Date: Tuesdays, November 15-December 13, 2022
Time: 10:30 AM-1:30PM Pacific Time (1:30-4:30 PM Eastern Time/6:30-9:30PM London Time)
Level: All
Medium: All paint mediums
For many years, I have explored found photographs, especially family photographs, as source material for paintings. These images of families are ultimately meditations on time, love, loss, mortality, and the delicacy of the fleetingness of our lives.
These paintings are often destroyed, rubbed out, painted over, and effaced repeatedly in the course of making them—the process of painting is much like the ravages of time and distance, which are embedded in the source material…of knowing only a part of the story, the fragmentary nature of any image. We will embrace and explore an interpretive painting process, and an open ended engagement with just how much is enough to create feeling through abstraction, deconstruction, and painted surface. Risk taking and destruction will be encouraged. Revision, and aggressive editing and repainting will be encouraged.
Emphasis will be on finding meaningful expression through paint and abstraction, and how that quality relates in terms of feeling to the image revealed or concealed.
“A deep thematic thread runs through all of my work, it’s a ‘vanitas’ sort of message, to take the time to be present, to notice the magic of noticing, the richness of what’s right in front of us. I think that there is something radical in making work that is intimate in scale and quiet in its content and its aims–it strikes me as a tonic, an antidote, for our times, which are increasingly dehumanized, and in which people are living lives that are increasingly disembodied, mediated by a screen, and constantly stimulated. My art is about connecting with this world, this moment, as it is, as deeply as possible.” www.gageopdenbrouw.com
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