Anderson Ranch Arts Center Workshop Catalogs 2010-2014 | Page 50

Yana Payusova, Placebo, Russian Prison Series (detail)

Portia Munson, Dahlia Coreopsis Target 

Holly Roberts, Demon Reading

August 27 - 31

September 10 - 21

September 10 - 28

Painting & Digital Hybrids 
Yana Payusova
Skill Level:  III, basic Photoshop knowledge
required
Concept:  This workshop explores combining
images and words into hybrid works of art
that engage the viewer on multiple levels. Students further their work by expanding concept
and voice through various collage techniques.
These could include direct overlays (e.g., affixing photographic imagery to canvas and painting over it), or inscribing words/images across
the surface of paintings, drawings or sculptures. The goal is to make large works whose
individual parts are the foundation for painted
or drawn embellishment.
Media & Techniques:  Cut-and-paste photographic collage, digital collage, large-format digital output, drawing and painting with ink, oil, or
acrylic paints directly on photographic imagery.
Activities: Students have ample studio time,
and receive in-process critiques as well as
image presentations.

Photomontage & Mixed-Media
Collage 

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 ollage and paint

Portia Munson

Holly Roberts

Skill Level: II & III, students should have intermediate to advanced skills in Photoshop.

Skill Level:  III

Concept:  Large-scale collage provides an
immersive and powerful view into the mind of
the artist, and can contain vast worlds and shifting views of time that can affect the viewer profoundly. An interdisciplinary artist, Portia leads
students in the exploration of photomontage,
emphasizing techniques for work on a large
scale and examining ways to create metaphor,
symbolism and richly layered images. We use
traditional and cutting-edge digital technology.
Students are encouraged to develop their own
iconography as they explore photography and
collage, and draw inspiration from nature, portraiture, architecture and memory.
Media & Techniques:  Traditional and cuttingedge digital technologies to create work,
including digital images, drawing and painting,
scanning and large-format printing.

Faculty: Yana Payusova was born in Leningrad.
Classically trained as a painter at the St. Petersburg Fine Art Lycee, she later immigrated to
the US and she received an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Yana’s paintings
blend the styles and symbols of folk art, Russian icons, graphic poster art, illustration and
comics, and reflect her cultural heritage and her
training in traditional Russian realist painting.
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 Gallerie Caprice Horn, Berlin.

www.payusova.com

Activities: We begin with small-scale collages
of digital capture images and elements. We
reconstruct images from books, magazines and
other media to form the foundation of mixedmedia collage. We move to large-scale output
on a variety of printing substrates. We push
software limits and shar