Bill Oberst, Visiting Artist, M.F.A. (Painting) SUNY Stony Brook, Ph.D. (Philosopohy) Claremont Graduate University.
weoberst@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
Room 4277 - 631.632.7250

Bill Oberst is a figurative artist who employs old-master techniques to create life-size, and near-life-size, oil paintings of people in contemporary situations. In addition to teaching painting and drawing at Stony Brook, he has taught art courses at Long Island University in Southampton and at SUNY Farmingdale, as well as philosophy at California State University in Bakersfield. Bill has an exhibition history that goes back nearly thirty years; recent work has been shown at The Tatistcheff Gallery in New York City, at the Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery in Dix Hills, at RVS Fine Art in Southampton, and in the survey exhibition “Face to Face: Two Hundred Years of Figurative Art on Long Island” at The Long Island Museum. He received the university’s Distinguished Faculty Service Award in 2002, the inaugural Dorothy Pieper Memorial Purchase Award, and a Goldberger Fellowship, and was invited to residencies at The Artists’ Enclave at I-Park (East Haddam, CT) in 2005 and 2006. Bill was a founding member of The Comsewogue Alliance for the Arts and Humanities, and has served on the board of directors of the Brookhaven Arts and Humanities Council. Dr. Oberst's personal web site is at http://ms.cc.sunysb.edu/~weoberst.