Critiques, Museum Visits, & lectures Frank O'Cain
Class Description:
Frank's O'Cain's experience and unique style gives students the opportunity to learn from the principals of Cezanne, Hoffman, Picasso, Matisse and Kandinsky. His teaching enables students to build upon these principles while still maintaining their individuality as artists. Classes will vary from week to week, allowing students to work from the model, still life and museum art. Frank's student work critiques are known to inspire everyone in the class. He welcomes all levels from beginners to advanced; from abstract artists to figurative to landscape; from painting and drawing to collage. Please join Frank for an engaging and inspiring class.
About the Instructor:
Frank O’Cain was born in San Diego, California. He studied at the Art Students League of New York for four years, part of that time with Vaclav Vytlacil. He is unusual in that his abstract art derives from an elaborate study of long-forgotten fifteenth-century techniques. For a time, Mr. O’Cain’s oil paintings involved no fewer than a hundred separate glazes. But all these now lie behind him. They bear witness to unusual technical accomplishments. Recently, he has been exploring a new approach to space in painting. As he says, “I am always wandering about in the unknown, asking myself questions, creating new problems, finding fresh possibilities.”
Mr. O’Cain has had one-man shows at Purdue University; the Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago, 1981; the Miriam Perlman Gallery, Flint, Michigan; the Princeton Art Association; Levitan Gallery I and II, New York City, 1969, 1977; the Saginaw Art Museum; the Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, Mississippi; Northern Illinois University; the Theano Stahelin Kunstsalon, Zurich, Switzerland; and at the Elizabeth V. Sullivan Gallery (at the League Residency at Vyt, 2013). He has participated in group shows at DD&B Gallery, New York City, 1996, 1998; Gallery Korea, New York City, 1999; Gen Paul Gallery, Paris, France, 2002; the Metropolitan Museum of New York, 2013; and the Pompidou, Paris, 2013.
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 taught at Merrimack Valley of Music and Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, and at the Fairlawn Community Center in New Jersey.
Read LINEA’s interview with Frank O’Cain here.
Artist Website: frank-ocain-yxxj.squarespace.com
Frank's O'Cain's experience and unique style gives students the opportunity to learn from the principals of Cezanne, Hoffman, Picasso, Matisse and Kandinsky. His teaching enables students to build upon these principles while still maintaining their individuality as artists. Classes will vary from week to week, allowing students to work from the model, still life and museum art. Frank's student work critiques are known to inspire everyone in the class. He welcomes all levels from beginners to advanced; from abstract artists to figurative to landscape; from painting and drawing to collage. Please join Frank for an engaging and inspiring class.
About the Instructor:
Frank O’Cain was born in San Diego, California. He studied at the Art Students League of New York for four years, part of that time with Vaclav Vytlacil. He is unusual in that his abstract art derives from an elaborate study of long-forgotten fifteenth-century techniques. For a time, Mr. O’Cain’s oil paintings involved no fewer than a hundred separate glazes. But all these now lie behind him. They bear witness to unusual technical accomplishments. Recently, he has been exploring a new approach to space in painting. As he says, “I am always wandering about in the unknown, asking myself questions, creating new problems, finding fresh possibilities.”
Mr. O’Cain has had one-man shows at Purdue University; the Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago, 1981; the Miriam Perlman Gallery, Flint, Michigan; the Princeton Art Association; Levitan Gallery I and II, New York City, 1969, 1977; the Saginaw Art Museum; the Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, Mississippi; Northern Illinois University; the Theano Stahelin Kunstsalon, Zurich, Switzerland; and at the Elizabeth V. Sullivan Gallery (at the League Residency at Vyt, 2013). He has participated in group shows at DD&B Gallery, New York City, 1996, 1998; Gallery Korea, New York City, 1999; Gen Paul Gallery, Paris, France, 2002; the Metropolitan Museum of New York, 2013; and the Pompidou, Paris, 2013.
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 taught at Merrimack Valley of Music and Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, and at the Fairlawn Community Center in New Jersey.
Read LINEA’s interview with Frank O’Cain here.
Artist Website: frank-ocain-yxxj.squarespace.com
The Art Students League of New York
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