Expressionism Rooted in Asian Traditions –Janet Filomeno

July 31 - August 3, 2008
Four-day workshop, limited to 10 participants
Tuition: $600
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This workshop will explore and focus on the movement and physicality of the body to depict expressionistic style painting. With paper as your canvas students will learn how modular units can create a large-scale piece by incorporating energetic, fluid ink lines recorded by the student’s hand while simultaneously creating an abstract landscape. Students will learn about the powerful marks and imagery that can be made through the use of pouring, flinging, and dripping water based materials to create large expressive pieces. This concept of ch’i of the brushstroke and ch’i of the artist are qualities that are found in the traditions of Asian art. Working primarily in ink on paper within a black and white palette, students will experiment with various techniques and processes to achieve their goal.

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Janet Filomeno is an artist based out of New Hope, Pennsylvania, where she also teaches as an adjunct Professor of Fine Art at Montclair State University and William Paterson University, both in New Jersey. She received her M.F.A. at Vermont College in 2006, and has shown extensively throughout the country over the last 25 years, with work in the Montclair Art Museum, SUNY at Albany, and various private collections. Most recently she was named artist-in-residence at the Featherstone Center for the Arts on Martha’s Vineyard.