week one sketchbook clinic2021/01/04 · sketchbook clinic museum of art of the university of new...

SKETCHBOOK CLINICM U S E U M O F A R T O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E W H A M P S H I R E

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Based on Toxic Youth, Dana Jennings’ ’80, exhibit ofexpressive and raw sketchbook drawings done in ink,participants will harness the power of black and white toexplore memory, dreams, historical or biographical events,and the formal elements of art.

Weekly sessions include introduction to artist’s work fromthe Museum’s collection, thematic prompts, ample time toshare your work with others, and an occasional guestartist.

JOIN US!Time: 8 weeks, Mondays 12:00-12:45PMFee: $40; UNH Students: FreeRegister: A Zoom link will be providedMaterials: sketchbook of your choiceMedia suggestions: graphite, charcoal, ink, chalk, gouache

Participants are strongly encouraged to work in black andwhite.

Kick off the New Year with this dynamic sketchbook clinic designed to recharge your creativity and boost your visualliteracy. These 45-minute weekly workshops are open to adults who wish to expand

their artistic practice putting ideas to paper through drawing.

Dana Jennings, Toxic Youth Volume 3 Dana Jennings, Toxic Youth Volume 4

AN EVENT FROM THE PAST & REPETITION featuring writer and artist Dana Jennings

UPCOMING SKETCHBOOK CLINICSJAN 4th AN EVENT FROM THE PAST & REPETITION featuring writer and artist Dana Jennings

JAN 11th PEOPLE featuring work by Huma Bhabha, Leonard Baskin & Alberto Giacometti

JAN 19th* (Tuesday due to MLK holiday) INSIDE OUT featuring work by Anna Held Audette & Louise Nevelson

JAN 25th PLACE with guest artist Jennifer Moses featuring work by Sylvia Plimack Mangold & Robert Birmelin

FEB 1st MEMORY AND DREAMS featuring work by Mauricio Lasansky & Peter Milton

FEB 8th THE BLANK SLATE featuring work by Jo Sandman, Lilliana Porter & Lucio Fontana

FEB 15th DRAW AN EVERYDAY OBJECT featuring guest artist Amy Stacey Curtis

FEB 22nd DAY AND NIGHT featuring work by Yvonne Jacquette & Dirk Bach

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Huma Bhabha, The Unsubs, 2016 etching and drypoint Leonard Baskin, Ars Anatomica, 1972, lithograph

PEOPLE featuring work by Huma Bhabha, Leonard Baskin & Alberto Giacometti

Huma Bhabha (born 1962) is a contemporary American-Pakistani artist known for her tactile sculptures and drawings. Madefrom humble materials such as Styrofoam, clay, construction scraps, and wire mesh, some of her best-known works arelarge, totemic figures. These works often offer only the most subtle suggestion of a face or body in their reference to bothtribal art and Modernism.Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was an American artist working in a range of media. Though Baskin primarily consideredhimself a sculptor, he remains best known for his expressive works on paper. Many of his prints and drawings served aspreparatory studies for his imposing bronze and wood sculptures of animals and figures.Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) was a Swiss artist known for his totemic sculptures of elongated human figures. Giacomettiestablished himself through works such as Head-Skull (1934), which explored psychology and death through stylized forms.


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Anna Held Audette, Helicopter Cockpit, 1983, charcoal andpencil

Louise Nevelson, Untitled (826), 1963, single-color lithograph

INSIDE OUT featuring work by Anna Held Audette & Louise Nevelson

Anna Held Audette (1938–2013) was a painter, printmaker, and photographer who has works in numerous collections,including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery. She was Professor of Art at Southern Connecticut StateUniversity.

Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall piecesand outdoor sculptures. A student of Hans Hofmann and Chaim Gross, Nevelson experimented with early conceptual artusing found objects, and dabbled in painting and printing before dedicating her lifework to sculpture. Usually created out ofwood, her sculptures appear puzzle-like, with multiple intricately cut pieces placed into wall sculptures or independentlystanding pieces, often 3-D.


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Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Floor II, 1974, lithograph Robert Birmelin, Rock Formation, 1969, ink and wash

PLACE featuring guest artist Jennifer Moses and work by Sylvia Plimack Mangold & Robert Birmelin

This week features guest artist Jennifer Moses, Department Chair and Professor of the Art and Art History Department ofUNH. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art, and an MFA in painting at Indiana University. She is currently representedby the Kingston Gallery in Boston.

