5th Avenue)
Brooklyn, New York City 11215
F, R or G train to 4 Ave – 9th Street
Contact: info@groundfloorbk.com – 646.801.3338
HOURS:Thursday: 3 – 8pm
Friday: 3 – 8pm
Saturday: 12pm – 6pm
Sunday: 1pm – 6pm
And by appointment: info@groundfloorbk.com
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