Still Life Painting: Life & Death in Balance (Online Class)

Still Life Painting: Life and Death in the Balance - Online

Zane York | Summer II | Thursdays: Jul 16 - Aug 20

Class Description:

Explore the Dutch Golden Age methodologies and strategies for constructing still-life paintings.

From the beginning, still life has been presented as humble in scope and subject, but this quiet genre is filled with the dirty secrets of existence: impermanence, tragedy, faith, science, memory, opulence, life, and death. In this class with Zane York students will develop a painting using strategies derived from the history of still life, with focus placed on the Dutch Golden age. Students will learn conceptual, compositional, and technical still life strategies. Although utilizing traditional techniques, the paintings developed will be open in subject and palette according to students’ personal vision. Each week students’ progress will be reviewed, followed by lecture and demonstration.

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Summer II Session Dates:

Scheduled occurrences for the next session of this class are as follows:

Week	Date	Time
Week 1:	7/16/2026	6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 2:	7/23/2026**	6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 3:	7/30/2026	6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 4:	8/06/2026	6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 5:	8/13/2026	6:30 - 9:30 pm ET
Week 6:	8/20/2026	6:30 - 9:30 pm ET

Before Class - Welcome & How to Prepare for Class
Week 1 - Triple Dutch
Week 2 - What's the Big Idea?
Week 3 - Wo/manhandled
Week 4 - The Liar's Club
Week 5 - Getting Around to It
Week 6 - Polishing the... Painting, without Gilding the Lily
After Class - Wrap Up
Support Materials

$320.00
Online
6 Weeks
Intermediate to Advanced

Meet Your Instructor

Zane York

Instructor

Zane York deftly walks the line between playfulness and profundity. Drawing inspiration from the inherent strangeness of the natural world, York imbues quotidian scenes with subtle elements of the surreal. His finely detailed renderings offer a view of reality that is ever-so-slightly askew, creating a peculiar sense of balance in accordance with his own set of natural laws. Zane’s images invite us to turn away from the glare of the synthetic world and explore the shifting shadows of the human mind. York received his B.F.A. in Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and his M.F.A. in Painting from the New York Academy of Art. Zane has had solo exhibitions with numerous galleries, museums, and institutions. His works have been exhibited in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, Melbourne, St. Barthelemy, Florida, and France. He maintains his studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and teaches for the New York Academy of Art and Rhode Island School of Design.