Jeanette Koumjian
After graduating from Pratt Institute and enjoying a 30-year career in advertising design and visual communications, I turned to my first love, fine art. Rigorous study under Francis Cunningham helped me develop sound technique, while I assisted him and sculptor Barney Hodes to found The New Brooklyn School of Life Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, now merged with The New York Academy of Art.
I paint in oils on linen and draw with graphite on paper. My unconventional still lifes have been designed to present challenges of light, color and composition, sometimes metaphors. Please let me know if you would like to see some from my collection.
For landscapes —I have been the recipient of three Residency Grants which took me to New Mexico— I have explored Santa Fe, World Heritage Sites in Taos Pueblo and Carlsbad Caverns. Closer to home, the National Historic Landmark, Green-Wood Cemetery, and Red Hook/Erie Basin, a rapidly changing industrial waterfront, have been great inspirations. These subjects reveal both the graphic and intensely emotional impact of places where man and nature meet.
Founded in 1896, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, whose namesake was the only woman among 106 founders of the Metropolitan Museum, is a passion of mine. I have been privileged to serve on its Board for more than two decades.
My works are included in corporate and private collections nationwide. I am happy to share with my GNPS friends via email: [email protected]. Please learn more about my Green-Wood adventures at https://www.green-wood.com/2015/painting-green-wood/
I paint in oils on linen and draw with graphite on paper. My unconventional still lifes have been designed to present challenges of light, color and composition, sometimes metaphors. Please let me know if you would like to see some from my collection.
For landscapes —I have been the recipient of three Residency Grants which took me to New Mexico— I have explored Santa Fe, World Heritage Sites in Taos Pueblo and Carlsbad Caverns. Closer to home, the National Historic Landmark, Green-Wood Cemetery, and Red Hook/Erie Basin, a rapidly changing industrial waterfront, have been great inspirations. These subjects reveal both the graphic and intensely emotional impact of places where man and nature meet.
Founded in 1896, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, whose namesake was the only woman among 106 founders of the Metropolitan Museum, is a passion of mine. I have been privileged to serve on its Board for more than two decades.
My works are included in corporate and private collections nationwide. I am happy to share with my GNPS friends via email: [email protected]. Please learn more about my Green-Wood adventures at https://www.green-wood.com/2015/painting-green-wood/