Instructor: Ying Li
Monday - Friday
June 16 - 20*
*NO CLASS JUNE 19
9am - 1pm
4 sessions
In this workshop students will explore techniques and concepts in painting with emphasis on individual development of style and theme. We will investigate various approaches to representational and abstract painting, and the metaphorical meaning in figure and landscape paintings. Students will work from live models and landscape, and will discover how a basic image can be transformed into a personal statement through the process of painting and the artist’s imagination. Students are encouraged to experiment with ideas and techniques with the purpose of developing a personal expression. Power point presentation of works from masters and contemporary artists will be presented to complement studio and landscape projects in classes.
This workshop is designed for artists both abstract and representational in all levels.
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Ying Li is an American painter and art educator, born in Beijing, China, immigrated to the United States in 1983. She is the Phlyssa Koshland Professor of Fine Arts at Haverford College. BFA Anhui Normal University, China 1977, MFA Parsons School of Design, 1987. Li’s work is represented by Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, NY; Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia, Alice Gauvin Projects in Washington, D.C. and Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden in Dallas, Texas.
Her work has been featured internationally in Centro Incontri Umani Ascona, Swizterland; ISA Gallery, Italy; Enterprise Gallery, Ireland; Museum of Rocheforten-Terre, France; American Academy of Arts and Letters, The National Academy Museum, The Hood Museum, NH; James Michener Art Museum PA; The Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, VA; The Aspen Institute, CO; Chautauqua Institution, NY; Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, FL; New York Studio School, Lohin Geduld Gallery, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, Lori Bookstein Projects, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, all in New York City; Gross McCleaf Gallery and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
She was the recipient of Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize and Henry Ward Ranger Fund Purchase Award both from National Academy NYC; Donald Jay Gordon Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Swarthmore College; Artist-in-Residence, Dartmouth College; the McMillan Stewart Visiting Critic, Maryland Institute College of Art; Ruth Mayo Distinguished Visiting Artist, The University of Tulsa; Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome; Ballinglen Foundation Fellowship, 2024 Fraces Niederer Artist-in-Residence, as well as the recipient of various Residential Fellowships in Switzerland, Spain, Ireland, France and Ireland. and at Kingsley Plantation, Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, FL.
Li’s works has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Art in America, New York Sun, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Hyperallergic, artcritical, The Washington Post, among others.