Competition Day 4: Figure Sculptures After 32 Hours

Hi Everyone! Today is the final day of our live, five-day sculpting competition. The eleven hardy competitors and our model will finish modeling at 6pm.  While the artists enjoy pizza and beer, the panel of judges will work from 6-8pm and announce their decision shortly after.

Join us at the Awards Party from 7-10pm. The event is open to the public and refreshments will be served. Also open for the evening is the adjacent gallery Eleventh Street Arts featuring Nude: A Figure Drawing Exhibition. If you missed the May 15 opening, come on by! The show closes next Friday, June 15.

Scroll down for images of the sculptures at the end of yesterday. The artist's real names will be revealed after the winners are announced!

1. By Iconoclassicist

2. By Shortie

3. By OB1

4. By Dukka

5. By Fred

6. By Dirt McGurt

7. By Little Hulk

8. By Donatello

10. By Batman

10. By Soul Brother #1

11. By Bruce L.

Competition Day 3: Figure Sculptures After 24 Hours

At the end of eight hours of posing yesterday, our dear model, Anthony Santiago, volunteered to spend an additional hour photographing the day's work! Audrey Rodriguez, one of our four competition monitors assisted.

Scroll down to see photographs of each sculpture captured in the natural light of our skylight!

The competition AWARDS PARTY is tomorrow evening, 7-10pm. The event is open to the public. Refreshments will be served! RSVP.

Eleventh Street Arts will be open for the evening with NUDE: A Figure Drawing Exhibition curated by Colleen Barry on view!

Santiago, Our Tireless Model

1. By Iconoclassicist

2. By Shortie

3. By OB1

4. By Dukka

5. By Fred

6. By Dirt McGurt

7. By Little Hulk

8. By Donatello

9. By Batman

10. By Soul Brother #1

11. By Bruce L.

Competition Day 2: Figure Sculptures After 16 Hours

Hi Everyone!
We are well into Day 3 of our live, five-day figure sculpture competition!

We are pleased to announce the names of this year's judges!

1. Jacob Collins, the Founder and Artistic Director of the GCA

2. Sabin Howard, Sculptor and Instructor
FYI: Enrollment is open for a 5-session webinar taught by Sabin:
Intensive Figure Construction and Anatomy for Artists starts June 18
Click for details...

3. Will St. John, Painter, Sculptor and GCA Instructor
2010 Winner of GCA's Figure Sculpture Competition

The panel will award prizes of $10,000, $3,000 and $2,000.

Scroll down for images of the sculptures after 16 hours of modeling!

The competition studio is open daily from 1-2pm and the Awards Party is this Thursday night 7-10pm! The prizes will be announced by 8pm. RSVP for the party. Open to the public, refreshments will be served.

1. By Iconoclassicist

2. By Shortie

3. By OB1

4. By Dukka

By Fred

6. By Dirt McGurt

By Little Hulk

8. By Donatello

9. By Batman

10. By Soul Brother #1

11. By Bruce L.

Photography by Jessica Artman

Competition Day 1: Figure Sculptures After 8 Hours

Good Morning!  The sculptors are well into the second day of our live, five-day competition running June 7 - 11.  SCROLL for images of sculptures after Day 1. 

Guess the Sculptor! Each sculpture shown below is credited to a pseudonym chosen by the sculptor. The artists' real names will be revealed on Thursday evening once the winners are announced.

Public Events! Join us for daily lunch hour viewings 1-2pm and for the Awards Party Thursday evening 7-10pm. Judges will award a Grand Prize of $10,000. Refreshments! RSVP for the Party.

1. By Iconoclassicist

2. By Shortie

3. By OB1

4. By Dukka

5. By Fred

6. By Dirt McGurt

7. By Little Hulk

8. By Donatello

9. By Batman

10. By Soul Brother #1

11. By Bruce L.

Photography by Jessica Artman

DAY 1: Five-Day Figure Sculpture Competition Starts Sunday Morning!

Welcome to DAY 1 of our five-day, 40-hour live sculpting competition! Each day we will post images of the works photographed at the end of the previous day. The sculptures will be not credited to the artists' real names until Thursday evening after the winners have been announced. For now, we will use each artist's personally chosen Nom de Plume!

SCROLL DOWN FOR SCULPTORS IN ACTION!

Image from 2009 Competition

Don't forget, you are invited to drop in each day this week through Thursday, 1-2pm to watch the sculptures unfold.  The Awards Party and Final Viewing is this Thursday, 7-10pm. Awards
will be announced by 8pm. RSVP!

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All competition events are taking place at our studio at
46-06 11th Street, Long Island City, NY 11101

LIVE Figure Sculpture Competition June 7-11!

Eleven sculptors chosen from an online application process will be sculpting the same model in a marathon contest at GCA lasting forty hours over five days. The competition will run June 7 - 11. This type of live competition is based on similar competitions or concours held in the 19th century.

2008 Figure Sculpture Competition

A panel of judges will award prizes to the three best sculptures: $10,000 for the Grand Prize, $3,000 for Second Place and $2,000 for Third Place.

The competing sculptors from around the country and overseas are:
Joey Bainer, Emily Bedard, Sue Chism, Zoe Dufour, Hiro Kawabata, Anna Lee-Hoelzle, Griff Leek, Charlie Mostow, Leroy Transfield, Sam Worley and Shangxi Zhu.

2009 Awards Viewing

2015 Figure Sculpture Competition Events:
The competition will be held in our Long Island City studio. Events are free and open to the public and include an Awards Party on the evening of Thursday, June 11. Also, the competition studio will be open for daily viewings of the works-in-progress during the 1-2pm lunch break.

Awards Party & Final Viewing
June 11
7-10pm (Awards announced by 8pm)
RSVP

Daily Lunch Hour Viewings
Sunday, June 7 - Thursday, June 11
1-2pm
No RSVP, just drop in!

GCA held its first live competition in sculpture in 2008.  Since then, the competition has broadened to include Figure Drawing (up next summer 2016), and Still Life Painting (summer 2017) in a three-year rotation.

A more informal 3-day competition in Portrait Sketch will be held in October, 2015. The date will be announced soon! Prizes are $1,500 and $500.

Annual End-of-Year Student Exhibition

Join us this Friday, May 29th from 6:30-9:30pm for our annual student show and celebrate all the work created this year in our new studios!

New Summer Workshop!

In this weekly evening workshop, participating artists will learn to create alla prima portraits that evince the beauty and humanity of the model with freshness, sensitivity and lively detail. Using a lucid step-by-step approach, participants will paint eight portrait sketches of eight different live models. Patrick will guide artists with demonstrations and in-depth personal critiques through each stage of the process – from creating a strong likeness with accurate drawing, to color mixing, modeling form and finishing details. Cranial anatomy, materials, paint handling, and the physics of light will also be discussed throughout each session. 

Spots are limited...read more and register today!

GALLERY OPENING THIS FRIDAY!

NUDE
a figure drawing exhibition

with works by Andrew Ameral, Juliette Aristides, Steven Assael, Colleen Barry, Stephen Bauman, Anthony Baus, Patrick Byrnes, Jacob Collins, Carla Crawford, Jon DeMartin, Rebecca Gray, Amaya Gurpide, Brendan Johnston, Darren Kingsley, Joshua LaRock, Robert Liberace, Edward Minoff, Iliya Mirochnik, Gregory Mortenson, Andrew Payne, Edmond Rochat, Travis Schlaht, Jordan Sokol, Dan Thompson, Scott Waddell, and Katie Whipple

May 15—June 15, 2015
for more information, visit Eleventh Street Arts