Saturday & Sunday March 18th & 19th
10 am to 4 pm - both days - (½ hour lunch break)
TUITION: $240 Members; $270 non members
Arriving at a commitment for utilizing Abstraction as a system for expression is a long and complex process. Fortunately there are several issues that we can identify during this two day workshop that can help us elucidate and explain Abstraction as a mode for expression to produce artworks in a meaningful and powerful way.
We can begin to establish a set of important questions and observations that allow us to think more deeply and see with more clarity.
In order to ‘arrive’ at this special kind of ‘seeing’ one must try to begin by setting aside, ‘final’ a-priori answers that derive from ‘theories’, old and new, and the non-visual languages. The principle at play here is to continue to sensitize the eye, to focus on the visual formal tools being used, and to carefully examine what each of these ‘tools’-(line, format, scale, thick, thin, ease, release, color, surface, etc)-within this convention, are visually ‘doing’. The idea that should prevail for our two days is working towards taking big chances by adding ‘things’ to our work we previously did not allow ourselves to do.
This studio workshop will highly consider a critique element. It will also include an hour powerpoint presentation (on my work) as a springboard to begin to get a few ideas in the open, particularly regarding a personal history, on development of form, content and personal growth.
Participants should bring to the studio a work they consider “finished” or a series of images/photos (10) that are representative of what they have done for the past year. (We will have a short individual/group conversation about these works).
Participants are also encouraged to arrive with a project in mind (“invention of shapes”, for instance) or develop one during the workshop. We can have a short conversation about your initial thoughts, to provide you with a starting point.
Participants should choose a painting medium they feel familiar with. These may include: Oil, Acrylic or Watercolor.
Javier Tapia Image Courtesy of Reynolds Gallery