Playing with the concept and
process of plein air painting, Grau traversed the Madison landscape not to recreate specific scenes with pigment on canvas, but to identify existing instances of monochromatic abstraction.
Not exact matches
Coming up this summer will be mentorships: Stainless Steel Sculpture with Nathan Snyder, Storytelling: The Mechanics
of Creative Writing with Benjamin Sutherland, Alternative
Process Photography with Joyce Wilson, Historic
Plein Air Painting withThomas Van Stein, Drawing: Creating a Series with Rafael Perea De La Cabada.
As a reflection
of the mentorship program itself, this exhibition will feature a diverse array
of media including alternative
process photography, old masters oil
painting,
plein air painting, creative writing, stainless steel sculpture, drawing and mix - media; all art forms taught in this year's spring and summer mentorships.
He
paints en
plein air — setting himself strenuous logistical challenges in the
process — and boasts
of not even owning a camera.
This three - day workshop will focus on the
process of using photographs, sketches, and / or
plein air studies executed on location to create dynamic
paintings in the studio.
Her
plein -
air works become the documents
of this «tuning»
process, and she uses them to inform the development
of her massive, in - studio
paintings.
Kate demonstrates in gouache and oil the more intimate and spontaneous front end
of her
process through these smaller scale works
painted plein air and which were literally brought home in her suitcase.
In a period when anything hung on a wall must be instantly afforded the status
of painting, when we are confronted by «
paintings» that have been made without any recourse to
paint whatsoever, created with printers and scanners, or with the assistance
of nature, bleached by the sun, stained by the rain, a pretense
of process art to
painting en
plein air, and very late in the day, an engaged practice
of painting, rather than dismissed as a thing
of the past, is ever more present.
Focusing on Peter Adams»
process in developing the
paintings of the Fourteen Stations
of the Cross for Our Savior Church and USC Caruso Catholic Center, this solo exhibition includes studies,
plein air paintings of the Holy Land, staging photographs, re-enactment video segment, recent Resurrection - inspired
paintings, and other Christian - themed subjects.