BRENT RIDGE - NAC CLASSES 11.17.15

Hello All,

Last week went into interesting ways investigating a specific color theme.
I would like you to continue in this vein - now as a DOMINANT COLOR theme.
This means you can use more colors in your palate, but in your painting you want to focus on one or two colors driving the composition overall.  This affects the mood, the space, the feeling of the painting.
Take a look at how this works in Hans Hoffman's work:

Hans Hoffman

Hans Hoffman

Hans Hoffman

Hans Hoffman has more kinds of work than I could ever post here:  LINK
He paints abstract, figurative, drips - he does it all.
For more geometric inspiration look at Sarah Morris: LINK

LISA YUSKAVAGE - The Brood @ The Rose Art Museum

Gallery Install

Lisa Yuskavage

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CATHY NAN QUINLAN - The Earth Poised in the Enveloping Air

music performance of Giancarlo Vulcano musical piece 

Gallery install of Cathy Nan Quinlan's paintings

Gallery install of Cathy Nan Quinlan's paintings

Gallery install of Cathy Nan Quinlan's paintings

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WENDY EDWARDS and EVE LUNDSAGER - Inspired @ Drive-By Projects

Wendy Edwards, You Too, 2015

Eva Lundsager, Regain Her Lost Territories, 2014

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HUMA BHABHA @ BU

Visiting Artist: Huma Bhabha

Monday, November 9, 6:30 pm
Sleeper Auditorium, 871 Commonwealth Ave.
Free and open to the public

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BRENT RIDGE - NAC CLASSES 11.10.15

COLOR:

What is it?  What does it do?  How does it work?
Let's do something specific with COLOR
I want you to bring in paint chips that you have selected to work with one another as a color scheme.
2-3 should do as a COLOR arrangement.

Bring lots of white.
You can bring house paint (its acrylic, right?) - just not in the colors of the paint chips you are going to use.  You must be able to mix up your color to color match the paint chips you are going to use.
Got it?


See you next week.
Watch this:
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SARAH MORRIS

Sarah Morris

Sarah Morris

Sarah Morris

Sarah Morris

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ADAM MORRIS - Foundations @ 42 Carlton Place, Glasgow

Installation Shot

Adam Morris, Reservoir II, 1976

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BRENT RIDGE - NAC CASSES 10.03.15

Looking to use pouring and alternative techniques of all-over abstraction bring surfaces and supplies useful for this kind of process painting.  Sprayers, Squeegees, House Paint, String, Ice Removers all work to increase size of tools and the quantity of our paint.  Bring more than one surface and bring paper that can be used to blot the surface and I will talk about that as well.

Here is an artist in this vein to continue your inspiration in this direction:

Jules Olitski 

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See you next week

TARA DONOVAN - One Wall One Work @ Barbara Krakow

Tara Donovan, Untitled, 2015 (material - Slinkys®)

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BRENT RIDGE - NAC CLASSES 10.27.15

This week we want to start using all-over techniques experimenting with our paint and tools.
Expand brushes to using water (or medium) to spread color out and let it play in experimentation or let it drip and run.  Using scrapers, or pushing paint with big brushes or even cardboard – we want to see unexpected results in the paint and let it arise compositions for us.  Bring more than one surface.

It's all about rhythm - think in a jazzy way (like improvisation)!

Look to these as ideas to consider for inspiration:

Gerhard Richter

Hans Hoffman

Molly Zuckerman-Hartung

Jackie Saccoccio

Gerhard Richter: LINK
Hans Hoffman: LINK
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung: LINK
Jackie Saccoccio: LINK

MARTIN BOYCE - When Now is the Night @ RISD Museum

Martin Boyce

Martin Boyce

Martin Boyce

Martin Boyce

Martin Boyce

Martin Boyce

Martin Boyce, gallery install at RISD

Martin Boyce

Martin Boyce, gallery install at RISD

Martin Boyce, gallery install at RISD

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GABRIELLE ROSSMER - Rigid Mobility @ Hallspace Gallery

Gabrielle Rossmer

Gabrielle Rossmer, gallery view

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BRENT RIDGE - NAC CLASSES 10.20.15

After employing strategies of cube we move our attention to using simple shapes to comprise our composition.  Still trying out geometric form, use shape to comprise your visions.  Looking at Jawlensky we see how to make faces using this as an abstract form.  Feel compelled to make abstractions that reflect an image through geometry.  The big spaces created in his abstract faces gives a place for our eye to rest.  There are still layers too – not paint by number.

Alexej von Jawlesky

Bring some ideas of face, or landscape, or tree or symbol to explore through geometric shape to form a painting.  And let cool and warm colors play off each other.

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MICHAEL BERRYHILL - Lecture @ BU

Visiting Artist: Michael Berryhill

Monday, October 19, 6:30 pm
Sleeper Auditorium, 871 Commonwealth Ave.
Free and open to the public

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JOSEPH HART

Joseph Hart

Joseph Hart

Joseph Hart

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JENNIFER AMADEO HOLL

Jennifer Amadeo Holl

Jennifer Amadeo Holl

Jennifer Amadeo Holl

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BRENT RIDGE - NAC CLASSES 10.13.15

Hello everyone,

So excited that everyone is diving into letting paint work its way through looking at nature and working through layers of paint.

What I would next like to direct everyone toward is a way of translating an image into a palette of color.  I want everyone to bring at least one picture of a person, self or else, a tree or something you would like to see transform.

Using this as a starting point we will use simple shapes such as squares, triangles or circles in a grid formation format to make our pictures.  We will be inspired by Paul Klee and here is his example.

Paul Klee, Ancient Harmony-no 236, 1925

Bring a paper to sketch with as that will be necessary to think out the process - our color placement will be approximate but we will change and improvise for the sake of our composition.

more Klee: LINK

PICASSO AT WORK

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Soundtrack: Habanera by Wolf Hoffman LINK

SHARON LACEY

Sharon Lacey, Black and White Crosses, 2005

Sharon Lacey, Sticks, 2006

Sharon Lacey, X, 2006

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