RPAC Gallery - 2020 Artist Rock

RPAC ART CENTER AND ACADEMY • RPAC GALLERY

Artists Rock!

On Main Street in Ridgefield and ONLINE!

ArtFul is a non-profit, community-based initiative, founded by Dee Dee Perrone Colabella. As a working artist herself, Dee Dee recognizes the challenges and barriers, including access to studio space and finances to continue education or production.

“Our mission is to help as many artists as possible to overcome the obstacles in their way. ArtFul works to empower artists to further their craft, continue their education, and have access to the resources and environment to produce and show their work.” In subsidizing arts education and resident artist programs, ArtFul supports opportunities for working and aspiring artists. ArtFul is committed to the enrichment of arts education to our community as well as local and national organizations that align with their main principles.

Scholarships ArtFul Visual Arts Initiative supports both working and aspiring artists in exploring new avenues in their work and receiving additional training.

ArtFul offers scholarships for qualified candidates applicable towards workshops, college level training, and masters level training at the institution that best fits the artist.

Scholarships range from $2,500 to $10,000 Applications for the Fall 2021 semester – Scholarship Online Application

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RPAC Art Center and Academy Owner’s Letter - Dee Dee Perrone Colabella

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Meredith Mulhearn

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Daniel Wade Barrett

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Leslie Luciano

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Dylan Miller

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Terrence Mahon

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Charles Gulbrandsen

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Luiza Budea

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Lily Fertik

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Brandy Perrone

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Steve Liker

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Jim Malloy

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Domenic Colabella

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Will Cook

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Greg Mursko

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Dave Konig

Cover image created by: Will Cook

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RPAC Art Center and Academy (RPAC) offers an intense training program for both Digital Design and Studio Art. We work to place our students with paying clients at the end of their program.

Online Workshops You will be surprised at how much you can learn with our two-hour digital workshops. Workshops are available in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

General Instruction Our Independent Study sessions are built to fit your needs. Instructor led class hours can be used during open studio time to allow flexibility in your schedule. If you are interested in learning a new skill, our instructors are here to guide you.

Take A Class RPAC offers In-Person classes. Our professional instructors will help you learn not only the basics but practical and efficient ways to work in the program to complete any task.

Portfolio Review And Creation RPAC will help you create and develop a portfolio that will prepare you for the next level of your artistic practice and ready you for career opportunities. Our MFA instructors will help you to reach your goals.

Certificate Of Completion The Digital Design Academy at RPAC takes you through an intensive combination of classes, independent work, and workshops taught by real artists. This certificate trains you in your area of focus including portfolio development. RPAC offers hands-on training by MFA instructors in a fast-paced environment with efficiency and professionalism so you can start your path to becoming employable in a Digital Design career.

RPAC offers resources after completion and works to match our students with paying clients.

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has been quite challenging for many Brooke Heinen, Partner and CFO small businesses and independent bheinen@RPACartcenter.com retailers across the globe during Dee Dee Colabella, Co-Founder and Owner these unprecedented times. As a dcolabella@RPACartcenter.com result, long-standing businesses had no choice but to shut their Greg Mursko, Co-Founder doors, while new businesses faced gmursko@RPACcartcenter.com shutdowns due to COVID-19.

RPAC was affected by COVID and like many others had to temporarily close our doors.

During this time, we commenced a deep cleaning with CDC approved sanitation methods. RPAC was able to reopen safely in late May under Phase I of the CT Reopening Plan.

RPAC Art Center and Academy slowly welcomed our Resident Artists back to their studios in June followed by our academy students in a limited capacity to properly maintain social distancing as our top priority is the safety for all.

Like many, we have had our share of challenges. Our first year has been noteworthy, to say the least, yet we have had more victories than I can begin to tell you. Together with our RPAC students, artists, and staff, I feel personally and professionally confidant that what we have built is wone-of-a-kind and precious.

