 Education   Boston University - BS 1959
SUNY at Purchase - BFA 1981
School of Visual Arts, NYC
School of Sacred Arts, NYC
Vermont Studio Colony, Johnson, VT
Center for Restoration & Preservation
Venice, Italy
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 About the artist Sheilah Rechtschaffer is a painter and teacher. She has taught at Parsons School of Design, NY Academy of Art and in other art centers. She has taught in many mediums but her interest in fresco painting dominated her work in the nineties. Presently at Parsons School of Design, she started a new class entitled "Creating an Artists Journal". The class was held last summer and will be part of the curriculum in Spring, Summer, 2004 terms. From 1992 to 2000, she was co-founder and teacher of Accademia Caerite, Inc., a not-for-profit, summer workshop program in Ceri, Italy.There, techniques of traditional fresco painting and scagliola were offered. She continued teaching in 2001 at the Abruzzi Mountain Workshop. Future plans for 2004 include a summer landscape painting class at the Institute of Italian Culture and Art (IICA). The images in this site are from "Landscape Transformed: Pastel Drawings", her most recent exhibition at Germaine Keller Gallery in Garrison, NY. This exhibition was held in July, 2003. A quote from Germaine Keller's press release: 'Sheilah Rechtschaffer's pastels are from a recent series called Seasons. The expression is emotive, intuitive, active and, above all celebrates the sensuality and pleasure of the medium. They are more about remembering than representing, but Ms. Rechtschaffer is not pining for something in the past, but searching, reaching, for an immediate visual experience informed by its own language rather than the iconic landscape of our past. The landscape becomes a stepping stone to more formal issues of art. Ms. Rechtschaffer says she likes the ambiguity of "working in the space between knowing and not knowing." ' ...Germaine Keller July, 2003 |
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