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Autobiographical Painting: Objects & Spaces

11 Week Class | Available

Adult: Intermediate
2025-01-15-2025-03-26
6:00 PM-9:00 PM on Wed
$505.00 CAD

Autobiographical Painting: Objects & Spaces

11 Week Class | Available

This is an intermediate level painting class in which students will develop a body of work reflecting their personal life, experience and histories through the objects and spaces that surround them. Through exercises, we will look at the possibilities of ‘self portraiture’ beyond the face and body - using sources from life, photographic references and memory to explore the meaning behind personal objects and the spaces that define them (while working to develop their painting vocabulary and personal expression). There will be a focus on painting fundamentals and observational painting, as well as newer methodologies, for example, the incorporation and reinterpretation of found and archival imagery, such as old photographs. The class will discuss the historic and contemporary lens of still life, landscape and interiors as painting subjects: the ways they can be utilized to explore identity and self; and the ways that objects and spaces can and have been built in an engaging autobiographical body of work. This course will emphasize painting time while incorporating lectures, demonstrations and critiques.

Base Tuition: $495 + Material Fee: $10 = $505 Total
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  • What You Will Learn:
    - Exploring the meaning of objects and spaces and the relationships we have with them
    - Historical context and tradition of of still life, interior and landscape painting
    - Contemporary strategies such as image transfer, collage and overpainting, sequence, multi-panel painting
Harvey, Brian
Brian Harvey

Brian lives and works in Toronto. He has been painting and exhibiting for over a decade and his work can be found in public and private collections across Canada, the United States and Europe. His paintings are studies of the commonplace and the typically mundane: the everyday objects, spaces and urban landscapes that surround him that are frequently overlooked. He has training from Seneca College, Sheridan College, Toronto School of Art, the Art Centre at Central Technical School, and has recently completed a BFA from OCAD University in Toronto.