RPAC currently has 16 active Resident Artists whose styles range from representational to conceptual. I gratefully thank our artists for their amazing creations and everything I have learned from them. Our ability to create around each other has expanded our minds, our ideas, and our respect for each other’s creative process.

RPAC Academy has welcomed numerous students that have entrusted us to bring them to the next level who have the willingness and drive to learn and develop their craft. They have created professional portfolios, some have been placed in local jobs with the assistance of RPAC Academy, and many have expanded their practice by exploring through our amazing instructors. Stay tuned for some more amazing workshops coming in 2021.

While growing and moving RPAC forward, our team decided to give back to the entire visual arts community by founding ArtFul, Visual Arts Initiative. ArtFul is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help as many artists as possible to overcome the obstacles in their way, to empower artists to further their craft, continue their education, and have access to the resources and environment to produce and show their work. In subsidizing arts education and resident artist programs, ArtFul supports opportunities for working and aspiring artists. ArtFul is committed to supporting the enrichment of arts education to our community as well as local and national organizations that align with our main principles.

What started as a talk among fellow artists to what RPAC has become today is a dream come true. I am genuinely fortunate to be a part of a community of wonderful people, work with amazing artists, instruct future artists, and support the mission to create a better world for the Visual Artist. I am privileged to be able to bring this vision to life to the Ridgefield Visual Arts Community.

Thanks for creating with RPAC! Dee Dee Colabella, RPAC Co-Founder and Owner

(Above) Peacock Dee Dee Perrone Colabella This large pastel on canvas was created during the “In the Window” series at the RPAC Gallery. On-lookers were amazed to watch the progress.

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ablo Piccaso once said, “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

Completing my Master of Fine Arts in May 2019 has become my way to live inside that idea. I am inspired by the masters including Casper David Frederick, Vermeer and Andrew Wyeth who captured a mood and atmosphere through figures and landscapes. I work to find the light and beauty in what I see. I adjust a brush stroke, the thickness of paint or a gesture to recreate my memory and mood. The use of oil paint or pastels allows me to use several layers to move and change the painting over time leaving a history on the canvas.

Art is my way to share the journey of making and to dust off some daily life.

Special thanks to Greg Mursko and Brooke Heinen, with whom I couldn’t have done this without you!

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MEREDITH MULHEARN • RPAC Resident Artist

(Above) The Path of an Angel A Tribute to Brooke Blake Created in memory of a girl who was a light in the Ridgefield community, this piece documents her life’s journey and speaks to unconditional love.

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idgefield, Connecticut based conceptual artist, Meredith Mulhearn, has had a lifelong passion for art, and began feverishly creating from the moment she could grasp a crayon. In fact, her pediatrician foretold Meredith’s future as an artist, based on her fine motor skills as a young child. Now, Mulhearn shares her ideas through the artistic process using the language of plants.

“Nature has always spoken to me in quiet ways, but now I find there’s an inextricable link between me and the natural world that finds its voice in all my work.”

Meredith is most well known for her work around the topic of plant blindness: the inability to see or notice the plants in one’s own environment, which has far reaching implications in terms of plant conservation. Her most recent “root” series, driven by the uncertainly of the pandemic, explores life’s journey, connection to family and a desperate need to feel grounded.

Most of the effort that goes into each of Mulhearn’s creations occurs before any physical material comes into play. Hours of silent thought and internal struggle, followed by countless conversations, ultimately lead to the physical representation. She often utilizes unconventional materials, from glass fragments to

(Above) The Storm This piece represents our journey through the pandemic using the metaphor of a storm and reminds us that even in difficult times, there is beauty.

thermochromic paint that changes color with human touch (yes, she actually allows the viewer touch some of her artwork).

Mulhearn’s choice of subject matter is driven largely by her subconscious, which is particularly true of her “roots” series. She explains, “It’s not until later reflection that I develop an understanding of my own internal motivation. Here, the conscious part of the process takes over and I make deliberate, calculated choices to create a visual dialogue.”

