Description
This three-day workshop focuses on the relationships of value, color, scale and space in painting. Through a series of guided
exercises, we’ll break each of these basic elements down to its essence. Painters start to see—in new ways—how each element influences the other and how we can use these relationships to strengthen the composition as a whole. Each day starts with a slideshow of inspirational contemporary art followed by instructor demos, guided exercises and class discussion. Recommend for participants with an existing abstract painting practice.
About the Instructor
Born and raised in Chicago, Cohen has lived in the Pacific Northwest since 1980. She holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in ceramics, with honors, from University of Oregon. She has exhibited across the U.S. in Albuquerque, Chicago, Connecticut, Portland, San Francisco and Seattle, including an exhibit curated by art critic and curator Lucy Lippard. Her work is held in private collections in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta and NYC.
Through daily micro-practices of noticing her relationship with water, bees, wind and trees, dusk, dawn and the in-between she seeks to unravel languages of internalized colonization and align with others interested in reviving reverential bonds with the land, the invisible, ourselves and each other.
Art history, social history, literature, theater, music, dance, photography, film, and hereditary-cultural lineage all inform her work.
Learn More
www.zcohenstudio.com
Materials List
You will need to bring:
Journal
Pencils / pens
2 sheets Stonehenge or Rives BFK printmaking paper (cut in 6 pieces)
3-4 canvas or wooden panels no larger than 20” x 20”
8 – 10 tubes acrylic paint (black, white, one of each primary, other favorites)
6 – 8 paintbrushes (variety of sizes)
drawing tools – Neo-color crayons, graphite, charcoal, posca markers etc.
2 – 3 paint scrapers or putty knives from hardware of various sizes
1 – rubber printmaking brayer
Provided by instructors:
Shop towels
Nitrile gloves
Glazing medium