Sam D'Ambruoso, Artist
Sam D'Ambruoso of Middlebury, CT has been professionally painting landscapes and portraits since 1972. With over ten years experience in teaching workshops and art instruction in the United States and in Italy, his artists' workshops in Tuscany, Amalfi, as well as Old Lyme, CT and Block Island, RI have been widely acclaimed by past participants. A graduate of Providence College, he has studied with the internationally renowned landscape painter, Thomas Beuchner of Elmira, New York; advanced landscape painting with Skip Whitcomb of Fort Collins, Colorado; portraiture at the Paier College of Art, Hamden, CT with Joseph Funaro as well as figure and portrait painting since the late 1980s with Dan Gheno at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Art. In the fall of 2006, he studied advanced portraiture with Peter Cox at the Art Students League, NYC. In 2007 he continued in portraiture with noted artist, Laura Stern Boeck of Katonah, NY
He has taught portrait drawing in area colleges as well as in an intense 10-week course on oil painting. He has on-going classes in Middlebury on general painting and portraiture. He is a member of the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society and the Plein Air Painters of America. With respect to portrait and figure painting, he is a member of the Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, an Elected Artist at the Kent Art Association, a member of the American Watercolor Society, Washington Art Association, The New Britain Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has been in regional as well as national landscape and figure shows. He is nationally listed as an official United States Coast Guard Artist. He was appointed for a two-year term to the State of Connecticut Commission on the Arts and served on its Executive Committee. Current projects include original paintings of the New England, Tuscany, Amalfi, and Capri Italy as well as selected portrait commissions. He has been elected a landscape-painting instructor at the 2004 Arts and Materials Show, sponsored by American Artist Magazine, in Pasadena, CA. Many of his paintings are in public and private collections worldwide. His most recent landscape of the Connecticut River area was selected by Governor M. Jodi Rell and installed at the State of Connecticut Governor’s residence.
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