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

Allison Miller, Lake

Arnold Kemp, Don’t Make Friends

Deborah Howard, Walking On Water

August 12 - 16

August 19 - 23

August 19 - 23

Allison Miller

critique or undoing the image

The Transformative Experience
of Encaustic Painting 

Arnold Kemp

Deborah Howard

SKILL LEVEL: IV, portfolio review required

SKILL LEVEL: Open to all

CONCEPT:  What is contemporary? It’s a question being asked today in philosophy, art history, aesthetics and politics. This workshop
offers the opportunity to develop a contemporary context for our work. How is this question
involved in our idea of art? And what visual languages can we use to formulate these ideas?
To consider the question of what contemporary
is, we don’t seek one, prescribed definition.
Rather, we find ways into an embattled terrain,
unraveling its various lines, identifying points
of divergence, strengths or fragility, in a kind
of map that opens a laboratory for research,
questioning and conceptual experimentation.
Rigorous questioning is aimed at revealing the
relationship between the work we create and
the world in which we live.

CONCEPT:  Originally used in ancient Egypt to
decorate sarcophagi, encaustic is used by artists today impressionistically, abstractly and
conceptually. Working in encaustic can be a
transformative experience that creates a whole
new way of thinking about painting. This unique
paint medium combines molten wax with pigments to produce rich luminosity and translucency. Using heat, wax and color, we experiment and discover new approaches while
reinventing our personal artistic expression.

The Structured Accident 
SKILL LEVEL: III
CONCEPT: Ready to open up your practice, push
yourself to experiment and do things you have
never done before? Risk-taking and chance
drive this painting workshop as we work
quickly and intuitively within a rigorous conceptual structure. We make multiple paintings
each day, starting from loose, formal or structural parameters. From there, the direction is
up to us. Daily group critiques and individual
discussions address the particular and conceptual concerns that emerge from this spontaneous way of working.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Students use their preferred paint medium, oil or acrylic on canvas.
If oil paint is used, students may choose to
use a quick-drying medium such as Galkyd or
Galkyd Lite.
ACTIVITIES:  Students paint and critique every
day. Painting continues outside of class.
FACULTY: Allison Miller received her MFA from
UCLA. She is represented by Susan Inglett
Gallery and has shown at ACME Gallery in
Los Angeles. She was recently included in
“Made in L.A., 2012,” produced by the Hammer Museum and LAXART, and has exhibited
in many group venues, including the Orange
County Museum of Art, Gagosian Gallery and
D’Amelio Terras. In 2009, she was featured
in “Painting Abstraction: New Elements in
Abstract Painting.” Allison has taught at UCLA,
UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC San Diego and
Claremont Graduate University.

www.artslant.com

Tuition: $920 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1120
Studio Fee: $75 Code: D1120 Enrollment Limit 10

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Feeling Good: the aesthetics of

MEDIA & TECHNIQUES:  This is an advanced
and non-media specific critique workshop. All
visual art media — including painting, sculpture, photography and time-based media —
are welcome and encouraged.
ACTIVITIES:  Students work independently on
personal projects in the studio while participating daily in discourse.
FACULTY: Arnold J. Kemp chairs the masters program in visual studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art. His awards include the Guggenheim
Foundation Fellowship, the Pollock-Krasner
Award and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship. His works are in a number of collections,
including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

www.a-j-kemp.com
Tuition: $920 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1120
Studio Fee: $75 Code: D1222 Enrollment Limit 10

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MEDIA & TECHNIQUES:  Experiments include
heating and blending colors, smooth, textural and carved surfaces; stencils, photo and
drawing transfers; collage and found object
casting.
ACTIVITIES: Days include demonstrations, slide
talks and books on artists and techniques; individual work-time plus one-on-one and group
critiques.
FACULTY:  Deborah Howard heads the painting
program at the University of Denver. Her work
has been exhibited regionally and nationally,
and featured in a solo exhibition of encaustic
paintings at Studio Art Centers International in
Florence, Italy. Her drawings are in the permanent collection at Yad Vashem Holocaust Art
Museum in Jerusalem, Israel.

www.deborahhowardart.com

Tuition: $920 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1120
Studio Fee: $125 Code: D1221 Enrollment Limit 10