Painting: Women of Abstract Expressionism
6 Week Class | Available
This course combines revisionist art history and hands-on art practice. Each class will begin with a brief slideshow and discussion of a mid-century Abstract Expressionist female painter. We will look at Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler. Students will be guided through a series of exercises that develop their facility with gestural painting. We will practice automatic drawing as a precursor to painting and experiment with a variety of materials and brushes. This course is best suited for experienced students who have already taken an introductory painting class.
Base Tuition: $333 + Material Fee: $25 = $358 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Key concepts and ideas around gestural abstraction
- Historical context and significance of these women artists
- Develop confidence in your gestural painting practice
- How to balance structure and improvisation in abstract composition
- Reinforce the creative links between drawing and painting
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.