Instructor: Z Behl
Monday - Friday
August 25 - 29
9am - 12pm
5 sessions

A mixed media class centering on found textiles and cast figurative components, we will learn to mold with alginate and plaster strips. We will mix epoxy concrete to mimic ceramic with a hand layup of cement, and we will integrate fabric into the work. We will investigate fabric stiffeners and pigmentation. The resulting artworks will speak to material devolution, transience, and the human condition on earth. 

Z Behl, b. 1985, is a visual artist from New York who works across sculptural installation, performance, and film. Culling myths to narrativize trickster archetypes exploring gender and power, Z is concerned with chaos, attachment, and the role of the artist as a world breaker. Z has exhibited at PIONEER WORKS, Mana Contemporary, CAC New Orleans, and been commissioned to make monumental works in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her film “Geppetto” was selected for the Venice Biennale Cinema College. She has received awards from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation, NYFA, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Z has also curated exhibitions around collective trauma with the 9/11 survivors community, and Hurricane Sandy— featuring artworks that were damaged/improved by the hand of the storm.

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