FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
"Two Points of View", drawing exhibition at Spring Studio.
New York, NY - October 9, 2011
Spring Studio, at 64 Spring Street in SoHo, is pleased to announce "Two Points of View", an exhibition of drawings by Dr. Leon Axel and Barbara Kerstetter, from November 1 through 27, 2011.There will be an opening reception on November 6 from 6-8 PM.
Axel, a radiologist at N.Y.U.’s Langone Medical Center, comes from a family of artists, but at an early age he realized that he was drawn to science. After receiving a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Princeton, he went on attain an M.D. at the University of California, San Francisco. “I moved from heavenly bodies to earthly ones,” he explains. His penetrating character studies of fellow subway and bus passengers prove that his artistic heritage is very much intact. These pocket sketches will be shown along with figure studies he has done at Spring Studio, including work in pencil and pen with watercolor and acrylic.
Kerstetter, an artist who comes from a family of scientists, will also show figure drawings. After her graduate studies, she spent a year dissecting and studying anatomy at Georgetown University’s School of Medicine. While there, she designed and taught a life drawing course for medical personnel. In New York, she has taught her course at the Columbia University School of Physicians and Surgeons, at Mount Sinai, and at the N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center, where she began to work with Dr. Axel. Her graceful drawings on exhibit at Spring Studio will include figure studies in sanguine, as well as black pencil and watercolor.
Spring Studio, created and directed by Minerva Durham, is regarded by many as the best drawing venue in New York.