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Elements of Drawing and Perception, Anatomy for Artists
"There is no one way of seeing, drawing or painting,ä says Nicki Orbach. "The
learning should be a joyous process in experiencing different ways of exploring a subject.
The teaching of art should entail assisting students in their process of discovery.ä
Ms. Orbach shares her knowledge with slide lectures, exercises designed to
increase oneâs visual awareness and discussions about anatomy and drawing. She wants
her students to be active participants in the learning process. The class explores
composition, visual perception and their relationship in making a picture. Students are
encouraged to use their knowledge for their own expressive needs, whether in the realm
of realism or abstraction. "Individual instruction," says Ms. Orbach, ãenables the student
to integrate knowledge, intuition and creativity."
Ms. Orbach has exhibited her paintings at Exit Art, Montclair Art Museum,
Anthropology Museum of the People of New York, Williamsburg Art and Historical
Center, Salander-OâReilly Galleries, Museum of Fine Art in Las Cruces, New Mexico
and numerous galleries across the country. In addition to teaching at the Art Students
League and the National Academy School of Fine Arts, she has taught at the Yard School
of Art, Montclair, New Jersey; New Jersey Center for Visual Arts in Summit; and Old
Church Cultural Center School of Art, Demarest, New Jersey.
Ms. Orbach studied at the Art Students League with Robert Beverly Hale and
Gregory dâAlessio and earned a Certificate of Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts at the
New York Academy of Art. While earning an M.F.A. degree at Pratt Institute, she served
as Anatomical Assistant to Professor Salvatore Montano, performing dissections with
him at a leading medical college.
His work is represented in the collection of the White Building, University of
Michigan; the Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana; and in the Saginaw
Art Museum.
He has previously taught classes at Merrimack Valley of Music and Art,
Manchester, New Hampshire and the Fairlawn Community Center, New Jersey.
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