Mulhearn’s work takes the viewer on a journey of self-exploration. She utilizes symbolism to scatter messages throughout her work. These clues convey her perspective, but she deliberately leaves room for interpretation, knowing that the viewer’s unique life experience will color how each piece is received. Her ultimate goal: to foster an internal dialogue and create awareness.

Meredith graduated cum laude from Wake Forest University with a major in studio art and a minor in art history. Additionally, she studied botanical illustration at the New York Botanical Gardens. She holds an MA in Art Therapy from New York University. Meredith is a Resident Artist at RPAC Art Center and an active member of the Ridgefield Guild of Artists, where she has been featured in the annual juried show.

(Above) Nostalgia 1 Playing with bright colors and timeless candy wrappers, the viewer is whisked away to a simpler time and finds respite from the current chaos.

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DANIEL WADE BARRETT • RPAC Resident Artist

(Above) It Is All a Blur An implosion of color and structure can be hard to distinguish from an explosion of the same.

(Right) Interiorities The interior of a soul can call to mind the dark tangle of a dense forest.

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aniel Wade Barrett, Resident Artist at RPAC Art Center, paints and sculpts neither to express his feelings nor to share his perceptions of the world with others; rather, to engage in so-called artistic activities in order to revise his own comprehension of objects. Thus, he paints, not to record what he sees but to change it; to understand differently his prior conceptions of the true, the real, and the imaginary. Dan seeks to generate new visions and thoughts by replacing and/or updating his previous ones—whether internal or external (which can be indistinguishable). He works in order to comprehend the life world, not because he already does.

In addition to being a Resident Artist, Dan is an Exhibiting Member at Rowayton Arts Center, and has exhibited in numerous juried shows in the region. Dan is currently Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychology at Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT. His research interests include suspicion, persuasion, social influence, and cross-cultural psychology.

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LESLIE LUCIANO • RPAC Resident Artist

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(Above Left) To Be Continued (Above Right) Katrina (Sold) (Right) Four More Years

“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don’t see a different purpose for it now.” Dorthea Tanning

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y art involves mixed media layers variably utilizing fusions of oils, ink, wire, organic materials and found objects. I hope to stimulate with my works and provide the viewer with a visually tactile experience.

Using mixed media, layers variably utilizing fusions of oil, ink, wire, organic materials and found objects in my paintings, I hope to do more than visually stimulate the viewer with a tactile experience.

I feel that anything can be used as a medium and making art is my way of challenging my thoughts and ideas while I try to make sense of the world around me.

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RPAC Resident Artist • DYLAN MILLER

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can’t remember a time when I wasn’t completely absorbed in my fascination with Nature. From a young boy arranging potted plants on my deck and getting lost in the woods into my adulthood of living in the forest, working various jobs and starting a family, it has always been there. I’ve studied ecology and philosophy from several different cultures and times to try and really understand it, but each time I am only left with my own experience. At some point, I decided to pick up a camera and it became an obsession to try to share those experiences.

This series is of a discovery I made in my youth, an abandoned TNT factory near Lake Erie in Pennsylvania.

Besides the thrill of exploring a huge crumbling facility several acres across, I was drawn to the contrast of a place once used to manufacturing devastating weapons that was now supporting plant growth and its own micro-ecology. This was no Eden; however, as animal bones and cattle skulls lay in every turn and there was a feeling in many areas that was difficult to place. I’m not sure if it’s still standing, but this remains one of the most interesting and mysterious places I’ve ever stumbled upon.

(Above) Silence Machinery once used to manufacture explosives rusts into the earth. Only wind through the structures can occasionally be heard.

(Left ) TNT The furnaces and dials here aided in creating explosions in WWII, but are themselves disassembled

by Nature.

