New Beginnings

Exhibition by Andrew Deiser

New Beginnings, points not only to the art I’ve produced this past year, but also to this new creative phase that I’ve embarked upon. I hope you'll join me in celebrating these New Beginnings!

At the age of ten, Andrew took his first painting lesson and has been drawing and painting ever since. Pursuing his love of languages and travel, he majored in Spanish during his undergraduate degree and completed his junior year abroad in Madrid, Spain. A year later, he went back to southern Spain where he taught English as a second language. Upon returning to the U.S., he earned an MA and PhD in Hispanic literature from Indiana University, and while studying for his doctorate, he was an exchange student at the Universitat Central in Barcelona where he learned to speak Catalan and fell in love with the Mediterranean city. In 2003, he accepted a job as a Spanish professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where he would teach for nineteen years.
 
            In 2012, he took his first plein air painting workshop with German artist Guido Frick and was hooked on painting outdoors. In 2018, he was invited to be the artist in residence at the Indiana Dunes National Park, and four years later, he stepped down from his position as chair of the Department of World Languages to pursue a full-time career in fine art.
 
He currently paints and teaches out of his studio gallery in the historic St. Joseph Center in North Little Rock. To continually hone his skills, he paints from real life several times a week and has received mentoring from local artist Arden Boyce and taken workshops from nationally known artists, such as Brian Mark Taylor, Lori Putnam, and Anne Blair Brown.

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