Monroe, LA - The Masur Museum of Art will offer a two printmaking workshop on Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21. The workshop is comprised of two 3 hour classes.
Figurative Painting: Transcending Classical Form with Post-Modern Color and Space taught by Emily Ezell aims to guide students towards creating a painting that combines classical figures from the Western canon into a 21st century space that emphasizes abstracted form over illusionary space. Themes such as religion, identity, regionalism, appropriation, and narrative will be discussed.
The level for this workshop is intermediate as the ideal student has completed at least one formal painting class, or has a year of self-taught painting in their background. Participants will produce one 18 x 24 painting and at least 2 smaller studies based in collage and mixed media during this workshop.
The cost is $150 per person. A twenty percent discount will be offered to museum members and the price includes all materials that students will take home.
Materials needed include whatever paints, brushes, tools the participant is comfortable with. Only acrylic or oil paint, please. It is wise to limit paint colors to no more than 9. Imagery will be provided but if there is a particular painting from the 15th – 18th Century participants would like to bring into use, that would be welcome. Materials provided by museum include a small sketchbook and pencil orpen for thumbnail sketches, 9×12 heavy watercolor paper sheets, 18 x 24 primed, stretched canvas, and scissors.
Instructor Emily Ezell says she "composes an inverted esoteric world where reptiles are maternal, clowns are sacred, and feral women perform celebratory ritual intoxication. Color, texture and light are rendered in playful narratives that vacillate between illusionist and broken space and form." Ezell finds inspiration in Jungian Psychology, Esoteric Mythology, Southern Gothic culture, Mannerism, Rococo, the Divine Feminine and swamps.
Emily currently works in the painting studio at Grambling State University, where she is assistant professor of Painting.
Space is limited and payment in advanced is required. More information is available at 318.329.2237. Registration is at masurmuseum.org.
