“I See You”

We are pleased to announce Françoise Thibault will be hosting one of her “Two-Way-Mirror” collaborative drawing events called, “I See You” throughout the day!

Participants look at each other though a Plexiglas frame called the “Two-Way-Mirror” and share an intimate moment of connection where they begin to interact through line making, simultaneously tracing each other’s face onto the glass. Metaphorically, the glass represents the mind and the lines traced onto it, their perceptions of each other. As they draw, their lines, which attempt to capture the likeness of the person sitting across from them, also come to block them out as the glass fills with interpretive images.

My art explores questions of subjectivity and objectivity, representation and projection, seeing and knowing. I’m fascinated by the un-crossable void that separates our inner awareness of self from the outer appearances and sensations of the world. I feel like the mind-filter of subjectivity doesn’t just interpret the world, it creates the world, each co-constructing the other, self and world, vision and knowledge. Images and representations—art, loosely—seem to me to be the best tools for exploring this act of reciprocal creation. – Françoise Thibault

Find out more about Françoise Thibault’s work at http://www.francoisethibault.com/

We are extremely excited to announcement that Andrea Kantrowitz will be presenting at this years symposium!

Andrea Kantrowitz is one of the directors of the international Thinking through Drawing project, an interdisciplinary research network, which meets annually, fosters collaboration and publishes on drawing and cognition.

Find out more about this project here http://www.andreakantrowitz.com/thinking-through-drawing-project.html.

“Kantrowitz’s new series of paintings is titled “Daughters of Leucippus,” and is a close and precise observation of the fibers, tissues and corpuscles of torn fruit and vegetables. In the paintings, fruit acts as a surrogate for the human body bringing all its implied seduction, destruction and regeneration. To make this substitution more explicit, the artist has borrowed the title of a Peter Paul Rubens painting, “The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus” from 1618.” 

Text quoted from Kenise Barnes Fine Art,  and http://www.andreakantrowitz.com/thinking-through-drawing-project.html

Find out more about Andrea Kantrowitz’s work by checking out, http://www.andreakantrowitz.com/.

See you on June 24th!

Hello all! We are getting very close! A new Sketching In Practice poster in handy letter size. If you get a chance, help spread the word. Here is a .pdf version for printing sketchpractice_poster2016

thanks!
See you all soon!

Susan:)