About Jon
Jon deMartin is among the leading figurative artists working today and has taught life drawing and painting for more than twenty-years at the most prestigious academies and ateliers in the country. Among them are the Arts Students League, the New York Academy of Art, the Grand Central Academy of Art, the Janus Collaborative School of Art, Studio Incamminati, and the Parsons School of Design. He has exhibited at Hirschl & Adler Galleries, the John Pence gallery, the Arnot Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Florence Griswald Museum, and the Beijing World Art Museum, featured in the exhibit ‘Contemporary American Realism’.
He grew up in Wilmington, Delaware and later moved to New York where he graduated from Pratt Institute with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Filmmaking. He subsequently enrolled at the Art Students League, and also studied privately with Michael Aviano. He currently lives in White Plains and teaches in his studio in Port Chester, New York.
Jon’s work has been reproduced in publications such as ‘The Classicist’, Classical Drawing Atelier’, ‘Lessons in Classical Drawing’, Watson-Guptil Publications. ‘Star Wars Art: Visions’, (Abrams Publication), and the ‘Classical Life Studio: Lessons & Teachings in the Art of Figure Drawing’, Sterling Publications. He has written and illustrated over twenty-five articles on classical figure drawing technique for ‘Drawing Magazine’.
In his paintings, Jon concentrates on the figure placed in outdoor and interior situations, as well as portraits and industrial landscapes.
Curriculum Vitate
2020
The Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
History of Drawing Techniques–Life Figure Drawing
2019
Arts Students League, New York, NY
Life Figure Drawing
2015
Chelsea Classical Studio-School of Fine Art , New York
Life Darwing
2004–2015
PARSONS The New School for Design, New York
Designed and taught the following courses: Drawing Fundamentals 1, Drawing Fundamentals 2, Drawing Studio 1, Drawing Studio 2: Drawing Analysis
2001–2008
The Lyme Academy College of Fine Art, Old Lyme, Connecticut
Designed and taught the following courses: Life Drawing 1, 2,
Figure Painting 1,2,3
1991–2006
The Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Designed and taught the following courses: Structural Drawing, Drawing from the Plaster Cast, Figure Drawing 1, 2,3,4, Figure Painting 1,2,3
2006–2013
Studio Incamminati, Philadelphia, PA
Designed and taught the following courses: Drawing from the Plaster Cast, Figure Drawing 1, 2,3,4 Lecturer on Composition, Anatomy and Life Drawing.
2008–present
Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
Taught the following courses: Life Drawing and Life Painting
2008–2014
Janus Collaborative School of Art, New York, NY
Guest Instructor of Life Drawing and Painting
2006–present
Grand Central Academy of Art, New York, NY
Instructor of Life Drawing for the evening program
1992–present
Port Chester Atelier, Port Chester, NY
Instructor of Life Drawing Life Painting
Instructor of Drawing and Painting (Workshops)
2008
Colorado School of Classical Art, Boulder, Colorado
Designed and taught: Life Drawing
2008-2016
Studio Incamminati, Philadelphia, PA
Designed and taught: Life Drawing
2008-present
Grand Central Academy of Art, New York, NY
Designed and taught: Figure Drawing and Figure Painting
2007-present
Bay Area Classical Atelier, Belmont, CA
Designed and taught: Figure Drawing and Figure Painting
2001-2002
Rye Arts Center, Rye, New York
Designed and taught: Still Life Painting, Figure Drawing and Portrait Painting
2009
Institute of Classical Architecture, New York
Designed and taught: Structural Drawing & Perspective
2009, 2010
PARSONS The New School for Design, New York
Designed and taught: Paraline Drawing Workshops, Anatomy Workshop
2009–2011
Long Island Academy of Fine Art, New York
Designed and taught: Figure Drawing
2001–2008
The Lyme Academy College of Fine Art, Old Lyme, Connecticut
Designed and taught the following workshops: Life Drawing
2002–2004
Studio 126, New York
Designed and taught: Life Drawing
1991–2006
The Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Designed and taught the following workshops: Drawing from the Plaster Cast, Figure Drawing, and Figure Painting
2001–2012
Woodstock School of Fine Art, Woodstock New York
Designed and taught the following workshops: Life Drawing
2008, 2009, 2016
GAGE Academy, Seattle, Washington
Designed and taught the following workshops: Life Drawing
2008
Artists Studio in the Foothills, Grass Valley, CA
Designed and taught the following workshop: Figure Drawing
2009, 2010
Landscape Painting, Umbria, Italy
Designed and taught the following workshops: Landscape Painting
Services to Museums
2003
THE DAHESH MUSEUM OF ART, Guest Lecturer on Charles Bargue: The Art of Drawing
Awards 2007
American Artist ‘The Contemporary Portrait’
Award of Distinction by Stephen Doherty
Awards 2009
ARC Drawing
Awards 1980
Arts Students League Life Drawing (permanent collection)
Exhibitions
2019
11th Street Gallery, Long Island City; The Red Show
2019
Robert Simon Fine Art, New York City; Artists Painting Artists
2019
Phyllis Harriman Gallery, Arts Students League faculty Show
2018
Florence Academy, Drawings, Jersey City, New Jersey
2018
GALLERY 1261, Legacy, Denver, CO
2017
TRANSMORGRIFICATION, Long Island City, NY
2017
STANEK GALLERY, Philadelphis, PA
2016
LACUNA GALLERIES, Santa Fe, NM; City Scapes
2015
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA; Figure, Interiors
2015
ELEVENTH STREET ARTS, Grand Central Atelier, NY; The Nude
2015
LACUNA GALLERIES, Sante Fe , New Mexico– A Group Exhibit
