{"Id":7388,"Name":"Stuart Dunkel","Biography":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EContact Info:\u003C/strong\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E Website: \u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.stuart-dunkel.com/art/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.stuart-dunkel.com\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E Email: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:keekel@aol.com\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ekeekel@aol.com\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E Being a painter, musician and author, sight, sound and words are the tools of Stuart Dunkel\u0027s expression. He began painting at age five and at age seven he began studying music. The very discipline of formal training has always appealed to him and he has dedicated his life to the in-depth study of them. Dunkel studied music and art at Boston University, Mannes College of Music, the Juilliard School (Doctorate), and art at the Boston Museum School, Kent State, the Academy of Realist Art, the Seattle Academy of Art as well as privately with respected teachers. After all that he still feels that he is self-taught.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E His breakthrough moment in art was when it was revealed to him that music and art were made up of the same ideas. Conceptual juxtaposition has always been his gift. \u0022Rhythm, harmony, counterpoint, balance, contrast, scales, chromatism, keys, high and low, dark and bright, loud and soft, colorful and dull, jumbled in my minds eye - all the polarities in the arts and indeed in life itself! I have the ability to think of a scene or object and project it on my minds screen and then draw and paint from it.\u0022\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E \u0022I usually enjoy the darkest of backgrounds in my still life paintings as it affords the eye the most comfortable place to perceive reality at its beginning. The great Netherlands artist of the 16th century knew this, and many of the most beautiful images are set against a blackish backdrop. This perception enforces my belief that nothing exists until light is draped over it. From the nothingness of black we build up to the perceived objects. As in love, we create the feeling the other inspires in us. As in art, we create the feeling to inspire the others in us. In other words, we must think of the consequences of our actions and what results each brushstroke communicates.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E Recently I fell in love with landscape painting. I don\u0027t know if being out in the elements surrounded by God, the slight tweaking of composition that is already set up for me, or how free I can be with my palette of colors that inspired me. My concept seems to be a combination of the lush Hudson River School and the compositional elements of the California Impressionists. I don\u0027t censor what emerges from my brush as much as I do with my still life and with that I find great freedom.\u0022\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003EBooks Available On this Artist:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http://store.arc-store.com/arliininpaof.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAn Artist\u0027s Life: Insights into the paintings of Stuart Dunkel\u003C/em\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ECurrent galleries\u003C/strong\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA\u003Cbr /\u003E Churchill Gallery, Newburyport, MA\u003Cbr /\u003E Scottsdale Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ\u003Cbr /\u003E Isherwood Gallery, Newport, RI\u003Cbr /\u003E The Copley Society of Boston\u003Cbr /\u003E The Sporting Gallery, Middleburg, VA\u003Cbr /\u003E J. Todd Galleries, Wellesley, MA\u003Cbr /\u003E Gallery of Graphic Art, NYC, NY\u003Cbr /\u003E Renjeau Gallery, Concord and Natick, MA\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EEducation\u003C/strong\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E \u003Cbr /\u003E Formal Education: Boston University, Boston Museum School, and Academy of Realist Art\u003Cbr /\u003E Seminars and private study with;\u003Cbr /\u003E Still Life: Joel C. Jones, Danial Sprick , Helen Van Wyke, Academy of Realist Art (Seattle) , Karen Winslow, Scott Fraser, Dennis Cheaney, Tom Ouellette, Denise Mickilowski, Gayle Levee, Andrew Kusmin\u003Cbr /\u003E Landscape: Sergio Roffo, Joe McGurl, Donald Demers, and Robert Douglas Hunter\u003Cbr /\u003E Figure: Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, Tom Ouellette, Karen Winslow, Charles Emerson\u003Cbr /\u003E Drawing: Jinda Mulvey, Maggie Fitzpatrick, Robert Andros, Joan Cavanaugh\u003Cbr /\u003E \u003Cbr /\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EExperience and Awards\u003C/strong\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E Art Renewal Center, Honorable mention in the Still life category, 2009, 2011 Finalist in the animal category\u003Cbr /\u003E Capturing Realism 2011 Pauly Friedman Gallery, Dallas, PA, through the AnthonyWachulis Invitational\u003Cbr /\u003E The Guild of Boston Artists: NE Representational competition\u003Cbr /\u003E silver medal winner The Copley Society, Members Summer Show Competition, Sizzle, First Prize winner, July 2008\u003Cbr /\u003E The Guild of Boston Artists, New England Representational Competition, Silver Medal winner, October 2007, 2010, 2011\u003Cbr /\u003E Copley Society of Boston, The Crisp Award, best of show, A-Z, November 2007\u003Cbr /\u003E Westford Art Show, prize winner, Westford, MA, 2004\u003Cbr /\u003E Gallery Demonstration and On-line Demonstration, Churchill Gallery 2006-2007\u003Cbr /\u003E Salmagundi Club, 2005 Realist Competition, New York, NY\u003Cbr /\u003E Guest lecturer, Wellesley college, Art and Anxiety, Wellesley, MA 2006-2007\u003Cbr /\u003E Co-operative member Depot Square Gallery, Lexington, MA\u003Cbr /\u003E Guest lecturer, Art and Management, Cambridge art association\u003Cbr /\u003E Lunch with the Artist, Depot Square Gallery, Lexington, MA: Presentation on setting up the still-life\u003Cbr /\u003E Board member, Cambridge art association\u003Cbr /\u003E Lecturer, Art and Composition, Depot Square Gallery\u003C/p\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":false,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":true,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":false,"TotalArtworks":60}