Adult Studio Workshop | Portrait Painting with Antony Zito

Experience an afternoon of portraiture with CT portrait painter Antony Zito. Open to all ages and skill levels, this workshop will guide you through the creation of an in-depth portrait using acrylic paint in canvas. Our main focus will be to achieve a balanced sense of proportion and a likeness, while exploring expressionistic mark-making. This event will be insightful, engaging, thought-provoking, and fun!

Bio:

Antony Zito is an American portrait painter, sculptor, muralist, and musician. He has been a major proponent of independent art in New York City’s Lower East Side since the early 1990s, and in 2002 he opened Zito Studio Gallery on Ludlow Street in NYC. Zito’s portrait paintings are featured in two films by Jim Jarmusch; including a scene with Meg and Jack White (The White Stripes) in Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), and Broken Flowers (2005). Zito is Co-founder Emeritus of 4heads Inc, the arts non-profit that has, since 2008, hosted Portal Art Fair in Lower Manhattan and Governors Island, hailed by the New York Times as the “Art Fair for the 99 Percent”.

Zito’s work has been exhibited and collected throughout the US, UK, Mexico, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, and Japan. He is currently writing a book featuring his portrait paintings and the stories associated with each, as well as a documentary film centered on the legendary Mars Bar of the East Village in the 1990s early 2000s.