BRUS DORFMAN

Bruce Dorfman (b. 1936) is an American artist and educator who combines painting and assemblage in his work. Dorfman exhibits extensively in the United States and abroad and has taught at the Art Students League of New York since 1964. In addition to the Art Students League, Dorfman has taught at Syracuse University, for example, and has been an artist-in-residence at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, as well as at museums and art schools in France, Venezuela and Portugal. His most famous students include Ai Weiwei and Bob Dylan. In the 1960s, Dylan and Dorfman were neighbors in Woodstock, New York, and Dylan often visited Dorfman in his studio for painting lessons.