Description
PATRICK EARL HAMMIE
LARGE SCALE FIGURE DRAWING IN CHARCOAL
3 Day Workshop
May 19 – 21, 2023
10:00 – 5:00p
Tuition: $550
Materials Fee: $100
How can an expressive, deep, articulate, engagement with the Other make bare our own selves, our priorities, insecurities, and desires? The author Oscar Wilde wrote in his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray that “every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the colored canvas, reveals himself [herself or themselves].”
Across three days students will render a life-sized nude drawing of a live model in charcoal and other materials, using a process of pentimenti to push and pull between the openness of the blank page to the resolutions of a finished work. At the end of each work session we will erase/remove our images (to the best of our ability), then at the start of the next session use the “ghosts” of the previous drawing etched into our papers to begin again. This sustained drawing process, along with collaborations with fellow students, and individual and group conversations, will help us hone our eyes and methods, and expand how we approach drawing as a way of seeing, thinking, knowing, and representing others and ultimately ourselves.
The Materials Fee covers the expense of materials provided by the studio including large scale Canson 300lb Montval Watercolor Paper, large scale drawing boards and shipping tube if needed for transportation. Other drawing materials will be required for each student to bring on their own. See the materials list link below.
Instructor Bio:
Patrick Earl Hammie is a visual artist—painter, draftsman, sculptor, and illustrator— and educator who specializes in portraiture, cultural identity, storytelling, and the body in visual culture. His projects are typically expressive in form and ambitious in scale, drawing inspiration from American and art histories, mythology, and speculative fiction. The synthesis of these expressions invites viewers to consider the tales we tell and how we express notions of self, community, and others today. Hammie studied drawing at Coker University (2004) and received an MFA in painting from University of Connecticut (2008). His works and collaborations have been exhibited in Germany, India, South Africa, and the United States, at venues that span the California African American Museum, The Drawing Center, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Zhou B. Art Center. He was an artist-in-residence at the John Michael Kohler Art Center and the inaugural recipient of the Alice C. Cole ’42 Fellowship at Wellesley College. His works are included in public and private collections including the David C. Driskell Center (Maryland), Kinsey Institute Collections (Indiana), Kohler Company Collection (Wisconsin), JPMorgan Chase Art Collection (New York), and William Benton Museum of Art (Connecticut). He has been supported by fellowships and grants from the Joyce Foundation, Midwestern Voices and Visions, Puffin Foundation, Tanne Foundation, the states of Illinois and Connecticut, and other private foundations. Hammie currently serves as an Associate Professor and Chair of Studio Art in the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
https://patrickearlhammie.com/
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