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RPAC Resident Artist • TERRENCE MAHON

(Above) Limits 36” x 12” acrylic on canvas

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s a product designer evolving my vision to art, I am introducing three-dimensional sculpture in the direction of interior wall art. Beauty, order, and meaning have been the core output to my design philosophy and process.

My design direction is influenced by naturally occurring elements of light, wind, water, stone, and trees. The surfaces I create represent the beauty in the end state of what the natural elements have left behind.

My works are empathetic to interior architecture and decor styles enabling versatility with the placement.

(Above) Oh A Christmas Tree Plaster and Gold Leaf

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(Above) Linden 28”x 27” Plaster Inset on Birch

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CHARLES GULBRANDSEN • RPAC Resident Artist

(Above Left) Incandesce (Above Right) Tempest (Bottom) Sonata, Triptych These paintings, these delicate networks of luminous interconnectivity, establish a vivid matrix of harmony, interdependence and uncertainty. They are intended to hang as questions rather than statements. What place is this?

Where are we now?

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n 1913 my grandfather, Charles G. Gulbrandsen, began work painting the ceiling of Grand Central Terminal. Then in 1945; he was chosen to lead the repainting of the ceiling; and this celestial mural continues to inspire travelers to this day.

Following in my grandfather’s artistic footsteps, I received a full scholarship to The Cooper Union in New York City. While at Cooper Union, I was awarded the Vena T Carrol Prize of achievement in painting and The Bath Academy of Art Scholarship and studied abroad in England.

After graduating from The Cooper Union, I began my own career in art restoration and was fortunate enough to participate in the 1996 restoration of the Grand Central Terminal ceiling mural, excited to connect with and preserve the work of my grandfather.

During this same period, I also established my own painting studio executing numerous commissions, including large-scale murals.

Presently, I continue to accept commissions, while I primarily concentrate on my own abstract work.

RPAC Resident Artist • LUIZA BUDEA

(Above) Velvet

(Above) Gilded Splinters

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uiza traded the big city for the allure of small-town charm nearly three years ago. As a Ridgefield resident, she fell in love with the community and became involved in organizing a series of art shows through Ridgefield Art on Main, as well as gracing Main Street with some muchappreciated examples of public art, rendered in the most ephemeral of materials: sidewalk chalk - a medium that fades with each footstep and raindrop leaving behind only memories.

Fond memories, we hope.

Unknowingly, Luiza had tapped into the longest tradition of art made by women, the kōlam. Practiced for centuries, the kōlam is made using only the artist’s fingers drizzling rice flour always in symmetrical geometric abstract forms in front of homes and spaces in India. The kōlam are visual prayers, and are walked over all day every day, and gone by day’s end. Much like them, Luiza’s chalk drawings celebrate both the act of sharing a gift freely with everyone and the ephemeral nature of beauty, no matter how hard we may try to preserve it. Luiza believes that art is not just for looking at - but that art is intended to do something. Have a daily practice. With internal purpose.

By these and other less ephemeral means, she aspires to hint the infinite. Her artistic practice centers around endless patterns that are inherent in nature and therefore universal. She not only does chalk, however. Intermittently she uses some of the most enduring media and some of the most modern.

(Above) Chalk drawing executed in front of RPAC Gallery on Main Street, Ridgefield.

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LILY FERTIK • RPAC Resident Artist

(Above) Freedom Within (Left) Flowers and Sand Dunes

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y reality is through my creativity. Each painting represents something that I experienced in one form or another. My truth is in each brush stroke. Each breath and mood is within every color. Being an abstract artist allows me the freedom of choice and holds no boundaries. Your interpretation along with my imagination equals a life of balance, acceptance, love & happiness.

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RPAC Resident Artist • BRANDY PERRONE

“The inspiration for my art work has been the ebb and flow of life.”

(Above) Escape Escape was recreated after the death of Brandy’s mother.

(Right) Gnarly A representation of a petrified tree in Yellowstone National Park, is the permeance of life even after the death of the tree.

