Artists have been gaining inspiration from a live model for centuries. It is a time honored tradition where we learn by seeing and expressing what we see and feel. An artist’s vision and expression gets funneled through their life experience, culture, training, moment, time and place; content and context. As we focus on seeing, we create. We note the human form plus colors, lights and darks, line, gesture, composition etc. Each artist has a unique mark making language and interpretation of the model. You can have one model and 15 artist drawings and each artist will have entirely different interpretations of the same person and same pose. We all see differently. It’s a magical experience to be in a studio all together in this creative process. This show is a sample of what we do. We encourage you to think of these pieces as experiments, a process of discovery by each artist rather than a product.

Lauren Bergman, Lucille Colin, Janet Dow, Kristin Flynn, Jennifer Hicks, Amy Husten, David Klein, Bob Leddy, Debra Priestly, Alexander Rupert, Steven Rushefsky, Wendy Saxon, Chris Seubert, Joanne Pagano Weber