Painting the Unrealized
Painters tape, 2021. Oil on panel, 29 x 20.”
What is the potential of things overlooked? What is often skipped over, left out, or thrown away can be seen as our lives' ground or negative space. Yet, this substance or space is also part of our personal story. Let’s use it! Creating experimental still-lifes and installations with found objects, leftovers, and created material will be the starting point for this workshop. Using paint and collage, students will uncover new content that is based on design, function, and personal narrative. Traditional painting techniques involving form, color, value, and scale will also be taught. Studio work will emphasize individual ideas through the unexpected repurposing of objects, sketching, painting, photography, and digital printing. All painting and collage materials are welcome; oil, watercolor, acrylic, tempura. All levels welcome.
Jenny Brillhart (she/her) was born in 1972, to a crafty mother, and an engineering father in Canterbury, New Hampshire. Her family lived nearby the historic Shaker Village, where she learned the idea that function + process (can) = beauty. She graduated with a BA from Smith College, and received an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Jenny recently participated in group or solo shows at The Zillman Museum, Bangor, Maine; Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, Florida, the CMCA, Rockland, Maine; the deCordova Museum, Lincoln Ma.; Kuckei + Kuckei in Berlin, Germany, and Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland, Maine. Jenny lives and works in Blue Hill, Maine.