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fter working for years as a Registered Nurse and raising two daughters, I occasionally worked in watercolors and chalk doing miscellaneous pieces. In the early 2000’s, I returned to college to obtain my Masters in Healthcare/ Business Administration. While doing this, I took a couple of courses in Art. This is when I finally decided to truly segway into developing my love of creating works of art. After many years of creating in watercolors and chalk, I was challenged to try acrylic paints and really enjoyed the experience.

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STEVE LIKER • RPAC Resident Artist

(Above) Social Distancing in Ballard Park (Sold) This piece captures the park at one of its most beautiful times, during the Cherry Blossom season.

(Left) Summer Night Stroll The beauty and excitement of the city after a summer rainfall. The city lights reflect off the street and create a myriad of colors and shadows.

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study the impact of color, light, reflection and shadow as integral parts of the scene.

I use color and light to define the interplay of forms. My painting begins with a tinted canvas onto which I build light as well as dark. I draw with the paint. My primary concern is to balance the abstract elements of color and composition before I focus on the details which make the forms recognizable. My work is a loose realism with a touch of impressionism. I have always been intrigued by Manet’s use of dark and shadows to accentuate the light and the forms.

I have been painting for over 40 years. My business travels took me to 37 countries around the world where I experienced variations in art, design and form.

I have enjoyed exhibiting in SOHO, Brooklyn, Canterbury England, as well as locally in Connecticut.

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RPAC Resident Artist • JIM MALLOY

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im Malloy is an award winning author and artist who explores abstract expression using acrylics. His artwork is known for its raw style, vibrant colors and unorthodox technique.

Of his work, Malloy says, “Painting for me is a journey, an exploration of imagination and emotion, upheaval and serenity. I love bold color and unconventional technique that aspire to evoke a response, whether it be a sigh or a gasp or just a smile.”

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, raised in southern New Jersey, Jim graduated college with a Bachelor of Arts from Gettysburg College.

He resides in New Fairfield, CT and is a Resident Artist at RPAC Art Center in Ridgefield, CT. Jim is also a member of the Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Carriage Barn Art Center, Stamford Art Association, Kent Art Center and the Richter Association for the Arts.

(Above) Pinot Noir ‘Pinot Noir’ is an homage to one of the artist’s favorite wines; painted using acrylics applied with a credit card and a woodworkers syringe for the ‘legs.’

(Below) Like Jagger Music influences much of Jim Malloy’s work and Like Jagger is an abstract acrylic on paper inspired by the pop song Move Like Jagger by Maroon Five.

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Give the Gift of Art for the Holidays RPAC Holiday Gift Market located at RPAC Gallery Original and one-of-a-kind gifts created by RPAC Resident Artists

Gift Certificate for a 2-hour Portfolio Review Gift Certificate for 3 Introductory Classes Gift Certificate for 5 Online Design Workshops 1 Signed Art Print Make a General Donation to ArtFul in honor of the artist in your life

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RPAC Resident Artist • DOMENIC COLABELLA

(Above) Gate to Heaven This picture was taken at a cathedral in Spain. The complex patterns made by the ceiling create an beautiful abstraction.

(Left) Military Metal Domenic has a passion for cars, he photographs cars finding beauty in the way the sun on the metal creates patterns.

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y passion is taking pictures for my and other peoples enjoyment. The reason I started taking photos is I wished I could share what I think looks cool. I am an award winning novice in the beginning of my journey as a photographer. I was just chosen to exhibit in The After School Arts Program’s (ASAP) Annual Celebration of Young Photographers for the 4th year in a row. ASAP celebrates young photographers and selects 60 photos to be included in a unique exhibition.

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WILL COOK • RPAC Resident Artist

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(Above) Graffiti Highway This abandoned section of RT 61 in Pennsylvania is known as the “Graffiti Highway” (Left) The Ghost This spooky photograph was captured at the abandoned hotel ruins on top of Overlook Mtn. in Woodstock, NY. The ghost image was created in real time, using a light “whip” and is not a photoshopped effect.

