Possibilities in Color: Painting on Glass
Taught by Joseph Cavalieri
Joseph Cavalieri is an award winning native New York artist and educator. My practice working with glass started in 2010, after a career as an art director at magazines in New York City, including GQ, People and Good Housekeeping. Joseph's work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts and Design, the Italian American Museum, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, and the Stax Museum. His focus is on gallery exhibitions and private / public art commissions. The MTA Arts for Transit selected my work for a public art installation the at the Philipse Manor Train Station in Westchester, New York. In 2017, he designed, created and installed a large public art project: a six-foot stained glass church window in Salvador Brazil. Exhibitions include three shows at the Museum of Arts and Design, as well as a solo exhibition in Berlin, and shows in Munich, Bulgaria, the Venice Arsenale, and a solo show in Chelsea New York. Cavalieri has taught painting, airbrushing and printing on stained glass classes in over 30 different locations.
Cavalieri's aim is to merge contemporary imagery with the time-honored processes of painted stained glass, a material with a powerful spiritual history. His work is based of historic fables, contemporary pop art and human and architectural icons.
When painting on glass, you are essentially painting with light. Enameling on glass is an ancient process, used from church windows to contemporary practices.
Joseph Cavalieri has been using and teaching how to use Color Line enamel paints since the product was first on the market in 2013, and he has even taught in the Color Line headquarters in Zurich. This gathering will start with a lecture showing painted, silk-screened and 'penned' stained glass artwork made with enamels, then Joseph with present a demonstration of tips and tricks for painting on glass, which participants will try in a brief, hands-on activity.
