Description

Ambiguous abstraction refers to works whose source relates to images or objects from the world. Through a process of deconstruction and transformation these forms take on an abstract quality, hovering between the real and the imaginative.

This kind of work is intriguing as it is opens to all kinds of possible meanings and interpretations. In opposition to ‘pure abstraction’ where the subject of the painting is its own form ‘ambiguous abstraction’ flirts with personal and political content, and can also embrace broad topics such as memory and presence, materiality and transcendence, pattern and decoration as well as the everyday.

Artists include: Fabian Maracaccio, Terry Winters, Ingrid Calame, Ian McKeever, Beatriz Milhazes, Arturo Herrera, Mark Bradford, Franz Ackermann, Julie Mehretu and Etienne Zack.

Wednesdays 2pm – 5pm, Jan 15 – Apr 9, 2014

Prerequisites

Previous painting experience required.

Registration Details

Vancouver Island School of Art
2549 Quadra St. Victoria BC V8T 4E1
T. 250 380 3500
E. info@vancouverislandschoolart.com

Register online: http://www.vancouverislandschoolart.com/courses.html

or by phone: 250-380-3500

Supply List

Supply list under description of course on website

Painting: Ambigious Abstraction