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Robert
Armetta, Founder/Director
Robert Armetta has studied extensively throughout
the United States and Europe, at schools including
Columbus College of Art and Design, the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Art, Atelier Lack, the Florence
Academy of Art, the New York Academy of Art, and
the Water Street Atelier.
He has exhibited at the Allen Sheppard Gallery,
Grenning Gallery, Arcadia Gallery, John Pence
Gallery, Nabi Gallery, and Seraphin Gallery, and
at the National Academy of Design, in New York
City, and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, in Indiana.
He has taught drawing and painting at Long Island
University, Southampton, and currently teaches
drawing and painting at the New York Academy of
Art and the Long Island Academy of Fine Art, in
Riverhead, New York, which he founded in 2000.
His own studio is in Brooklyn, where he lives
with his wife and daughter.
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Leeanna Chipana, Youth Programs Director
Leeanna Chipana began her art studies at the Stevenson Academy of Fine Arts where she apprenticed under Director, Attila Hejja while working as the schools Administrative Director. She then continued her studies with Robert Armetta of the Long Island Academy of Fine Art and Nelson Shanks at the New York Art Students League.
Leeanna has won various art scholarships to study at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia and is currently pursuing a successful art career. Leeanna is continuing her studies under a full time apprenticeship program (Atelier Armetta) with Robert Armetta. In 2008 Ms. Chipana started Long Islands first classical art program for children (LIAFA Young Artist Program) ages 9 through 13. This program was designed to offer children the opportunity to receive classical training normally only offered to adults while preparing them with college portfolio building skills. In addition, Leeanna teaches an advanced drawing course to high school students at The Long Island High School of the Arts in Syosset, NY. Leeanna has worked with high school portfolio students since 2004. |
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Ben Fenske
Ben Fenske is a native of Minnesota. He has studied at the Studio Paquette, in Minnesota; the Bougie Studio, in Minnesota; and the Florence Academy of Art, in Italy. He has exhibited his work at venues including Eleanor Ettinger Gallery in New York, New York; the Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor, New York; Ann Long Fine Art in Charleston, South Carolina; the Solomon Gallery in Dublin, Ireland; and the Corsini Family Stables in Florence, Italy. He lives and works in Florence.
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Suanne
Martin
Sculpture Instructor
Suanne received her undergraduate degree from a private college in Michigan known for its academic and foreign study programs, providing her an opportunity to travel and study extensively throughout eastern and western Europe, as well as the Middle East. In between her undergraduate and graduate work, she studied for three years with master sculptor Jay Holland at The Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, learning the foundation of figurative sculpture and anatomy. Continuing her art training at Pratt Institute in New York, Suanne
earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1991.
Since 1991, Suanne has made a living exclusively as a sculptor, working for various studios in New York, New Jersey and Chicago. Her main focus has been on sculpting the human form, with a special emphasis on portrait studies and commissions, many of which can be seen as permanent installations in museums across the United States as well as Mexico and South America. In addition to the figurative work, Suanne is building a strong and growing clientele for her canine sculpture-- highly detailed and cast in sterling silver, bronze and marble.
Working professionally as a sculptor has also added a deeper dimension to her skills as a sculptor instructor-- serving as the head of the sculpture department for a Fine Arts Academy in Long Island since 2004 . |
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Kevin McEvoy
Kevin began studying art at an early age by copying old master drawings by Albrecht Durer. He recieved his bachelors degree in Fine Arts from Stony Brook University. He went on to study painting in Chile at La Universidad de Playa Ancha.
The most important event in his training was his period of study at the oldest active atelier in Europe, the Charles Checil Studios of Florence, Italy. In the Florentine Studio, he worked alongside some of the leading European authorities in painting technique, art history, and aesthetics.
