Instructor: Ken Kewley
Thursday - Saturday
September 11 - 13
8:30am - 5pm
3 sessions
It’s not the shape of things, it’s the shapes in things. Like the wooden blocks in kindergarten, shapes can build one thing, be knocked down, and can be used to build other things. It’s the arranging of the shapes. That is the art. Often left out when carefully following the contours and matching the surfaces of the subject. Arranging shapes is hard if you are stuck on those. From our painted paper we cut shapes. It’s painting with dry paint. We start by arranging shapes non-objectively then, using similar shapes we build representation. We must be as happy with our shapes as we are with our representation.
Students are encouraged and invited to attend Stuart Shil's Lecture on Wednesday evening prior to class.
Ken Kewley was born in Battle Creek, MI, schooled in California, worked in New York City, now plays in Easton, PA. In New York, he painted during the day and was a night watchman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (where he was actually schooled) midnight to daybreak. He has painted for fifty years and has collaged for thirty years. For the last fifteen years, he has been teaching workshops on composing shapes, through drawing, painting, and collage. He gets students to get off the contours and surfaces of what they are looking at, the subject, to free the shapes, so they can be composed.
He is currently writing a book about all this.
Instagram: @kenkewley
@ken_kewley_workshops
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