Workshops
An immersive observation of land, landscape, space, and being through the creative lens of photography and extended media, with Kate Beck.
Dates:
Nov 11, 2024 - Nov 21, 2024
Levels:
All
Workshop Fee: $295
Workshop Duration: 8 hours over four sessions (Mondays & Thursdays, 1-3pm ET with 1:1 instructor time)
Workshop Location: Online
Class Size: 10
Note: This workshop will be held in a live, online format utilizing the Zoom platform.
Class meets Mondays & Thursdays, Nov 11, 14, 18 & 21 from 1-3pm ET.
Landscape is a naturally pluralistic concept presenting a broad scope of approaches to and perspectives of the context of place within the global arena of immersive fine art today.
In The Cosmic Landscape, we will explore landscape as a means of expressing our contemporary world via realism, metaphor and abstraction through fresh areas of interdisciplinary practice, exposing and cultivating our imaginative capacities as artists within a rigorous investigation of photography, painting, spatial form and design, and digital rendering.
Using photographic snapshots, we will explore visceral forms of seeing and being seen, focusing on the importance of critical photographic documentation, the significance of representation through photography, and the power of imbued dualism through contextualized materiality in our works. We will experiment with such dichotomies such as absence/presence, nature/culture, reality/abstraction, interiors/exteriors, time/space, and the resonance of memory.
Be prepared with:
- 10 unique, printed camera compositions of a single place that is meaningful to you
- sharable, digital archive of available photographs to add to and work from
- Wet media and brushes of your choice, including:
- Liquitex matt medium (sm)
- Golden gesso (sm)
- Watercolor or Gouache
- Indelible inks or shellac inks
- Acrylic or oil paint
- Blending markers
- Watercolor brushes
This collaborative workshop is offered via ZOOM for four, two hour group sessions, as well as individual crits with the instructor outside of class time.
- Dialogue is essential and expected!
- Anticipate critiquing works formally in terms of the basic elements of art. Unfamiliar? Get familiar
- Anticipate engaging in critical cultural issues, art, and contemporary artists
- Anticipate continuous digital photograph assignments outside of class
- Anticipate working from a shared screen, presenting your work digitally in a format gaged for as excellent detailed sharing as possible
Optional Reading List:
- Erling Kagge’s, Walking: One Step at a Time
- Gaston Bachelard’s, The Poetics of Space
- Mike Kelly’s psychogeography essays
Who is this class for?
This is a professional class intended for painters, photographers, photojournalists, lens-based artists, and filmmakers of all experience levels. PLEASE JOIN US!
Banner image: Kate Beck, Italia. Digital C-print, Oil Paint, Technical Embellishment. 2021
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Instructor: Kate Beck
Kate Beck is an American painter and writer.
A constant investigation into light and space has been my aesthetic experience with visual art. My works materialize through formalistic criteria of organized scale, color, and spontaneous brushwork, engaging historical techniques of oil painting within conditions of 20th-century American abstraction.
Recent fascinations include experimentation with lens-based image in the landscape, including conceptualization by overpainting, presenting fresh opportunities for feeling and illusionistic space, and furthering the obscurity of realism, and the nature of abstraction.
Kate has been collaborating, creating, and exhibiting her work within the United and States and Europe for over twenty years. She is a recipient of professional grants from the Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Art Covid 19 Artist Relief Fund in New York. She is a BAU Institute Fellow (New York, Italy, France), and has collaborated with Concrete poet, Thomas A Clark, Scotland; Berg, Jones, & Sarvis (performance), Tracy Silver Motion, LA; Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Germany; The Newlyn Gallery & Exchange, UK; parisCONCRET, France; and Peter Foolen Editions, The Netherlands; and in New York with September Gallery; M-nusspace; Masters & Pelavin; OK Harris Fine Art; The Drawing Center; and Kentler International Drawing Space, among others.
