Highly acclaimed and internationally collected artist and instructor Stuart Shils presents a free community slideshow and lecture, “Examinations of the Figure in Painted Space.”

This is the opening event for a three-day indoor painting workshop Shils will teach February 10-12 at Perry-Mansfield, "The Life Studio as Painted and Perceptual Space"

A free community program, courtesy of Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp.

About Stuart Shills
Stuart Shils has painted for more than 30 years. His paintings are represented by Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in New York, Davis and Langdale, New York and Rothschild Fine Art in Tel Aviv. Shils is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship for Residency in Ballycastle, Ireland, and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been presented in solo shows in New York, Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, Boston, Scottsdale, Richmond, San Francisco and Cork (Ireland). Critical review and commentary has appeared in newspapers, journals and magazines, including: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Sun, Ha'aretz, The Jerusalem Post, Art Critical.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Irish Times, Art in America, The New Republic, The New Criterion, Art New England, American Artist, The Hudson Review and The Philadelphia Daily News. Between 1994 and 2006, Shils spent 13 summers painting on the northwest coast of Ireland, an extended painting campaign described in the PBS film documentary, "Ballycastle," which was presented nationally and won numerous awards, including First Place for Documentary Excellence, Society for Professional Journalists. Shils studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Seymour Remenick and at the Philadelphia College of Art.