About the Artist, David Altfeld
Exhibits:
Long Island City Artists, Group show, Falci Building, LIC Queens, October 3-31, 2015
Experimental Space, Group exhibition, Reis Studios, Queens, May 2015
Monserrat Gallery, Group show, New York City, 2014
Publications:
American Psychologist Journal. July-August issue, 2021. Cover and interview. Abstract Oil Painting, “Cape Cod Summer”. 36″ x 24″.
Circle Quarterly Art Review, Issue 5, 2020. Abstract Oil Painting, “Five Panels”. 150″ x 40″.
Routledge Press, Book Cover for: “Challenging Moments in Psychotherapy” by Jerome Gans, M.D. Abstract Oil Painting, “Turning”, 48″ x 48″.
Art Education:
Studied oil painting for 4 years at the 92nd St. Y in both the figure, still life, and studied abstract painting, and 2003-’07 with Carla Aurich. Drawing the figure, National Academy of Art, N.Y. C. ’99
Summer workshops:
In Plein Aire, in Province, France. ’00
In Plein Aire, at Bennington College, Vt. ’01
In Abstract, at Bennington College ’01
In Pastels, at Anderson Ranch, Aspen, Colorado ’02
In Abstraction with Gouache, at Anderson Ranch ’03
In Print-Making, at Anderson Ranch ’04.
Academic background:
B.A. Cum Laude, Harvard College ’55. Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, New York University, 1969. Long-time practitioner of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with specialties in both group therapy and the supervision of psychotherapy.