Looking Close: Experimental Landscape | Melissa Oresky | Tue-Fri, June 18-21 | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
Adult | Painting | Drawing | All Levels
Members: $605 | Non-Members: $645
Course ID: 2D2408
*This workshop must meet a minimum number of students by May 14, 2024.
Concept
Tired of speeding through places and clicking through images? Look closely and slow down in this four-day workshop focused on experimental approaches to the landscape. Discover ways of using drawing and painting to examine your perceptions, senses, and reorient yourself with the world around you.
Experience
Work through a series of activities to record, alter, and amplify your experiences outdoors in the landscape into artworks. Prioritize looking, listening, touching, and noticing; create blind contour drawings; consider animals' points of view, such as an ant or bird; look down and create horizon-less images; make sideways and upside-down pictures; and record tactile impressions of colored objects. Studio projects encourage play with scale and size as well as play with various materials; considering atmosphere, detail, and mark-making. Experiment with alternative approaches to the picture plane and traditional pictorial structures. This class is a great way to invigorate a landscape-based practice in any medium, or to make art for the first time.
Skill Level
Open to students of all levels working in any drawing or painting media; beginners to advanced.
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INSTRUCTOR
Melissa Oresky's practice is rooted in painting and collage; primarily creating mixed media works on canvas and paper. She is interested in the landscape and considers it a bridge between painting, lived experience, environmental consciousness, and imagination. Melissa's goal in the classroom is to offer students practical knowledge paired with critical concepts and strategies to help them innovate and expand. When not making work, she is reading sci-fi novels, knitting, and spending time outdoors with her family. Melissa earned her MFA from UI-Chicago and is a Professor at Illinois State University.
