Summer Wednesday: Abstract Painting[Ages 15 - Adults](New)

Free the abstract painter within through pictorial constructions of composition, color, and a variety of paint applications. We will begin with working from life, and then move quickly into
gestural style and geometric analysis to arrive at methods for working abstractly. This class will guide you in understanding your aesthetic interests, transforming them into a unique personal style.

Wednesdays, 6:00pm-8:00pm: 4 sessions
July 10-31, 2019
Members*: $145 | Regular: $160
*Teens must be registered as household members
Materials list after bio
Late fee of $25 will apply from June 28, 2019

About the Teaching Artist: Theresa Pfarr works to conflate the cultural, commercial and personal, through a process of painting and collaging personal and appropriated images into her paintings and works on paper. Influenced by celebrity crisis, celebrity obsession, plastic surgery, and fashion imagery, her paintings convey the anxiety of inhabiting a continually mediated self.  In answer to
damaging socially-constructed beauty standards, her figures disintegrate, limbs distort, paint melts into skin and glances confront in discord.  Pfarr received her MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University and her BFA from D.A.A.P. at the University of Cincinnati (1998, 2004). Additionally, she studied Post-Baccalaureate at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1999).  Awards include a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Roswell A-I-R Grant, a Jentel Residency and a Puffin Foundation Grant.  Pfarr’s work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, OH; Modern Arts Midtown Gallery, Omaha, NE; Grizzly Grizzly Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been included in thematic exhibitions including Human Form: An Enduring Inspiration, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY; The Ripple Effect, The Northern Virginia Fine Art Association, Alexandria, VA; Inception, SCA Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM. Her work is included in the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art and many private collections. She lives and works in New Jersey and is an Adjunct Professor of Art at The College of New Jersey.

Materials List:  (Note: If you have other colors you want to substitute contact the teaching artist.)
Acrylic Paint: Any basic tube set will do but LUKAS or Soho brands are recommended.
A set of 12 small tubes, or any affordable student grade, avoid craft paint in bottles.
Golden and Liquitex brands are best quality.
The following colors are recommended:
Titanium White
Ivory Black
Burnt Umber
Burnt Sienna
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium Orange Hue
Primary Yellow
Dioxazine Purple
Green Light Permanent
Primary Blue
Phthalo Green
Primary Red
Brushes and Knives:
-5 to 6 Bristle Brushes: A variety of types (flats, filberts, brights, rounds) and sizes
(4,6,8,12,16).
-5 to 6 Synthetic sable brushes.  Size and type as above.
-2 utility brushes, Approx. 2-3 inches.
-2 painting knives or spatulas, small and medium, different tips.
-3” mixing/palette knife (flat with flexible tip)
Painting Palette:  Palette paper pad recommended, 12”x 16”
Materials for painting surfaces/supports: Four 12”x 12” primed canvases. Can be
purchased in packs.
Sundries:
- plastic jars for cleaning brushes.
-disposable gloves
-cotton rags for clean-up, old t-shirts are ideal or paper towels.
-plastic grocery bags for storing paint.  I will demonstrate method for saving mixed leftover paint.
-small spray bottle (optional)

To preview her paintings please visit https://www.theresafpfarr.com/