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Geoffrey Stein: A studio practice in transition
For the last seven years, at the New York Studio School, American University in Washington, DC and the Slade School of Fine Art, London, my studio practice has focused on painting people and objects from observation. While working with models, my goal has been to put one brush stroke of paint next to another on the canvas, enhancing close tonal, temperature and color changes to achieve not an academic likeness or a copy, but rather an image that reveals the process of painting and communicates something about the person being painted.
Through this examination of process, I have started reevaluating my studio practice to the point where it has reached a transitional point. My approach to painting includes making drawings and collages, and more recently, I have introduced photography into my studio work. By looking closely at the photographs I take at the end of each painting session, I have been examining the distinction between the process of documentation and that of painting. By adding a time-based aspect to my practice, I seek to explore the temporal element in my paintings, a process that I intend to pursue in the future.