This class is no longer available.

About the Workshop

Any surface, any subject or combination of media become a springboard for drawing, color, imagery, and locating a personal visual lexicon. Like music, paint and other media act as notes, so colors, forms, and compositions lend themselves to variations on a theme.

Challenge ways you understand “painting” or drawing by developing systems and breaking from them, mounting a series to find your own voice within a convention. Hourly works will unearth buried ideas, desires, fears, so preferences and assumptions coexist with insights and discoveries. The unexpected nature of prime numbers like 31 relate to unfolding cycles of experimentation and refinement, the serial nature of the works we will make.

Notes: Water-based materials only; no oil paint or water-based oil paint.

About Alex Rheault

Alex Rheault lives and works in Southern Maine since 2001. She combines interdisciplinary practices drawing, painting, writing, collage, and book arts in intuitive ways to explore memento mori, found objects, odd pairings, the domestic, the body, things with wheels, incongruities, and nonsense.

Rheault teaches at the University of New England and privately.  She recently collaborated with poet Meghan Sterling and presented visual works at 2023 Belfast Poetry Festival this fall, exhibits locally, and is assembling handmade books of her own writings and drawings. Rheault has a BFA from Parsons, certificates from FIT (Millinery) and the Salt Institute (Photography), and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College.

Dates

July 21 - 27, 2024

This class is no longer available.

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