MCC Daily Tribune

Creative Arts Presents: Lecture with Artist Ira Epstein

The Creative Arts is proud to sponsor a zoom lecture with artist Ira Epstein on Thursday March 25th at 5:00 PM. Zoom information is below and on the attached flyer.

Ira Epstein was born in New York City, in 1963. When he was five, his family moved to an apartment across from the ocean in Rockaway Beach. His early experience of the seaside town – with its scale and space – combined with the influence of the long strangely vacant landscape.

Ira fell in love with comics as a boy and set about becoming an artist from that point on. He spent his initial college years at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, where he studied with great cartoonists including Art Spiegelman and Jerry Moriarty. Various teachers with vision guided the young artist into one discovery after another until painting took hold. Under the tutelage of Herbert Katzman, whom the artist cites as a mentor, Mr. Epstein began to find his tribe. As the next few art-filled years unfolded, and as a Master’s degree in Painting came and went at Boston University, other significant interests drew increasingly to the forefront. In time it was clear that painting (and art in general) was a deeply spiritual venture for the artist, a ship with which to explore – and sometimes, a “lifeboat” (the artist’s own word).

See Mr. Epstein's art here.

Meeting ID: 812 5997 6503. Passcode: Portfolio

For lecture click here.

Attached Files:
epstein.pdf

Jason Flack
Visual and Performing Arts
03/23/2021