BRUCE GOLDSMITH

By the time I entered grade school, my father introduced me to the European masters: from DaVinci to Caravaggio to Degas, I spent countless hours tracing and copying drawings. It didn't take me long to fall in love with art making of all kinds... My formal studies began at age 14 when I enrolled in a life drawing class at Long Island University where I was taught the 19 th century Nicolaides Drawing Method. Through a series of drawing exercises over multiple years of practice I began to have a firm understanding of how to "see" and express the human form in all its complexity and beauty. Four years later I received a scholarship to Pratt Institute where I studied the fine art of print making. After graduation I co-founded a small gallery in the Lower East Side of New York City called 10 BC that gave young emerging artist a place to show and sell their work. Not willing to take the vow of poverty and chastity so often required to live the life of an artist in NY, I became an..