Antonio Masi, is President Emeritus of The American Watercolor Society (having served as president from 2016-2024) and has had feature articles in The Artist’s Magazine, PBS – “Sunday Arts”, NBC-TV “Weekend Today in New York”, a Newsday feature in Aug. 2008, “Bridgemaster”, a solo exhibition for The New York Centennial Commission of the Queensboro Bridge, a solo show at The Forbes Gallery in New York City, and The New York City Transit Museum in 2012, at The Salmagundi Club of New York and a The New York Times video, Sept. 2014 titled, “Living City: A Tale of Two Bridges”.
Fordham University Press published a book on his paintings titled, “New York’s Golden Age of Bridges” and “Lady Liberty”, with essays by Joan Marans Dim.
He prefers watercolor even though it is a thin medium, it organically allows expression of the most delicate subjects. But he discovered that watercolor can also be used in a thick manner, and it therefore can express the heaviest subjects imaginable.
To find out more about Antonio Masi and to see more of his paintings, go to his website,
https://www.antoniomasi.com/
Members are encouraged to bring a matted or framed original painting to show in the "Painting of the Month" competition.
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Painting of the Month Guidelines