Anderson Ranch Arts Center 2015 Summer Workshop Catalog 1 | Page 57

painting & drawing

Allison Miller, Hour

Ben Buswell, Horizon No. 2

Karl Burkheimer, In Situ

July 6 - 17

July 13 - 17

July 20 - 24

Allison Miller

rethinking the portrait

quixotic/impossible image/object

The Structured Accident

About Face:

Ryan Burghard & Ben Buswell

Problem Seeking: chasing the
Karl Burkheimer

SKILL LEVEL: III

SKILL LEVEL: Open to all

SKILL LEVEL: Open to all

CONCEPT: Driven by risk-taking and chance, this
two-week, advanced painting workshop provides an
extended opportunity to open up your practice and push
yourself to experiment. Students work intuitively within
a rigorous conceptual structure on multiple paintings
each day. Paintings begin with loose formal or structural
parameters and from there, the direction is up to you.
Multiple group critiques and individual discussions
address the formal and conceptual concerns that emerge
from this spontaneous way of working and how these
ideas inform each artist’s individual painting practice.

CONCEPT: Recontextualize the human portrait, as
we look to historical and contemporary examples of
portraiture to explore how meaning is created around
identity. In this course, we investigate a myriad of ways
to construct, deconstruct and recontextualize the human
portrait. By looking at examples of portraiture we explore
how meaning is created around the identity and ideas of
the individual through process and materials. Emphasis is
placed on experimentation and discovery.

CONCEPT: Creativity isn’t learned, it’s practiced, and
ideas are merely the beginning of a creative process.
Motivated by an intense, playful search for the inspiration
to exceed one’s imagination, this course pursues the
unexpected, the unrealistic and the impractica