Brian Shure, Ocean Bathers (detail)
Helen Molesworth & Simone Leigh
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July 1 & 2, 9AM — 12:30PM O July 1 — 5 What Does Art Do? Watermedia Monotype Helen Molesworth &
Simone Leigh Brian Shure Layering Color & Light:
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woodcut & monoprint
CONCEPT For centuries, art served the
needs of ritual, the church and the state. In the
West, this tradition was broken by the rise of the
avant-garde and artists who wanted to make “art
for art’s sake”. It’s interesting to now ask “what
does art do?” This program examines objects
and discusses them in formal, art historical,
political and personal terms, unpacking what art
does to us and what we in turn learn from art.
How can we change as a result of our encounters
with art? Helen reads from a chapter of her
forthcoming book, What Does Art Do?, focusing
on works of art that deal with love and freedom.
She is joined in conversation with artist Simone
Leigh, about whom she has written. CONCEPT Develop your printing and
water-media painting skills in this exciting and
experimental monotype workshop. Create
prints using watercolor, developing images
through a series of states to gain a deeper
understanding of color and compositional
strategies. This simple yet stunning process
allows students to print crisp watercolors with
brilliant highlights. The immediacy of the
finished print belies the free experimentation
and repeated addition, subtraction and radical
changes made in developing a painting on a
nonabsorbent surface and then transferring it to
paper. Each remaining ghost image can then be
reworked in a new direction and printed again. CONCEPT
FACULTY MEDIA & TECHNIQUES MEDIA & TECHNIQUES
Helen Molesworth was the Chief Curator
at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles from 2014 - 2018. While at MOCA, she
organized the group show One Day at a Time:
Manny Farber and Termite Art and the critically
acclaimed Kerry James Marshall and Anna Maria
Maiolino exhibitions. Her writing has appeared
in publications such as Artforum, Art Journal,
Documents, and October. ACTIVITIES
Simone Leigh examines ideas of the female
body, race, beauty and community. Exhibitions
include: “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and as
a Weapon”, New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York; “Psychic Friends Network”, Tate
Exchange, Tate Modern, London; “The Waiting
Room”, New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York; “The Free People’s Medical Clinic”,
commissioned by Creative Time; inHarlem, The
Studio Museum in Harlem at Marcus Garvey
Park, New York; and the Hammer Museum, Los
Angeles.
www.simoneleigh.com
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July 8 — 12
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Jean Gumpper
Students apply
transparent watercolor and gouache with
brushes, rollers, sponges, sprayers and textured
cloths on translucent, frosted polyester film,
transferred to paper. Nonabsorbent surfaces
allow for repeated modification and reworking.
Each print leaves a ghost that can be reworked
to encourage the development of an idea
through a series of proofs.
Daily demonstrations cover
paper qualities, proper paper and press
preparation for printing, paint qualities and
handling emphasizing unorthodox techniques
unique to nonabsorbent surfaces, and flattening
finished prints. There are daily presentations
and individual and group critiques.
FACULTY
Brian Shure is represented by
Planthouse Gallery in New York. He has taught
at the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown
and Cornell. Brian is also a Master Printer,
Director of Anderson Ranch Editions and Chair
of the Ranch Gallery Program.
www.brianshure.com
This engaging printmaking
workshop focuses on monoprint and woodcut
methods, with an emphasis on layering color
to produce luminous results. Students begin
with observational studies from the natural
world and explore trace, stencil, painterly and
multiple plate monotype methods. Woodcut
techniques are then added to layer transparent
and opaque color, creating a radiant sense
of space. Editioned and unique prints are
created, alternating between structure and
improvisation. This back-and-forth serves as
the format for the course as printing using a
woodcut matrix with a variety of monoprint
methods are combined.
Students learn
trace, stencil, additive and reductive monotype
and carving, transferring images, color ink
mixing, relief and monoprint processes from
wood blocks and Plexiglas with oil-based inks
using a press and by hand, pochoir techniques
using gouache, a variety of registration
techniques and chine collé.
ACTIVITIES
Students work from drawings,
collages and/or photographic sources to
create many editioned and unique prints.
There are daily demonstrations with time for
individual exploration and series development.
We engage in group and individual critiques.
FACULTY
Jean Gumpper is a faculty
member and artist-in-residence at Colorado
College in Colorado Springs. She has been
an artist in residence at Anderson Center for
Interdisciplinary Studies, Goldwell Museum,
Ucross Foundation, Grand Canyon National
Park and Rocky Mountain National Park. She
has taught print workshops in Sweden and the
United States. Jean’s prints have been exhibited
nationally and internationally.
www.jeangumpper.com
TUITION $350 TUITION $985 TUITION + STUDIO SUPPORT DONATION $450 TUITION + STUDIO SUPPORT DONATION $1,185 TUITION + STUDIO SUPPORT DONATION $1,185
NATIONAL COUNCIL MEMBERS $250 REGISTRATION FEE $45 | STUDIO FEE $100 REGISTRATION FEE $45 | STUDIO FEE $100
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