Costa Vavagiakis
Drawing for All Levels
Class #9101
The instructor who teaches this class has requested that students wear masks in the studio during class hours. If this is an issue for you, please consider signing up for another class.
PLEASE NOTE A deposit of $1,000 per person, of which $350 is non-refundable is required as a reservation for this workshop; The deposit is non refundable after February 23. 2023. Final payment is required by March 1, 2023.
I strive to create a lively environment in my remote class with rich conversations with my students on materials, concepts, aesthetics, and history. We will be exploring the fundamental principles of perception — light, plane-structure, tonal value, perspective and proportion. I will be working along with the students using a split screen. We will start with a pre-recorded, nude, live model session with poses timed for 1, 2 and 5-minute periods. We then will draw together for the remaining session from one of the wonderful images selected. By working alongside your teacher, you will gain a more concrete and visual understanding of the artists’ process. Shared screens will be used for the next session to allow for an ongoing dialogue of critiques, demonstrations and art history lectures to inspire and enhance the students’ experience. All levels welcome.
Costa Vavagiakis has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums throughout the United States such as The National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.; Hirschl & Adler Galleries, ACA Galleries and Salander-O'Reilly Galleries in NY; Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco and The Frye Art Museum, Seattle.
His work is held in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States including the Museum of the City of New York, the New-York Historical Society and the Arkansas Art Center. He has been the recipient of many distinguished awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and the Gregory Millard Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Costa Vavagiakis is featured in publications such as Portrait Painting Atelier; Curve: The Female Nude Now, and in articles in Drawing Magazine, American Artist, American Artist Drawing and The Artist’s Magazine, among others.
He has taught at the National Academy of Design School, the New York Academy of Art, 92nd street Y and Brooklyn College. He is currently on the faculty at the Yale School of Drama, the Gage Academy and at the Art Students' League of New York, where he has taught for over two decades.