Drawing and Painting Abstraction–Jen Bradley

June 15 - 16, 2008
Two-day workshop, limited to 10 participants
Tuition: $450, add Encaustics intensive (see below) for $100
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The workshop will concentrate on exploring ideas, concepts and processes of abstraction in drawing and painting. Color, composition, mark making, application of paint, mediums, and glazes are all important elements in great abstract painting. There will be an emphasis on drawing and elements of composition (traditional and non traditional approaches) and how to bring this directly into the process and development of a painting. Exercises and methods as well as the use of many different materials in process of painting will be introduced as a way to get away from literal representation. We will make small and large works, so be sure to bring plenty of appropriate materials. We will work from your own drawings, sketchbooks, and any other such objects you may wish to work with as source of inspiration/ subject matter, as well as a set-up studio environment.

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Jen Bradley has been making drawings and paintings inspired by the gorillas at the Franklin Park Zoo since 1994. Bradley has managed to capture our formidable primate cousins in all their complexities translating their expressions, gestures, physical prowess, texture and tones into a collection of paintings and drawings that are powerful monuments to nature and society.

Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S and is in private collections both nationally and internationally. She received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in 1995. She has been awarded a C-Scape / National Seashore fellowship and a Margo Gelb Dune Shack Artist Residency. She is an establish member of the arts community in Provincetown, Ma where she currently works out of her studio. Bradley continues to make routine visits to draw at the zoo.