Selina Trieff attended the Arts Students League, the Hans Hofmann School and Brooklyn College and studied with Hans Hoffman, Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt.  She has exhibited in one-person and group shows in many national and international museums and galleries including Lou Brookstein Gallery, Katherine Rich Perlow Gallery, Graham Modern Gallery, and Allen Stone Gallery (all in New York).  Berta Walker Gallery (in Provincetown), the Long Branch Museum, Hudson River Museum, the National Academy of Design, Delaware Art Museum, Provincetown Art Association, Brooklyn Museum and the Wadsworth Museum.  Her work has been reviewed regularly in the New York Times, Art and Antiques, Art News, Cover Magazine, Provincetown Magazine, Art in America and Art Forum.  In much demand for her insightful teaching, she has taught at the National Academy of Design, the Vermont Studio Center, the New York Studio School, the Fine Arts Work Center (in Provincetown), and the New York Figurative Academy.

Ms. Trieff will show a 2004 film, which was commissioned by the City Museum of New York, on herself and her husband, Robert Henry, entitled Their Lives in Art, Robert Henry and Selina Trieff.

Selina answers questions from the group.

 

When discussing her art, she said she defines the negative areas before working on the positive areas.  Selina draws from a model and paints without the model.  Because her work is often so large, she now paints with an extension on her brush rather than using a ladder.