Boiler Room Studios is a school offering virtual and in-person courses in the fine arts with a focus on drawing. Drawing is explored as the foundation of all areas of visual expression and visual media as well as a unique/stand-alone and versatile art-form.
We seek to provide affordable access to arts education for all levels through courses that place a strong emphasis on technical proficiency and mastery. Each course follows a sequential format and lesson-plan designed to facilitate learning and retention. While building upon centuries of artistic knowledge and pedagogy, the courses offered at Boiler Room Studios avoid the pitfalls of anachronism by looking at art as a perpetually evolving practice — a modality that is essential to growth and contemporary relevance.
Courses offered create a strategic approach to drawing that encourages the development of adaptable modalities that can be applied regardless of the media, methodology, subject matter, and the ultimate objectives of the artist.
The goal at Boiler Room Studios is to cultivate creative autonomy that furthers the artists’ unique vision and the kind of freedom that comes through a profound understanding of one’s artistic medium.
About the Instructor:
Michael Grimaldi (b.1971, New York City) is a Hudson Valley-based visual artist whose work primarily focuses on monochrome paintings and drawings. He has exhibited extensively throughout the US and abroad and has taught drawing, painting and anatomy for over twenty years at various institutions including the School of Visual Arts, National Academy, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Art Students League of New York. Currently, Grimaldi is the Director of the Departments of Drawing and Anatomy at the New York Academy of Art.
Michael Grimaldi studied painting and drawing at the New York Studio School, the National Academy, the Art Students League of New York and performed independent studies in anatomy and dissection at the Facultad Medicina in Buenos Aires and Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. Since 2009, he designed and taught an advanced anatomy course that is hosted by Drexel University College of Medicine where art students are given the opportunity to directly study from human cadavers alongside medical students in Drexel’s Gross Anatomy Labs.
He has lectured on the relationship of art and science and his own work at numerous institutions including the Leon and Norma Hess Center for Science and Medicine, The Morgan Library & Museum (NY), the South Street Seaport Museum (NY), the Lyme Academy of Fine Art (CT), Studio Incamminati (PA), Drexel University College of Medicine (PA), the International Center for the Study of Painting (Italy), and the Institute of Classical Architecture (Italy and NY).
Grimaldi has exhibited at museums and galleries around the world including the Arnot Museum (Elmira, NY), Villa Bardini/Museo Pietro Annigoni (Florence), Beijing Art Museum (Beijing), Brooklyn Museum (New York), Chauncey Stillman Gallery (Connecticut), DAAP Reed Gallery (Cincinnati), de Young Museum (San Francisco), Fontbonne University Gallery (St. Louis), Mori Arts Center (Tokyo), Naples Museum of Art (Naples, FL), the National Academy Museum (New York), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum (Philadelphia), John Pence Gallery (San Francisco), Forum Gallery (New York), Hirschl & Adler Modern (New York), Mark Miller Gallery (New York), Joshua Liner Gallery (New York), MANA Contemporary (New Jersey), James Oliver Gallery (Philadelphia), the Salmagundi Club (New York) and the Woodmere Museum of Art (Philadelphia).
Website: michael-grimaldi.com
Instagram: @michaelgrimaldi
