Description
PAMELA WILSON: PAINTING THE FIGURE BEYOND THE PHOTO
3 DAY WORKSHOP
April 5 -7, 2019
10a – 5:30
$480.00
**SOLD OUT! Wait List available. Please email info@alia-fineart.com to be placed on the waitlist.
Photography has become an indispensable tool for many contemporary artists. This 3 Day workshop will help students learn to create oil paintings that transcend photo reference. Pamela Wilson will help students avoid the pitfalls by understanding the limitations and advantages of working from a photo. Using printed reference provided by Pamela of her fascinating subjects, you will learn to interpret light, control color and maintain a solid value structure. You will also learn to redesign the elements to create a more dynamic and compelling narrative painting.
About the Instructor:
Pamela Wilson has built a reputation for works of art that transcend the commonplace to enter the realm of the otherworldly, the sublime unknown. She develops haunting images which create a remarkably compelling narrative. The physical and emotional isolation of her characters has emerged as a hallmark of her work. She explores the great chasm of the psyche, the abyss that opens when you seek to understand the complex human in modernity. The characters in her paintings are often called “odd or mad,” or similar terms denoting something out of alignment with ordinary reality. She believes that letting ourselves explore the inherent “distortions” in reality is part of what gives us heart, and balance. Addressing “beauty” in a painting feels too passive, and what she is seeking is a psychological moment, a different kind of beauty, the beauty in absurdity.
Pamela received her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she was awarded a Regents Fellowship, the Abrams Project Grant, and a Regents Award for her Thesis Exhibition. She is currently and MFA Mentor Faculty at Laguna College of Art & Design, Laguna Beach, CA. Her work has been the subject of 23 solo exhibitions, across the United States as well as in many museum exhibitions, including the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington DC, and a solo exhibition at the Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY. Her work is included in many prestigious collections and has graced the cover of American Art Collector Magazine twice since 2014.
More of her work can be seen at http://pamelawilsonfineart.com
