Paul DUSOLD

Paul DuSold is a Philadelphia artist and instructor.  He graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1985. He is known for oil paintings of human figures, portraits, and still lifes.  His artwork, which he describes as “atmospheric representationalism” is influenced by sixteenth and seventeenth century Italian and Spanish painters. His paintings can be found in numerous public and private collections, and he has exhibited in a number of prestigious institutions including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Delaware Art Museum, Fleischer Art Memorial, Perkins Center for the Arts, Wayne Art Center, Ursinus College, and Michener Art.  He has curated exhibitions at the Delaware Art Museum, Wayne Art Center, and Woodmere Art Museum. 

DuSold has been a painting instructor for more than thirty years at various institutions including Wayne Art Center, the Delaware Art Museum, and Main Line Art Center.  He continues to teach at Fleischer Art Memorial and Woodmere Art Museum.  In his teaching, he emphasizes the formal qualities of painting; color, light and shadow, edge quality, tonal relationships.