Michael Grimaldi

Michael Grimaldi

Michael Grimaldi (born 1971) is an American painter.

Life

Grimaldi was born in New York City, and attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. After a brief time at the New York Studio School, he enrolled at the Art Students League of New York and studied with Peter Cox, Ted Seth Jacobs, Anthony Ryder and Ronald Sherr. In 1993, he was awarded the MacDowell Travel Grant and moved to France to continue his studies with Ted Seth Jacobs at the L'Ecole Albert Defois. Upon returning to New York, Grimaldi studied at the National Academy of Design with Jacob Collins. In 2005, Grimaldi conducted independent studies in anatomy at the Facultad Medicina in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In 2007, he received the Alma Schapiro Prize for an Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Other awards include the Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant (1993), Stacey Foundation Grant (1998 & 1999), the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (1999 & 2002) and the Forbes Foundation Residency Fellowship (2002).

In 2002, Grimaldi co-founded Studio 126 and in 2006, he co-founded the Grand Central Academy of Art, a fine art program within the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America, with colleagues Jacob Collins, Kate Lehman and Dan Thompson. In 2008, Grimaldi, Lehman and Thompson left the Grand Central Academy to launch a collaborative program of teaching at the Janus Collaborative School of Art, a non-profit organization scheduled to open in September 2008. Grimaldi has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Gage Academy, Studio Incamminati and the Water Street Atelier. He currently teaches Figure Drawing at the Art Students League of New York.

In 2006, Grimaldi moved from New York to Philadelphia where he currently lives and works.

Work

Grimaldi's work, grounded in realism, is always intimate with his environment, whether with private interiors, psychologically charged portraits, personal objects or landscape. His work is anachronistic in its juxtaposition of archaic technique with contemporary subject matter. His still life paintings frequently feature obsolete technologies, bringing attention the overlooked and unseen.

His mediums primarily fall into two categories; drawing with graphite and charcoal, or painting in oil. Grimaldi remains consistent in scale and formal execution throughout his different phases. His main artistic influences are Antonio López García, Walter Tandy Murch, Edwin Dickinson and Andrew Wyeth.

Grimaldi's work has been exhibited at Arcadia Gallery, the Arnot Museum, the Forbes Magazine Collection Museum, Forum Gallery and the National Academy Museum in New York; and the de Young Museum and John Pence Gallery in San Francisco.

External links

* [http://www.MichaelGrimaldi.net/ MichaelGrimaldi.net] , official site
* [http://JanusCollaborative.org/ Janus Collaborative School of Art]

References

* [http://www.michaelgrimaldi.net/Information.html Curriculum Vitae]
* [http://www.johnpence.com/visuals/painters/grimaldi/index.htm John Pence Gallery]
* [http://www.theartstudentsleague.org/bio_michael_g.html The Art Students League Instructor Bio]


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