Daniel Maidman, Nudes

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"Daniel Maidman: Nudes" presents highlights from the life drawing work of Daniel Maidman between 2014 and 2016. Regarded as one of the foremost masters of figure drawing in America, Maidman has spent several decades grappling with the challenges and opportunities of drawing from life. The resulting body of work - deft, ripe depictions of the human body in all its shapes and actions - has developed an avid following amongst artists and admirers alike. "Daniel Maidman: Nudes" celebrates Maidman's drawing oeuvre, selecting 80 recent to provide an in-depth look at his powerful vision of the beauty and pathos of the human condition.

Including an interview with the artist by painter Andrew Sendor, and forwards by Vincent Desiderio and Max Ritvo.

About the Author
Maidman, Daniel: - Daniel Maidman (born Toronto, Canada, 1975) is an artist whose imagery occupies a spectrum from high rendering to almost total abstraction. He has produced paintings in collaboration with best-selling novelist China Miéville, award-winning poet Kathleen Rooney, and independent film icon Martin Donovan. Maidman's art has been shown in solo and group shows in Manhattan and nationwide. Maidman's drawings and paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the Long Beach Museum of Art. His art and writing on art have been featured in ARTnews, Forbes, W, Juxtapoz, Hyperallergic, Artsy, American Art Collector, International Artist, PoetsArtists, and Manifest.Vincent Desiderio: - Vincent Desiderio was born in 1955. He graduated from Haverford College in 1977 and later attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he is a Senior Critic. He is also a Senior Critic at the New York Academy of Art and has been a visiting professor at numerous universities both here and abroad, most recently at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in China. He lives and works in New York. Desiderio has received several grants and painting awards among which are the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, two National Endowment for the Arts Grants (1987 and 1991), and the Grand Prize of S.A.S. Prince Ranier III, Thirtieth Annual Show of Contemporary Art in Monte-Carlo, Monaco in 1996. He was the first American to receive that award. He is the recipient of honorary doctorates from both the New York Academy of Art and the Lyme Academy. In 2007 Desiderio was invited to be Artist in Residence at Dartmouth College. His work can be found in many important public collections, including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany; and The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.Max Ritvo: - Max Ritvo (1990-2016) is generally acknowledged to have been one of the finest poets of his generation. Max Ritvo's debut collection, Four Reincarnations, came out in September 2016 with Milkweed Editions. He was awarded a 2014 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for his chapbook, AEONS. His poetry has also appeared in the New Yorker, POETRY, and as a Poem-a-Day for Poets.org. Ritvo's eight poem sampler in Boston Review, introduced by Lucie Brock-Broido, was named as one of their top 20 poetry selections published in 2015. He was a poetry editor at Parnassus: Poetry in Review and a teaching fellow at Columbia University. Max's prose and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Huffington Post, Divedapper, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. His radio appearances include NPR's Only Human, The New Yorker Radio Hour, and The Dr. Drew Podcast.