Artist Reception Saturday June 16, 2012 @ 5p-9p for "ROBERT CENEDELLA CLASS FROM THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK OCCUPIES GAS GALLERY AND STUDIO" - Presented by GAS Gallery And Studio | Curated by Elizabeth Carol Winchester

Artist Reception: Saturday June 16, 2012 | Time: 5 pm - 9 pm
Exhibit Dates: June 11 - July 28, 2012

This art exhibit is a collaboration with artist and curator Elizabeth Carol Winchester and Robert Cenedella, artist and educator at The Art Students League of New York, and showcases artwork created by fourteen selected students from Mr. Cenedella’s painting class. The exhibit will be on view June 11 through July 28, 2012, with an Artist Reception scheduled for Saturday June 16th, from 5pm to 9pm.

As part of GAS Gallery And Studio’s “EMERGING ARTISTS” program, this exhibit is designed to showcase the work of talented artists who may have not yet exhibited in a modern gallery setting and provide them with real world exhibit experience while introducing their work to a contemporary and new audience of art lovers and art critics alike.

Featured artists include: Akiko Asanuma, Robert Dickerson, Renee Fineberg, Wendy Lax, Val Mannino, Lucas Melo, Fred Mendelsohn, Ursula Mur, Yuri Ohara, Yasuaki Okamoto, Aleksandar Pilipovic, Gil Podorson, Jeff Tocci and Elizabeth Carol Winchester.

Founded in 1875 by artists and for artists, The Art Students League of New York has been instrumental in shaping America's legacy in the fine arts. Many renowned artists have honed their skills at the League, which is dedicated to sustaining the great tradition of training artists. Today, more than 2,500 students of all ages, backgrounds and skill levels, study at the League each month.

Since 2010, GAS Gallery And Studio has been bringing unique and diverse art and event programming to the greater New York metropolitan area, specifically the Maplewood and South Orange communities of Northeast New Jersey, just a thirty-minute trip from New York City.

Robert Cenedella

Robert Cenedella is a master of pictorial satire and fantasy, justly celebrated for his paintings revealing all aspects of big-city life. As part of New York’s art community for over three decades, he paints everything and everybody from cameo likenesses of celebrities to those of the common man. His pictures of subways, symphonies, sports arenas, street scenes and drinking establishments are quintessentially New York.

He has had one-man shows throughout the United States and Europe. His first Berlin exhibition, In Search of DADA, was in 1994, and coincided with the George Grosz Centennial Exhibition at the National Galerie in Berlin. He returned to Germany in October 2006 for a one-man retrospective at the Otto-Nagel Galerie, also in Berlin. His renowned mural of the original Le Cirque restaurant in New York City, Le Cirque, the 1st Generation, was recently installed at the restaurant’s new location on East 58th Street. Other notable murals include Mi Casa, Su Casa for Bacardi International; Tony’s World, commissioned by the late Tony Randall for former League model Heather Randall; and his Absolut Cenedella commissions. These can be seen on his website: rcenedellagallery.com.

For more information about The Art Students League of New York, visit their website at theartstudentsleague.org/Home.aspx.