University Open Air: Who's Afraid of Abstract?
*This is a two-part class--participants are welcome to attend either or both.
In this talk + practical session we’ll look into abstract painting through poems, texts and intuition. We’ll talk about why abstract painting is scary (for many reasons), the institution's role in making it so and what we can do as viewers succumbing to this modernist space. We’ll experience paintings in stages, releasing ourselves into the hands of the abstraction.
A one-hour lecture will be followed by an hour and 30 minute painting workshop.
Michal Alpern is a New York based artist with an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem. Alpern’s practice shifts between making serieses of objects to room sized sculptures, reconciling spatial thoughts like gesture and materiality with abstractions like gender and domesticity. Her works were featured in museums and institutions in NY and Israel, including solo shows at M23 Gallery, NY, The Museum of Israeli Art, Israel and group shows at False Flag, NY and the LeRoy Neiman Center, NY.
*In cases of rain, classes will be either moved to the Prospect Park Boathouse or canceled. Registered patrons will be notified by email on the morning of each course day and are also encouraged to check the UOA webpage and BPL Presents’ Facebook and Twitter pages for updates.
University Open Air is generously supported by The Morris & Alma Schapiro Fund.
101 East Drive
Brooklyn, NY 11225
*This is a two-part class--participants are welcome to attend either or both.
In this talk + practical session we’ll look into abstract painting through poems, texts and intuition. We’ll talk about why abstract painting is scary (for many reasons), the institution's role in making it so and what we can do as viewers succumbing to this modernist space. We’ll experience paintings in stages, releasing ourselves into the hands of the abstraction.
A one-hour lecture will be followed by an hour and 30 minute painting workshop.
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