About Us

Micheline Klagsbrun

Klagsbrun’s body of work brings together drawings on vellum, large canvases, and three-dimensional wall hangings and sculptural pieces.

“Populated by hybrid forms—natural and human, animate and inanimate— her works are created through the interplay of lines, colors and textures. Permeated with light, they are weightless and evanescent exploring the notion of transformation, thematically and formally…

By staining, pouring, and splashing inks on canvases and vellum sheets, on the one hand, and layering and folding papers into three-dimensional, organic shapes on the other, Klagsbrun arrived at a new vocabulary where the bodies are almost completely distilled in fluid and translucent surfaces.” (Vesela Sretenovic, Senior Curator, Phillips Collection, 2016)

Micheline Klagsbrun studied in Paris with Alfredo Echeverria and at the Corcoran with Gene Davis and Bill Newman. She has exhibited widely, and is in private collections nationally as well as in Europe and the Middle East.

Tito Pieczanski

I can see myself sitting on the roof of my house looking at passers-by.

Being a flaneur has always been one of my favorite activities. My other passion was music. My sense of beauty is informed by those early experiences. So, when many decades ago a Kodak Brownie entered my life it sealed the deal; I wanted to "look" into the heart of those anonymous, humble, and brave musicians that could give a generous gift of beauty to total strangers.

Over the years street musicians and a curiosity about their experience while playing became the core of my photography.

I hope my pictures honor the very humble, courageous, and brave act of unpacking an instrument and starting to play on a street corner.

Tuesday Night Group

The TNG is a fluctuating group of 10-20 members who meet every Tuesday Night to draw and paint from life. We represent a diverse range of styles and media. Selected work will is always on view.

In December 2022, the Tuesday Night group celebrated 38 years of meeting to make art, drink wine and share stories.

The boundaries of the group are flexible: members move away, spend a few years elsewhere, then often find themselves returning, knowing that, however far they have traveled and however many years they have been away, they will still find the group drawing and painting together
every Tuesday night.

In March 2020, with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, TNG moved to a weekly Zoom format, and began to draw inspiration from a range of themes, and from art of many different cultures and eras. We experimented with media from video to collage to sculpture to staged photography.

We grew and flourished as we discovered our own voices, and re-discovered our far-flung members who could now join us virtually.

We now alternate our in-person and Zoom meetings, enabling our Zoom community to continue.

A Flexible List of Members

  • Alejandro Bermudez-Del-Villar
  • Alvaro Luna
  • Barry Goodman
  • Carlos Doria
  • Claire Ruppert
  • Dan Lucas
  • David Israel
  • Diane Fuchs
  • Diane McDougal
  • Emmanuel Holder
  • Irene Pantelis
  • Jacob Perkinson
  • James Thomas
  • Joe Carpenter
  • Marilyn Dillihaye
  • Marina Petrovic
  • Matt Wuerker
  • Priscilla Nemeth
  • Ricky Barton
  • Ruslan Yemtsov
  • Svetlana Bagaudinova
  • Yavar Rzayev
  • Yayo Grassi
  • Yee Man Yu

In Memoriam

Joseph Hall
1958-2020

It was a privilege to share a studio with Joe and over the years to watch his work become increasingly sophisticated and complex. His growth as an artist was hard to believe until you realized that he put more passion and labor into one Sunday than most artists put into a month.

He built his canvases with layer upon layer of paint, embedding antique photos, fragments of newspapers and old movie posters, sanding and re-layering endlessly. He poured his soul into the work, creating palimpsests of memory. 

We had a running joke about his perfectionism: frequently I would be adamant that one of his paintings was finished, that he should not make any changes. “Hm, OK” he would say, apparently agreeing. An hour later I would stop by to find the piece covered with more layers of paint, or taken in a new direction. 

What was so striking about Joe in this regard was not just his passion and intensity but his refusal to settle for anything that didn’t feel entirely right to him. This reflected his approach to all facets of life.

The relationship of studio partners is a unique one. Every Sunday we would pause to catch up on our lives, on the world, on what we were working on. We were always on the same wavelength about cultural happenings, in all fields of art, and about our shared commitment to progressive philanthropy and advocacy. Each of us was constantly on the lookout for artists we thought the other should know about, sharing tips and ideas back and forth. Joe’s spot-on cultural critiques, humor and trenchant observations about the world made him an irreplaceable studio partner.

His loss leaves an unfillable void. I look forward to a brighter time when we can all gather again and enjoy a retrospective exhibition of his work at Klagsbrun Studios.

A fuller obituary is available here

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