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Guynemer Gigučre is Adjunct Lecturer in art history at the College of Staten Island and Adjunct Lecturer in the Art Department at the Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, where he has taught drawing, two-dimensional design, and several art history courses including one on African, Oceanian and Native American Art and one on the Renaissance.
Guynemer Gigučre's training in the visual arts began in the mid-1960s at the age of thirteen on Saturday mornings at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' School when he attended drawing lessons occasionally taught by the legendary Canadian artist, Arthur Lismer and continued in 1971-73 at Collčge-Jean-de-Brébeuf where he also studied acting and stage directing. In 1976 he graduated from Parsons School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in painting, having studied painting with Larry Rivers and Elaine De Kooning, drawing with Sidney Simon and Robert Grosvenor, filmmaking with Richard Kaplan and art history with Martica Sawin. While a student at Parsons he spent the summer of 1975 at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. In 1978 he graduated with an MFA in painting from the Yale University School of Art where he studied painting with Al Held and Elizabeth Murray, art history with Robert Herbert and Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann and was Teaching Assistant for Professor Richard Lytle's Color Theory Class.
In 1978 Guynemer Gigučre received a one-year grant from the Canada Council to paint in New York. From 1980 to 1988 he worked in several art galleries in New York, including galleries of contemporary, Asian and Modern American art. In 1989 he taught painting and advanced drawing for one semester at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where he also gave a series of lectures commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution and participated in the group exhibition "Three Painters in New York". In 1989-1991 he taught sketching with oils and a perspective workshop at the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, in Summit, New Jersey. He has taught at Kingsborough from 1990 to 1995 and from 2003 to the present. In his teaching of drawing he emphasizes perspective, basic anatomy and integrating the figure into the surrounding space. He regularly runs a highly successful after-class drawing and portfolio preparation workshop at Kingsborough for seniors applying to transfer to four-year colleges. During the mid-1990s he lived intermittently in Paris and was part of the now-defunct Frigo artistic commune and participated in several of its group shows.
In 2004 he delivered a lectured entitled "The Painter's Eye" as part of Queen's College's "College Now" lecture series, and in 2005, as part of the same series, "The Exhaustion of Art".
In his teaching of art history at the College of Staten Island he puts great emphasis on the connection between the evolution of artistic styles and contemporary developments in politics, science, technology and intellectual history.