landscape to studio painting & printmaking workshop – marlene rye

2-day workshop, limited to 8 people
October 25 - 26, 2008
Tuition: $300
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Often students are interested in the question of what makes something “real.”  This is a broad inquiry that can open one’s mind to new ways of seeing the world.  To help cultivate the skill of seeing, we will explore ways to get other senses involved in our work. To see is to go beyond purely visual attributes. Students will be challenged to see a subject’s weight, its placement in space, how it feels, and its temperature, to move beyond working with only visual information. In this combination Landscape painting and Printmaking workshop, Marlene’s goal will be to awaken a fascination with the prospect of trying to record the essence of something/place.
 The first two days of the workshop will be spent outside on location in the landscape.  Through immersion in the subject, using the tools of drawing and painting, participants will sharpen their skills of observation.  Along with learning how to really see what is there in the landscape, participants will be gathering information and images to be used in the second half the workshop. The following two days, students will use these landscape studies in the print studio. By incorporating black and white wipe away and multi-layered monotypes, students will be shown how to push ideas gathered in the field even further, and maybe in whole new directions.

faculty

Marlene Rye has an A.B. from Smith College and an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. She has studied under distinguished artists such as Andrew Forge, Barbara Grossman, John Moore, and Martha Armstrong. Her work has been shown nationally and has been accepted into juried shows with curators from the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim.  She is currently represented by Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia.