Leslie Shows, Isomere
Yoonmi Nam, Table Top Still Life
With Trash and Flowers (detail)
Yana Payusova, String Theater
July 22 — 26 II
Abstraction, Surface
& Meaning III
Leslie Shows
CONCEPT
In this rigorous painting
workshop, explore the ways materiality carries,
creates and complicates meaning in the fertile
area between abstraction and representation.
Work from a wider definition of painting that
might include aspects of sculpture, collage
or installation. Students also discover the
interaction between imagery and the inherent
expressivity of chosen materials, whether paint,
mixed media or something further afield. There
are exercises, experimentation with ambiguous
imagery and “collaboration” with materials.
Readings provide the foundation for methods
and techniques in synthesizing imagery and
materials to increase the potency and meaning
of the visual experience.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES
Students may
use any two-dimensional medium or substrate
including acrylic, collage, oil, drawing, pastels
or ink on canvas, paper, wood, plexi, metal or
glass. Mixing media is encouraged.
ACTIVITIES
Students engage in discussions
and slide lectures about historical and
contemporary painting, readings, explorations
and techniques for generating imagery. There
are instructor-led and self-directed painting
projects, ample studio time and critiques.
FACULTY
Leslie Shows has exhibited at the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the
Berkeley Art Museum, the Orange County
Museum of Art and the 8th Mercosul Biennial
in Brazil. Solo exhibitions include the Scottsdale
MoCA and the Walter and McBean Galleries at
the San Francisco Art Institute, where she has
taught graduate and undergraduate courses
since 2009.
July 22 — 26
Mastering Mixed Media
Yana Payusova
II
III
July 29 — August 2
Sumi Ink Drawing
& Beyond
Basic Photoshop skills required. Yoonmi Nam
CONCEPT CONCEPT
Explore combining images
and words into hybrid works of art that
engage the viewer on multiple levels. In this
workshop, students further their work by
expanding concept and voice through various
photographic collage techniques. These
could include direct overlays, such as affixing
photographic imagery to canvas and painting
over it, or inscribing words and images across
the surface of paintings, drawings or sculpture.
The goal is to make large works whose individual
parts are the foundation for painted or drawn
embellishment.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES Students cut and
paste photographic collage, digital collage,
large-format digital output, and draw and
paint with ink, oil or acrylic paints directly on
photographic imagery.
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Engage with the past while
immersing in the present and develop the
practice of drawing using sumi ink and brush
on paper. Students take a contemporary and
experimental approach to sumi ink drawing
while referencing traditional Asian brush
painting and calligraphy. Consider brush marks
and lines to be descriptive, meditative, intuitive,
experimental and expressive while examining
varied modes of presentations, such as collages
and simple folding and book-making. Come
with an open mind and experimental spirit –
the only expectation is to be present within
the process.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES Participants work
Students get ample studio time
and engage in in-process critiques as well as
image presentations. with sumi ink, a variety of brushes and papers.
The nature, properties and interaction of these
three materials is examined. Students learn
folding, binding and mounting the drawings,
and examine various modes of presentations,
such as simple paper structures and books.
*Some papers are provided.
FACULTY ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
Yana Payusova was born in
Leningrad. Classically trained as a painter at
the St. Petersburg Fine Art Lycee, she later
immigrated to the United States. She received
an MFA from the University of Colorado,
Boulder. Her work is exhibited nationally and
internationally, including recent venues at
the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park,
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Mimi Fertz
Gallery, New York, and Galerie Caprice Horn,
Berlin.
www.payusova.com
There is simple mark making,
working from the book, The Mustard Seed
Garden Manual of Painting. Students engage
in daily conversations and demonstrations and
work both alone and together as a group.
FACULTY
Yoonmi Nam received her MFA
from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her
work considers cross-cultural experience
and a sense of transience through prints,
drawings, sculptures and installations. Yoonmi
is a professor of art at the University of
Kansas, Lawrence.
www.yoonminam.com
www.leslieshows.com
TUITION $1,090 TUITION $1,155 TUITION + STUDIO SUPPORT DONATION $1,290 TUITION + STUDIO SUPPORT DONATION $1,355 TUITION + STUDIO SUPPORT DONATION $1,290
REGISTRATION FEE $45 | STUDIO FEE $75 REGISTRATION FEE $45 | STUDIO FEE $150 REGISTRATION FEE $45 | STUDIO FEE $100
CODE D0815-19 ENROLLMENT LIMIT 10 CODE P0818-19 ENROLLMENT LIMIT 10 CODE D0916-19 ENROLLMENT LIMIT 10
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