Join Michael Ajerman as he presents a lecture focused on artist Philip Guston.
Guston was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1913, the child of Jewish Ukrainian immigrants. Raised in Los Angeles and largely self-taught, he found early inspiration in the masters of the Italian Renaissance and cartoons, he would work abstractly in the 1950’s, and would return to a new type of figuration in his late years. His later work continues to excite and outrage as his international retrospective was postponed in 2020.
Guston’s working methods colliding with the frantic era of political tensions of the 50s and 60s, and personal matters, will be discussed by Ajerman. As a practicing painter himself he will help explain the wants and demands Guston placed on his output.
Michael Ajerman is an American representational painter based in London. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. He will be exhibiting in the upcoming Courtauld Institute East Wing exhibition starting this autumn. He has taught in a wide variety of educational settings and levels including JW3's Open Art Studio classes (daytime and evenings).
