The Storm Signals UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE / RIO GRANDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
RIO GRANDE, OH
THURSDAY JANUARY 28, 2021
Art Show with Gerry Enrico On Tuesday, November 17 there was a workshop and an art show at the Greer Museum on campus. The show was done by Gerry Enrico. Gerry’s workshop started at 10 AM on Tuesday, November 17, the workshop was during the drawing class because he was drawing a portrait.
He chose student. He started with a plain sheet of paper that was around 17 x 20“. He showed the class how he took charcoal to lay out the face first with a rough black streaky mark. And then went into detail with sections that he picked out. He talked about how he broke the face down into sections by creating a grid on top of their face. He said that his portraits can take up from an hour to two or up to a month or two depending on how much detail he feels that needs to be put into these portraits. The portrait that he finished during the drawing class took around an hour and 30 minutes. The level of detail that was put into the drawing was simple but yet made the drawing look realistic. In the first 15 minutes you could see the models face on the white piece of paper. He explained to the class that he jumps around to different mediums when he feels bored, but he’s very passionate about drawing portraits because he can express the emotion that that person is feeling on their face. The museum opening was later that evening on Tuesday, November 17 in the Greer Museum on Rio’s campus. The museum was decorated in all of his beautiful portraits around the room. He had a mixture of men and women portraits, one of a monkeys, one of a chicken and also a pray mantis. As he spoke to the room about 30 minutes into the opening he explained two of us portraits, one was a older gentleman that was on the cover of his flyers, he explained all of the beautiful white markings and gray markings
on expressing his emotions through his face and jaw line. The other Portrait that he explained was of a older lady and said they had no relation to her at all, but he explained all of the sadness within her face and how he felt so connected to it. He talked a lot about practicing his work wherever by drawing on a subway or in an airplane. The last thing that he explained was his pre-mantis drawing he said that no one will ever see this this drawing again, it expresses the woman pray mantis and how she was so aggressive and how she eats her partner after mating. As the showing on he explained that the monkey portrait that he did, also had five or six other collaboration pieces that went along with it, but the same person buys those drawings as Gerry is finishing them. The show was beautiful, it was great to have a local artist and famous artist in our gallery.
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