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ill’s love affair with photography began in the early 80’s. He first photographed subjects using Black and White film, and developed images in a darkroom built by his older brother.

While Will enjoys more traditional styles of photography, his passion transcends when he is creating long exposure photographs, with particular emphasis on “Nightscapes” and light painting photography. He uses various tools i.e. flashlights, fiber optic brushes, flames, etc., to transform still photography into artistic masterpieces. People have often stated that Will’s photographs look like paintings.

Will’s work has appeared in numerous publications, galleries and businesses. In addition to doing commission work, Will loves sharing his extensive knowledge by teaching others. He loves to empower up-and-coming photographers, through both 1:1 and small group instruction.

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RPAC Resident Artist • GREG MURSKO

(Left) Original Cover Art created for “Taking The Care Out Of Health Care” (Bottom Right) Wrath Part of the Seven Deadly Sins series.

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hen I create a new Illustration, I challenge myself to take a “known” subject and rethink it grabbing inspiration from everything I see. I want to bring an element of pop culture and a twist bringing a surprise.

I work in several mediums to bring my ideas to life. I use colored pencil, pen and ink, water color, and digital editing all to gain a complete artwork. Each new opportunity brings new life to my illustration and design work.

Teaching future art and design students is extremely important to me. There’s a very fruitful life awaiting talented and driven art students. Never listen to the nay-sayers. The title of “Starving Artist” should never be given. The old fashion beliefs and curricula need to be updated to today’s world; that is why I helped create RPAC. We are boldly changing how art and design is taught by putting the art student first. We nurture art students and art professionals to excel at their craft and their business practices.

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Dave Konig • RPAC Resident Artist

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ave Konig is an artist, an actor, a 3 time Emmy award winning comedian, and a novelist. A lifelong New Yorker, Konig has spent his entire life riding the New York City subways and won his 3 New York Emmys co-hosting the local comedy show ‘Subway Q & A’, featuring his manunder-the-street Konig Underground segments. As an actor, Konig has guest starred on numerous quintessentially New York shows such as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Blacklist, Crashing, Blue Bloods, and many more. His first novel, Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky, a dark comedy set in the gritty world of 1980’s New York City, was called “required reading” by the NY Post.

Konig captures New Yorkers on the subways in fast, detailed pen & ink drawings - and off the subways in slow, detailed oil paintings.

“I have always thought everyone in the country should come and live in New York and ride the subways for one month. It would go a long way to eliminating the fear of the unknown that fuels so much division. Intolerance is a lot harder to pull off when people of every background are shoulder to shoulder everyday.

When you draw people on the subway you have to work fast, so it forces you to try and capture the essence of their humanity, and hopefully connect with what we all share rather than focusing on our differences.”

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(Above) Secret Agent Man (Sold) A subway rider in between stops on the 1 train.

(Below) King of the Bronx (Sold) He’s eating Italian Ice with his fingers! He’s the King of the Bronx.

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Your Next Creation Awaits RPAC offers Studio Workspaces and Annual Memberships for artists so you can create on your time table within a supportive and creative environment.

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n 24-hour access to an assigned studio workspace with private locker n Exhibited art work in Gallery n Promotion of artists on RPAC online marketing n Personalized online store front to sell originals and art prints at RPACGallery.com n Coaching and critiques available from Master of Fine Arts instructors n Discounted rates on all classes and workshops offered n 24-hour access to RPAC’s state-ofthe-art computer lab: brand new iMac Computers, wide format printer, high capacity printer, scanner, and screen projection.

RPAC offers a generous workspace for studio art, complete with work tables, easels, and much more. We understand that COVID may have affected your access to your normal studio time and space. We can help you keep your creative time the same by providing an alternative.

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