(can range from 4 – 6 hours; 10-15 students)
This workshop is an introduction to the various ways that artists have approached abstraction, historically and in a contemporary context. The course will include contemporary art lectures. Assignments will begin with lectures of formal art elements including line, shape, color, but also materials, grids, and figurative abstraction. Experimentation in the studio will be encouraged as each student begins to develop an independent approach to the topic. Students will create at least one finished painting on canvas using a combination of the elements covered in class. OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES: My goal as instructor is to serve as both a technical and conceptual guide in the classroom, establishing and maintaining an interactive and dynamic studio environment. The principal objective of this course is to provide an environment in which students can effectively incorporate the new methods introduced during lectures and demonstrations to develop individualized works and to expand skillsets and knowledge of contemporary abstract painting.