"The Painting and Drawing of Interior Space" with Ephraim Rubenstein

The last in our Lunchtime Lecture Series at the League. This lecture was filmed before a live audience in the League's main gallery on February 23, 2017.
Description:
Human beings are very conscious of objects; their size, shape, texture and possible use. We are much less conscious of the space around objects, between objects, and of the spatial envelope that positions and unites all things. One way to increase this consciousness is by painting and drawing interior spaces. This has been done throughout the history of Western art, and Interiors have become an independent aesthetic genre. Because interiors raise such dichotomies as; inside/outside; public/private, and order/chaos, it becomes clear that interiors are a potent metaphor for states of mind.
Ephraim Rubenstein has had eleven one-person exhibitions in New York, at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Tatistcheff & Co. and most recently at George Billis Gallery in Chelsea. His work is represented in numerous public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Rubenstein was Associate Professor of Art at the University of Richmond from 1987-1998, where he received the Distinguished Educator Award and the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Commonwealth of Virginia. He has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Maryland Institute College of Art and is currently on the faculty at Columbia University and the Art Students League of New York.