Anderson Ranch Arts Center Workshop Catalogs 2010-2014 | Page 30

Adam Helms, Untitled

Brad Kahlhamer, Billy Jack Jr. (detail)

Jackie Gendel, Days of the Week (detail)

July 19 - 23

July 19 - 23

July 26 - 30

material and the studio practice

Brad Kahlhamer   

Alchemy: research, source
Adam Helms   

The Indifferent Landscape 
Skill Level: II

Skill Level: III
Concept: Search for source material in various
media as you examine the role of research in
art making. Evolve the format and content of
your work through class discussions and a
review of contemporary art history.
Media & Techniques:  We use a variety of
media determined by students and availability.
Activities:  Students select a project to work
on for the week. We hold one or two lectures dealing with issues of source material,
research and contemporary art, and review
contemporary artwork using these concepts.
Class discussions and critiques of student projects round out the class.
Faculty: Adam Helms lives and works in New
York City. He received his BFA from Rhode
Island School of Design and his MFA from Yale
University. He has exhibited in Denver, Miami,
New York and Los Angeles.

Tuition: $920 / Studio Support Cost: $1120
Studio Fee: $75  Code: D0712  Enrollment Limit: 10

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Concept:  Understand, explore and use the
poetic strengths of painting with all its variations of color, light and space. This intensive
week brings focus to the landscape as a vehicle for painterly exploration that connects the
artist to the immediate area. Execution may
occur outdoors or from sketches, photos or
memory, as long as it fuses the artist to present conditions and place.
Media & Techniques:  Students choose their
medium and we encourage the use of inspiring
source material to facilitate mark making.
Activities: Students spend class time painting
outdoors or from sketches and photographs.
Feedback is given daily.
Faculty:  Brad Kahlhamer is the founder of
Hess Modern, an alternative space in Chelsea.
He received the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation studio grant, the Louis Comfort Tiffany
Foundation Award in Painting and the Joan
Mitchell Award.

Tuition: $940 / Studio Support Cost: $1140
Studio Fee: $75  Code: D0713  Enrollment Limit: 10

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Experimental Narrative
Painting 
Jackie Gendel   
Skill Level: II
Concept: This is painting “unhinged” between
abstraction and narrative. We create narrative
content between different painting modalities, emphasizing palette, chance procedures
and notational language. We also cover many
issues like intuition, chance/accident, control,
reductive and generative modes of abstraction, and appropriating different 2D narrative
idioms (comic strips, portraiture, collage and
surrealist techniques).
Media & Techniques: Students explore a range
of techniques in oil-based media.
Activities: Each student completes a series of
paintings and makes thumbnails and studies.
The group discusses narrative themes and provides critique and feedback.
Faculty: Jackie Gendel has had solo exhibitions
in New York at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Moti Hasson Gallery and Jessica Murray Projects. She’s
been an Artist-in-Residence at the University of
Tennessee, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and
the MacDowell Colony. In 2007 she received
an Award in Art from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters. Her work belongs to
many prestigious public and private collections
including the Wadsworth Athenaeum and the
Progressive Art Collection, and has been written about in Art in America, Art Papers, The
New Yorker, The New York Sun and The New
York Times. Jackie lives and works in Brooklyn,
New York.

Tuition: $940 / Studio Support Cost: $1140
Studio Fee: $75  Code: D0815  Enrollment Limit: 10