Stanford Brent, 2007 Alumni Exhibition, New York Studio School

In my painting, I am inspired by a moment of heightened consciousness as a young boy. This occurred one evening in the late 1950s at an officers' club on a Gulf Coast naval base where my father was stationed: a large rooftop veranda, a balustrade, a meal with family; the breezy moon, full, with an up-close look through binoculars -- the kind that swivel atop a stand riveted to the ground; some land way below, then the ocean.

We moved to Paris for the next five years, a period when I first began to draw seriously. Then, back in the States in the mid-60s, twelve years old and living in New York City, I began occasionally taking the ferry with my father to Governors Island, and did so over the ensuing twenty years. Around 1980, a few years out of art school and painting on my own, I slowly began to realize that finding myself again at an officers' club on a military base was the kind of coincidental event that was part of a process which confirmed the meaning for my art of the initial boyhood experience. Currently in my mid-fifties, when after a long hiatus I returned to the Island this summer '07 in the context of a residency with other alumni from the NY Studio School, I found the land and architecture too immaculate to nurture a dream. So paint and brush continue to find their way through memory to the original impetus, beyond the Island of cropped lawns, smooth brick, and white lacquered wood.

SELECTED CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Solo: Ingber Gallery, NYC, '86 & '89; Incontro d'Arte, Rome, '91; Grace Gallery, CUNY, NYC, '95; NY Studio School, '06. Group: various, U.S. & Europe. Reviews: NY Times, Art Forum, The Journal of Art, La Repubblica. Collections: private, corporate, museum in U.S. & Europe. Other: American Academy in Rome, visiting artist, '88, '89, '91; CUNY, art teacher, '98-present; NYSS Alum Committee, co-founder, '89; NYSS Board of Governors, chairman, '05-present.

Checklist

1. A Governor, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

2. Governors Sky-Land, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

From Governors Island The 2007 Alumni Exhibition. Juror: Lois Dodd September 6 to October 13, 2007
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