Allison Malafronte
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Allison Malafronte is the senior editor of American Artist magazine in New York City. She has been at the publication for six years and regularly writes and edits feature articles on historical and contemporary practitioners of the plein air movement. She also maintains a blog on plein air painting for the magazine's website, Artist Daily. In addition to writing and editing for American Artist and the magazine's three quarterlies (Drawing, Workshop, and Watercolor) she is also the coordinator of American Artist's Weekend With the Masters Workshop & Conference, which gathers some of today's top figure, portrait, still life, and plein air painters for four days of instruction, interaction, and discussion centered on traditional art.
Gary Godbee received a B.F.A. degree in painting from Boston University in 1974, and studied graduate painting at Brooklyn College and Montclair State University. He currently teaches painting courses at the Montclair Art Museum School/ Yard School of Art, and the Somerset Art Association.
Gary is best known for his realist landscape paintings, which often include panoramic views of northern New Jersey. Recent exhibitions include one-person shows at J. Cacciola Gallery in NYC, the Edward Williams Gallery at Fairleigh Dickenson University, and Studio 7 Gallery in Bernardsville, NJ. His work will be featured this spring in the 2010 N.J. Arts Annual at the NJ State Museum in Trenton. He received Fellowships in 2004 and 1994 from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, exceptional merit awards from the City Without Walls Gallery in Newark in 2002 and 1995, and a merit award from the Portrait Institute in New York in 1996.
He most recently participated in the shows Super Real: Different Angles of Photorealism at the Citadelle Art Foundation in Canadian, Texas, and The Human Form, a show of figure paintings and drawings at Studio7 Gallery in Bernardsville, NJ. Gary is represented in NYC by the J. Cacciola Gallery and in Bernardsville, NJ by Studio 7 Gallery.
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