From Lance Anderson at Altadena Junction:
In the Spirit of Franz Hals and Fotomat, Alex Schaefer will be painting 20 minute oil portraits from life! Sit and get painted.
Alex
Schaefer was born in 1969. Like many artists, he took an interest in
painting relatively late in life, but for whatever reason, at 18 he
began to study drawing and painting in earnest a study that has
continued to this day. He applied twice to the Art Center College of
Design and was accepted the second try. His exposure to certain
influential teachers such as Richard Bunkall, Dan McCaw, and Harry
Carmean cultivated a deep fascination for art, specifically the history
and craft of oil painting, representation, and expression.
After
graduation in 1992, Mr. Schaefer entered the burgeoning video game
industry where he worked for nine years with the virtual light and
space of digital media, an experience that invariably influenced his
perception and depiction of painted light and space on canvas. While no
longer making video games, he still loves computers but takes
particular delight in all the earthy, messy, “analog” aspects of paint
and flaunts its physicality.
In addition to his expanding
reputation as a fine artist, he is a loved and admired composition and
painting instructor at the Art Center College of Design. Mr. Schaefer’s
artwork is in a growing number of collections, both public and private,
in the United States and abroad.
The event will be 7-11 PM Fri., Sept. 4, at Altadena Junction, 2524 & 2526 El Molino Ave.
