Brian Schumacher (b. 1967) holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and has studied drawing and painting extensively with Jacob Collins and Michael Grimaldi at the Water Street Atelier in Brooklyn, NY, and with Ted Seth Jacobs at the Ecole Albert deFois in France. He also studied with Nelson Shanks at the Art Students League and with Daniel Graves at the Florence Academy of Art.

Weekend - Open Grisaille Figure Painting

Education

Museum Copying, Louvre - Paris, France 2004
Florence Academy of Art - Florence, Italy 2003
Ecole Albert de Fois - France 2002, 2003
Water Street Atelier - NYC 1999-2002
Art Students League- NYC 1999-2002
Seattle Academy of Figurative Art - Seattle 1998
Pratt Fine Arts Center - Seattle 1995-1997
University of Washington - Rome, Italy (graduate study architecture) 1991-92
University of Washington - Seattle (BA Architecture) 1986-91

Honors

Mary Butler Trust Award for Excellence 2005
Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of Art
Stobart Foundation Emerging Artist Grant 2004
American Artist Drawing - publication of work 2003
Classical Approaches to the Teaching of Drawing

Permanent Collections

The Forbes Foundation
Pennsylvania Academy of Art

Teaching Experience

Grand Central Academy of Art - New York, NY Present
Florence Academy of Art - Florence, Italy 2003

Solo Exhibitions

Artists’ House Gallery Philadelphia, PA 2006
Century Gallery Alexandria, VA 2005
Artists’ House Gallery Philadelphia, PA 2005
Artists’ House Gallery Philadelphia, PA 2004

Group Exhibitions

“Time and Place” Artists’ House Gallery Philadelphia, PA 2007
“Living with Art” Mainline Art Center Bryn Mawr, PA 2005
"Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, 108th Annual Exhibition" The Plastic Club Philadelphia, PA 2005
“Small Works” Arcadia Fine Arts New York, NY 2005
Artists’ House Gallery Philadelphia, PA 2005
“New Year / New Talent” Arcadia Fine Arts New York, NY 2002
“Water Street Atelier” Meredith Long Gallery Houston, TX 2000
“Water Street Atelier” Meredith Long Gallery Houston, TX 1999