Advanced Oil Painting-Narrative painting
taught by Luke Rockwell
This class is designed to advance an intermediate painter. This class will be focused on making a multi-figure, multi session oil painting on prepared paper mounted to foam core . This class will draw from historical painting techniques and contemporary image making. We will sharpen skills working from observation as well as imagination and story telling.
Students must have already take a beginner and intermediate oil painting class and provide their own supplies. A supply list can be found here .
4 Sessions, Thursdays, January 29, February 5, 12, 26 (No class February 19th) from 6:00 -9:00 PM
$150 member/$180 non-member
About the instructor
I am a narrative figure painter and draughtsman living in the North Country of New York State. I received my MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art in 2015 and have exhibited nationally since an early age. In my paintings and drawings, I create an uncanny world where familiar pastoral and domestic scenes are unsettled by skewed perspectives and off-kilter interactions. Narrative becomes an entry point for the viewer, inviting engagement, empathy, and at times revulsion. By probing wayward possibilities within the structures of domestic and public space, the work plays with and subverts the conventions of traditional figurative painting and cinema. My influences span moments across art history. I draw from Courbet, the documentary imagery of Dorothea Lange, and the cinematic language of Sergei Eisenstein. Other works take cues from N. C. Wyeth’s Treasure Island illustrations and Goya’s ¡Bárbaros! from the Disasters of War series. Just as theatrical conventions shaped paintings like David’s The Death of Socrates, my approach to mise-en-scène, perspective, and heightened drama is informed by the films of Douglas Sirk and Martin Scorsese, acknowledging cinema’s enduring impact on how we read images today. Across the body of work, recurring characters and settings suggest a larger, fragmented narrative. The images function like flickering scraps of film, offering glimpses of a story that resists full disclosure.
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