Vincent Longo: Paintings

From March 13 to April 27, 2015 The Drawing Room is pleased to present "Vincent Longo: Paintings". 

Encouraged by his childhood teacher, who recognized Longo was “already an artist at age 12,” Vincent Longo grew up in an orphanage until his aunt adopted him into her large Italian family at age 14.  With her support, Vincent took art classes, graduating in 1946 from Cooper Union before attending The Brooklyn Museum Art School. As an instructor at Bennington College from 1957 to 1967 and then at Hunter College, C.U.N.Y. until 2001, Longo taught generations of artists while producing groundbreaking woodcuts and radiant paintings which have been exhibited over five decades in galleries and museums in New York and Europe. At age 92 Longo continues to mine his inspirations in his devoted daily painting practice. He says,  "I always feel that it's done for my own sense of finding something.” An early admirer and friend of the Abstract Expressionists with whom he shared New York City's dynamic mid-century art world, Longo chose a different path.

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