'Young Woman in a Turban' by David Mayernik, American Academy in Rome, Italy, Notre Dame

Description

Faintly signed lower right, 'D. Mayernik' for David Mayernik (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985.

A period, Post-Impressionist style … more Faintly signed lower right, 'D. Mayernik' for David Mayernik (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985.

A period, Post-Impressionist style study of a woman in a turban looking proudly upwards. A warm and engaging piece by a bravura hand.

Artist, design architect, author and educator David Mayernik studied fresco painting with restorer Leonetto Tintori and has painted frescoes for the TASIS campus in Lugano, churches in Ticino and Tuscany, and the Palio for his adopted city of Lucca, Italy. He has exhibited widely and with success, including in Italy, Austria, England and America; his work has also been featured in fine arts magazines, including American Artist. Mayernik is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA).

Influenced by Renaissance ideology and aesthetic values, David Mayernik is a founder of the Tuscan Renaissance Academy, a cultural association based in Lucca with the goal of promoting the principles of Renaissance art and culture. Currently an Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame's School of Architecture, Mayernik has also taught with the New York Academy of Art, the University of Virginia's Erasmus-Jefferson Scholars program in Tuscany and the Institute for the Study of Classical Architecture. A successful architectural designer, Mayernik has been named one of the top forty architects of his generation in the United States. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Gabriel Prize for a research study in France, and, along with Thomas N. Rajkovich, the Arthur Ross Award for their design of the Minnesota State Capitol grounds.

EXHIBITIONS
Art Innsbruck Fair, January 2018

X Mostra Nazionale Di Pittura E Disegno Botanico, coordinated with the Antiche Camelie della Lucchesia events, Lucca, Italy, 2016

Single entry, Portraits, group show, Palette and Chisel Academy, Chicago, December 2015

Single entry, Arte Padova, represented by Queen Art Studio, Padova, November 2015

Through Foreign Eyes, group exhibit of plein air paintings by foreign artists, Civita Castellana, Lazio, Italy, October–November 2012

Third Biennale of Architecture, “Historicism Tendency” group exhibit, Moscow, Russia, May-June 2012; one of only two American architects in this group

Work in Fresco, Bond Hall Gallery, Univ. of Notre Dame, August-September 2010

Imitate, Emulate, Invent; one-person exhibit at Norfolk Academy, Virginia, Oct.–Dec. 2009

Palladio & American Classicism, traveling exhibit organized by the ICA&CA, Fall 2008

New Palladians, London, Fall 2008

Plein air paintings from Rome, summer 2006 and spring 2005, at the following venues:
East Side Vintages and Fine Art fair, New York, October 2006
Chaiwalla Tea Room, Salisbury, CT, December 2006

Three Generations of Classical Architects, Snite Museum of Art, Univ. of Notre Dame, Oct. 2005

Epiphanies of Beauty, Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, Nov. 2004

Civic Art, National Civic Art Society, Washington, D.C., April 2004

Timeless Cities, TASIS The American School in England, Dec. 2003

Timeless Cities, School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame, Nov. 2003

Ten Years of Classicism: The Institute for Classical Architecture, New York, Oct. 2002

The Church in the City of the Third Millennium, Rome, December 2000

The Other Modern, Bologna, March 2000

Derriere Guard, San Francisco, November 1999

Reconquering Sacred Space, Rome, October 1999

A New Renaissance, Lugano, Switzerland, June 1999 [Organizer]

Derriere Guard, The Kitchen, SoHo, New York, March 1997

A Vision of Europe, Bologna, Italy, Spring 1996

New York Academy of Art Faculty Show, Fordham Univ. Gallery, Dec. 1995–Feb. ‘96

The Art of Building Cities, Chicago Cultural Center, June 1995

New York School of Interior Design, April 1995

Angels, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, December 1994–January 1995

Lucy B. Campbell Gallery, London 1992-3

The Artist as Decorator, New York School of Interior Design, April-May 1992
(Exhibitor and Co-Curator)
Villa Don Giovanni, Stubbs Books & Prints, New York, November 1991

Harmony & Invention, Stubbs Books & Prints, New York, October 1990

*courtesy of the artist's website less