Abstract Painter's Studio
6 Week Class | Available
This is an opportunity for experienced painters to develop an independent body of abstract work, with guidance from the instructor. This could be for painters who already work in abstraction, or for those wishing to push their work in an abstract direction. Classes will begin with a brief slideshow and presentation focusing on important themes in contemporary abstraction, which can then inform the direction students choose to take. Rather than offer assignments, the instructor will work one on one with each student to develop work in progress and / or initiate a new direction that suits their current interests.
Base Tuition: $333 + Material Fee: $5 = $338 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Key concepts relevant to abstraction such as figure / ground, field composition, push / pull, positive and negative space
- Develop sensitivity to abstract paintings and nurture confidence in discussing them
- Experiment with approaches to composition to develop a felt sense for what works for your practice
- Explore the balance of freedom and constraint that is generative for your working process
- Materials will be discussed in the first class. Please be sure to keep receipts incase items need to be returned.
- Brushes
- Rags
- Palette & palette knife
- Paint set (student’s choice of medium)
- Sketchbook
- Canvas or other substrate for independent work
Rachel Crummey
Rachel is a visual artist and writer of settler descent based in Toronto. With a background in abstract painting, poetry, and contemplative practice, she is currently learning from non-linear intelligences through collaboration with fungi. In 2022, she joined the research framework SALT (the Institute for Sensual Awareness, Language, and Touch) with artist Tara Dougans. Her paintings have been exhibited most recently at the plumb and MKG127 (Toronto) and McBride Contemporain (Montreal). She has been an artist in residence with Open Studio (Toronto) and the Salzburger Kunstverein (Austria). She is a recipient of the Joseph Plaskett Foundation’s Nancy Petry Award for emerging painters (2015) and she holds an MFA from Guelph University. She gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.