Sylvia Plimack Mangold (born 1938) is an American artist, painter, printmaker, and pastelist. Her paintings in the early 1960swere paintings of floors, walls and corners, compositions where mirror images were also introduced, making the space morecomplex. Robert Birmelin (born 1933) controls visual experience through viewpoint: the panoramic sweep of his light-suffusedlandscapes provides the serenity of distance, while in the crowd scenes he crops images and truncates people at picture edgesto create an immediacy that perfectly coincides with the compelling urgency of his subjects.


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Mauricio Lasansky, Dachau, 1946, etching Peter Milton, A Sky Blue Life, 1976, etching

MEMORY AND DREAMS featuring work by Mauricio Lasansky & Peter Milton

Mauricio Lasansky (1914-2012) is remembered today as one of the fathers of 20th century American printmaking. As anartist Lasansky is best known for significantly expanding the possibilities of intaglio printmaking, a process in which an imageis created on the surface of a metal plate using a range of techniques such as: etching, drypoint, aquatint, and engraving.Many of the prints in his oeuvre remain among the largest and most technically complex in existence.

Peter Milton (born 1930) is a colorblind American artist who was diagnosed with deuteranopia after hearing a commentabout the pink in his landscapes. A creator of black and white etchings and engravings that often display an extraordinarydegree of photo-realistic detail placed in the service of a truly visionary aesthetic, his themes include architecture, history,myth, and memory, their intersections and hidden juxtapositions.


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Jo Sandman, Untitled, 1974, folded white duck fabric andtacks

Liliana Porter, Untitled (with string and wrinkle), 1970,embossing, yarn, wrinkled and cut paper with decked edge

THE BLANK SLATE featuring work by Jo Sandman, Liliana Porter & Lucio Fontana

Jo Sandman is one of New England’s most important artists, recognized for her consistent spirit of aesthetic innovationover a long and fruitful career. She began as a painter in the mid-20th century. Her paintings and later sculptures andinstallations were primarily concerned with abstraction and formal and material experimentation.

Lilianna Porter (born 1941) works across mediums with printmaking, painting, drawing, photography, video, installation,theater, and public art. Porter cites Luis Felipe Noe, Giorgio Morandi, Roy Lichtenstein, the Arte Povera group, and theGuerrilla Girls as influences on her work.

Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist. He is mostly known as the founder ofSpatialism.


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Amy Stacey Curtis, process photo for 99 objects, 2019,wood, acrylic, audience transfer

Amy Stacey Curtis, 99 objects, 2019, wood, acrylic, audiencetransfer

DRAW AND EVERYDAY OBJECT featuring guest artist Amy Stacey Curtis

Amy Stacey Curtis (born 1970) is an installation artist focusing on participatory works. The Maine Arts Commission's 2005and 2017 Individual Artist Fellow For Visual Art and the recipient of numerous grants including those from BerkshireTaconic Community Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Samuel I.Newhouse Foundation, Curtis has exhibited interactive art internationally.

Curtis initiates each of her works which are then perpetuated and resolved through audience participation. For eachinstallation, Curtis instigates a desired vision through provided guidance. Then, by relinquishing these concepts to hercollaborative audience, her work sometimes proceeds in unanticipated ways. These uncontrollable unknowns are likewisecrucial components of her work.


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Yvonne Jacquette, Nightscape Woodcut, 1998, one-colorwoodcut

Dirk Bach, Moons and Tides II, 1965, etching

DAY AND NIGHT featuring work by Yvonne Jacquette & Dirk Bach

Yvonne Jacquette (born 1934) attended the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence from 1952 to 1955, when she movedto New York City. A flight to San Diego in 1969 sparked Jacquette’s interest in aerial views, after which she began flying incommercial airliners to study cloud formations and weather patterns. Her first nocturnal painting with an aerial perspective,East River View At Night (1978), inspired an ongoing exploration of the effects of bright lights, reflections, and indistinctobjects set against surrounding darkness.

Dirk Bach (1939) has worked in almost every drawing and painting medium. He has been a professor of design and arthistory, an entertaining pianist, and an insatiable reader of books. In 1965, he joined the faculty at the University of NewHampshire art department, where he taught drawing, painting, design, and printmaking.

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