Nicki Orbach

Nicki Orbach, Indra’s Net, 2013, Mixed Media on burlap, 57 x 34 inches.

The League mourns the recent passing of instructor Nicki Orbach on December 20, 2016.

“There is no one way of seeing, drawing, or painting,” 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.”

Ms. Orbach has exhibited her paintings at Exit Art, Montclair Art Museum, Anthropology Museum of the People of New York, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Museum of Fine Art in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and numerous other galleries across the country.

In addition to teaching at the Art Students League of New York and the National Academy School of Fine Arts, she has taught at the Yard School of Art, Montclair, NJ; New Jersey Center for Visual Arts in Summit; and Old Church Cultural Center School of Art, Demarest, NJ.

Ms. Orbach studied at the Art Students League with Robert Beverly Hale and Gregory d’Alessio, and earned a Certificate of Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts at the New York Academy of Art. While earning an M.F.A. at Pratt Institute, she served as anatomical assistant to Professor Salvatore Montano, performing dissections with him at a leading medical college.