Virtual Studio Visit: Lorraine Sullivan & Phil Young

New Program!

As we embrace social distancing, and look for creative ways to share art and inspiration, CAA is launching a series of Virtual Studio visits. We will host these visits via ZOOM, allowing up to 100 guests to ‘visit’ local artist's studios, ask questions about the artists work and progress, and share in community, from a distance. For our first Virtual Studio Visit, we are pleased to visit the home of Lorraine Sullivan and Phil Young!

All attendees must register for this event in order to receive the link and login information for the ZOOM event. Please note: the system automatically closes registrations at 11:59pm on April 6. If you are unable to register before that time, please contact Erin Becker at ebecker@cambridgeart.org to register. 

About Lorraine Sullivan: Lorraine Sullivan received a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and continued her education at Suffolk University, Boston, MA, and at the DeCordova Museum School, Lincoln, MA. She taught Graphic Design and Computer Graphics at Burlington High School, Burlington, MA, and at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. She also supervised student teachers at Tufts University, Medford, MA and for the Education Program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Sullivan was awarded Outstanding Art Teacher by the Massachusetts Alliance for Art Education, the Massachusetts High School Art Educator of the Year by the Massachusetts Art Education Association, and the Distinguished Teacher Award for Excellence in Education by the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Learn more at lorrainemsullivan.com

About Phil Young: Philip Young has long been intrigued with landscape forms. Moving to New England from the Southern Tier of New York State brought coastal forms more directly into his life. Studying art and art history at the University of Siena in Italy while in college and many extended travels over the years also contributed to his view of the landscape as subject matter.

The ocean was not part of his growing up and discovering it as a young adult made a memorable impact on him.  Retirement from a long career in art education finally gave him the time to get back to painting and exploring color and form on canvas.

​He loves to explore the richness and vibrancy of color, to discover the way new paint overlaps existing color, creating exciting new color relationships. As Phil explores color, he much prefers a color against another color, a shape against another shape, and a dark against a light. He is a colorist and his work is more impressionistic and abstract than representational.

​Phil does not work in a literal way. His work comes from his memories, imagination and observation. These elements combine in new ways on his canvas. His personal interpretation is often very different from physical reality and draws the viewer into a newly imagined world.

He loves the process of painting, the experience of placing paint on the canvas and the solving of compositional and color problems. The risk-taking, that real possibility of losing a precious part of the composition is often daunting but ultimately rewarding and is a large component of all his paintings.

When it all comes together he finds it exhilarating.

His heroes? He especially worships Richard Diebenkorn, Fairfield Porter and the Italian painter Afro Basaldella, (1912-1976) usually known by just his first name.

Learn more at philipeyoung.com