Richard Castellana was a member of the first class to enter the NYSS in 1964 when it was housed in a loft on Broadway and Bleecker St.  Although a biology major in college, he started painting after taking a course on the history of modern art.  He studied at the Art Student League and, of course, the NYSS, and briefly in the MFA program at Queens College, which he quit to become a “revolutionary” in 1969.  The revolution, having failed (we got Nixon), he decided to study Marxist economics at the Graduate Faculty of the New School, painting on and off until he completed his Ph.D., when he decided that teaching economics was a way to make a living, but that painting was the way to live.   He has had four one-person exhibitions at the Bowery Gallery in New York City and presently directs and teaches Interdisciplinary Studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

 

Checklist

1.City with Bridge and Sailboat, 2007 Oil on masonite, 9 x 12 inches 

2.City as Still Life, 2007 Oil on masonite, 9 x 12 inches

3. City and Ferry, 2007 Oil on masonite, 9 x 12 inches

4. Tourist on Governors Island, 2007 Oil on masonite, 9 x 12 inches