Jody Primoff
Painting & Mixed Media
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I've been painting my whole life. Growing up in Utica, NY I was lucky enough to attend Saturday art classes for children at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, with William Palmer and Edward Christiana as teachers. After I graduated from Syracuse University I moved to New York and there studied at the Art Students' League with Reginald Marsh. While living in New York I often went to museums and galleries, falling in love with such painters as Monet, Bonnard, Rothko, Diebenkorn and Wolf Kahn.
After I married and raised my three children I lived for many years in New Rochelle, where I taught special education, while continuing to paint whenever I could. I established a gallery connection in North Carolina which has been maintained for many years.
Currently, I am retired from teaching and my husband and I maintain two homes. We spend summers in the Catskill Mountains and winters on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. In both locations, I paint full time, inspired constantly by two very different but equally beautiful types of scenery.
Landscape is my primary subject. I move back and forth among different mediums and material, painting in watercolor, acrylic and pastel, combining them with pen and ink and collage in mixed media pieces. The style of my paintings varies as well. I am seduced by the beauty of reality, but also love the surprises that lie in the abstract and semi-abstract. To me the most important element in painting is color, which I use to express my feelings about the natural world in which we live.
I am a member of three galleries: The Artisans' Guild in Oneonta, NY, The Smithy-Pioneer Gallery in Cooperstown, NY, and The Island Art Gallery in Manteo, NC. Art organizations I belong to include the Central New York Watercolor Society, The Chestertown Arts League in Chestertown, MD and the Working Artists Forum in Easton, MD.
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