2014
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA; Citycapes
2013
SR BRENNAN GALLERY, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Studio Incamminati–A Group Exhibit
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA
Urban Landscapes
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA
The Figure
2012
BEIJING WORLD ART MUSEUM, Beijing China Contemporary American Realism
2011
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA
Premier American Realists
THE BUTLER MUSEUM, Youngstown, OH,
Contemporary American Realism,
2012
DR. GEOFFREY YEH ART GALLERY (at Saint Johns University, Queens, NY)
Expressing the Figure: Drawings from Life
2011
FONTBONNE UNIVERSITY FINE ARTS GALLERY, St. Louis, MO
The Figure Now/Exhibition 2011 International Contemporary Drawing Juried Exhibition
2011
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA Premier American Realists
2010
BEARDSLEY GALLERY, Wilton, CT, Espirit de Femme
2010
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA The Human Figure
2010
THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA, Philadelphia, PA Studio Incamminati Artists Auction benefiting the Abraham Lincoln Foundation
2009
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA Drawings
2009
BUCKS GALLERY OF FINE ART, Newtown, PA First Annual Artists of Studio Incamminati Exhibition
2008
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA Summer in San Francisco
2007
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA Summer in San Francisco
2006
SALON 2006 Recent work by the Faculty and Alumni of the New York Academy of Art
2006
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF FIGURATIVE ART OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART, New York, NY Summer Exhibition
2005
CENTURY GALLERY, Alexandria, VA Regional Realists
2005
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA Interiors
2005
CHAUNCY STILLMAN GALLERY, Lyme Academy College of Fine Art, Old Lyme, CT Half & Half
2005
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, Summer in San Francisco
2005
ARNOT MUSEUM, Elmira, NY Faculty of Lyme Academy
2005
CHAUNCY STILLMAN GALLERY, Lyme Academy College of Fine Art, Old Lyme, CT Faculty Recent Work
2004
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, Allegories
2004
CENTURY GALLERY, Alexandria, VA Classical Realists
2004
APEX GALLERY, Washington, DC Realism Today
2004
RYE ART MUSEUM, Rye, New York The Contemporary Portrait
2004
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF FIGURATIVE ART OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART, New York, NY Faculty
Exhibition
2004
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, Trompe L’oeil
2004
FLORENCE GRISWALD MUSEUM, Old Lyme, CT Christmas Exhibition
2003
HIRSCHL & ADLER GALLERY, New York Celebrating Central Park1853–
2003
CENTURY GALLERY, Alexandria, VATrompe L’oeil interpretations
2003
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA The Nude
2003
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA Self-Portraits
2002
CAMERON MUSEUM, Wilmington, North Carolina, Classical Artists Exhibition
2002
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA Epic Still Lifes
2001
KNOEDLER & COMPANY, New York, New York Drawing Exhibition
2000
HIRSCHL & ADLER GALLERY, New York Classism Now
1997
ALBRIGHT KNOX MUSEUM, New YorkDrawn from the Academy
1996
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY AT LINCOLN CENTER, New York
New York Academy Faculty Exhibit
1994–2006
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF FIGURATIVE ART OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART, New York, NY T
ake Home a Nude
2003
HIRSCHL & ADLER GALLERY, New York Celebrating Central Park1853–2003
1998–2006
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF FIGURATIVE ART OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART, New York, NY
Take Home a Nude
1990
MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE, Manhattanville, New York
Take Home a Nude
Solo Shows
2012
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA
2000
THE CLASSICAL GALLERY, Alexandria, VA Of this Time, of That Place
Selected Bibliography
Aristides, Juliette, Lessons in Classical Drawing:Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier , Watson-Guptill Publications, 2011.
Rinzler, Jonathan and Lucas, George, Star Wars Art: Visions, Abrams, 2010. Jon deMartin
McElhinney, James, Classical Life Drawing Studio: Lessons & Teachings in the Art of Figure Drawing (The Art Students League of New York), Sterling Publications, 2010.
Aristides, Juliette, Classical Drawing Atelier, Watson-Guptill Publications, 2007.
Doherty, M. Stephen, “Drawing Workshops to Improve Paintings,” American Artist Workshop, Summer 2006, pages 50–67
Rice,Pierce, Drawing from the Antique The Classicist 1995
deMartin, Jon, American Artist Drawing Magazine, Contributing Author for “Drawing Fundementals”, 2009–present
Selected Exhibition Catalogs
2000
HIRSCHL & ADLER GALLERY, New York Classism Now
2009
ART RENEWAL CENTER International 2009 ARC Salon
2004
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA Allegories
2003
OHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA Self Portraits
2003
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA Exposed: The Nude
1999
JOHN PENCE GALLERY, San Francisco, CA Drawings
Education
1978
PRATT INSTITUTE, Brooklyn, NY
1985
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, New York, NY
1979–83
ARTS STUDENTS LEAGUE, New York, NY
1979–87
MICHAEL AVIANO, New York, NY
1987–89
THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART, New York, NY