Kevin McEvoy currently resides with his wife and son in New York. From his studio in Islip, he continues in the tradition of Sargent, Rembrandt, and Velazquez by painting portrait commissions entirely from life, without any photographic means. |
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Kang Ngeow
Kang Ngeow began his classical-art studies at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and continued at the Michael John Angel Studios. In order to maintain his strict academic training Kang moved to New York to study at the New York Academy of Art. Kang has exhibited at the New York Academy of Art, the Earls Court Gallery, and the Academy of Realist Art. His awards include Winner for the American Artist Drawing Magazine Competition (2006), 4th place for the 2005 Art Renewal Center Scholarship Competition, Finalist for the 2005 ARC International Salon Competition, and Winner of the 2004 American Artist Magazine Annual Art Competition. Kang currently lives and teaches in New York.
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Frank Porcu
Frank L. Porcu is a painter, sculptor, and anatomist who earned a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute and an M.F.A. from the New York Academy of Art. He has studied drawing, painting and anatomy with Salvatore Montano, and sculpture and stone with Alfredo Cardenas.
Mr. Porcu has devoted his life to the true study of anatomical form and movement, based on human dissection.
He currently teaches anatomy at the Art Students League, the New York Academy of Art and Pratt Institute and has lectured at the National Academy as well as numerous other venues.
A recipient of the James Amster Memorial Award from the National Arts Club, he has participated in group exhibitions in New York, Italy, and the Salon d'Automne, France.
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Nick Raynolds
Raynolds began his formal studies in art at the age of 15 in Vancouver, Canada where he later received his BFA. He continued his studies in Düsseldorf, Germany and in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In pursuit of the mastery of his craft, he attended the Gage Academy of Art (formerly the Seattle Academy of Realist Art) and in January of 2001 Raynolds moved to New York to study at the Water Street Atelier and at Studio 126.
Raynolds is represented by the John Pence Gallery in San Francisco, where he held his second one-man show in September 2007. He has exhibited nationally and abroad including exhibitions at the Eleanor Ettinger Gallery and Forbes Galleries both in New York City and the Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor NY. His work can be found in numerous collections, most notably, The Forbes Collection, NY. His work has been published in American Artist's 'Drawing Magazine', 'The Artist's Magazine', 'Art Collector' magazine and his painting appears on the cover of John Updike's novel 'Seek My Face'.
Raynolds has worked and traveled extensively throughout North America and Europe to Mexico and the Middle East often working as a scenic and decorative painter for film, theatre and residential and commercial projects. Most notable of these projects was assisting in the decoration of the palace and residence of His Highness Sheik Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He also worked as an assistant painter to Jeff Koons in New York City.
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Tim Smith
Australian-born landscape artist Tim Smith began his training at the Charlie Sheard Studio School, in Sydney, where he studied the historic principles and traditional processes of oil painting.
After completing his training he became assistant teacher to Charlie Sheard. Tim continued teaching and exhibiting widely throughout Australia and Southeast Asia, travelling frequently to Europe to study the master works of the great collections. In 2007 Tim came to New York and began studying at the Grand Central Academy, in Manhattan.
A senior fellow of the Hudson River Fellowship, Tim has recently been developing a studio practice based on the 19th-century example of the Hudson River School painters. He has lectured on the history of landscape painting and has written on his current process, which aims to record natural phenomena and achieve paintings with a strong sense of light and drama.
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Bennett
Vadnais
Bennett Vadnais grew up in Washington State. He began pursuing art seriously in his early teens and trained in the classical tradition at such schools as the Bougie Studio, MN, the Water Street Atelier, NY, and the Art Students League of New York. Upon completing his studies in New York, Bennett lived, worked, and traveled in Europe. This afforded him the opportunity to study the great masters in some of the world's most extensive art collections. In addition, he began exploring outdoor subject matter, landscapes, and street scenes in order to develop his ability to capture changing light effects. Although many of Bennett's paintings are highly realistic, they are often begun in response to abstract elements, such as appealing color combinations or shadow patterns. |
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