Bruce Dorfman
Bruce Dorfman (born 1936) is an American mixed media artist and teacher whose work combines painting and assemblage. Dorfman has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad, and has taught at the Art Students League of New York since 1964.
Dorfman was born in New York City in 1936.[1][2] His father was a painter and his mother was a pianist.[3] Dorfman recalls drawing and painting in a supportive environment from the age of five,[4] and attended the Art Students League of New York, where he studied with Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Arnold Blanch and Charles Alston. "The principal instructors," he said, "were highly influential, and I was very close to them.”[5] Later, Dorfman attended the University of Iowa, and graduated with a bachelor’s in social psychology in 1958.[6]
Dorfman has had more than fifty solo exhibitions. He has received a
Dorfman may take up to two months to complete an artwork, using paint, canvas, fabric, wood, metal and paper. He explains the process as alternating between activity and contemplation. “There is a lot of physical work that goes into it, and there is also a lot of sitting down and looking at it and knowing when to go for a walk or get a cup of coffee.”[8]
In addition to the Art Students League, Dorfman has taught at
References
- ^ askART
- ^ Smithsonian American Art Museum
- ^ Simone Johnson, More than the sum of its parts, The Riverdale Press, October 21, 2018.
- ^ Interview with Stephanie Cassidy, LINEA, January 11, 2022.
- ^ Johnson
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- ^ Monmouth University Center for the Arts
- ^ Johnson
- ^ Monmouth
- ^ Ai Weiwei, Art Students League of New York, October 20, 2014
- ^ Biography, Art Students League of New York
- ^ Howard Sounes, Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, p. 232-235, Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, May 24, 2011.