Anderson Ranch Arts Center Workshop Catalogs 2010-2014 | Page 48

Jenny Dubnau, T.H. Glancing Sideways

Holly Hughes, Blue Bird Plate

K Cesark, House Flower III 

August 13 - 17

August 13 - 17

Jenny Dubnau

Holly Hughes

August 20 - 24
Encaustic: layering collage,
content and paint

Skill Level:  III

Skill Level: Open to all

Concept:  This workshop explores portraiture
in all its guises. We consider portraiture of
the past as well as contemporary portraiture:
everyone from Velásquez to Cindy Sherman
will be relevant. Like any other genre, portraits
reflect their political and social context and
have functioned as talismans of power, wealth
and vanity as much as they can be intimate
personal revelations. We investigate how form
and subject matter combine to create meaning in the context of portraiture, particularly as
contemporary painters.

Concept: Come make a mark in this workshop
for painters and experienced ceramic artists
alike. We work on developing a visual vocabulary of marks and imagery on tiles and plates.
Sources in nature and from visual culture
serve as starting points. Participants are free
to move between the improvisational and the
planned, between abstract and descriptive
imagery. The emphasis here is on individual
style and discovery.

Investigating Portraiture in Oil 

Media & Techniques:  Oil painting, composition, color mixing and drawing are examined
as are the issues of meaning discussed above.
Advanced students are welcome to do an independent week-long project.
Activities: We have one painting session each
day, as well as a session in which we loosen
up with quick studies. We also have group critiques, in which we respectfully discuss each
other’s work. Jenny shows the group many
images of portraits for discussion, using books
and slides.

Painted Plates & Tiles 

Media & Techniques:  Premade bisqued fired
white earthenware plates and tile blanks, cone
05 underglazes and lowfire glazes. Stenciled,
pounced, drawn or loosely painted, or watercolor-style brushwork.
Activities:  Drawing inspiration and suggestions from PowerPoint presentations of
painting details from international ceramic
collections, we proceed to make test tiles of
our own. Sketching, drawing and painting on
paper, students work individually on projects
and experiment from a menu of suggested
options. Holly gives one-on-one guidance and
leads some group brainstorming sessions.

Faculty:  Jenny Dubnau paints photo-based
psychological portraits. She received her MFA
from Yale in 1996. She has shown at PPOW
and Black & White Gallery in New York City,
Bucheon Gallery in San Francisco, and Bernice
Steinbaum Gallery in Miami. She is the recipient of a Tiffany grant, a Pollock-Krasner grant,
a Guggenheim grant, and a NYFA grant. Jenny
lives in Queens and paints in Brooklyn.

www.jennydubnau.com

Faculty:  Holly Hughes makes paintings, prints
and ceramics with imagery drawn from nature
and sources in the decorative arts. She paints
tiles and plates in Mexico, France and Italy, enjoying talavera, faience and maiolica’s color palate
and painterly history. She lives in New York and
is currently Department Head of the Painting
Program at Rhode Island School of Design.

Tuition: $920 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1120
Studio Fee: $75 Code: D1122 Enrollment Limit 10

Tuition: $825  OR  Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1025
Studio Fee: $75 Code: C1113 Enrollment Limit 14

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K Cesark
Skill Level:  Open to all
Concept: Students are invited to invent, explore,
expand and layer their ideas through this versatile and seductive medium. This workshop surveys both current and historical techniques in
encaustic painting. Students are encouraged to
experiment using encaustic on a variety of 2D
and or 3D surfaces for mixed media and collage.
Through demonstrations and individual and
group critiques, students have an opportunity
to track the development of their art practice.
Along with technical approaches, we explore
the use of narrative within encaustic painting.
Media & Techniques:  Mixing encaustic
medium, making encaustic paint with oil paint,
stencils, encaustic pens, fusing, gold leaf, polishing, transfers, original drawings and images,
choosing a substrate, grounds, materials for
collage, porous 2D and 3D objects/imagery
and archival considerations.
Activities: The week is filled with demonstrations, individual studio time and instruction.
There are presentations of current and historical works in encaustic as well as group and
individual critiques. Students are asked to trace
the development of their ideas through the use
of their sketchbooks, exercises, assignments
and exploration of encaustic.
Faculty: K Cesark is a studio artist and teaches
at Colorado Mountain College. K is a fellowship
recipient of the Colorado Council for the Arts.
Her work is exhibited locally and nationally.
She obtained her MFA from Massachusetts
College of Art and Design.
Tuition: $920 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1120
Studio Fee: $125 Code: D1224 Enrollment Limit 10